Essays

Otherwise known as the human condition

Jacques henri Lartigue

Robert Capa

Ruth Orkin

Richard Avedon - portraits - literature.

Enrique Metinides

Richard Misrach

William Gedney

Alec Soth

Joel Sternfield

Michael Ackerman

Miroslav Tichy

Todd Hido

Idris Khan

Edward Burtynsky

Look again

Masters of deception

In college, I became familiar with Escher's paintings and a friend of mine does ambigrams. I took this book more to refresh my memory of Escher and Dali's paintings, I am surprised to find the work of many contemporary artists. The choice of materials for some of the paintings - sugar on black paper, syrup, thread is new to me.

In some pages, its easy to miss the illusion but nothing a second visit cant take care of.

PS: Oliver Peyton's 'Eating Art' is about food made from Giuseppe Arcimboldo's 'Water' painting.

My favourites is synthesis in 'Nomad' by Sandro Del Prete.

Best American sportswriting 2000

Swimming with sharks

Lynne cox

Terminal velocity

Upside down

A bird shrieks early morning
not enough to wake me up
to find who it is
An hour later
I hear it again and through
the blinds
its a grackle trying luck
at the humming bird feeder

At the waters edge

Spoon fed

skin inc