Category: book shelf

reviews and essentials –

summer detour

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notions… prescriptions of limited use.. collected, not curated Divert yourself into the much larger world of the recent past. Drive by the encamped Republiguts at the ShakeShack. Snap the band instead of taking a drag off that drivel forum.

books are time travellers, links are not.

and, never open a post with weather.

“Paths,” Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893)

“Borges and I,” Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899)

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/visions-and-temptations/

—No Erotica is published by the New York based modeling and talent management agency, No Agency founded by Alexander Tsebelis. Issue No. 5 is a limited to 811 copies with a cover of Hari Nef photographed by Marilyn Minter. Edited by Chloe Mackey and designed by Eden Taff, with cover story titles and front sticker design by Harold Bennett. The fiction and non-fiction was edited by Criss Moon.

From the past — died 2023 … https://www.thewittliffcollections.txst.edu/exhibitions/past/jim-bones.html [ more, another post Texas Obit ]

“Architecture is the learned, correct, and magnificent game of volumes assembled beneath the light.” Le Corbusier, in Vers une architecture (1923)

“flavors of a pencil—cedar, No. 2 graphite, rubber eraser”

much further https://youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10

https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-the-absence-of-the-ordinary-soul-work-for-times-of-crisis-essays-on-grief-change-and-sacred-transitions-francis-weller/22041171?ean=9798889842613&next=t

from Mack : https://www.mackbooks.us/products/photography-against-the-grain-essays-and-photo-works-1973-1983-br-allan-sekula

Picasso’s working phases: the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1905-1907), the African-influenced Period (1908-1909) and Cubism (1909-1919).

” I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas’s death”, -Picasso … not based upon the cost of paint; a matter of other choices

““Showing up to everything you can is the first step… talk to the galleries who show work that you like, ask them questions about their program, and learn what they’re interested in. It’s really about continuous engagement with people and building relationships, which doesn’t happen overnight. But, the more you focus on it, the more you start to see those results.”

east lyme: pilgrim age

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You know the names of the people, even if you don’t recognize the name of the place. Fellow photographers prompt us. Place probably prompts geographers and letter carriers.
Influence felt and spread. Will you explore for inspiration? What does seeing what they saw provide? I have no answer to either of the questions. I don’t travel to visit places of others. I have never been a pilgrim.

Walker Evans, east lyme… the note idled over a month… for no reason. Okay, one. I considered buying the book. I still haven’t bought it.

Walker Evans lived in this house in East Lyme, Connecticut, from 1967 until shortly before his death in 1975. The house was designed by Evans and his friend Robert Busser, a Yale architecture student. Letters and postcards were often addressed to Old Lyme or Lyme because their Mail truck turned around at Stewart’s Corner, East Lyme.]

Reviewing others’ work provokes a review of mine. Same thing sometimes happens as I edit or revise current work. Few interesting matters ever reach finality.

as test to yourself: Why hold interest in another past place. We don’t see Evans’ time, footprints. A deed with his namespace; perhaps a deposit check could hold as much history– commerce, reverential. Or, is the structure a demonstration of built world a key to His namesake. A keepsake worth travel of two current actors on the artworld.

[Two photographers, James Welling and Mark Ruwedel, just two years apart visited Evans’ home in 2016 and 2018, respectively. This volume places the projects undertaken by both in dialogue, highlighting their similarities and differences.]

[Shooting passersby against a plywood backdrop as they crossed his field of vision from distant right to close left (some noticing him, most not), with the light striking and modeling their features, Evans found that what he was creating with these images was “the physiognomy of a nation.” This book compiles the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans’ annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. Labor Anonymous captures a long-vanished moment in American history, and a crucial project in Evans’ oeuvre.} — here

Welling: (b. 1951)

Ruwedel: (b. Bethlehem, PA 1954)