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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MAN RAY


NOVEMBER 18 — MAN RAY
Surrealist photographer, radical social critic.

NOVEMBER 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
NED LUDD MEMORIAL MACHINE-SMASHING FESTIVAL.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 18 IN HISTORY…
1789 — Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre born, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France.
1820 — Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica.
1928 —Mickey Mouse born, Walt Disney Studios, Los Angeles, California.
1952 — French writer Paul Eluard dies, Paris, France.
1975 — Eldridge Cleaver, seven years in exile, returns to U.S. to face charges.
1976 — Surrealist photographer Man Ray dies, Paris, France.
1978 — Jonestown, Guyana: 913 party-goers; Kool-Aid shots main attraction.
1983 — Magic realist painter Ivan Albright dies, Woodstock, Vermont.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE


AUGUST 27 — MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Socially committed photo-journalist, adventurer.

Above: Photo of Ghandi by Margaret Bourke-White.

AUGUST 27, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF INCANDESCENT REBELLION.

ALSO ON AUGUST 27 IN HISTORY…
1587 — John White loses 110 colonists at Roanoke, Virginia. Gone to Croatan?
1665 — “The Bare and Ye Cub” first European play staged in North America.
1770 — German Idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel born, Stuttgart, Württemberg.
1890 — Surrealist photographer Man Ray born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1963 — Black American radical W. E. B. DuBois dies, Accra, Ghana.
1971 — American photographer Margaret Bourke-White dies, New York City.