Compiled by Suzanne Révy and Elin Spring It’s award season in the Photobook world and, perhaps even more delightfully, it’s gifting season in our world. Since there’s hardly anything more deliciously gift-worthy than a photobook, we’re weighing in with our favorites published in the last year....
By Suzanne Révy, Associate Editor What attracts or repels us in others? How are we seen by those with different skin tones or disparate beliefs? Can America ever hope to unite polar opposites? During this political season, such questions have been swirling around my head, and in public and private conversations,...
By Suzanne Révy, Associate Editor “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” ~Alain de Botton Our desire to connect with others is a powerful human need, opening the doors to our most emotionally satisfying relationships. In revealing...
by Suzanne Révy “Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you’ve wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important...
By Suzanne Révy, Associate Editor From the very beginnings of recorded time, we have evidence that humans had close and mutually beneficial relationships with other creatures. Our earliest discovered cave paintings proclaim the significance of these interactions through an overwhelming number of animal...
Review by Suzanne Révy, Associate Editor Although he always had a dark sense of humor, the rock musician Warren Zevon might have sensed something was amiss when he titled an album, Life’ll Kill Ya three years before he died at the age of 56. He produced two more records including The Wind which was made...
Compiled by Suzanne Révy and Elin Spring It’s award season in the Photobook world and, perhaps even more delightfully, it’s gifting season in our world. Since there’s hardly anything more deliciously gift-worthy than a photobook, we’re weighing in with our favorites published in the last year,...
By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy “Scrambled eggs, Oh you’ve got such lovely legs, Scrambled eggs. Oh, my baby, how I love your legs.” These lyrics were the first iteration of the Beatles song “Yesterday” written by Paul McCartney, who reports that the melody came to him fully formed in a dream....
By Contributing Writer Suzanne Révy Last month, I spent several days with my son on the road to drop him off at college. It is my hope that he meets inspiring and influential professors to teach, challenge and mentor him. If his experience is anything like mine, he will carry the ideas he learned in […]
By Contributing Writer Suzanne Révy As a teenager during most of the 1970’s, my day-to-day existence seemed utterly boring. I regretted that I was too young to have truly experienced the tumultuous 60’s and simply could not see the 70’s as a radical or even marginally interesting era. Chalk it up to youthful...
