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Through An Uncommon Lens : The Life And Photography Of F. Holland Day, Patricia Fanning
Through An Uncommon Lens : The Life And Photography Of F. Holland Day, Patricia Fanning
Patricia J. Fanning
Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Kahlil Gibran, adviser and friend to photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Day lived a life devoted to art and beauty. At the turn of the twentieth century, his reputation rivaled that of Alfred Stieglitz.
A pioneer in the field of pictorial photography, Day was also an influential book publisher in the Arts and Crafts tradition. He cofounded the publishing company of Copeland and Day, which …
New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski
New York Transfixed: Notes On The Expression Of Fear, Sharon Sliwinski
Sharon Sliwinski
What does fear look like? What can photography reveal of the unconscious dimensions of terror? Working with the largest photographic archive devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, this article studies the visual inscription of terror in the bodily gestures of eyewitness, gestures that were captured by citizen photographers.