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Princeton Art Museum houses the Minor White archive, which seems to be about 6,000 photos. Browsing I've come across a handful of these pieces from the late 40s-early 1950s that combine a photograph and a short phrase or poem, which I hadn't seen before. Unfortunately, there's no tag to see them all, but there are other tags worth browsing (for example he spent some time in Rome in 1974).

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“Why did they come? Why not stay home, loving what was theirs to love, wanting no more than what they had, enjoying the astonishing blessings already laid out before them?”

“Liberation Day”

George Saunders

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’Oh no,’ said Kafka, ‘our work is only a bad mood of God, a bad day of his.’

‘Then there is hope outside this manifestation of the world that we know?’

He smiled. ‘Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope—but not for us.’

— “Franz Kafka,” Walter Benjamin

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Bear Swamp Preserve, Westerlo, NY

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A Snail for Our Times

A Snail for Our Times

I’m out 🤘

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Next Time

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Like this Heart of Mine

Like this Heart of Mine: a story about confinement

There was a bird in the downspout—every time we’d walk onto the porch we’d hear it thrash its wings and its claws would screech against the metal. “Chill out, bird,” I said, before realizing that it wasn’t just defending a nest: it was stuck. During our last heavy rain I’d seen water shooting out of the seams at the top of the drain, spilling over the edge of the gutter where it lined the roof.…

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Shaming Stag with Tea

Shaming Stag with Tea

(A collaboration with Google)

Old, white-hearted

In some cases overshadowed

Yellowing due to the field of this drug

Along with the bad weather.

I’m worried because it depends.

I am worried because it is.

Or no. I’m tired.

The tiredness of the body after illness.

I will open it up.

This a ribbon,

a white sugar buff

Tree neck, agriculture

Study period or stone

It’s a thing, so don’t worry

Change…

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At Home in my Body

At Home in my Body

(A collaboration with Google)

What we were talking about:

Lovers and geography My tai chi instructor My mother’s voice Laughing without the slightest awareness, over and over

a place we feel safe a moving landscape

Then it all came apart, this brief chance to be

the spark was lit in me My skin is looser

no longer lost, I am very comfortable with this. I am haunted by the memory

Th…

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For the NYRB Daily

“We were all aware that there was a disaster brewing, or already afoot, but I hoped it would ask no more of the restaurant than any disaster does: simply that we stay open, tough it out, feed people, and let them feel normal for at least the duration of a meal.”

More here…