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Still Pictures - On Photography and Memory (Hardcover)
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Still Pictures - On Photography and Memory (Hardcover)
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List price R522
Loot Price R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
You Save R99 (19%)
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For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New
Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing
towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves.
Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining
twelve family photographs to construct a memoir from camera-caught
moments, each of which pose questions of their own. She begins with
the picture of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague at
the age of five in 1939. From there we follow her to the Czech
enclave of Yorkville in Manhattan, where her father, a psychiatrist
and neurologist, and her mother, an attorney from a bourgeois
family, traded their bohemian, Dada-inflected lives for the
ambitions of middle-class America. From her early, fitful loves to
evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House to her fascination
with what it might mean to be a "bad girl," Malcolm assembles a
composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escaped
the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later,
Malcolm delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of
William Shawn's New Yorker, and the libel trial that led her to
become a character in her own drama. Displaying the sharp wit and
astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume
develops into a memoir like no other.
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