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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair / Guy Pène du Bois: The Flapper
. The Flapper: Guy Pène du Bois, 1922, oil on board, 63.5 x 50.8 cm (Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro) By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent...
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Hart Crane: General Aims and Theories / Hughie Lee-Smith: Rooftop View
.Untitled (RooftopView): HughieLee-Smith (1916-1988), 1957, oil on masonite, 61 x 63.5 cm (Cleveland Museum of Art)I put no particular value on the simple objective of modernity. Theelement of the...
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Guillermo Rosales: Creature
. Abandoned parachute jump at Steeplechase Park on Coney Island: photo by Arthur Tress (1940-) for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, May/June 1973 (US National Archives)There...
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Joseph Ceravolo: Perpetual
.Ozzie's Luncheonette, food market and liquor store, Longport, New Jersey: postcard, issued c. 1930-1945; image by Boston Public Library, 11 February 2011 (The Tichnor Brothers Collection, Print...
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Out of the Past
.Untitled (Dodge, Alameda, California): photo by Christopher Hall (Dead Slow), 16 January 2009Samuel Beckett on involuntary memoryThe most successful evocative experiment can only project the echo of a...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Discovery
.Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis), newborn (captured within 12 hours of birth): photo by Anton Croos, 20 September 2013 I believe in the great discovery. I believe in the man who...
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D. H. Lawrence: Man and Bat (Hung Out To Dry)
.Roosting Grey-headed Flying Foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus), Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne: photo by Ruizhen, 14 December 2012When I went into my room, at mid-morning,Say ten o'clock . . .My room, a...
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D. H. Lawrence: Bat
.The old bridge -- Ponte Vecchio, Florence: photo by Ben Thé Man (Ben), 14 August 2012At evening, sitting on this terrace, When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara...
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Vulnerable
.Female lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) [with wing-puncture marking], originally from southeast Asia, flying in a wind tunnel in Massachusetts: photo by Pepe Iriarte (josdiri), 18...
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Take Us to Your Leader
.Halloween Visitors to the Oval Office. Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr. , in the White House Oval Office: photo by Cecil Stoughton, Office of the Naval Aide to the President,...
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Rue (Melancholy Couple)
.Woman in blue dress sitting near fireplace: autochrome photo by Dr. L. Silberstein, c. 1915 (George Eastman House)It hadn't always been this way. A hundred years ago things had beenWell, in a certain...
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Stephen Crane: "I walked in a desert"
.Woman posed as sphinx: autochrome photo by Dr. W. Simon, c. 1910 (George Eastman House) I walked in a desert. And I cried, "Ah, God, take me from this place!" A voice said, "It is no desert." I cried,...
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America (Razor Sharp Cuts)
.Untitled(Parkvile, Baltimore County): photo by Patrick Joust, 12 October 2013As the shades of evening come downThe colour of the spattermarks seems to be changingFrom golden autumnal red to a deep...
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Daily News (Downtown)
.Lower East Side: photo by James Jowers, 1967 (George Eastman House) Dying day pinches the tot He grabs my pen and beadsAnd plays into my hands His father’s skull glistensAcross his wife’s white...
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Lorenzo Thomas: Studying War (from California Songs, 1970)
. Sign on a fence at the Camp Pendleton Marine Base warns the public that this portion of the beach is restricted to military personnel: photo by Charles O'Rear, May 1975 for the Environmental...
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Tracks (Slaughterhouse Work)
.[Untitled, Vietnam]: photo by Clare Love (clare_love42), c.1968; posted 13 September 2008Of mechanized arms and the man: from an interview with Larry Heinemann, author of Close Quarters (1977):Q: What...
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Wild
.Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris), Cumbria: photo by MicheleBW, 8 August 2010A spikyaromaticfragrance, a braveryYour light, which has always shownbrightest againstthe darkness around itWild Angelica...
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Siege Mentality: Michael Herr: Sleepless at Khe Sanh / Lorenzo Thomas:...
.Vietnamese girl, Danang. The combat photographer Dana Stone rented an apartment in Danang where he and his wife lived. He took this picture of a Vietnamese girl from his second-story window: photo by...
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Michael Herr: Dislocation (The Battle of Dak To, November 1967)
. 173rd Airborne Brigade, atop Hill 875, Dak To, Central Highlands, South Vietnam: photo by Kyoichi Sawada, November 1967; image by Photo Tractatus, 7 July 2011The battle for Hill 875 was over, and...
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Nebulous
.Moon, 55.1% Illuminated: photo by Ewan Bryce (Point Five Past Lightspeed), 10 November 2013 Nebulous first quarter moon soap chip floating motherlyover the Baycradling a soft long cloud and two young...
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