New-York Mirror
Author | : Theodore Sedgwick Fay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Ryan McGinley
Author | : Ryan McGinley |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0847863476 |
Ryan McGinley, one of the most important photographers of his generation, asks his friends and colleagues to take the camera into their own hands. Following instructions given to them by the artist, a group of individuals explore their own image. Ryan McGinley, since the earliest days of his unparalleled career, has chronicled his friends and cohorts. Whether on the now legendary annual road trips he has organized with a large coterie of twentysomethings documenting summertime exploits or documenting the early gritty years in downtown New York, McGinley is known as the consummate storyteller about freedom and abandon of youth. A few years ago, however, he wanted to challenge his creative habits and asked more than one hundred of his friends and colleagues--guided by detailed instructions and a camera given to them by the artist--to take nude self-portraits using mirrors and other props. Though related to the ubiquitous selfie, the participants didn't have the benefit of seeing the image before they clicked the shutter. Furthermore, McGinley would make the selection of the final image to represent the photo session. The experiment yielded scores of intimate and psychologically revealing photos that--even though not done by his own hand--bear some signature McGinley flourishes in their emotional depth and resonance.
The New-York Mirror
Author | : George Pope Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Fires in the Mirror
Author | : Anna Deavere Smith |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1101911298 |
Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.
New York is Not America
Author | : Ford Madox Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Author | : Dorthe Nors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555978088 |
Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood--the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields--but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?