Memory Missing
The Colour Of Memory
Grace Linden | Public Domain Review | 11th December 2024
The autochrome, invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903, transformed early colour photography. The camera had a glass negative covered in dyed grains, through which light would pass, creating a fully coloured image. “Autochromes always feel more real than reality. The blues are bluer, the reds brighter, what is faded is even more subdued. Everything appears to have been summoned from a dream” (4,000 words)
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Missing Links In American History Textbooks
Jim Mamer | Scheerpost | 15th September 2024
“High school American history textbooks contain virtually no dialogue between the present and the past.” Out of a desire to avoid controversy, they misrepresent the colonists’ encounters with Native Americans, and reasons for the Cold War. Often, they omit information altogether, like Chelsea Manning’s leak about human rights abuses in Iraq. “The result is highly diminished textbooks and students bored silly” (5,400 words)
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