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Still Thinking About Penn Station

Greg — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:07:35 +0000

Pennsylvania Station segment from New York: A Documentary Film

I wrote a couple of posts several years ago about New York’s Penn Station, and that various other Penn Stations that existed along the East Coast (1, 2). I’m still thinking about Penn Station, particularly now that I work just around the corner from its gravesite.

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Still Thinking About Penn Station

Ben Alper

Greg — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:03:55 +0000

Photographer, friend, and all-around standup guy Ben Alper has updated his site with some new work. Give it a look.

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Ben Alper

Ambroise Tézenas

Greg — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:04:58 +0000

Photograph by Ambroise Tézenas

I discovered the photography of Ambroise Tézenas today illustrating an article in The New York Times Style Magazine about the lingering colonial lifestyle of European ex-pats in Tangier. The story itself is worth a read, and the photographs accompanying it compelled me to Google Tézenas’ name and land on his portfolio.

Tézenas’ work alongside this piece is a perfect example of why the Times – Style Magazine or otherwise – continues to lead in terms of the the quality of its photojournalism. The sampling of images in Tézenas’ portfolio evidence a master photographer deeply concerned with the state of the world, focused on juxtaposing it’s some of its more conflicting features.

The sprawling dictatorial plazas of Turkmenistan, almost entirely devoid of people, may just depict, in an instant, the priorities of the regime there. As may the richly detailed images of Chinese workers, huddled together during their lunchbreak, in the densely populated areas surrounding the Olympic Zone.

I have never heard of Ambroise Tézenas before just now, but clearly the Times has been pretty familiar with him. Given the concerns evident in his work, choosing him for the Tangier piece makes a whole lot of sense.

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Ambroise Tézenas

Garrison Keillor Reviewing the Autobiography of Mark Twain

Greg — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:42:15 +0000

“Here is a powerful argument for writers’ burning their papers — you’d like to be remembered for “The Innocents Abroad” and “Life on the Mississippi” and the first two-thirds of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and not for excruciating passages of hero worship of General Grant and his son Fred and accounts of your proximity to the general and your business dealings as the publisher of his memoirs, which only reminds the reader that the general wrote a classic autobiography, and you tried to and could not.”

Garrison Keillor, writing in yesterday’s New York Times.

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Garrison Keillor Reviewing the Autobiography of Mark Twain

Post No. 1118

Greg — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:06:04 +0000

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Post No. 1118

Post No. 1115

Greg — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:51:19 +0000

Nashville, 2010

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Post No. 1115

My Week in Profane Graffiti

Greg — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:05:26 +0000

At my work

Ladies restroom, Bowery Poetry Club

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My Week in Profane Graffiti

Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”

Greg — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:10:10 +0000

This shit is unreal.

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Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”

Kentucky

Greg — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:13:58 +0000

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Kentucky

Post No. 1078

Greg — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:24:44 +0000

Elizabeth, just now

Boston, last month

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Post No. 1078