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January122012
(via Remembering Esme Barrera)
“If you’re reading this, didn’t know this woman and you’re saying to yourself, ‘big deal, I know someone just like that,’ tell them. Today. We can’t bring Esme back, but any moment going forward not spent trying to match the very high bar she set … is time wasted.” — Gerard Cosloy, in a blog post at Cantstopthebleeding.comThe weird truth is you really don’t know whose lives you change at any moment, or how you change them. What might seem a small gesture to you might be huge for the person who receives it, positive or negative. Barrera was a lot of different things to a lot of different people, all of them positive. She is going to remain a vibrant presence in a lot of people’s lives.
“She was the best kind of person to have in Austin,” Chovan said. “She was hip and smart, but genuinely good.
“It wasn’t about pretense.”
Tags: /esme barrera /el paso /austin /momento mori
October112008
photo of the day: Hugh Crawford »
Get the real paper edition of the Times (10/12/2008) … you can see The City section story on page 4, The Days of His Life: 18 Years and 6,000 photos later, one man’s chronicle of his times. It’s big and lovely. The website doesn’t do it justice. Here’s an excerpt:
The narrative that unfolds between those two images tells the story not only of the friendships Mr. Livingston forged over the years but also the evolution of a city. It charts New York’s progression from an era of urban decay and fiscal crisis to a place characterized by the economic recovery that had arrived by the time of Mr. Livingston’s death, of melanoma, in 1997. This was especially true downtown, where he lived for much of the period covered in the photographs.
Before Mr. Livingston died, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid promised they would not let the project die with him. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of their friend’s death, they digitally photographed the Polaroids and reproduced them for an exhibition at Bard, in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Tags: /Polaroid /momento mori /Hugh Crawford /photo of the day
