While in Atlanta to research Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace for Monuments, I photographed two little girls playing in a fountain in Olympic Park, capturing a moment that seemed to sum up Dr. King’s dream.
Medieval pilgrims often slept in churches, finding respite there during their arduous journeys. But locals, too, had a wonderful familiarity with their churches, treating them as homes away from home. They bathed and did laundry with water drawn from holy wells and ate the food that merchants sold in the aisles. The smoke billowing from [...]
Soon enough, official photographs of the dead Bin Laden will be released into cyber perpetuity. Phony documents have already shown up online. Given our “chronic voyeuristic relation to the world,” as Sontag described it, not looking at the postmortem imagery will be nearly impossible. I wonder how they will be received, since no one believes [...]
Luminous Transportations, installation by Jo Yarrington, Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School
