This is the second episode of One Day in the Life of John B. Roberts, picking up where our Lyons Republican story left off and following a young canal‑town photographer into the years of Lincoln, the Civil War and Frederick Douglass.
Harar, ancient city in southern Ethiopia Rimbaud arrived in Harar for the first time in December 1880, after a journey from Aden to Zeila, followed by a twenty-day horseback caravan through the Somali Desert. At that time, the city was an ancient Muslim emirate under Egyptian control, with a population consisting of Harari, Oromo, Somalis, Arabs, Indians, and […]
INVITO A PARTECIPARE Biennale di Senigallia Edizione Intermedia – 2026 We invite historians, legal scholars, photographers, archivists, experts, and image scholars to submit contributions reflecting on the evidentiary and documentary role of photography in the digital age, across courts, archives, and everyday practices of the gaze. The study day will be held on Friday, June […]
PARTITA DOPPIA-II This second issue comes at a moment when the alignment of some major technology companies with political power has led many users to reconsider their choices. Claude — Anthropic’s artificial intelligence — carries the name of Claude Shannon. This is not a decorative coincidence: it is an intellectual lineage that this issue sets […]
THE LYONS REPUBLICAN Clyde, Lyons, Galen, Wayne, New York, The Empire State Clyde and Lyons, in Wayne County, New York, are paired communities whose identities pivot on a subtle distinction: Clyde remains an incorporated village within the Town of Galen, while Lyons, long the county seat and once an incorporated village, is now a hamlet […]
BIENNALE DI SENIGALLIA “ARTHUR RIMBAUD AND PHOTOGRAPHY” II. Portraits of Rimbaud on the Shores of the Red Sea. Conference by Hugues Fontaine On the conference day, second speaker was Hugues Fontaine, well known for his meticulous investigations into photographs of the Horn of Africa from the period when Arthur Rimbaud stayed there, particularly in Obock […]