WARREN CONNECTICUT – We had a reception at home for ASAP, a local after school arts program. Maria serves on the board.
Day 6,038 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly six years to gears. Shot on film with my Leica M2-R. Day 3,847 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Home in late afternoon light.
Day 6,037 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 14 years to a Shake Shack. Day 925 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
MANHATTAN – A street corner on Park Avenue.
Day 6,036 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 16 years to looking up. Day 192 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WASHIGNTON DC – Here is Carol Beckwith sitting in a chair, a Moroso M’Afrique woven piece from the Shadowy series that Tord Boontje and others designed using traditional African weaving techniques and Senegalese craftsmen.
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher were in DC to celebrate: On the following day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art announced a promised gift of the “African Ceremonies” collection, which features archival materials documenting Beckwith and Fisher’s work across more than 150 cultural groups in 35 African countries. The scale is hard to overstate. Their archive (not all of which is at the Smithsonian) comprises over 500,000 photographs, hundreds of hours of film, and more than 200 illustrated and annotated journals representing 150 African cultures. Another portion of their archive has been given to a new museum in the city of Arusha in Tanzania, fifty miles Southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro. They have traveled more than 270,000 miles together. Their two-volume African Ceremonies won the United Nations Award for Excellence and was honored by Kofi Annan in 1999.
Day 6,035 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 15 years to a portrait in Beijing. Day 556 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
MANHATTAN – Here’s an out-my-window in nice light. New York continues to enthrall me.
Day of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 15 years to Hello Kitty. Lever House was owned at the time by Aby Rosen’s RFR Holding, which had acquired the Bunshaft landmark alongside the Seagram Building. Rosen inaugurated the Lever House Art Collection in 2004, curated by Richard Marshall, cycling works by Koons, E.V. Day, and others through the lobby and Noguchi plaza. Tom Sachs’s Bronze Collection opened in 2008. Sachs built Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Miffy from foamcore and glue, cast them in bronze, and painted them white to mimic the original foamcore — merchandising icons monumentalized in fine-art material, then sited inside a 1952 modernist masterpiece. Day 555 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – Here’s one of our many birdhouses.
Day 6,033 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 15 years to a restaurant in Beijing specializing in . . . Beijing Duck. Day 554 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – I’m enthralled with Spring here – it’s such a contrast with the savage winter that we’ve lived through. But coasting a bit on my photo effort.
Day 6,032 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 15 years to a rather formal take on the Shanghai Museum. Day 553 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
