Dear Zazie,
Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.
Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
they were irrelevant
when i was sad,
alone, blah, blah,
whatever
and while creatin’
still defines each day,
it is not all that matters
but wait,
irrelevant
is not right
more like
non-existent
so no one was more
surprised than i
when they bloomed
in time with you
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feelin’s, c’mon
they are irrelevant
sad, lonely, blah,
blah, whatever
all that matters,
creatin’ or not
that defines
how i am doin’
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Today is the birthday of Allen Butler Talcott (Hartford, Connecticut; April 8, 1867 – June 1, 1908 Old Lyme, Connecticut); landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first members of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. His paintings, usually landscapes depicting the local scenery and often executed en plein air, were generally Barbizon and Tonalist, sometimes incorporating elements of Impressionism. He was especially known and respected for his paintings of trees. After eight summers at Old Lyme, he died at the age of 41.
In 1905, Allen married Katherine Nash Agnew.
The French garden
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Evening
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Oak Tree and Marshland, left panel detail
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Oak Tree and Marshland, right panel detail
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Path Through the Woods
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Spreading Oak
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The Bright Light of Autumn
Today is the birthday of Clarence Hudson White (Newark, Ohio; April 8, 1871 – July 7, 1925 Mexico City); photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He grew up in small towns in Ohio, where his primary influences were his family and the social life of rural America. After visiting the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he took up photography. Although he was completely self-taught in the medium, within a few years he was internationally known for his pictorial photographs that captured the spirit and sentimentality of America in the early twentieth century. He became friends with Alfred Stieglitz and helped advance the cause of photography as a true art form. In 1906 White and his family moved to New York City in order to be closer to Stieglitz and his circle and to further promote his own work. While there he became interested in teaching photography and in 1914 he established the Clarence H. White School of Photography, the first educational institution in America to teach photography as art. In 1925 he suffered a heart attack and died while teaching students in Mexico City.
c1910. Portrait by Gertrude Käsebier
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Spring – A Triptych 1898
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The Ring Toss, 1899
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Letitia Felix, 1901
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The Orchard, 1902
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The Kiss, 1905
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Pipes of Pans, 1905
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Experiment #27 – Jointely created by White and Alfred Stieglitz
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Nude, 1908
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Rose Pastor Stokes, 1909
Johnston
And today is the birthday of Alfred Cheney Johnston (New York; April 8, 1885 – April 17, 1971 Connecticut); New York City-based photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of actors and actresses from the worlds of stage and film.
The only book known to have been published by Alfred Cheney Johnston during his lifetime devoted to his nudes/glamour photography is the 1937 spiral-bound softcover “Enchanting Beauty”, which contains 94 black-and-white photos (mostly about 7×9 inches, centered on a 9×12-inch page, although a number are cropped circular or in other designs). Unusually (compared to virtually all other examples of his work seen today on the Web or other sources, which were shot in an indoor studio in front of a flat-black or illustrated tapestry background cloth), 37 of these photos were taken outdoors along a stream or in flower-dappled fields, etc. All the shots in the book are “airbrushed” in the pubic area, to keep them legal with respect to the publishing standards of the day.
In 1960, Johnston donated a set of 245 large prints of his work to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (largely nude and semi-nude Follies showgirls, performers from various Ziegfeld shows including Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Ruby Keeler, the Dolly Sisters, Ina Claire, Helen Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Grace Moore, Ann Pennington, Belle Baker and Ruth Etting, some well-known actors and actresses of the 1920s/1930s including Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Pearl White, Barbara La Marr, Orson Welles, Clara Bow, Ethel Barrymore, Claudette Colbert, Corinne Griffith, Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, Mabel Normand, Helen Hayes, Norma Shearer, Anita Stewart, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Marie Prevost, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Miles Minter, Hope Hampton, and a number of product-advertisement photos).
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Gloria Swanson
Lilian Bond
Drucilla Strain
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