Arthur Leipzig, “Divers, East River, 1948.”
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Entries Tagged as 'Photography'
Portrait: Henry James
July 11, 2010
Henry James, ca. 1900, age 57. From the collection of the George Eastman House on Flickr. Not many photos of James exist, and none are as revealing as this. The most recognized image we have of “the master” is the iconic John Singer Sargent portrait of 1913, which shows James as the Great Man. And [...]
Categories: Photography · Writers
Tags: Henry James · Portraits of Writers
Portrait: Philip Roth
April 26, 2010
Philip Roth at his home in rural Connecticut, 2004. (Via. Click image to view larger.) Photo by James Nachtwey, whose stunning pictures can be viewed at his web site. More about Roth’s work habits here.
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Flickr Find of the Day
April 14, 2010
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from the Library of Congress Flickr photo stream. The photo apparently dates from 1913 or thereabouts. I always imagined Conan Doyle as a less modern, more Victorian character than this — more like Holmes. Flickr has lots of wonderful vintage images like this one, not all book-related obviously. I recommend the [...]
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Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days
March 8, 2010
A trove of remarkable photographs of Boston during the Strangler siege. The photos, which are eerie and beautiful, were taken by Arthur Rickerby for Life Magazine. View the whole collection here. Above: A woman wears a hatpin in her sleeve to defend herself against the Strangler, 1963.
Categories: Boston · Crime · Photography
Tags: The Strangler
Photographs of the Combat Zone
February 24, 2010
I stopped by the new exhibit today at the Howard Yezerski Gallery on Harrison Avenue, “Boston Combat Zone: 1969-1978.” The gallery and the show both are small but well worth a visit, even on a raw, rainy day like today. The exhibit gathers together black-and-white photographs by Roswell Angier, Jerry Berndt, and John Goodman. The [...]
Categories: Boston · Photography
Tags: bookfour · Combat Zone
The Street Photography of Jules Aarons
February 2, 2010
There is a new exhibition at the Boston Public Library of the street photographs of Jules Aarons. The exhibition is located in the Wiggin Gallery in the old McKim Building, just one flight up from the main reading room where where I have been writing every day. The gallery is secluded, and you won’t find [...]
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Tags: Boston Public Library · featured posts · Jules Aarons · The Strangler
Michael Penn’s photographs of Philadelphia
October 28, 2009
Beautiful images, mostly of Philadelphia, by photographer Michael Penn. View more of his portfolio here. (Above: “Storm Over Fishtown,” 2008, 10×10.)
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Barbara Mensch’s photographs of Fulton Fish Market
September 24, 2009
A few weeks ago I wrote about photographer Barbara Mensch’s lovely images of New York. Barbara recently wrote to point me to another series of her photographs, this one depicting the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan, which was closed in 2005. The photographs are different from the ones that first caught my eye — grittier, [...]
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Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York
August 19, 2009
Gorgeous images of New York City by photographer Barbara Mensch. Some background information about Barbara Mensch is here.
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