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Allusion is not Illusion
You'll pry my books off my cold, dead body. By the time you shift them all I'll be flat and dessicated.
Currently reading
Winter's Tales
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Already Dead
The Rings of Saturn
Lady Audley's Secret
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back
The City, Not Long After
You Can Sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Lonely Werewolf Girl
This collection provides a good overview of Cunningham's various periods and interests, including some rare early photographs (few survive because she broke most of the heavy plates rather than transport them when she moved). I prefer her early, Pre-Raphaelite influenced images, but that's purely a matter of my taste, not that her photography was better at that point.
I also really liked the nudes of her husband. She mentions at one point that she got the effect by having him posed on a sheet of ice! Roi Partridge, you are a manly man and a good husband (even if you did get married two more times).
Cunningham knew most of the significant American photographers and artists of the 20th century, and I would have liked a little more on her interactions with them, but I guess that's a subject for further reading.