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looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]
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Bus Stop — Liminal Narratives
We rarely see them. Or rather, we see but fail to acknowledge. They inhabit a shadowland of the banal, the unremarkable, the unnoticed. Concealed in their own mundanity, they gently erase themselves from view. Yet in Christopher Herwig’s remarkable Soviet Bus Stops, these drab artefacts of lane and street are re-invented, as Jonathan Meades observes […]
Straßenunterführung (Street Underpass)
Straßenunterführung (Street Underpass) – Salzburg, Austria
Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2018
Man in the Window — For Earth Below
NYC Way-Back Machine — Travel Between The Pages
Many years ago, when I made the transition from book collector to bookseller, a client asked me to locate a copy of “The Picture of New-York, Or The Traveller’s Guide Through The Commercial Metropolis of the United States, By a Gentleman Residing in the City” 1807, First Edition in the original binding, with laid-in map by William […]
Broadway — For Earth Below
Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
Ghost Sign — Liminal Narratives
They are there. And you have seen them. Perhaps from a train as it lurches and jolts over the points and junctions outside a city terminus. A glance through the window and they emerge into view. Or, perhaps, on a busy street, you raise your eyes from pavement and shopfront to glimpse what you have […]
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