Tickle Your Fancy – #27

Wonderful article about the wonderfully supportive men behind literary women. ‘Rebecca Mead’s wonderful new book, “My Life in Middlemarch,” offers a reminder that at least one woman writer succeeded in making an ideal selection in 1854 — even if George Eliot was not actually able to marry George Henry Lewes when the couple moved in together that year. (Lewes was already married to a woman who had deserted him for another man.) Lewes not only adored Eliot, he admired and supported her work without competitive reservation and helped change the course of literary history by persuading her to move beyond journalism to write fiction.

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Interesting article on PDN with Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association. ‘The gist of Osterreicher’s message is how to stay out of trouble while also getting the photos you need. He also suggests ways to explain your rights to an irate officer without getting arrested. And, on the maybe not-so-off chance you DO get arrested, he explains who to call for legal counsel’.

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‘Japanese illustrator Hirofumi Hamaguchi takes mundane moments in life as an opportunity to practice his craft. The artist tells Mashable that he considers this method to be similar to athletes preparing for a big game. “To score a goal, to swim fast or to draw a good illustration for a client, you need to warm up,” he says’. via Mashable.

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The Guardian has put together a selection of outstanding high contrast images of the Winter Olympics. These are a real treat to view.

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Another fabulous series of images, this time by Lillian Bassman ‘produced by careful darkroom manipulation, they brought elegance and whimsy to a previously fusty, straight-backed style of promoting clothes and jewellery. Bassman was born in Brooklyn in 1917 into a family of free-thinking intellectuals. So bohemian were her parents that they allowed her to move in with her future husband at 15, before they were married. She trained as a textile designer first, but decided to try her hand at fashion illustration. When she showed her portfolio to Alexey Brodovitch, the director of Harper’s Bazaar, he immediately accepted her at his prestigious Design Laboratory, where she switched to graphic design’.

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