03.29.2008 | 11:00 PM • Filed in:
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03.09.2008 | 11:10 PM • Filed in:
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Sunset over New Jersey Turnpike reststop, sponsored
by Levitra.
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03.08.2008 | 09:44 PM • Filed in:
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Framing—what else is street photography about?
Windows within windows. Rectangles within rectangles.
A grid of views. A bento box of subjects.
Raghubir Singh, who took the above picture, is my
favorite Indian photographer. He made a great book of
pictures called
A Way into India,
which featured the Ambassador, India's
ubiquitous version of the VW, as object and
frame for his peregrinations through his
colorful homeland. Check out some of his
pictures
here.
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03.05.2008 | 01:39 PM • Filed in:
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First a holocaust memoir turns out to be a total
fabrication (Misha Defonseca's
Misha:
A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years), now an
L.A. gang orphan story turns out to be fiction as
well. Margaret B. Jones'
Love
and Consequences fooled a lot of
reviewers for the best reasons: it was well
written and compelling. In Defonseca's case, she
was not found out until the book was already a
bestseller and a movie. For Jones, we'll see how
her career fares, especially since the publisher
has cancelled her book tour and is recalling the
book. (I wonder if you can sue for the mental
anguish caused by memoir deception--WRITERS: a
possible short story idea?). It's amazing how well
a book can sell when it's labeled as a memoir, but
when it's fiction, it's assumed to bear little
resemblance to reality and is given much less
attention. Reality sells. Though I haven't read
her book, Defonseca's supposed raised-by-wolves
childhood was probably no less vivid than a great
book of powerful fiction thought to be based on
some version of the author's youth: Jerzy
Kosinski's
The Painted
Bird.