Rachel. Lamp.

June 22, 2008

11×14 pt-pd print

Southworth and Hawes: Young Girl, post mortem. Daguerrotype from the Eastman House Collection

Robin Gillanders, Sewanee, TN

1994

8×10 in contact print

photograph by Robin Gillanders from the Highland Journey series

portrait of ron and elizabeth

1987

from series: Memory, Balance, Love

platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in.

The New Yorker has published, under the mantle of satire, an issue with a sure-to-sell cover. It has attracted a lot of flack, and the NY editor has stood up in defense. The Clown can be irresponsible, but should always know that he risks not just his well-being, but that of his community when juggling with satire. The juggler has stumbled really badly here, but we should continue treasuring our clowns. The above image may have been more appropriate. Which Obama is the whisk and which the strainer?

Falling Man.
Taken by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 a.m., on September 11, 2001 

Three friends have now recommended Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jack, Amy, Bjorn, your joint pointer carries a lot of weight and it is the next book I read. Palimpsest has some interesting discussion about the book.

While feeling my way through the information cloud around Foer and this book, I came across another fascinating book: Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth. Anyone else read it?

mind
July 2008 
from the series, “i have gone”