Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
In yet another shallow record-industry ploy to sell the same album twice, the Rolling Stones recently asked producer Don Was to dig through their Exile On Main Street archives and produce a remastered version with a few additional tracks. Thinking about Exile reminds me, of course, of Robert Frank’s documentary with an unprintable name, a [...]
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Saul Steinberg’s cover for the first edition The Americans by Robert Frank. Publisher Robert Delpire: “The only point of disagreement was the cover. I insisted right away on using a drawing by Saul Steinberg, whom I had met and whose work I liked. Frank said, ‘It’s a book of photos, we could use a photo.’ [...]
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“If that were a hammer in his hand he would drive the nail in one or two hard fast perfect strokes, but not usually careful. There wd be a hammer mark in the wood and the boards wd be joined forever.” — Walker Evans, about Robert Frank
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
