Archive for September, 2011
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Arbus Speaks
Posted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen I first heard Diane Arbus’s voice, I felt as if I’d known it all along. It’s a voice that’s as singular as her pictures, girlish and definite in tone, a voice that conveys in its lovely trills and reasonableness... -
Modesty: Lydia Davis and Duro Olowu
Posted on September 27, 2011 | No CommentsLydia Davis writes stories whose central plot point is the very act of thinking. In a small and beautiful chapbook called “The Cows” (2001) she describes a field with cows across the street from her house near Pittsville, in upstate... -
West Indian Style: Two Views
Posted on September 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe women captured here are West Indians, something I understood intuitively based on their costuming, posture, and gait. Both photographs were taken this fall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one in the health food co-op I belong to, and where the woman... -
Power Structures
Posted on September 18, 2011 | 1 CommentNothing calms the mind–my mind–like drifting. Stepping out the door with no particular place to go and getting lost in the process is, as Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser have pointed out, the action of a man who is interested... -
Found Man
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment -
Dirt
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsThe Russian Baths, on East 10th Street here in Manhattan, hasn’t lost much of its beautiful funkiness, despite it’s new marble front, and slightly better laundered towels. Get there early enough, and the men’s locker room is actually clean, but...
