Word: squalors
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Harrison says that the inhabitants of the slums of Gainesville were living in squalor, while the real estate establishment both profited from them and opposed movements towards reform...
...thought], 'Virginia Woolf was a gold mine. I might as well try to cash in on Whitman as well.'" The poet appears in person only in the book's first part, a grim, oddly lyrical look at the lives of poor factory workers trapped in the filth and squalor of 19th century Manhattan. "Who was striding through all that but Mr. Walt Whitman?" Cunningham says. "'I sing the body electric!' The great embracer of all things, at a time when there was conspicuously little to embrace...
...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...next stop is England, where Soth's Mississippi exhibition runs at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until Jan. 29. Shot over five years with a large-format camera, Soth's work depicts a journey that progresses from the Mississippi's snow-covered northern reaches to the Delta's squalor. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit of wandering. This is classic American road-trip photography that captures the tender frailties of ordinary people like Charles, a model-plane buff in Vasa, Minnesota. Selections from the exhibition will move to the Minneapolis Institute...
...Shot over five years with a large-format camera, Soth's work depicts a journey that progresses from the snow-covered northern reaches of the Mississippi to the squalor of the Delta. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit of wandering. This is classic American road-trip photography that captures the tender frailties of ordinary people living ordinary lives. Selections from the exhibition will move to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts next March, joining some of Soth's other recent work. Wherever you can see them, his photos are not to be missed...