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July 27, 2008
At Sea
The second part of my 3rd Anniversary special is up- it's called At Sea. It's 35 slides taken by a sailor on board a destroyer (I think- please correct me if I'm wrong) from '66 to '68. The photos are mostly of his shipmates or simply shots of the open ocean but I think it captures the odd languor I associate with being at sea (though I have to admit any associations I have come only from reading Conrad). One interesting note: the swift boat in photo third from the the bottom here is one of the boats that would later take part in the John Kerry swift boat incident- not the boat he was actually on but one of the escorts.
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July 26, 2008
What Was On (June 1968)
I'm busy working on the 3rd Anniversary Show over at Square America. It looks like it'll be 3 or four small-ish shows the first of which is What Was On (June 1968)- the fourth in my series of photos taken off TV. This one is small- just 17 photos of Robert F Kennedy's funeral taken by Martin Johnson (who also took the photos of JFK's funeral that I posted previously. I meant to post these last month for the 40th anniversary but didn't get around to it.
If you like these make sure to take a look at These amazing photos taken by Paul Fusco from RFK's funeral train (NYT Times piece here) as it made it's way from NY to Washington D.C. They're truly extraordinary- if you're in NYC check out the show at Danziger Projects though you'll have to hurry as it closes at the end of the month. If you can't make it to the show, the book is being re-issued next month with a bunch of new photos and will certainly be worth picking up.
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July 22, 2008
Remembering the Future
I just put up a new show over at Square America- it's called It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future. It's 56 images from a pre-Powerpoint IBM slide presentation with one foot in the future and the other planted firmly in the 70s. Here's a peek.
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July 18, 2008
60 Years Ago In Hell (4:45pm 7/18/48)
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July 10, 2008
New Slides
I just dumped about 30 new slides into the Archives. I'm going to have to play around with the design a little bit but the ability to tag and create a tag cloud is essential and the ability to make the scans a bit bigger helps too so that's where all new stuff is going to be going eventually.
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July 09, 2008
Summer News & Notes
First, let me apologize for the lack of posts lately- I've a few health issues that will hopefully be behind me soon. I should have a great new show up over at Square America next week. More importantly, I should have a major book-related announcement next week as well. Finally, I think the next few weeks will mark the final ones here at The Boat Lullabies- all of my new posting will done over in the archives which I hope to start dumping more photos into shortly. I just don't have the energy to do the big re-design like I had planned so I'm just going to use wordpress to create a tagged, searchable, archive that I'll try to add photos to regularly and keep Square America pretty much as it is now. More on that later, but for now some summer photos for you (sorry if I posted one or two of these before- I can't remember if I have or haven't).
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July 04, 2008
Happy Fourth of July
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