Salvador Dalí has been both celebrated for his seminal contributions to Surrealism and scorned for his outrageous public persona and blatant commercialism. Prior to the start of WWII, he was expelled from the Surrealist group and dubbed "Avida Dollars" — a pun that translates to "eager for dollars" — by the movement's leader, André Breton. From the 1940s until his death in 1989, Dalí embraced science, mathematics, and religion and created visionary interpretations of his inner psyche in a radical variety of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photography collaborations. Many of these are currently on view in the exhibition Dalí: The Late Work, at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
Read the full feature and view a gallery from the exhibition »
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A dump site for digital technology, Africa's notorious Agbogbloshie Market is a toxic wasteland where Europe's outdated computers are scavenged for spare parts and torched to recycle precious materials. The site in the Ghanaian capital city of Accra has been burdened with tribal rivalries, drug problems, and child trafficking, while receiving repeated warnings from international agencies about massive emissions of noxious fumes and poisonous chemicals seeping into the soil. A surprisingly suppressed story, it gained worldwide attention when the New York Times published pictures by South African photographer Pieter Hugo.
Learn more and view a gallery of Hugo's photographs »
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