• The Metaphor Builder

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    The Metaphor Builder

    Bára Prášilová was born in 1979 in Cheb, Czech Republic, at a time when communism still shaped every horizon. At thirteen, like every Czech child of that era, she was asked to decide her profession for life, and though she wanted to be a fashion designer, her parents steered her toward something more practical, paying

  • The Woman Who Photographed What No One Wanted To See 📸

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    The Woman Who Photographed What No One Wanted To See 📸

    Diane sat in the darkroom at Russek’s department store, watching her husband Allan develop another fashion photograph. It was 1946. She was 23 years old, married at 18, and this was her life now. The commercial photography business “Diane & Allan Arbus.” He took the pictures. She styled the models for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.

  • The Man Who Fell Into Color 🌈

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    The Man Who Fell Into Color 🌈

    Saul’s father didn’t speak to him for years after he left Pittsburgh. Saul was 23 years old, the son of a Talmudic scholar, and he’d just committed the ultimate betrayal: he’d abandoned his religious studies to become a painter. His father was devastated. This wasn’t what Orthodox Jewish boys did. 🎨 But Saul didn’t care.