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Wellington, coffee city

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

A Coffee Guide to Wellington
“This tea towel, probably from the mid-1960s provides a coffee guide to Wellington, complete with descriptions of the type of food served in each café.”
Wellington café culture + media gallery
“Wellington’s café culture is today an integral part of its identity as a city. This culture began in the 1930s with the [...]

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Street seen

Monday, January 18, 2010

Louis Faurer, “Accident, New York City,” 1952. Deborah Bell Photographs, New York / © Mark Faurer
Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959
Milwaukee Art Museum, January 30–April 25, 2010
“[The] graphically charged and emotionally engaging photographs evoke the excitement and unease that characterized the era, as popular culture, the arts, and everyday life underwent substantial, [...]

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Looking back at 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

Boston.com’s The Big Picture takes a wide-ranging look at 2009 and although there is plenty that could be said about these end-of-year photo reflections, really I was just struck by a strange combination of hope and despair.

A North Korean woman carries water she collected from the Yalu River in the North Korean city of Hyesan, [...]

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Tokyo Blues

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Back in 2007 I was happy to report on Nurri Kim’s fascinating photos of blue tarps in Tokyo, but not as happy as I am today to announce the publication of her new book, Tokyo Blues.

“Now available for purchase or free download, Tokyo Blues is a photographic record of Nurri Kim’s 2002-2003 investigation into this [...]

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Greetings from Aotearoa

Saturday, December 5, 2009

We arrived in Wellington three weeks ago, and have been non-stop busy adjusting to a new city, a new job and a new home. It still startles me to wake up to this view every morning, but I’m not complaining!
There’s so much to note about life on this remote and beautiful island nation that I [...]

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