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Created Jan 10 2009 •

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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can

without going over.

Out on the edge

you see all kinds of things

you can't see from the center.


—KURT VONNEGUT









France, Pont de Normandie, 1994.  |  ©Jean Gaumy, Magnum Photos




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Created Dec 26 2008 •

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Dmitri Debabov    |    Arctic Images


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Dmitri Debabov studied photography and film along with his friend, Sergei Eisenstein, at the High State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After graduating in 1926, he was employed as a photojournalist with the newspapers Izvestiia and Komsomolskaia Pravda. He traveled often, accompanied by his wife, the photographer Margarita Debabov. He was particularly interested in new construction projects throughout the nation then being implemented under the first Five Year Plan. He also traveled into the Arctic with Soviet ice-breakers, and to other parts of the Soviet Union. He died in 1949, struck down by a brief, fatal illness in Siberia. His legacy includes important documentation of the first Five Year Plan, documentation of the folkways of Russians living the Altai mountain range, the Chukch and Taimyr peninsulas, and other locations, and technological advancements in Arctic photography.


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Poliarnaya noch  |  Polar Night, 1935
Period gelatin silver print, 1935
For many years, this image hung in President Roosevelt's office in the White House.


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Two hunters
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1932


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Chukotka. Dva transporta.  |  Chukotka. Two means of transport.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1937


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Dmitri Debabov in the Arctic, 1936  |  Margarita Debabova, photographer
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1936


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Novaia, schastlivaia zhizn' prishla i na delekii Sever.  |  A new, happy life has also come to the Far North.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1930s


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Fur traders
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1935


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An Arctic Road
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1938

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Created Dec 24 2008 •

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Happy Holidays, Friends!



May all good things bloom bright and beautiful for you in the coming year,

no matter where,

no matter what.








Krakow, Poland: A florist's, December 2006
© Mark Power / Magnum Photos




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Created Dec 21 2008 •

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A conversation on the way to a party

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In which Kerry and I smack on some lipstick and drive to a holiday get-together.
I am a terrible wingwoman.


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A conversation after the party

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In which Kerry and I repair to a local pub.





~ excerpt from image, San Francisco trip 2001, Steve Liska ~




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Created Dec 20 2008 •

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Now dash away,

dash away,

dash away, all!








Yamalo-Nenets, Russia: Reindeer in an autonomous district
in the center of Russia's Far North, on the West Siberian Plain, 2006.
© Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Magnum Photos




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Created Dec 07 2008 •

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Desire is such a tricky thing.








Manhattan - Bernstein, 1958.
© Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos




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Created Nov 25 2008 •

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Winter Conversation

I listen to you explain the difference
between a right brain thought and a left.
I am distracted by the smell
of cold on your face.
I lick it away like a child
with an ice cream cone
sticky fingers and sweet tongue.

Aware that I have been here before
I pause in your words.
I have slept in this flesh,
dreamed these winter bones.

Waking in the darkness between us
I hear frost sweeping the porch,
edging toward the morning.
I reach for your hand.

What, you whisper, voice hoarse with dream.
My lips, swollen with you, cold,
are silent.

- Joyce Wakefield

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Created Nov 05 2008 •

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