Book review: Janet Malcolm's quasi-memoir on pictures and memory called 'Still Pictures' has finally been released
"Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory" by Janet Malcolm When Janet Malcolm died 18 months ago at 86, her New Yorker colleague Ian Frazier wrote a eulogy for the magazine noting that the famed and feared journalist had been working on a series of essays based on old family photographs."When the pieces come out as a book we'll look at them and look at them again and never figure out how such wonders were wrought." That moment has arrived, and Frazier was right.
But she started her decadeslong career at the New Yorker writing about interior decoration, design and photography. She was also a photographer, publishing a study of the burdock plant that tried to portray the leaves"as clearly and as cruelly as Richard Avedon photographed individual human beings," Frazier writes in his introduction to the new book.
One snapshot shows her, not even 5, with her parents looking out the window of a train leaving Prague for Hamburg, Germany, at the start of their journey to New York. Another depicts her and a teacher at a Czech-language school in the Manhattan neighborhood of Yorkville, where her cosmopolitan parents eventually settled among a large working-class Czech population. Still another one captures her beloved father holding a straw basket near a stand of woods.
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