MEMBER BLOG TAG: photography
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:48PM | | | | A Picture of Sergio Ramirez | Tags: Sergio Ramirez, translation, historical fiction, Nicaragua, photography, World Voices
| | | | When I think of Sergio Ramírez a picture comes to mind: a photograph I took in 1986 or 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin. He gave a reading at UW-Madison, and various banners hung from the balcony of the University Chapel--red-and-black Sandinista flags and hand-painted banners that read, "U.S. OUT OF NICARAGUA," and "SOLIDARITY WITH THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE" I wondered what Ramírez through, as he juggled his identity as a writer with his duties as Vice-President of Nicaragua, as he observed an audience far more interested in him as a political figure, a symbol of the embattled Sandinista government resisting the interference of the mighty superpower to the north. And I were I to show him the photos I took, which accompanied my interview with him for... | | | | | | | Friday, April 4, 2008 6:05PM | | | | view from the archive | Tags: documentarian, documentary, being the documentarian, archives, family history, history, photography, sadi ranson-polizzotti, pen american, pen, sadi ranson, heleina, tant mieux, archives, history, writing, writers,
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It's hard to capture the moment of any given moment in a single snapshot, and yet this shot, to me, captures everything about my most recent foray to NYC. It was subtle, full of life, soft, scented, productive, proud, energetic yet mild, and always but always with friends both old and new and discovering new things about myself and about them as well. One can hardly say that this was by any means a 'wasted' trip; besides which, no trip is wasted unless you make it so.
Life, like anything (and I realize this is trite) is what you make it. It's like that song by the group "Talk Talk" (remember them?) "Baby... life's what you make it..."... | | | | | | | Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:57PM | | | | the devil naked in the kleig light | Tags: sadi ranson-polizzotti, anna wintour, vogue, conde-nast, conde-nast publications, sadi ranson, vogue magazine, assistant, rover, conde nast rover, weisberger, devil wears prada, meisel, elgort, photography, fashion, fashion shoots, magazines, international magazines, american vogue
| | | As a sometime professor of book editing and writing a very fine graduate program in publishing, I should be so lucky, as I am, to have such thoughtful students who are interested in interning, actively seeking work, volunteering, etc. once the class is over and it is my promise to them, just as someone once gave me a leg up, to help them out as best I can through recommendations, by sending them to publishers and agents that I know well and that perhaps will take my recommendation about this or that student under advisement. This is the hope.
So far, I have become a mentor to two students - asked quite literally to "mentor" and I cannot begin to express what a... | | | | | |
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