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The Very Charming Ms Senior America Beauty Pageant

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Photographer Brian Finke’s series focused on the fabulous contestants of the Ms Senior America beauty pageant doesn’t only celebrate the older women, it also challenges traditional (read: boring) notions of beauty and aging. With staged and candid photographs, the subjects (aged 60 to 90 years old) are captured in various moments—from all the glitz and glam to the quiet, vulnerable moments. Each image, however, is …

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ARTLANTIC: Atlantic City’s Public Art Spaces

A park, a playground and outdoor exhibition on Jersey's casino island

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A city forever changing, dotted with many historic attributes: A resort location starting in the mid-1850s near enough to New York City and Philadelphia, the longest continuous boardwalk in the world, the East Coast’s original gambling capital, further popularized by television culture. Of all that it can boast about, Atlantic City, New Jersey has generally been lacking one type of scene—the arts. In an effort …