{"id":1845,"date":"2009-07-26T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/boy-reading-newspaper-new-york-1944\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:49:53","slug":"boy-reading-newspaper-new-york-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/26\/boy-reading-newspaper-new-york-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The power of reading<\/h1>\n

Morrison on Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz’s photographic celebration of the joy of the written word<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>by Blake Morrison<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Boy<\/p>\n

Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944 Photograph: The Estate of Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz\/Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery<\/p>\n

One of my favourite Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz photographs shows two young men sitting with their backs to a tree, each absorbed in a book. Both are wearing glasses; both use their thighs as a lectern; the one facing forwards is black, the other, in profile (a dead ringer for Woody Allen), is white. Their proximity suggests they know each other and are friends. And given the time and place of the composition, the photo could serve as an icon of the civil rights movement \u2013 racial harmony as observed in Washington Square, New York City, 1969. What’s equally striking, though, is how separate the two men are, how oblivious to each other’s presence (and to the camera). They might be friends but their real companions are their books.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian UK The power of reading Morrison on Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz’s photographic celebration of the joy of the written word by Blake Morrison Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944 Photograph: The Estate of Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz\/Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery One of my favourite Andr\u00e9 Kert\u00e9sz photographs shows two young men sitting with their backs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}