Architecture & Design &Books Entropy | 07 Mar 2013
A Stunning Survey Of Pics By Eero Saarinen’s In-House Photographer Hired as a designer, Balthazar Korab captured some of the most important monuments to Modernism. In 1954, a young Hungarian went to work with Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As his then colleague, Cesar Pelli, describes him: “[He] was a small sensation: he had [...]
Art & Design &Books Entropy | 15 Feb 2013
Maps are more about their makers than the places they describe. Map who you are. Map where you are. Fill the map with a story or paint your favorite cup of coffee. Map the invisible. Map the obvious. Map your memories. “I remember standing at the top of Manhattan and being terrified,” says Becky Cooper, [...]
Books &Photography Entropy | 11 Jan 2013
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can’t get inside and know the subject.– W. Eugene Smith The American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978) revolutionized the photo-essay form with the works he published in Life magazine between 1948 and 1956. This monograph reproduces images from six [...]
Books &Poetry Entropy | 15 Oct 2012
In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 10 Aug 2012
What is life? That, ultimately, is the question posed by Life List, journalist Olivia Gentile’ biography of Phoebe Snetsinger. Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four kids and a home in the suburbs by her mid-thirties. Numb [...]
Books &Gourmet Entropy | 18 Jun 2012
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil The sacred history and profane present of a substance long seen as the essence of health and civilization. For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life’s necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious [...]