Coming to terms with being a San Franciscan who likes LA.



















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LAST lewis carroll post

Cocktail party conversation: Nabokov translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian. Humbert Humbert Carroll Carroll Nabokov Nabokov, it's so difficult to keep track of all the perverts...

"I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert. Have you seen those photographs of him with little girls? He would make arrangements with aunts and mothers to take the children out. He was never caught, except by one girl who wrote about him when she was much older."

Vladimir Nabokov, Dec. 1966 Vogue

Annie Leibovitz 2003 Vogue shoot

One more thing: The novel Nabokov was working on when he died, The Original of Laura, has been published (well, excerpts of it) in Playboy Magazine.

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Work in progress

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Other great writers who were alleged jerks

"Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers." --10 Things I Hate About You


















"Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children."
--William Faulkner, to his daughter when she appealed to him to stop drinking for her sake


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winter break reading list: For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

Hemingway in Valencia, 1937, Robert Capa
Hemingway on the front lines, 1937, Robert Capa
Robert Capa (left) and Hemingway (right), 1940, Cornell Capa






































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learning from history

IS ANYTHING CERTAIN






































































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two favorites

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still thinking about medium

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Portraits series























































"...If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, you had better reconsider what it means to be alive here and now." --HS


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Larry Sultan

















My mother posing for me, 1984



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just one more...

Lewis Carroll, Alice as Beggar Maid, 1858
Lewis Hine, 1910








































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nostalgia

or, cliché pictures of light.
























































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been thinking a lot about medium

These are hardly revolutionary times; but neither is artistic practice, or any other cultural activity for that matter, entirely confined to the arena defined for it by hegemonic interests and values.

--Alex Potts, "Tactility: The Interrogation of Medium in Art of the 1960s"


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penelope boothby

joshua reynolds, 1788, penelope boothby
john everett millais, 1879, cherry ripe
lewis carroll, 1879, xie kitchin as penelope boothby




















































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speaking of the best

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learning from the best

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learning to conceptualize the camera

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parallels II

i wouldn't dare compare the two. are there things i should know about image copyrights?
lewis carroll, 1879
sally mann, 1990





























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parallels I

drawing parallels.
1864-1979

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Year in Ideas

Predictive Smiles

Maybe this only bugs me because it makes sense.



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Re:

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faux rain

two pictures i don't like of sprinkling water in the sunlight








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