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'More American Photographs' offers a glimpse of America's recession
Culture Monster100 works present best known examples from the Farm Security Administartion Depression-era photography program alongside recently commissioned photos from 12 contemporary artists of the recent recession.... -
The undiscovered street photography of Vivian Maier
Culture MonsterThe Undiscovered Street Photography of Vivian Maier... -
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings have four things going for them
The volume seemed to be turning up: Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings were moving away from acoustic austerity, growing comfortable rocking out. Their last album, "Soul Journey," saw these Nashville alt-folkies jolting their sound with electricity and a...Tags: Bon Iver (music group), Music Industry, Brother (music group), Crossroads, Bob Dylan
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Remembering photographer Jerome Liebling
Culture MonsterJerome Liebling, the renowned documentary photographer and filmmaker, died late last week in Northampton, Mass. He was 87. During his long career, Liebling specialized in capturing street life around the country. His photographs documented the lives of... -
Travel and outdoors
American Eden From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are Wade Graham Harper: $35 How the American identity and its contradictions — democratic ideals and aristocratic pretensions — are...Tags: U.S. Open (golf), Golf, Travel, Trips and Vacations, University of Chicago
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Culture Watch: Howard Singerman's 'Art History, After Sherrie Levine'
Culture MonsterHoward Singerman, “Art History, After Sherrie Levine” (UC Press; 304 pp; $65) University of Virginia art historian (and former MOCA editor) Howard Singerman writes the first full monograph about Sherrie Levine, whose 1980s photographs of... -
Helen Levitt dies at 95; New York street photographer of poignant dramas
Helen Levitt, who pioneered street photography in the United States in the 1930s, taking pictures of small, poignant dramas with the help of an inconspicuous Leica camera, died Sunday at her apartment in New York City. She was 95.
The cause was...Tags: Book, Halloween, Culture, James Agee, Children
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Michael Eastman captures the eternal present at DNJ Gallery
Special to The TimesPhotographs keep a subject alive and at the same time mark its passing. The friction between a photograph's perpetual now and its memorial then can saturate an image with poignancy -- the reprieve of preservation tempering a wrenching sense of loss. This...Tags: China, Vehicles, Bankruptcy, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Central Park
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Simmons and Burke's 'You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth' at Kim Light/LightBox
Special to The Times"You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth" -- or so say the titles of Simmons and Burke's extravagant sound and image collages at Kim Light/LightBox. But would you want to, if this is what it looked like and sounded like, if this is how it made you feel?...Tags: Max Ernst, Laura Bush, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Cincinnati, Justin Timberlake
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Daniel Defoe, Dashiell Hammett, Book, Social Issues, James Agee
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Robert Frank goes from ignored to a national treasure
Looking In
Robert Frank's "The Americans" -- Expanded Edition
Edited and with text
by Sarah Greenough
Steidl: 506 pp., $75 hardcover
He was a foreigner with a camera, a young artist newly arrived on the streets of Manhattan from the Old World,...Tags: Upper East Side, Travel, Jack Kerouac, Arts, Norman Rockwell
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Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong's photographs?
It seems like something out of a Charlie Kaufman film.
Last month, the New York-based photographer Sze Tsung Leong was on location in La Paz, Bolivia, when he received a phone message from his New York gallerist, Yossi Milo. It had come to Milo's...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Multi-Sport Events, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Travel, Charlie Kaufman
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