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Saul Leiter, photographer
{ snow, 1960 (c) Saul Leiter }
{ subway car 4435 1950 (c) Saul Leiter }
{ jean 1948 (c) Saul Leiter }
{ boy, 1950 (c) Saul Leiter }
Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s. MoMA’s 1957 conference “Experimental Photography in Color” featured 20 color photographs by Leiter. Read on here >
{ New York 1950 (c) Saul Leiter }
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Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
Excerpt from Say Nothing:
Just after lunchtime, at around 2 p.m., a phone rang at the headquarters of The Times of London. A young woman named Elizabeth Curtis, who had just started working on the news desk at the paper, picked up the call. She heard a man’s voice, speaking very quickly, with a thick Irish accent. At first she couldn’t make out what he was saying, then she realized that he was reeling off the descriptions and locations of a series of cars. He spoke for just over a minute, and, though she was still confused, she transcribed as much as she could. Before hanging up, the man said, “The bombs will go off in one hour.
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Hard Border: Clare Dwyer Hogg & Stephen Rea
To Clare Dwyer Hogg, playwright, poet and journalist, who wrote this absolutely jaw-dropping piece on Brexit, we give thanks. “We’re holding our breath again, because we know that chance and hope, come in forms like steam and smoke.”
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Dark Angels on Writing
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Timothy Snyder Speaks
Timothy Snyder is a Yale historian and one of the people I look to for help in understanding what’s going on in the world. He wrote On Tyranny in 2017 after the car crash of 2016. This video — The European Union — is part of a series of 16 or so videos he’s posted on YouTube. These are mini-lectures that he uses to air out ideas he’s thinking through. Episode 1: Russia Defeats America.
5CT recommends his latest book, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America.
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