One summer in the early 1930’s, Vaune Trachtman s father shot a few rolls of film near his father’s drugstore in Center City Philadelphia. Nearly 90 y.
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.- American photographer Annette LeMay Burke first stumbled upon a cell phone tower masquerading as a tree in the early 2000s. Even living in her native Silicon Valley in Northern California surrounded by technology, she thought the tree looked out of place. This first encounter with a decorated tower sparked her interest to see more. From 2015-2020 she embarked on a series of road trips across the American West to locate and document these strange manmade creations allegedly built to minimize visual pollution by blending in with the environment.
While I was initially drawn to the towers whimsical appearances, the more I photographed them, the more disconcerted I felt that technology was clandestinely modifying our environment, she writes in her essay in the book. I began to explore how this manufactured nature had imposed a contrived aesthetic in our neighborhoods I dubbed the series Fauxliage.
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For Edward Boches, the pandemic was an unlikely catalyst. I think I kicked into high gear from the lockdown and beyond, he said from his Brookline home near the Allston line.
He had been a full-time professor at Boston University for the past 10 years. I taught creative courses in the advertising program in the College of Communication: Creative Concepts, and Portfolio Development, he explained. I helped prepare students for careers as creatives designers, art directors, writers, filmmakers. It was a second career for Boches, who for 33 years was a partner and creative director at Mullen (now Mullen-Lowe), Boston s largest ad agency.
HomeFront: Fun now for stir-crazy families, music later for picnicking at Tanglewood
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated April 9, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Brandy starred in a 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein s Cinderella. Randee St. Nicholas/Disney
Welcome once again to HomeFront, where weâre happily surrendering to a wicked case of spring fever. Weâre busy fantasizing about theaters, auditoriums, arenas, museums, galleries, restaurants, bars, and all manner of other public spaces that are perfect for staring at strangers. And maybe even eavesdropping (remember eavesdropping?). Meanwhile, weâre breathing our own air and seeking out socially distanced diversions.