#nathan lerner

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Nathan Lerner ( Chicago, 1913 - 1997)

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New York, 20th century

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Nathan Lerner Light Tapestry 1939 Gelatin silver print Photo: Nathan Lerner/© ARS, NY and DACS, London

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Nathan Lerner - Man with pipe, 1943

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Nathan Lerner. Untitled (Grids), 1939.

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Nathan Lerner 1939

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Girl with Two Faces, 1932

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MIRROR MIRROR 2012

Snow White lived, she died, God rest her soul, Amen. There will be a buffet lunch served at two.

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Kiyoko and Curtain, Canada, 1983, printed later. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 in. (27.3 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum.

 Nathan Lerner, American, 1913–1997

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“I figure that it’s better to be a

sucker who makes something

than a wise guy who is too

cautious to make anything at all.” -

Henry Darger

American, 1892–1973

Henry Darger was born in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois. He led a very isolated life and had no close relatives to speak of. After being orphaned and institutionalised as a child, being subject to the horrific traumas that came with that, he became reclusive, withdrawn and retreated from the world. As Darger grew into adulthood, he found work as a hospital janitor and dishwasher.

Away from his work, he would spend most of his time alone in the apartment he rented for forty-three years from photographer and designer Nathan Lerner and his wife, Kiyoko. Across the decades, Darger created his own fantasy world, a vast interior realm he kept hidden until the day he died.

On his hospital deathbed in 1973, he told Nathan and Kiyoko that anything they found in the flat, they could do with as they wished. Lerner then made a monumental discovery as he cleared out Darger’s abode, unearthing an extraordinary life’s work consisting of hundreds of paintings, including a 15,000-page hand-bound, hand-typed book called ‘In The Realms Of The Unreal’ and its 8,000 page sequel and several hundred panoramic illustrations.

Darger’s remarkable visual works, much like his stories, depict a fantasy universe where innocent and valiant child heroines The Vivian Girls battle against malevolent foes. This discovery set the art world on fire. Without question, Darger has posthumously become one of America’s most celebrated outsider artists, America’s answer to William Blake if you will – an artist who has admirers in artists like the Chapman Brothers and Grayson Perry.

Darger’s visual art has been much celebrated. Still, Darger’s stories and lyrics have been little known or cared for, until 2003 when million-selling artist, composer and producer Philippe Cohen Solal came across Darger by chance during a tour of the US with his band Gotan Project. While in the Big Apple, Philippe visited the Folk-Art Museum and as he stood in wonder in front of a Henry Darger panorama, he noticed that it had been loaned to the museum by a Kiyoko Lerner. The very same Kiyoko Lerner that Philippe was due to meet for tea the next day, as she was a fan of Tango.

Kiyoko Lerner turned out to be the keeper of the entire Darger estate, the widow of Darger’s landlord Nathan Lerner. This startling coincidence was the origin of a new musical adventure, one that has come to fruition with the release of ‘Outsider’ in February, a collection of ten heart soaked pop songs of twisted 50s/60s Americana – the first time that a musical and visual extrapolation has been made from the life and work of Henry Darger.

Philippe explains ‘It has been nearly two decades immersed in friendship with Lerner and Darger’s work. In 2008 I spent a week in her apartment, surrounded by Henry’s paintings, words and microfilms, talking about him at breakfast, lunch and dinner. The proximity to the artwork formed the seed for musical creation.’

Continue https://artlyst.com/.../outsider-art-henry-darger-a.../

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“Car Light Study #7,” 1939, by Nathan Lerner, a photographer and industrial designer.

Credit…Estate of Nathan Lerner

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Book 420

Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum

Brooke Davis Anderson

American Folk Art Museum / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2001

By all accounts, Henry Darger (1892-1973) lived a solitary and lonely existence, working as a hospital janitor on Chicago’s North Side. Shortly before his death at the age of 81, Darger’s landlords, Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner, discovered something astonishing: some 350 watercolor, pencil, collage and carbon-traced drawings, most of which were stitched into three enormous albums, as well as seven typewritten hand-bound books, thousands of bundled sheets of typewritten text, and numerous journals, ledgers, and scrapbooks. The centerpiece of the discovery was a monumental 15,000-page fantasy novel—The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion—illustrated with hundreds of scroll-like illustrations, some as large as 30 feet wide and painted on both sides. Today, Darger is one of the most famous—and controversial—figures in the history of outsider art, and this book provides a fascinating glimpse into Darger’s private, innocent, and occasionally deeply disturbing world.

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Nathan Lerner ( Chicago, 1913 - 1997 )

Rainy Day

Chicago, Illinois, 1937

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Kira Lerner, Sam Levine, and George Chidi at The Guardian:

The Georgia state court of appeals on Wednesday said it would consider an appeal from Donald Trump of an order allowing Fani Willis, the district attorney, to continue prosecuting his election interference case in Fulton county. In a one-page order, the appeals court said it would allow Trump to challenge the decision not to disqualify Willis over her relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor she hired to lead the Trump case. Scott McAfee, the trial judge overseeing the case, ruled in March that Willis could stay on the case as long as Wade resigned. Wade subsequently resigned the same day McAfee issued his decision.

Trump now has 10 days to file a notice of appeal, the court said. His legal team had asked the court of appeals to consider the case in March and clarify the standard for when a prosecutor should be disqualified. “President Trump looks forward to presenting interlocutory arguments to the Georgia court of appeals as to why the case should be dismissed and Fulton county DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct in this unjustified, unwarranted political persecution,” Steve Sadow, Trump’s attorney, said in a statement.

The decision to hear the appeal is a significant win for Trump. It decreases the chances that the case will go to trial before the November election and allows Trump and his lawyers to continue to undermine Willis’s credibility and keep questions about her judgment in the public eye. McAfee has already excoriated Willis for her conduct, saying she had a “tremendous lapse in judgment”. Trump’s attorneys may petition the court to stay the trial pending the outcome of their appeal. Otherwise, the appeal will not immediately impede the prosecution as McAfee takes up pending motions. But if the appeals court decides that Willis must be removed, it would reset the years-long case back to square one while a new prosecutor can be appointed to oversee the case. Last month, prosecutors urged the appeals court not to hear the appeal. “The present application merely reflects the applicants’ dissatisfaction with the trial court’s proper application of well-established law to the facts,” prosecutors wrote in a 19-page filing.

Trump and more than a dozen of his allies were charged last year with racketeering over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump and his co-defendants tried to dismiss the case by alleging that Willis’s relationship, and statements she made at a Black church in Atlanta suggesting criticism of her was racist, meant she should be recused from the case. Wade defended his relationship with Willis in an interview with ABC News last weekend. “Workplace romances are as American as apple pie,” Wade said. “It happens to everyone. But it happened to the two of us.

This will all but delay the Georgia v. Trump case to after the elections, as the frivolous request by Donald Trump to challenge judge Scott McAfee's ruling to not disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis got granted.

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The Shopping Bag, Tokyo 1976, Nathan Lerner, Printed 1983

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Nathan Lerner (1913-1997)

Girl with Two Faces, 1932

This image was taken by seventeen-year-old photographer Nathan Lerner using a double image of the girl's face and by using hazy, yet dramatic lighting.

From his early days of using a camera, Lerner was experimenting with light, exposures, and abstracting images. Here he used light as a paintbrush to create movement and gesture in a still photograph.

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Title: Mirror Mirror

Rating: PG

Director: Tarsem Singh

Cast: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Martin Klebba, Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Ronald Lee Clark, Robert Emms, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, Sean Bean, Bonnie Bentley

Release year: 2012

Genres: adventure, fantasy, comedy, romance

Blurb: After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem: he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good versus evil.