Saturday, June 26, 2010


Untitled (Elevator), 1981
Garry Winogrand

Friday, June 25, 2010


Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898
Theodora W. Thayer

Wednesday, June 23, 2010


Eaton's Neck, Long Island, 1872


Sunset Sky, 1872
John Frederick Kensett

Thursday, June 17, 2010


New York City, ca. 1929-39
Walker Evans

Tuesday, June 15, 2010


Comic Book Readers, New York City, 1947
Ruth Orkin

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Dream

I knew I was appearing in your dream
Because I couldn't fall asleep.
The lantern flickered blue
And pointed out the path to me.

You saw the tsarina's garden,
The filigreed white palace
And the black tracery of the iron fences
Around the resonant stone porches.

You went along, not knowing the way
And you thought: "Faster, faster!
Oh, only to find her,
Not to wake up until we meet."

And the watchman at the red gate
Called out to you: "Halt!"
The ice crumbled and cracked,
Black water appeared underfoot.

"This is the lake," you thought.
"In the lake there is a little island..."
And suddenly from the darkness
Shone the small blue flame.

In the harsh light of a meager day,
You awoke, and you began to groan,
And for the first time
You called me loudly by my name.

March 1915
Tsarskoye Selo

Anna Akhmatova