Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention. That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation. Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes. He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections. Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries. Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China. It’s called “Manufactured Landscapes.”
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New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.
Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
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