January 2009
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“One night [Tristan] Tzara, [Marcel] Janko, and [Richard] Huelsenbeck
took the stage to deliver what they called a ‘simultaneous poem’ made
up of separate texts spoken in French, German, and English at the same
time. One of the participants compared it to the sound of the Balkan
Express crossing a bridge and of a pig squealing in a butcher’s
cellar. This was followed the...
December 2008
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“To me, photography has been a challenge; to produce images that are
meaningful but not dogmatic, to be artistic but not arty. It has
served me as a vehicle to pay tribute to other arts: to photograph the
sculpture of Africa and the temples of Egypt and India. It has also
permitted me to experiment with color, a method developed principally
in my own time, and to participate in its...
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“I am having some Brie and crackers and a scotch and water. I know how
to get Brie exactly right - finally. You have to carry it on a TWA
plane, get the Stewardess to place it in a bag of ice cubes, then in
Tel-Aviv leave it in your room overnight, then keep it for two days in
the ice-box of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem - it’s too hard
anyway. From Tel-Aviv to Bombay keep it under...