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| | | 'You take pictures, I paint': Picasso friend's photos given to Swiss museum | | by Daniel Boffey in Brussels Jan 31, 2022 | | War photographer David Douglas Duncan rang bell of artist’s home one day, leading to 17-year friendship One hundred photographs chronicling the private world of Pablo Picasso up to and after his death in 1973 at the age of 91 have been donated to the Musée de l’Élysée in Switzerland. The pictures are a sample of 25,000 taken of the artist by David Douglas Duncan, an American war photographer who first met Picasso in Cannes in 1956. Continue reading... | | | | | 'It's the tip of the iceberg': shining a light on the horror of wrongful convictions | | by David Smith in Washington Jan 31, 2022 | | In his book American Injustice, criminal defence lawyer David Rudolf looks at abuses of power and corruption that have put innocent people behind bars He had spent 43 years in prison, and a spell on death row, for a murder he did not commit. In 2019 Charles Ray Finch, an African American man from North Carolina now in his 80s, was finally set free. “He went in at age 40, the prime of his life, and he came out in a wheelchair having suffered a stroke, and he suffered another stroke since then,” says David Rudolf, a criminal defence lawyer who worked on the case. “His whole life was taken from him. That was a particularly tragic circumstance.” Continue reading... | | | | | |
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