Word: mili
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -Faces in My Time, Anthony Powell -Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections -The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries -Paper Money, Adam Smith -The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections ∙ The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur ∙ Paper Money, Adam Smith ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
...Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections...
These alone would make a brilliant volume. Mili offers more. Nobody has photographed dance, theater and performing musicians better than he did. His visions of Florence and Chartres Cathedral are almost enough to make a trip to either place unnecessary. With great compression the book also tells the story of Mill's life from the time he emigrated from Rumania and went to M.I.T. as a skinny teenager, to the journey back to Bucharest 48 years later to visit his mother's grave. Free of the technical gush that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief...
...Irish playwright, almost blind, appears in his shabby, shadowy room, warmed by a dark red blanket, looking like some sort of sweet yet cranky prince of the mind and spirit. On the basis of his memoirs, that is just what Gjon Mili appears...