http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/a-lincoln-photograph-and-a-mystery/
Go out and… do it.
Texas goes iconic. (At least it isn’t Che.)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/suit_centers_on_silhouette_cowboy_106424843.html
Maybe they found it on fbook.
Recent Findings
Just as our friends and colleagues cannot be expected to keep up with all that fills our lives, so it is with art that gets buried by all that follows it. Things are set aside and, ultimately, forgotten. Later, some of these things appear to re-appear, and we get to celebrate and to rewrite history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/arts/music/17jazz.html?ref=music
If you’ve been following the history of photography (or this blawwg), you already know that this is the point of this post:
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/
Links, Refreshed
Our links, over there on the right, hold treasures beyond one’s wildest speculations. The following contain recent updates:
http://seeingfromhearing.blogspot.com/
http://claudiainscotland.blogspot.com/
http://danielleleigh-wtf.tumblr.com/
http://365project.org/klphoto/365
http://katiethompsonphotography.com/
http://www.me-go.net/rtw/blog/
W. o’ W.: Mr. Petronio
“My friend William says:
‘Don’t work for money. Don’t shoot commercially. Shoot posthumously. That is what I think when I make pictures now. I think one day when I’m dead someone will see them and say, “Look at this crazy shit.” That’s all.’
If only I could be that hardcore.”
The 32nd Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Awaits You
It may no longer be the world’s largest free jazz festival (at least not currently), but it’s worth attending, both your nourishment and for your exposure to a panoply of styles that all fit into the one tent called jazz. The weather is perfect. The weekend rail pass is a good deal. You have no good enough excuse not to go.
Saturday, September 4
Jazz on Jackson Stage:
12:00 – 12:55 Douglas Ewart Nyahbingi Drum Choir
1:10 – 2:05 Paul Giallorenzo’s GitGo
2:20 – 3:15 Maggie Brown: “A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln”
3:30 – 4:30 Dana Hall Quintet, with special guest Nicholas Payton
6:00 – 7:30 Corey Wilkes
8:00 – 9:00 Steve Cole
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage:
12:00 – 12:30 Chi-Arts Jazz Combo
12:45 – 1:15 Jazz Ambassadors Combo
1:30 – 2:10 Kenwood Academy Jazz Ensemble
2:25 – 3:05 Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School Jazz Ensemble
3:20 – 3:50 Lincoln Park High School Jazz Ensemble
4:05 – 4:50 Roosevelt University Jazz Ensemble
Jazz and Heritage Stage:
12:30 – 1:30 West End Jazz Band
2:00 – 3:00 Cameron Pfiffner’s Marco Polo
3:30 – 4:30 Nicole Mitchell’s Sonic Projections
Petrillo Music Shell:
5:00 – 5:50 Chuchito Valdez Afro-Cuban Ensemble
6:00 – 6:55 Rene Marie “High Maintenance” Quartet
7:10 – 8:10 Charisma: “A Lee Morgan Tribute”
8:30 – 9:30 The Either/Orchestra, with special guests Mahmoud Ahmed and Teshome Mitiku
Sunday, September 5
Jazz on Jackson Stage:
12:00 – 12:55 Paulinho Garcia Quintet
1:10 – 2:05 Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble
2:20 – 3:15 Brad Goode Quartet
3:30 – 4:30 Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band
6:00 – 7:30 Harlan Jefferson
8:00 – 9:00 Norman Brown
Chicago Community Trust Young Jazz Lions Stage:
12:00 – 12:30 Northside College Prep Jazz Combo
12:45 – 1:15 Whitney Young Magnet High School Jazz Combo
1:30 – 2:10 Lakeview High School Jazz Ensemble
2:25 – 3:05 John Hersey High School Jazz Ensemble
3:30 – 4:05 University of Chicago Jazz X-Tet
Jazz and Heritage Stage:
12:30 – 1:30 Bethany Pickens Trio
2:00 – 3:00 NOMO
3:30 – 4:30 Saalik Ziyad’s 5 After 7 Project
Petrillo Music Shell:
5:00 – 6:00 Brad Mehldau Trio
6:15 – 7:05 Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls
7:20 – 8:15 Henry Threadgill’s Zooid
8:30 – 9:30 Kurt Elling Quintet with special guest Ernie Watts
Yardbird
Charles Christopher Parker Jr. was born ninety years ago today. There’s not a lot of film of him, but here is a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g
He’s the alto saxophonist after tenor player Coleman Hawkins. Catch him burning on the second tune, with Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Buddy Rich.
Bird lives.
New Dave Jordano Work
Some of you will recall the fine pictures of storefront churches that we saw on an AP field trip to galleries. This is a newer body of work that nullifies the counterproductive mindset that there’s nothing to photograph on one’s own local turf (never mind that I’m typing this from Buenos Aires), and points to a sense of place in pictures being as important as it often is in writing.
http://www.davejordanophotography.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0&a=0&at=0
A slightly different selection was featured on the Times’s Lens Blog:
Creative Camerawork 
