Homage to Edward Steichen who died on this day fifty years ago.

Born in Bivange, Luxembourg on 27 March 1897, the young Edward emigrated to the US with his parents when he was 18. His was a long, varied & rich artistic career: though mainly known as a photographer, he was also a painter, director, curator, gardner & passionate experimenter. As director of the department of photography of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Steichen created two monumental exhibitions … Read more Homage to Edward Steichen who died on this day fifty years ago.

“In an unlivable land”

Check out the amazing array of photos (& texts) with which Tom Clark has been documenting the disastrous history (and its remaining beauty & humanity) we are living through, stuck in, throttled by, day in day out, on his “Beyond the Pale” blog. It has become a daily moment of reflection for me.

Denis Roche (1937-2015)

Oh, Denis has called it splitsville! Sadness, a drag — A bright, witty, generous man, sharp as a tack — & absolutely not known enough here in the US. Roche, who started in the surrounds of Tel Quel, is a major writer, an excellent translator (some of Pound’s Cantos, ee cummings, etc.) & photographer. He is also the founding editor of Fiction & Co, one of the very best & most eclectic … Read more Denis Roche (1937-2015)

“Winter Music” in June

Another superb new book for this summer: winter music — Photography by Susan Quasha & poems by Robert Kelly. This is a marvelous occasion, especially as it is the first major showing of the color photography of Susan Quasha, co-founder of Station Hill Press for which she has designed a score (hundreds? I’d guess) of books. It is published by ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck & distributed by Station Hill. … Read more “Winter Music” in June

Winter Rose

At the end of our morning walk along the Narrows, we stopped in the NBG (Narrows Botanical Garden) in front of our place, and Nicole took some photos of the single rose left. I immediately thought of the opening poem in Hermetic Definitions, a title the initials of which name its author: HD. Why did you come to trouble my decline? I am old ( I was old till … Read more Winter Rose

Night Vision

Went out to the 69th Street Wharf here in Sorrentinostan, a.k.a. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with Nicole last night to have a look at Manhattan from down here. The first snapshot (basic iPhone stuff) shows WTC1 lit from half way up & the surrounding dark of lower Manhattan (the big lights on the right are the Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant.) The second, 180 degrees in the opposite direction, shows … Read more Night Vision

More Pyrenean Photos

More Pyrenean Pix

Dianthus barbatus L.: in French “l’oeillet de poète,” literally “the poet’s carnation,” — in English known as “Sweet William.”

Views from the Mountains

… & now 1500 of them at the weekly salt distribution high up in the Pyrenees.

Nomadics

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