Fixit time, like the rain doesn’t seem to go away. Ellen Sousa’s magnum opus The Green Garden is about to go to the printer but we are waiting on William Cullina for his promised introduction and, talking of the Fixit of all Fixits he is busy fixing the last trimmings for a new garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. He must know what Fixit means! The amount of activity on their website is amazing. http://www.mainegardens.org I’ll stick to publishing.
Meantime Bert Dodson has delivered everything for his fall book Helping Santa: My First Adventure with Grandma. His attention to detail and composition is fabulous and the story is a delight. We always give him too little time but he is now in recovery before starting (is there no peace for the wicked?) on his next children’s title with the great and award-winning author Lynda Booth-Sweeny about Daniel Chester French; he of the Lincoln Memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln the Great Man himself.
Nessa Flax
Nessa Flax dropped by a day or so ago. Nothing to fix it seems but a long natter about possible books to come and the nature of memoir and autobiography and whether they are the same. I’m with Gore Vidal in that autobiography as history is more a question of worldly context and period, and memoir is also history but in a personal context. I’d add that both are often a competition between vanity and self indulgence! The worst of the first come from mendacious politicians like Tony Blair and George Bush and the worst of the second come from all those ghastly and vacuous twenty-something personalities whose horizons never seem to extend beyond their navels.
The Best? Call me eccentric but I think one can be objective about the worst but for the best it is a matter of taste and timing. My random list would include Valentine Chirol’s Fifty Year’s in a Changing World (if you’ve a taste for good journalism and Imperial British arrogance), John Osborne’s A Better Class of Person (the best writing by far despite the theatrical spite) and, if you like academic thinkers as I do, perhaps R.G.Collingwood’s An Autobiography, Richard Cobb’s People and Places and George Steiner’s Errata. All a bit obscure I’ll grant but I’d also happily take The Education of Henry Adams or Grant’s Memoirs to the beach too.
Mine will be slim to a point of honor and entitled “Moving Rapidly On…”
Up Close by Fiona Yaron-Field
List Price: $35.00
Sale Price: $29.75
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DESCRIPTION
This wonderful book is a moving photographic record and memoir of a mother-daughter relationship in the light of an enduring disability from birth through adolescence. Daughter, Ophir, has Down Syndrome. Up Close is a remarkable work of meditative, unflinching, searingly honest and loving as a portrait of humanity at its most touching and challenging.
REVIEWS
via Amazon.com (c) 2008 – “This book offers a unique glimpse into the life of a family enduring disability with massive doses of love, tenderness and understanding. It’s honest, it’s frank, it is unfiltered. And it’s beautiful.”
PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730675
ISBN-13: 978-1593730673
Language: English
Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fiona Yaron-Field
Fiona Yaron-Field has been a professional portrait photographer and Art Psychotherapist for over fifteen years. Her work has primarily focused on ‘the family’. She has worked in various community based projects teaching photography and facilitating groups of children and adults with both mental and physical disabilities. Fiona has exhibited her photography and most recently ‘Shifting Perspectives’ was shown at OXO Gallery London after touring in the UK. She lives in North London, UK with her husband and two daughters, Ophir and Noa. She continues to photograph them as part of an ongoing project. Up Close is her first book. More
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Fiona Yaron-Field
Fiona Yaron-Field has been a professional portrait photographer and Art Psychotherapist for over fifteen years. Her work has primarily focused on ‘the family’. She has worked in various community based projects teaching photography and facilitating groups of children and adults with both mental and physical disabilities.
Fiona has exhibited her photography and most recently ‘Shifting Perspectives’ was shown at OXO Gallery London after touring in the UK. She lives in North London, UK with her husband and two daughters, Ophir and Noa. She continues to photograph them as part of an ongoing project. Up Close is her first book. She co-edits a photographic newspaper called ‘Uncertain States’- Uncertain States is a lens-based artist co-operative who are passionate to create and promote contemporary visual imagery.
Fiona Yaron-Field states “Connecting social issues with my own personal experience is at the heart of my photographic practise. All my work is influenced by my background in psychotherapy, both theoretically and practically. I use photography as a tool to further my own understanding of myself and the world closes to me. For me the photograph is a mirror for a psychological state, rather than a document of the event.”
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Up Close by Fiona Yaron-Field
List Price: $35.00
Sale Price: $29.75
Savings of 15 %
This wonderful book is a moving photographic record and memoir of a mother-daughter relationship in the light of an enduring disability from birth through adolescence. Daughter, Ophir, has Down Syndrome. Read More…
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As Long As It Takes by Captain William Pinkney
List Price: $22.50
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DESCRIPTION
Filled with tales of seafaring adventures, Captain William “Bill” Pinkney’s As Long As It Takes follows the author around the world in his prized vessel, Commitment. The book, part coming-of-age memoir, part adventure chronicle, finds Pinkney at the helm as he navigates his way through the five great capes to complete his goal of circling the globe by boat. At the time of his journey’s end, he was the fourth of five Americans and one of 128 individuals to have completed such a trip. He remains the first African-American to have done so.
REVIEWS
via Amazon.com (c) 2007 – “I received this book for Christmas, and I half expected it to be filled with nautical terms and jargon about the sea. Instead, the book turned out to be a marvelous read about survival in life and following your dreams. I feel as if I know Bill Pinkney, as I watched him grow from an impoverished life on the Southside of Chicago, through his days in the Navy (with Bill Cosby), to his antics as a calypso dancer, make-up artist, and eventually a big shot at Revlon, to being the first African-American to solo-circumnavigate the globe via the five capes. Pinkney later went on to become the Master of the replica slave ship Amistad. But Pinkney is not simply a lone adventurer. His amazing journey was done in conjunction with schools in Boston and Chicago, which followed his every move via computers and equipment in the classroom. It is a beautifully written story of joy, compassion, and the inspiration to never quit.”
PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730462
ISBN-13: 978-1593730468
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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