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...
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...
