Denis McDonough, the U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary, has overruled supposed plans to ban Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photo V-J Day in Times Square from all department health care facilities.
Feminists in France are demanding that a statue based on Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic ‘VJ-day in Times Square’ photo be taken down. They say that the original image it was based on is one that portrays sexual assault.
Among the many forces holding women back in our world -- poverty, reductive religious attitudes, lousy child care, etc. -- you may now add another tool of oppression: stock photography.
An educational project in India is encouraging Muslim women to take up photography, in defiance of a controversial fatwa issued earlier this year that said the practice was "unIslamic."
Woman's advocacy group Aawaaz-e-Niswaan -- which is based in the Mumbai suburb of Kurla -- has trained more than a dozen women in photography skills, going against of regional customs and, now, this particular fatwa.