Posts tagged 1920s

The Sun Also Also Rises: A Hemingway Reader (2008), a chapter-by-chapter conceptual response to Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. Fitterman explains, “I have erased my way through Hemingway’s original text, leaving behind only the phrases that begin with the pronoun ‘I’.” [read an excerpt in .pdf here; his website]

The Sun Also Also Rises: A Hemingway Reader (2008), a chapter-by-chapter conceptual response to Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

Fitterman explains, “I have erased my way through Hemingway’s original text, leaving behind only the phrases that begin with the pronoun ‘I’.”

[read an excerpt in .pdf here; his website]

“And even the books that do not last long, penetrate their own times at least, sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, like ships on the seas. It is the author’s part to call into being their cargoes and passengers,—living thoughts and rich bales of study and jeweled ideas. And as for the publishers, it is they who build the fleet, plan the voyage, and sail on, facing wreck, till they find every possible harbor that will value their burden.” — Clarence S. Day, The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend Eben Ostby, Still Lifes: Boiled Book, 2012

“And even the books that do not last long, penetrate their own times at least, sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, like ships on the seas. It is the author’s part to call into being their cargoes and passengers,—living thoughts and rich bales of study and jeweled ideas. And as for the publishers, it is they who build the fleet, plan the voyage, and sail on, facing wreck, till they find every possible harbor that will value their burden.”

— Clarence S. Day, The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend

Eben Ostby, Still Lifes: Boiled Book, 2012

“In 1928, the famed astronomer, George Ellery Hale, had a vision. He wanted to build the world’s largest telescope at Palomar Mountain in California—a research instrument that would allow scientists to view the skies as never before.” [read the rest here] Robert Y. Richie, Working on the Palomar Observatory telescope disk, ca. 1935

“In 1928, the famed astronomer, George Ellery Hale, had a vision. He wanted to build the world’s largest telescope at Palomar Mountain in California—a research instrument that would allow scientists to view the skies as never before.” [read the rest here]

Robert Y. Richie, Working on the Palomar Observatory telescope disk, ca. 1935

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Sala au rocher de la vierge, Biarritz, 1927

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Sala au rocher de la vierge, Biarritz, 1927

William E. Dassonville, Eucalyptus Trees and San Francisco Skyline, 1920s

William E. Dassonville, Eucalyptus Trees and San Francisco Skyline, 1920s

A knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike.
László Moholy-Nagy, 1923 (via mianoti)

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