With more than 600 million monthly active users, Instagram offers great opportunities for photographers to build an audience of dedicated fans. But convincing a million of those people to follow you is a feat generally reserved for superstars, brands and a handful of influencers.
Yet, with a few well-employed tricks and excellent photography skills, these five photographers have managed to approach and even exceed that mark.
Here is how they did it and what they have learned along the way. Read More...
From the vantage point of 50 years later, many of the events of the watershed year that was 1968 seem to be symbols of something broken — from the Vietnam War turning point that was the Tet Offensive, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., to student and labor strikes in Paris to the Prague Spring.
The Democratic National Convention that August was a nominating convention for an extraordinary year, in which incumbent President Lyndon B. Read More...
Kayla Webley
February 25, 2013 12:00 AM EST
James DePreist, longtime music director of the Oregon Symphony, was the nephew of Marian Anderson, the first black singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, and like her, he was a trailblazer. It would have been pioneering enough for DePreist, who died Feb. 8 at 76, to be one of the few black conductors to lead major orchestras. But he also set himself apart by refusing to let a mere disability–the result of polio he contracted in 1962–stop him from leading major ensembles like the New York Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, though it sometimes meant approaching the podium in a motorized chair and conducting–masterfully–from a seated position. Read More...