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Like a LakeA Story of Uneasy Love and Photography
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Carol Mavor

A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, "like water slipping through our fingers." Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his o…

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Like the SeaDancing with Mary Glass
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Carol Mavor

An exploration of the mythical Mary Glass—her art, her life, and her times Mary Glass (1946–2021) was an innovative modern dancer and choreographer, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and '70s—barely known today—admired for her experimental movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific.As a child, Mary Glass took her first dance class with An…

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BecomingThe Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
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Carol Mavor

Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822–1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class homes of the Victorian period, Lady Hawarden transformed the sitting room of her London residence into a photographic studio—a private space…

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Black and BlueThe Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, an…
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Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one b…

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Reading BoyishlyRoland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel …
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Carol Mavor

An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood—nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied—Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and longing, writing and photography. In this homage to four boyish men and one boy—J. M. Barrie, Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, D. W. Winnicott, a…

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