Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Experimental Relationship
Photographs that ask why romantic relationships should look the same. For example, why can’t one partner be a piece of homemade sushi?
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Chinese Sentiment
America primarily knows China as a faraway giant, a country of industrialism and megalopolises somewhere over there. Shen Wei’s monograph and series Chinese Sentiment gives us new views.
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In the Wilds
Nigel Peake’s new book is a lovely collection of drawings about farms, fields, and birds. It is pretty much irresistible, taken from childhood impressions and Peake’s current life in a one-road Irish village, where he is mistaken for the postman.
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Cities
Sze Tsung Leong creates incredibly dense portraits from high vantage points that bind the world’s cities to his perspective—embracing and very open, though from a distance.
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Bolinas
Rachel Barrett’s series takes place in the northern California community of the same name that’s known for being reclusive (residents tear down highway markers), and for providing the backdrop to Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar.
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Announcements
Crowdsource
Next month, we are starting a new TMN feature called Crowdsource, and for its first installment, we want your rage. Here Is the Product I Hate and Why We want...
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Family
We’ll just come out and say it: A lot of photography and art books pass across our desk each year, and Chris Verene’s Family (Twin Palms) is the finest we’ve seen in 2010.
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The Projectionist
Growing up, photographer Kendall Messick only knew his neighbor, Gordon Brinckle, as the projectionist at the local movie theater. When they met again in 2001, Messick learned that Brinckle had been working at another theater, The Shalimar—a fully operational tribute to cinema’s great movie palaces constructed entirely in his basement, with even a working organ.
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From Here to There
A wonderful new book features the work of the Hand Drawn Map Association, a repository of maps ranging from drawings of simple directions to a map by Abraham Lincoln.
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Announcements
Sponsored Contest: C by Tom McCarthy
FRIDAY'S CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING! SPONSORED CONTEST: TOM MCCARTHY’S C In 2008, Tom McCarthy’s little-known novel Remainder battled to the final match of our Tournament...
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Retratos Pintados
From the late 19th century until the 1990s, retratos pintados (“painted portraits”) were common in rural northeastern Brazil: family portraits retouched to improve appearances.
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Reader Letters
Plagiarisms
Dear Mr. Erard, I remember my first, too. It was my first quarter as a history graduate student, and I was grading for a class on the Dark Ages. It...