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MAJESTIC MICRO MOVIE ESSAY ON CINEMA #3
Every tracking shot is a moral statement . . .
A ROBERT MCGINNIS FOR TODAY
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NOIR BARS #2
The truth about girls and geeks . . .
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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BONE BAND
Every year during Jazz Fest a guy in The Garden District puts up a display on his porch, in solidarity with the event.
New Orleans is not a big city — these days it contains only about 350,000 souls, most of whom seem to believe that they’re part of one big neighborhood, at least during times of festival, and there are festivals in New Orleans most weeks of the year.
LLOYD’S MODERN LIFE: FLICKER #1
A HUGER FOOTE PHOTOGRAPH FOR TODAY
Augustus St. Gaudens’s great statue of Sherman, Fifth Avenue, New York — one of the things about the city I miss the most.
[Photo © 2012 Huger Foote]
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RECORD STORE
Jim Russell’s, on Magazine Street in New Orleans. There are a zillion LPs in this shop, but so disorganized that searching for anything becomes a bewildering chore. I picked up a couple of musical soundtracks, which I’ve yet to test on a turntable, but felt that there must be even finer treasures lurking on the shelves — it was just too much work to find out.
Still, it was wonderful to be surrounded by so much vinyl, and the chaos had its own kind of charm.
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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MYSELF WHEN YOUNG
. . . with elephants.
A magical photograph by my sister Libba, recording a magical moment at Governor’s Camp in Kenya in the 1970s.
MAJESTIC MICRO MOVIE ESSAY ON CINEMA #2
Shallow focus . . .
A NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR TODAY
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WAITING FOR RED BEANS AND RICE
With Bill and Adrienne at Fat Harry’s on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, streetcar in background . . .
A TIMOTHY O’SULLIVAN WESTERN PHOTOGRAPH FOR TODAY
Oreana, Nevada in 1867.
O’Sullivan worked for Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner during the Civil War and took many classic images of that conflict. After the war he traveled with various government-sponsored expeditions into the far West, recording the American frontier just as the Transcontinental Railroad was poised to open it up for expanded settlement and exploitation.
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