Writing an intro to a selection of your own essays is tough, so I'll deflect the problem by heaping praise on Nancy Cantwell for curating the Times Quotidian Journal. She's created a cultural playground of ideas and images that is unique and vibrant. I have never been a prose writer, so it was fun and challenging to talk about media. I had a couple of principles in creating these essays. The first was to write only about work to which I had a positive response and to report, muse, free associate. In that light, please know that the article about The Art of Killing, entitled Relax and Rolex, is mostly negative. However, in his follow-up film to The Art of Killing, The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer completely answered all the concerns I raised in my article, and created a powerful documentary which won the Academy Award in 2016. The other was to simply enjoy being an intruder in a practice to which I remain, in all ways, an outsider.
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Anthology: Ten Years of TQ – Aram Yardumian
For nearly a decade, Times Quotidian has given me the chance to address specifics with a freedom I don't quite have in professional life. It's difficult to see a thread running through my articles, … [Read more]
Anthology: Ten Years of TQ – Constance Mallinson
Constance Mallinson, Woodland Seen, Oil on Paper, 2009 Constance Mallinson has been a contributor to the Times Quotidian since 2010. Her writings on all aspects of art, from museum and … [Read more]
Rattler Makes a Day
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Anthology: Ten Years of TQ – Robert Kato
From Robert Kato's seeing iPhone — Related Posts: Portraits: Paper and Clay, Passages, Streetscapes, Night@Mare, Man Forgets the Earth Remembers Portrait of a Leaf, 09.27.2011 Standing … [Read more]
Lute Salute
Paul O'Dette, Lute, The Da Camera Society, Greystone Mansion — In virtually every Hollywood movie depicting Renaissance Lives of the Rich and Famous, there is a cliched banquet scene: … [Read more]
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