Because it’s really that place which is unreachable, or mysterious, at which the poem becomes ours, finally… A personal note. For all of what seemed, between 2001 and 2007, the ugliest of hate feuds, I turned to four poets—not for solace, but for connection. I was in Jerusalem then, a city that too often gives […]

I was printing pictures of–or by–musicians almost everyday, the lab was a comfortable place to be, the darkroom quiet, and we kept the conversation to the images. I wanted to ask him so many questions, all the time, but kept it to a very minimum. That time, in my darkroom with Lou Reed, was about […]

The generosity of the medium, as Lee Friedlander would later put it, describes the chaos of the backstage scene and its attending excitement: note the missing bulb over the mirror, the awkwardness of Andy shaking hands while holding both a tape recorder and camera, the shadows of guitars on the wall, the lone hair brush […]

Sir Anthony Caro, “Early One Morning.” 1962 © Anthony Caro Estate/Barford Sculptures Ltd. Image courtesy Tate Galleries, under fair use guidelines. If you’re old enough to remember the TV show that inspired the name of this post (both the British original and its American incarnation that aired on NBC a year after the BBC canned […]