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Margaret Bourke-White

New Yorker, photographer, photojournalist, cat lover.   We stumbled across Margaret when looking into Julia Margaret Cameron's work off the back of Britain in Focus, a great BBC three part series on photography (which you can still watch here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h95c3).  Margaret Bourke-White was the first female war photojournalist and first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry.  She also got the cover shot and...

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SHOP SOUNDS

SHOP SOUNDS

We're very pleased to announce that our next Shop Sounds mix will be from the  talented young man behind Be With Records, Rob Butler.  But before that, there's this.... We love Ahmad Jamal here at shop so it was quite literally music to our ears when we heard that Be With Records were re-releasing his iconic masterpiece The Awakening.  Full press release can be found...

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Anna-Lülja Praun

Anna-Lülja Praun

Born on the 29th May 1906, Ann-Lülja was one of the first women to study architecture in Austria making here a pioneer in her field.   Don't know much about Anna-Lülja and can't seem to find much.  What we did come across though, was this great article documenting her home. http://caroladertnig.at/werke/dokumentarismen/der-nachlass-der-architektin-anna-luelja-praun.html    

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