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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Goethe
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Photo ©Jill Krementz Joan Didion who died three years ago this December, would have been 90 years old today.
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THE MORNING CALIFORNIA SUN IS streaming in over her left shoulder, making her thin gray hair shine a little, gleam, like old pewter newly polished. “Look here,” Marion Post Wolcott says, bringing out some drugstore-developed3 X 5 color snapshots. They’re a little out of focus and perfectly ordinary in composition, the kind you might shoot…
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“Experience has shown, however, that the best way to avoid talking about the pictures is to talk about their subjects – tract houses or fields or trees or any of the myriad and interesting details of life. If you have to fill the quiet of a picture, the least destructive way seems to be to…