May 2011
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Dorothy Bohm
Image © Julian Lass 2011
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Dorothy Bohm & Wim Wenders
Yesterday I met Dorothy Bohm, who helped found the Photographer’s Gallery with Sue Davies in 1969.
Over lunch near her home in Hampstead, Dorothy told me all about her Lithuanian Jewish background, how she came to Manchester in June 1939 to escape the Nazis, aged just 14. As she departed Germany, her father put his Leica around her neck and said “this might come in useful.”
She...
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Working at home: do you need an office?
If you’re self-employed and work from home you might well be able to get away without an office by logging onto your laptop at the kitchen table, or in my case my bedroom or small studio I rent. But what about if you have a company of 20 employees? Is it always possible and efficient to work without an office?
Just heard BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour asking this very question and while...
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Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Photos I’d forgotten all about
Image © Julian Lass 2011
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Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Photos I’d forgotten all about
Image © Julian Lass 2011
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Are journalists obligated to inform someone...
Max Mosely just lost his plea to the European Court of Human Rights – it rejected his bid to force publications to warn people before publishing sensitive and personal material about them. That means it is still not a legal requirement for a journalist to give prior warning of a story.
I kind of feel sorry for Mosely. It was crap of News of the World to reveal he liked spending time with so many...
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Simonides: Danaë and Perseus
Danaë and her baby son Perseus have been cast out to sea in a chest by her husband Akrisios, who fears a Delphic prophecy that his son will one day kill him. Akrisios is too afraid to kill his wife, as Zeus is the father of Perseus.
The lyric poet Simonides wrote about it and a fragment survives. I translated it as best as I could, with help, and tried to retain some sense of the alliteration.
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Photos I’d forgotten all about
Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
All images © Julian Lass
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Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
Photos I’d forgotten all about
All images © Julian Lass
4 tags
Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
Photos I’d forgotten all about
All images © Julian Lass
4 tags
Fotos que ya había olvidado por completo
Fotos, die ich total vergessen hatte
Photos I’d forgotten all about
All images © Julian Lass
1 tag
Elephant & Castle group show
I’m in a group show with former London College of Communication classmates next week, anybody is welcome to come next Friday 13th May. I’ve been looking to show my work for no costs in the shopping centre at Elephant & Castle for a while now and this opportunity sprang up, so I was keen to help. It was my classmate Valentina’s idea and Royal College of Art (RCA) curation-student...