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Read instead…in print #35: How Directors Dress

  Some years ago, I wrote about François Truffaut, his alter egos in movies and their looks that so often channeled his own. What got me started was his brown leather jacket he wore on the set of La nuit … Read More →

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“Drawing is a way to resonate on the same frequency with the world”: In conversation with artist Léa Morichon

Left: ”Canopée”, oil painting on bamboo paper. Right: Léa Morichon x Louise Misha collaboration     Art by Léa Morichon     Canopée, spare and abstract in the use of colour and form, but with blue strokes of colour pulsing … Read More →

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A matter of mistaken identity and striped jerseys

Brigitte Auber and Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief”, 1955. Paramount Pictures   To Catch a Thief was the first film Hitchcock shot on location, in the South of France. It was also the film that brought Cary Grant … Read More →

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“Feeling the sport through the images”: Interview with photographer Alexander Aguiar

Joao Fonseca photographed by Alexander Aguiar   Beyond the aesthetic attributes of what is often hailed the most elegant sport, beyond the star power of the best players in the world, beyond the nuanced and off-the-wall images, beyond the stoic … Read More →

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April Newsletter: Libeled Lady, Lucky Town, and the Racquet book

    Photos: Classiq Journal     “I need to be where the light fills me up. It’s an impossibility for me to thrive creatively without strong natural light. If you are painting or creating in a way where this … Read More →

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