With perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born and their talking with Andrew Solomon and before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to parry, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and to all of you for showing up. We are not able to host this event in our store space in our community as authors and readers is still here and we are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now, just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you and they can seat you are here though and you can see account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zumba screen. And there are a couple of functions we will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your resume window and one is an icon labeled chat with ones Speech Bubble and youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat and thats a great way to show yo
Communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 2013. In ber rumia, the professional at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won selfawards for his work, among them the International Prize and assurances dean journalism award. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, new yorker, the new york times, and roothe guardian, wh the guardian recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the exhibitions current exhibition shungia sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his books are entertaining the gods, religionen and democracy on three continents, murder in amstra dad and islamabad and limits of toll trance and invading japan, 1963 to 1964. In the zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the komen center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellows he was so productive, he produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in
In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri
Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, of this exhibit and im the historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that th
2013. Ian buruma, professor of human rights and journalism at bard college, was educated in holland and japan. Hes won several awards for his work, among them the international prize, and the short and steam journalism award. The publication he writes for and include the new york review of books, new yorker new york times, the guardian. Which, the guardian, recently published his highly learned it and entertaining review of the British Museums current exhibition, sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among the previous books our religion and democracy on three continents, murder in amsterdam liberal europe islam in the limits of tolerance, and inventing japan, 1863 to 1964. In the year, zero the history of 1945, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the comment center, in 2011 and 2012. To the serious envy of his fellow fellow, start he was so productive. He has produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii, in e