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Christer Strömholm, who died in 2002, is known as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher. In the late 1950s and early 60s, he lived in Paris intermittently and it was there that he created his most famous book, Les amies de Place Blanche – portraits of the often glamorous transsexuals who comp... See more

Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review

Before leaving, Wolfe scrounged for a pencil, then scribbled on the wall of the vestibule: THOMAS WOLFE LIVED HERE.

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

For decor, the identity-less apartment had a huge print of a photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge, which made me feel like I hadn’t gone anywhere after leaving New York. Even though I had selected for that kind of aesthetic, the standardization seemed excessive for one of the more physically isolated places in the world.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Wolfe now moved into a new apartment at 865 First Avenue, just two blocks toward the East River from the Perkinses’ house.

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places.

Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography

Inside were their portraits, inverted and reversed, all the dark made light and the light made dark.

Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

When I showed up with my camera at his house a few weeks later, I felt as if I had been training for that moment my entire working life. For more than forty years, in locations as disparate as the American South, Inuit villages in Alaska, Havana streets, and Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico, I learned to make portraits without the actual prese... See more

Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection

From the second story of my house the Shades’ living-room window remained clearly visible so long as the branches of the deciduous trees between us were still bare, and almost every evening I could see the poet’s slippered foot gently rocking. One inferred from it that he was sitting with a book in a low chair but one never managed to glimpse more

Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)

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Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Eric Kim • 82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography

Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection

Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)

Lauren Cory: Centre Page Poster Issue 157