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Still pictures : on ...
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Still pictures : on photography and memory / Janet Malcolm, with an introduction by Ian Frazier, and an afterword by Anne Malcolm.
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Malcolm, Janet, author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Subjects
Malcolm, Janet.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women critics -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374605131 (hardcover) :
0374605130 (hardcover) :
Description:
xv, 155 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction / Ian Franzier -- Roses and peonies -- The girl in the train -- Klara -- JiYina and Hanka -- Slena -- Daddy -- School days -- Campy Happyacres -- Francine and Jarmila -- Four old women -- Movies -- 'Skromnost' -- Mother -- Hugo Haas -- More on mother -- Fred and Ella Traub -- Francine -- Lovesick -- Atlantic City -- Bad seats -- 'Mary Worth' -- The apartment -- On being sick -- Sam Chwat -- Holbein -- A work of art -- Afterword / Anne Malcolm.
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"For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own life--a task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be. Still Pictures, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own. Still Pictures begins with the image of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague for New York at the age of five in 1939. From her fitful early loves, to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House, to her fascination with what it might mean to be a "bad girl," Malcolm assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escapes the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, Still Pictures delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of William Shawn's New Yorker, and the libel trial that led Malcolm to become a character in her own drama. Displaying the sharp wit and astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume develops into a memoir like few others in our literature."-- Publisher.
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