The Mini-Midterms: Five Takeaways from Six Decades of House Special Elections
A Commentary By Kyle Kondik
Thursday, April 15, 2021
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE There have been nearly 300 U.S. House special elections since the mid-1950s. These elections more often flipped against the party that holds the White House just like what often happens to the president’s party in midterm House elections but the president’s party has scored some noteworthy wins, too, which can cloud the predictive value of special elections.
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Six decades of special House election trends
Almost exactly 47 years ago April 16, 1974 Republicans suffered what would be the fourth of five U.S. House special election losses in the first half of that year. Bob Traxler (D), who would go on to serve two decades in the U.S. House, defeated James Sparling Jr. (R) in MI-8.
Albert Watson: The Light Behind the Lens @ SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film // - September 05, 2021
April 07, 2021 | in Photography
There are portraits and there are moments in time. Albert Watson captured the latter, an instantaneous time-traveling, era-defining photographer who challenged the ways we looked at portraiture and fine art photography. Often, those ideas crossed over in his work. Sometimes, we have grown accustomed to Andy Warhol and Kate Moss as icons, so often posed and channeling a unique energy that is almost palpable to the senses. But the reasons we feel that way often have to do with the photographer, and Watson (who shot the two legendary figures and others for the likes TIME magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper’s Bazaar and over 100 Vogue covers) conveys a sense of larger than life experimentation that transcends common fashion photography.
Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, dies at the age of 58
Benita Raphan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
by Julia Rock & Miriam Kuznets
NEW YORK, NY
.- Benita Raphan, visionary filmmaker, died in January 2021 at the age of 58. Her life s work about geniuses garnered multiple awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Her visual portraits examined the eccentric and brilliant inner lives of iconic figures, including R. Buckminster Fuller, John Nash, and Helen Keller. Her most recent film, Up to Astonishment, explored the life and work of Emily Dickinson
As Benita told StudioDaily: I am interested in revisiting a life or a career from the very start, from the beginning; the basic concept as initial thought, as an impulse, as an ineffable compulsion, an intuition; to reframe and reinvent an action as simple as one pair of hands touching pencil to paper. Her films appeared on the Sundance Channel, HBO, PBS, and Channel Four Television in the UK, and th
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