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Prisoner Number 78612 By Robert Reiss Below, WestView News publishes a noteworthy contribution to the literature of writings by the incarcerated. Written by Robert Reiss, the then 22yr old in 1973. This snippet of his prison experience of a half century ago, commenced right here in our West Village at the former West Street Prison, ....
Photo Critique by Rick Poynor, written exclusively for Eye magazine. Mark Nelson’s recent book, Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A., is an exceptional feat of photographic reconstruction. Co-authored with the scholars William H. Sherman and Ellen Hoobler, the project has been twelve years in the making. The idea goes back even further, to around 2005, when Nelson, who specialises in designing art books and catalogues for McCall Associates in New York, was working on his first book as co-author: Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder (2006). That volume– macabre in the extreme – introduced a researcher of great relentlessness and imagination, with the intellectual confidence to build complex arguments around fine art using visual images as an intrinsic form of evidence. ....