George Madoffton
Submitted by Errol Morris1
Barack O’Zimmerman
Submitted by Leon Hilton2
Locked Up in the Hotel California
Submitted by Jennifer Odell
The Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The Aterra—A new luxury high-rise condo in San Francisco’s SoMA district.
The 19th Century Architectural Roots of Rosie Jetson
Submitted by Charlie Hopper
Rosie Jetson.
Abandoned 19th century Hoosier schoolhouse.
Wall Scratchers
Submitted by Tristan de Rond3
Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.
Cave painting/
Veiled Beauties
Submitted by Robin Davis
Left: La Femme Voilée by Antonio Corradini, mid 1700s;
right: a restored Greek statue. Both photographs taken at the Louvre.
Guston’s Web
Submitted by Chris Ware
Left: An untitled 1975 drawing by Philip Guston;
right: Garth Williams’s cover for Charlotte’s Web (1952).
Shinto Ghraib
Submitted by Marcus Parcus
Prisoner at the Abu Ghraib detention center.
Priest from a temple in Kyoto writes the kanji for “life.”
1 From the website Out of the Box. (http://boxturtle.typepad.com/out_of_the_box/2009/05/how-did-madoff-get-away-with-it-the-simple-answer.html)
2 From a Hendrik Hertzberg blog post in the New Yorker online. (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2009/01/positively-penn.html)
3 From the website Modcult.
(http://modcult.org/read/2009/5/5/dementia-praecox)