Three Things: The Sleep Edition, II
Good Monday to you, dear writers. All partied out? Let’s recover with some sleep, just in time for the next party on Wednesday night. Happy New Year!
Bo Bartlett, School of the Americas, 2010. Oil on panel. www.bobartlett.com
Henri Cartier–Bresson, Barrio Chino, Barcelona, 1933. Photograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Sally Mann, Black Eye, 1991. Photograph. www.sallymann.com
Three Things: The Summer Vacation Edition
We all remember what summer vacation meant to us as kids. Those hot summer months meant freedom from routine, but more importantly, it meant freedom to make adventures for ourselves; freedom to get into trouble (mostly without getting caught); freedom to make magic happen.
This week, let’s explore that childhood summer-vacation feeling: anything is possible.
Frederick Cayley Robinson, The children by the fireside recounting their adventures, 1911. Watercolour, pen and ink on card. Illustration for The Blue Bird (L’Oiseau Bleu) by Maurice Maeterlinck. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Sally Mann, Emmett and the White Boy, 1990. Photograph. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
Fiddle Oak (Zeb Hoover), because who’s to say (we are the only ones?), 2011. Digitally manipulated photograph. www.fiddleoak.com
I had no tigers in my dreams last night (unfortunately), but it feels about time for another surreal edition. This week I’ve enlisted the help of three heavy-hitters in the contemporary photography world: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Rodney Smith, and Sally Mann. Three scenes just begging for you to answer the question, “And then what happened?”
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Reclamation, 2003. Photograph. www.parkeharrison.com
Rodney Smith, Alan Leaping from 515 Madison Avenue, New York City, 1999. Photograph. www.rodneysmith.com
Sally Mann, Yard Eggs, 1991. Photograph. www.sallymann.com
