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‘Invisible Man’ Author Ralph Ellison Was Also a Prolific Photographer. A New Book Spotlights Hundreds of His Polaroids and Street Scenes
Lovers of the celebrated American novelist Ralph Ellison will before long have a probability to check out the Invisible Man author through an totally new lens. The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Believe in has partnered with the Gordon Parks Foundation and German publishing residence Steidl to release Ralph Ellison: Photographer. Out this thirty day period, the book offers 200 earlier unpublished pictures by Ellison, together with Polaroids of his home existence and candid avenue scenes, a foreword from the Gordon Parks Foundation’s govt director Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., and a few new essays on Ellison’s oft-neglected visual follow by Adam Bradley, John F. Callahan, and Michal Raz-Russo. All the book’s images…
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Valley News – Bert Dodson, prolific Vermont artist, dies at 83
BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83. A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is everyone’s birthright and wrote and illustrated two books on drawing meant to encourage people to take it up regardless of prior experience. “Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw with some degree of proficiency,” he wrote in Keys to Drawing, which came out in 1985. By that time, he was well-ensconced in the Bradford area, having moved there in 1977. He would spend the…
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