This expanded edition of "Diana & Nikon," Janet Malcolm's first book, presents new essays that explore the last work of Diane Arbus, Sally Mann's f...
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Jun 29, 2010
Hanny
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I read this book as part of a completist fit prompted by Janet Malcolm's recent New Yorker piece ("Iphigenia in Forest Hills") and memories of The Journalist and the Murderer. I didn't expect much, and was very pleasantly surprised. This is a lovely collection, the Malcolm book (again, excepting J+M) that I read most enthusiastically. A significant part of the reason is the skill with which Malcolm communicates her enthusiasms: I used to be much more devoted to learning about the histo
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Mar 17, 2010
Daniel
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This book I found by chance while scanning the photography section at my local library. It is a series of essays written between 1975 and 1979 by Janet Malcolm, a journalist and critic with The New Yorker. Although her understanding of the history and aesthetic importance of photography is broad, a certain evolution of thought is apparent over the short span of four years. This I think speaks to her open-mindedness. Too many artists and critics have taken immovable positions on the question of p
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Oct 25, 2011
Sarah
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I will admit right off the bat that the first few essasys were out of my depth -- despite being an enthusiastic amateur photographer, I don't have much of a background in the art history side of photography. (Nor do I have much of a background in art history at all, aside from a survey class in college, which was, shall we say, not recently.)
Malcom made references to photographers whose names I didn't recognize, and exhibitions that closed decades ago. Despite that disadvantage, I di More...
Malcom made references to photographers whose names I didn't recognize, and exhibitions that closed decades ago. Despite that disadvantage, I di More...
Oct 04, 2008
Anna
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this is my least favourite of malcolm's books so far. all the others have made me crazy with envy and thrilled. my almost total lack of knowledge regarding photography, its traditions and its american practitioners make getting much out of this one very hard. but she is still so readable...
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