The play of light on our neighbor’s pond is ramping up as we move further into the winter. Today the palette was cooler than the last few days.
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I miss this man a lot – he was passionate, opinionated and generous, and a good friend who stayed young and connected in part through a lifetime in photography. He joined Magnum in his twenties, and remained actively involved with the organization until he passed away in 2010. His best known image was perhaps the 1955 portrait of James Dean in Times Square, called The Boulevard of Broken Dreams. He advised (admonished ??) me to slow down and truly engage a scene while photographing – it was something he had a lifetime of doing.
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There’s a whole world of nightscapes out there for the making; this one was on the way home from a party, around midnight.
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Many of us in the area began daydreaming of The Friends Annual Book Sale @ the Academy School in the dead of winter, despite the late July date. Over 10,000 used books, all at great prices, with the proceeds going to the Scranton Library.
Particularly good finds for me this year, each a hardcover for $2.00: Paintings of New England, which “gathers over 100 works by many of this country’s most favorite artists, all of whom have been awestruck by the sublime beauty of the region” (from the book jacket), and Icons of Photography, 20th Century, “more than ninety of the century’s best photographers are presented with some 160 icons of the genre” (also the book jacket). $4 picked up the Illustrated History of the Civil War. Somewhat overproduced, and overpriced at $10 was Through the Lens, National Geographic Greatest Photographs. This one is a sumptuous hardcover but ultimately a disappointment; I picked up National Geographic – The Photographs a few years ago, and found the choice of images there more compelling (though some were the same). All in all, it was a good day, with 11 books and 3 DVDs for $37.00.
This was the line one half hour before the book sale actually began.
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