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Jewish Dancer at Chicago’s World Fair
J.J. Gibson
1893
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J.J. Gibson, a portrait photographer from Michigan, was the official photographer of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. After the fair he opened a photography studio, Gibson's Art Galleries, in Chicago, which later became the Montgomery Wards Portrait Studio.
In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
Ros:We could play at questions.Guil:What good would that do?Ros:Practice!Guil:Statement! One-love.Ros:Cheating!Guil:How?Ros:I hadn’t started yet.Guil:Statement. Two—love.Ros:Are you counting that?Guil…
It is not enough to see a statue. A statue has to be sensed with the fingertips. In our imagination we touch the statue, caress it, examine its rounded and hollow surfaces, and by doing so our sense…