evans + frank + herzog | santa

walker evans | west virginia living room | 1935

robert frank | ranch market - hollywood | 1956

fred herzog | paris cafe | 1959

frank + herzog | witness

Jehovah's Witness

Robert Frank

Los Angeles, 1955-56

Witness

Fred Herzog

Vancouver, 1966

adam gopnik | boring, boring, boring

At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable. "Incoherent and inaudible" was Kingsley Amis's verdict on his teacher.

It is still one of the finest jests of the modern muses that this fogged-in English don was going home nights to work on perhaps the most popular adventure story ever written....

Adam Gopnik, "The Dragon's Egg"
The New Yorker, December 5, 2011

richard bram | street photography

Photos by Richard Bram

iN-PUBLiC

jim lepage | word

jim lepage is a graphic artist who set himself a two-year project to create at least one image for each book of the bible. these are my favourites. here's the link.

peter schjeldahl | you want to be worthy of it

While you're looking at Giovanni Bellini's big oil on wood "St. Francis in the Desert" (circa 1475-78), at the Frick Collection, it seems to satisfy every personal use you've ever had for art. Wanting any other work would betray gluttony. Now the museum has organized a little show around research into this most perfect of pictures. There's not much to discover. X-rays of the scene, in which the saint stands transfixed in a multitudinous landscape, find a completely worked-out drawing, across which Bellini applied the skin of paint as deftly as if he were pulling a blind. The jewel-like style rivals that of contemporaneous Flemish oils but is suffused with Italian tenderness. The painting stuns with its conception of physical and spiritual vision as one and the same. We are seduced by naturalistic and poetic details - that personable donkey, unforgettably - while being set back on our heels by the polished execution. Like the humility of St. Francis, the work's sublimity makes you want to be worthy of it. Change your life!

Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2011

photos | re:union

Re:Union

by Sean Devine

pictured: Andrew Wheeler, Alexa Devine, Evan Frayne
pix by me