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'We never sleep': Exhibition explores secret selfpossessed of spies
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by Timothy Don
One of life’s great and illicit pleasures is spying on others. Put it on the list with smoking, gossiping, flirting with a stranger, ordering a cocktail at noon, calling in sick to lie abed for the day—all those small and tasty morsels we surreptitiously nibble when no one is looking that satisfy hidden and obscure appetites. Who does not remember creeping around as a child, poking into the corners of mother’s closet, uncovering brother’s stash of candy, cracking sister’s diary, the thrill of anticipation while easing open father’s desk drawer, the jolt of discovering a secret that someone we know has secreted away? Almost from the moment we realize how strange and foreign others are, especially those to whom we live in closest proximity, we peek and we prod and we dig. We spy on them. We know we shouldn’t, it’s wrong to sneak around, to rifle through papers, to examine dirty laundry, but…let’s take a peek. A small peek. Just a quick peek. It is an undeniable and delicious indulgence to do so.
The pleasure of spying is an erotic one, and not because it is prohibited or because the secrets one learns are sexual in nature. Recall that pornographic sex becomes boring the moment it has penetrated the last crevice, fleshed out the la
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Nineteen Lincolns features members of The Association of Lincoln Presenters, passionate Abraham Lincoln impersonators who spend time studying, reading, and performing for school groups, community celebrations, and senior citizen centers. Paired with their own words, these portraits show their reverence for Lincoln, who embodies one of America’s most cherished tenets, that the common man, through sheer hard work and determination, can elevate his status in society.
Nineteen Lincolns
Published by Peanut Press
Hardcover / 40 Pages / 18 Color Plates
Includes one signed and numbered original photograph and one signed and numbered book.
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The Wavers
Blue Sky Books (2014)
Soft cover / 21 color photos along with statements by the Wavers.
Essay by Eleanor Heartney.
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“It is not a stretch to see these Wavers as the “tempest tossed” exiles celebrated in Lazarus’s poem. But these are no longer immigrants lured by the promise of the American dream. They are instead our own people, Americans for whom the hopes symbolized by Lady Liberty have yet to fully materialize.” Eleanor Heartney
Using History
Published by Steidl (2005)
Hardcover / 67 color photographs
Essays by Rennard Strickland and Karal Ann Marl