Viktor Bout, photographed in 2009 by Sukree Sukplang (Reuteurs)

4.4.1997 - 4.6.1999 Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (Michael Wesely)

(James Estrin / New York Times, 2007)

[Jeffrey Mark Deskovic, exonerated after spending his entire adult life in prison, swims for the first time in 16 years at a hotel pool]

Counterpoint.

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(James Estrin / New York Times, 2007)

[Deskovic inspects his new apartment]

"Ginger Shore, Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, Nov. 17, 1977," by Stephen Shore

Eugène Atget's Parisian Reflections

The George Eastman House has a large archive of Atget photographs online.

Daney with Les Straubs

The photograph is exactly as you'd imagine them--Huillet turned away (after all, Straub is the mouth, the "public figure"), but smiling, Straub impishly smoking a pipe. The photo accompanies a short Serge Daney piece from 1984, something I spent too long poring over with a dictionary, sad to discover that it yielded few secrets or revelations. The article is already gone from my memory, but the photograph remains.