TexasSparkle (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
I will be out of town tomorrow, so I thought I might share some of my favorite posts from the past. I have published three so scroll down for the next two. The following two are very personal and not...
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The Inge Morath Foundation and Magnum Photos are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2008 Inge Morath Award. This award of $5000 is given annually to a female documentary photographer under the age of 30, in memory of the late Magnum photographer Inge Morath. The 2008 winner is Kathryn COOK, American based in Istanbul, for her project “Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”. Her images...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
In 1978 (only 2 years after the Cultural Revolution), and again in 1979 and 1983, noted Magnum photographer Inge Morath and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, were invited to travel to China. This exhibition captures two artists responding to a society in transition. Pictured is "6:30 a.m. Chang An Avenue, Beijing," by Morath. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue., Sat. & Sun., 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Through...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
Judith Flanders sees the world through the eyes of the best photographers
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/12/2007
ANN ARBOR, MI - In 1978, only two years after the end of China’s Cultural Revolution, noted Magnum photographer Inge Morath and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, were invited to travel to China. They returned again in 1979 and 1983, fueled by Morath’s knowledge of Chinese language, poetry, and history, and Miller’s interest in the politics of the present moment. On exhibition January 12 through...
Shedworking (Free subscription) | 20/09/2007
In 1948, Arthur Miller built a white clapboard cabin in Roxbury, Connecticut, specifically as a base in which to write Death of a Salesman, even though he had never built anything similar in his life (he said the hardest part was putting up the roof rafters by himself). As he built, he put together the play in his mind, although he did also make use of his desk, an old recycled door. Here he is pictured...
Isn't She Talking Yet? (Free subscription) | 31/08/2007
There are stories in today's Times and Daily Mail about the brilliant late American playwright Arthur Miller and his son Daniel, who has Down's syndrome and is now 40. Daniel was the child of Miller and his third wife, Inge...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 30/08/2007
Vanity Fair has hit biographical paydirt this month and, no, we’re not talking about another Demi Moore cover. What has really got the chatterati going is Suzanna Andrews’ hefty piece on Arthur Miller’s apparently less than compassionate treatment toward his son, Daniel, who was born in 1966 with Down's syndrome and was supposedly pretty well [...]
