A great character.

Matias

If you’d like to give yourself a special gift or 2 or 3 this season, check out Trolley Books at http://www.trolleybooks.com/books.php

Then email Trolley’s managing editor Hannah Watson at hannah@trolleybooks.com

Tell her you’re from David Alan Harvey’s blog and she will give you an amazing 40% discount on your order. Today I received my 3 presents-to-myself and have just finished weeping my way through Paolo Pellegrin’s “Double Blind: War In Lebanon 2006.” Oh my god, what a powerful use of photography, and Scott Anderson’s text is perfect–spare & searing.

My gratitude to Trolley’s founding editor, Gigi Giannuzzi, for letting his gut reaction to Paolo’s photos lead to his publishing this book. DAH described Gigi as a man who “loves [books] so much that he publishes instinctively and without any thought of ‘commercial appeal’…he does not do ‘readership tests’….he goes by his gut and then scrambles like a madman to try to sell enough of his little masterpieces to be able to go on to the next….”

Let’s do what we can to keep him from having to scramble TOO hard! Who knows? Maybe Gigi’s next masterpiece might be by one of our own. Hold that thought…

Patricia

Alex

ok… thats the right link, i hope…
peace

You are still in thailand? :)
This is very long month, ha ha
Very nice Self-portrait-River Kwai bridge my friend (no photoshop) :)

Merry hot Xmas.

Well, absolutely Merry Xmas to everyone, maybe that was the time to pull out the pix Anton took of me with Elliot Erwitt back in June, but that would break from my Asian journal, and in any case, i do not have it. I take notice that the suspenders are missing in this self-portrait…. Some photoshop skills! :-)))

It is the season of making merry, and so, if I may, here’s my modest contribution to celebrating Xmas. What I like about thais (and many cambodians, John Vink will agree) is that often the loudest laughters come from those who often have the least reason to laugh at the lot life dealt them. So, not quite ho ho ho, but rather ah ah ah, and that is plenty of Merry Xmas! for me, and I hope for you too:

http://www.pbase.com/image/107403508/original

Happy Holidays to ALL…

Peace and love,

Ana

AND DAMN, THAT’S A GREAT CARD TOO! :)))

ERWITT’S brilliance and humour is just the perfect Photo-Nog spiced with dark, spicy rum that gets my bones warm….

but aint he a bit nippy? ;))))