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8th December 2004

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

“The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar was founded in 1973 by a group of photojournalists representing newspapers, magazines and wire services. Its reason for being is to promote the highest standards of photojournalism through an annual educational conference and a photography contest judged by working photographers. It is a non-profit organization.”

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8th December 2004

The New Blackface: Neuland and Lithos as “Stereotypography”

“The ‘Neuland Question’ to which Jonathan Hoefler refers involves not just Neuland, a ‘display’ typeface hand-carved in 1923 by Rudolf Koch, but also Lithos, another ‘display’ typeface digitally created in 1989 by Carol Twombly. The Question can be put simply: How did these two typefaces come to signify Africans and African-Americans, regardless of how a designer uses them, and regardless of the purpose for which their creators originally intended them?”

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