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...
By Contributing Writer Suzanne Révy Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of American naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau. The algorithms of a large internet retailer suggested I might like a lovely book of photographs called Walden by SB Walker. Indeed, I like it, however, it is a disconcerting...
By Contributing Writer Suzanne Révy Leo Tolstoy began his novel Anna Karenina with the sentence, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I would argue that there are no happy families. Every family has its own rivalries, quirks, tensions and passions that are unique...
Book review by Contributing Writer Suzanne Révy There is a moment each morning when I am no longer asleep, but not yet awake. My dreams fade from memory; I sense the covers over my body; I slowly become aware of the rain or wind or birds chirping outside; I open my eyes to light-dappled shapes […]
“I find sometimes it’s easy to be myself sometimes I find it’s better to be somebody else” lyrics from So Much To Say by Dave Matthews Guest blog by Suzanne Révy It’s the beginning of a new year, a time to reflect on the past and, for many of us, to think about turning over...
Compiled by Suzanne Révy and Elin Spring ‘Tis the season for “Best Photography Books of the Year” compilations and, judging from the media avalanche, everyone and her dog seems to have one. So why join the fray? Our preferences run to the deeply personal, so we wanted to draw attention to books...
Guest Blog by Suzanne Révy “Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away” lyrics by Paul Simon It’s a shame that...
Guest blog by Suzanne Révy Sam Wagstaff’s insatiable curiosity about the medium of photography sprang from viewing two printed versions of Edward Steichen’s The Flatiron on view in an exhibition called The Painterly Photograph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973. The curator of that show,...
Guest book review by Suzanne Révy I recently discovered the work of Olivia Bee when I saw her monograph at a local independent book seller. She was, apparently, very well known to Flikr users when she landed a commercial gig with Converse at the tender age of fifteen. Now twenty-two, Aperture has published...
