Archive for July, 2008
Don Donaghy, Photographer, 1936-2008
This seems to be the Summer for eulogies…
Don Donaghy, 1991 by George Krause
I first met Don Donaghy, the photographer, when he was taking pictures in the early 60s. We met again in his last years when he had returned to photography after many years of pursuing other arts such as film-making and sculpture.
All photos by Don Donaghy [...]
Feed the Hungry
The dustcover of my daughter Nani’s fourth book, Feed the Hungry, “a memoir with recipes”. Her other three books are novels, also bursting with delectable edibles both for the mind and the stomach. ( quotes from the book in italics).
Feed the Hungry is a book about hunger…it is the invisible chain that threads our memories [...]Carl William Kimes, 1937-2008
A childhood friend died on June 19: Carl William Kimes, aged 71, of a stroke in Bethesda, Md.
I knew him by three names during his lifetime, Billy, his name during our childhood, Koonie, his nickname as a teen-ager, and Carl, his given name, by which he was known as an adult. To me, of course, [...]Coming of Age
When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else. Lise Sarfati
Lise Sarfati, Magnum
… the rites of passage, the birthdays, the bat mitzvahs, sweet sixteen parties, proms, online diaries, the first bra, whispered secrets…The stammers, the pimples the awkwardness, the flush of embarrassment..
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