A finalist in this year’s Smithsonian Magazine photo contest, this photo by Frederic Aranda shows costume/set designer John Macfarlane at work on set cloths for the Valencia Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s…
Lotomau Fiafia, 72, a community elder on Kioa Island in Fiji, stands with his grandson at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy.
You’ve no doubt seen this photo before. It was recently included in a New York Times feature titled “25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age.” Here’s the copy that went along with it: On Christmas Eve 1968…
There is no such thing as “The World’s 10 Most Scenic Villages,” just as there is no such thing as “The World’s 15 Most Beautiful Men (or Women).” But that has never stopped me from clicking on such teasers –…
Pictured above: Chicago’s skyline. See all 20 here.