Looking west. Railroad crossing, Marathon, Texas, June, 2006 (Full photo)
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Travel Photo of the Day: Marathon, Texas
Posted in American West, Photography, U.S. Travel on February 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Travel Photo of the Day: Warsaw, Poland
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Foreign Travel, Jewish Life, Photography, Religion on February 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Tenement building, with ghosts of former occupants, in former Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland, May 2008
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Travel Photo of the Day: Prague, Czech Republic
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography, Rock 'n' Roll on February 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Graffiti memorials, John Lennon Wall, Prague, Czech Republic, May, 2008.
Good Morning Viet Nam – It’s National Poetry Day!
Posted in Asia, Foreign Travel, Photography, Writers & Writing on February 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
All across Viet Nam today poets “are agog with excitement” celebrating national “Poetry Day.”
(via Saigon Giai Phong Daily)
[Display of puppets, Hanoi, December, 2006; Full photo]
Travel Photo of the Day: Siena, Italy
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 9, 2009| 1 Comment »
Travel Photo of the Day: Chartres, France
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography, Religion on February 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Bringing It All Back Home: Peter Guttman’s Travel Museum
Posted in Antiques & Folk Art, Collectors & Collecting, Ephemera, Foreign Travel, New York City, Photography, U.S. Travel on February 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“You may feel as if you’d stepped into a quirky 19th-century museum, but that’s not how Mr. [Peter] Guttman, a travel photographer, sees the densely packed four walls, floor and ceiling of his family’s living room. His meticulously organized collection of rare folk art and handmade tools, toys, weapons, textiles, baskets, ceramics, etc., dedicated to the memory of extinct or nearly-so ways of life and assembled as snugly as a jigsaw puzzle, is ‘a mirror of my personal life,’ he said, ‘a diary of global travels.'” (Audio Slide Show) (via NY Times)
Travel Photo of the Day: Oudong, Cambodia
Posted in Asia, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
In the ancient Cambodian capital of Oudong, at the base of Phnom Oudong, children hire themselves out as companions, with fans, to visitors to the Royal Tombs, December, 2006.
Walker Evans, Postcard Collector
Posted in Collectors & Collecting, Ephemera, Museums & Exhibitions, Photography, Popular Culture on February 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“[Walker] Evans is foremost a giant of 20th-century photography, the instigator of a lean, elegant documentary style that was as unvarnished as it was ennobling. He immortalized gaunt sharecroppers, dilapidated plantations and bone-dry country stores in the South; worker housing and grimy factories in the industrial North; and (with a hidden camera) the unguarded expressions of New York subway riders.
“But before he was anything else, Evans was an obsessed collector of postcards. This exhibition reveals them as the through line, the wellspring of his art.”
At the end of her review of the just-opened exhibition, “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard,” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Roberta Smith notes the broader cultural significance of early 20th-century picture postcards and laments the slashing of financial support for public school art programs:
“Without diminishing his achievement, this show reverberates beyond Evans. The postcards celebrate America at the beginning of the last century. They also confirm the vigor of this country’s often anonymous grass-roots art forms and the importance of popular culture to so-called high art. More sadly, in a time when schools across the country are slashing their art programs, this unusual exhibition suggests the often decisive effect of our earliest aesthetic experiences. ‘Home is where we start from,’ wrote the psychologist D. W. Winnicott. The richer the formative experiences there, the better for everyone.”
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Travel Photo of the Day: Vienna, Austria
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Gypsy mother braiding her daughter’s hair at Vienna’s popular Naschmarkt, May, 2007
Travel Photo of the Day: Hanoi, Viet Nam
Posted in Asia, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“Don’t Piss Here” – Painted message on brick wall in residential section of Hanoi, Viet Nam, December, 2006 (note evidence of just-concluded disobedience along bottom of wall at lower left)
Travel Photo of the Day: Tarnow, Poland
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Flower petals scattered by children during procession celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi in Tarnow, Poland, May, 2008
Travel Photo of the Day: The Candy Men of Xochimilco
Posted in Foreign Travel, Photography, The Americas on October 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Two of the many vendors encountered while cruising the crowded canals of Xochimilco in the south of the Mexico City D.F.
Travel Photo of the Day: Good Dog! (Prague)
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on September 12, 2007| Leave a Comment »
A “Doggie Bag” dispenser in the “Old Town” section of Prague (from our May, 2007 trip). (Full photo)
The 'Not-So-Rough' Guide 