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Favorite posts of 2007

Photography

…do this instead. Got the DTs after that New Year’s party? Blow thirty bucks on one of these. Too late now, but had you listened back in April you could have doubled your money. I wouldn’t be touching this stock with a barge pole right now. Remember those ‘This is your brain on drugs’ ads from the ’70s? Here’s a…

John Thomson

Photographers

…contemporaneous with that of the more famous Jacob Riis who documented poverty in New York, and no less powerful. Both did more to grow awareness of the awful poverty in our affluent societies than any amount of vacuous talk from elected leaders. His candid work was no less impressive, as witnessed in this snap of two sailors on a barge…