From The Great World by David Malouf: He was speaking of poetry itself, of the hidden part it played in their lives… How it spoke up, not always in the plainest terms, since that wasn’t always possible, but in precise ones just the same, for what is deeply felt and might otherwise go unrecorded: all […]
Absurd Man
January 4th was the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus in a car crash, an end all too facilely characterized and diminshed as “absurd.” He was 46 years old, and he had already won the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you missed it, and care to, you can read about the meaning of […]
Photography for Social Change: Project 5
SILENT AUCTION OF MORE THAN 100 IMAGES BY PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHERS Auction Will Raise Money for Documentary Photography FEBRUARY 20, 2010 at THE STEPHEN COHEN GALLERY Actor and photographer Aaron Eckhart will join Julia Dean, founder of The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, for an exhibit and silent auction of more than 100 iconic images taken by […]
How We Lived On It (10) – Man On Wire
To have been alive in New York on this day was to have been raised up from the everydayness of life and exalted in wonder.
How We Lived on It (9)
Music: “The Carnival Is Over” by Dead Can Dance, from Into the Labyrinth Video: directed by Ondrej Rudavsky. Video & Audio enhancement: by Clafey