Monthly Archives: September 2009

Return To Paris––July 27 Part 2

By Dorothea Brooke | Published: September 29, 2009
On a trip to France, when I was 14, I remember the sink of estrangement when, in an extended gathering of my host-family, I was meant to greet each of the members of the party––a group of some forty or so. Now as we know, personal greetings in France take the form of a two-time [...]
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Return To Paris––July 27 Part 1

By Dorothea Brooke | Published: September 24, 2009
Greetings in Paris follow an inexorable plan, albeit with contextual variation. In small shops, for example, there is always the same pattern, though it is uttered with seeming sincerity to each on every occasion. Sincerity is sounded at once in the tenor of ‘Madame’ or ‘Monsieur,’ a different intonation for everyone standing in line––seeming acknowledgement [...]
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On How Not To Print Your Chelsea Show

By Jens Haas | Published: September 21, 2009
When Martin Parr has his latest book printed in an ultra-cheap print shop in Mexico and, while they’re at it, lets them do the sequencing and design as well, I think that’s a good thing. Good as in necessary – as an irreverent counterweight to the technically perfect (and perfectly boring). However, when I took a [...]
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