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San Francisco surprises

In our family annals, this will go down as a great year. Alex got married to Lindsey (video trailer link at the end).

Art in them thar hills of San Francisco

I stood for 15 minutes with Murray and Minna, entranced by a video at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. We laughed out loud on a regular basis (you can hear us on the sound track now and then; the video itself was a silent film). Thorsten Brinkmann, excerpt from video Gut Ding well es so. Turn the sound off to get the proper silent-movie effect.

Looking In; Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

No photography has had the effect on me of Robert Frank’s The Americans, which I saw in 1969 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  It was not just that Frank showed the family of man complete with its disfunction, feuds and black sheep, but the disturbing power of his vision.