Rose Lichter-Marck

Nature illuminated: A new Museum of Natural History exhibition explores earth's glowing organisms:

At the Museum of Natural History, Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence, explores earth's glowing organisms

Bio: Rose Lichter-Marck is a writer and photographer living in Brooklyn.

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Nature illuminated: A new Museum of Natural History exhibition explores earth's glowing organisms

The goal of Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence, a new exhibition on view now at the American Museum of Natural History and curated by the serendipitously named Ichthyologist John Sparks, is to return to us a sense of wonder at the strange phenomenon of organisms that glow. More

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on April 9th, 2012 4:40pm

 
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The Bingham Ray I knew: A passion for film, and for getting the best stuff out in a dirty business

On a Friday morning not long after the Sundance Film Festival ended, the Paris Theater, the jewel-box cinema across from the Plaza hotel, was packed to the rafters with mourners. They had come to grieve Bingham Ray, the polarizing, Loki-like independent film distributor, producer, and champion who died of a stroke in Provo, Utah, at age 57 on Jan. 23. More

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on March 5th, 2012 10:55am

 
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Documentary brings a human face to the faceless industry of global shipping

Throughout The Forgotten Space, a new “film-essay” by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, which screened last night in the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the same shot recurs over and over again: the heavy nose of a cargo ship weighted down with multicolored metal containers plows through the choppy waters of unnamed seas. The image serves as a kind of compass point for the film, directing our attention to the question of destination: from the bridge of that ship the camera shows where the sky meets the water. More

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on December 6th, 2011 4:13pm