Christine Osinski Featured in TIME Magazine's LightBox

POSTED ON: May 29, 2012

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a Christine Osinski's photograph

Professor Christine Osinski's photographs of 1980's Staten Island are featured on TIME Magazine's LightBox blog. LightBox features content curated by the Photo Editors at TIME, and "explore(s) how photography, video and the culture of images define today’s world".

Link: Christine Osinski on LightBox

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

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