Archive for August, 2010

Bostheater Amsterdam

In 1985 a group of actors and their director, in need of a place to perform their plays, decided to bring new life to the abandoned open air theatre in Amsterdam. ´Bostheater´ lies at the southern edge of the city, not far from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, in the middle of a large suburban park from [...]

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65 years after Fat Man

On 9 August 1945 the US airforce dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, on Nagasaki. Three days earlier, Little Boy had been dropped on Hiroshima. Nagasaki had a population of about 450.000, 65.000 of whom were either killed or injured by the bomb. The entire city was rebuilt afterwards. The bombing of Nagasaki was [...]

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São Paulo 1940 – Hildegard Rosenthal

Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) has preserved a series of photographs of german photographer Hildegard Rosenthal, made during the 1940′s in São Paulo. An online photo gallery can be viewed by clicking here. Read more: Instituto Moreira Salles

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