Lackey's Class Links: 01/01/2005

A City Seen

Michael Book, Collinwood; East 152nd and Yorick, 1990

CMA Exhibition Feature: A City Seen
This exhibition presents Cleveland as revealed by some of our era's greatest photographers. All together, the photographs plot the neighborhoods, families, schools, gardens, and waterways of a vast city to create a singular portrait.

Making Sense of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Making Sense of Modern Art and E-Space.

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (1911–1988), an American artist of African-American heritage, incorporated into his works of art a rich montage of influences from American, African, Asian and European art and culture. He was widely recognized as a master collagist, scholar, writer, jazz aficionado, and a socially and culturally engaged humanist.

Tomorrow I May Be Far Away

The Art of Romare Bearden

Langston Hughes Links

LANGSTON HUGHES

Black History Month - Langston Hughes

Webcams: NYC & Athens

Information Literacy

Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital

Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions

A9 - Wikipedia - INA Maps

The American Renaissance & Transcendentalism

I Hear America Singing
"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." - Emerson

whitney biennial 2004

Photography Reveals Itself Between Covers

Photography Reveals Itself Between Covers
By PHILIP GEFTER January 16, 2005

"It seems that more photography books are being published now than ever before, and that the number of publishers with lists devoted entirely to photography has never been higher. Could it be that people are reading less and looking at pictures more, or has the rapidly rising price of photographs sent would-be collectors in search of alternatives? Whatever cultural forces are at work, books on photography are having their moment in more ways than one. "

Life is Random

Thinking May Not Be All It's Thought to Be
By John Schwartz NYTimes January 16, 2005

After 20 Years, Finally Capitalizing on Cool
By RANDALL STROSS NYTimes January 16, 2005

BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By Malcolm Gladwell
First Chapter of Blink

Bruce Springsteen and Robert Coles

Fifteen Questions For Robert Coles
On artists from New Jersey

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street
By Herman Melville

Bartleby, Savitri, & Me
By Sam Swope
Teacher Magazine
January 1, 2005

The idea sounded great: conduct a seminar for English teachers in one of the world's greatest libraries, with literary experts leading scholarly discussions. But after the author asked a department of ed employee to award the teachers credit, he was reminded of Melville's scrivener, who'd prefer not to.

Does Cosby Help?

Do You Speak American?

Do You Speak American?
Robert MacNeil - PBS

Check out Hip Hop Nation

Essay: You Talkin' to Me?
NYTimes January 9, 2005
By William Deresiewicz

Poetry: The Language People Speak
NYTimes January 9, 2005
By Eric Mchenry

Jesse Sheidlower - the principal North American Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of the controversial, best-selling book The F Word. His website is here. NYTimes article about Jesse Sheidlower.

The F-word at The Maven's Word of the Day and How to Avoid Offensive Language.

American Dialect Society Words of the Year

A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain

The New Yorker: Democracy - Richard Avedon

Democracy by Richard Avedon

A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain
by Winthrop Sargeant

Richard Avedon’s portrait photography captured with striking originality the worlds of art, politics, and power. He revolutionized fashion photography, and, in this Profile from 1958, Winthrop Sargeant chronicles Avedon’s early works.

"And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible." - Richard Avedon

John Cohen Works - Photography

John Cohen Photography

There Is No Eye Review

Portraits of American Musicians

12 essential facts, formulas, and photographic rules

Memorize This!
What happens when your systems go belly-up, when all of that cutting-edge technology dies and you must rely on (gasp!) your own knowledge? It pays to have these basics in your head. They can get you out of a jam and help you get good shots when nothing else will.

By Jason Schneider Popular Photography November 2004

Susan Sontag - An Appreciation by Charles McGrath

Review of On Photography and The Decay of Cinema by Susan Sontag

No Hard Books, or Easy Deaths by Charles McGrath - NYTimes January 2, 2005

Contemporary Vernacular Photograpy