March 2, 2008

At a talk about Watching the World Change last month at the Reform Club in London, I met photographer George Torode, who sent me the following, previously unpublished image to share.

PHOTO BY GEORGE TORODE

Wrote George: “I am a freelance photographer who was in New York on 9/11 and took a series of photographs... The attached images focused on the human response in Brooklyn. I shot 35mm slide and cross processed it as neg to produce ‘alien’ high contrast and saturation images. Processed this way they highlight the viewer's difficulty to engage rationally with an event so enormous it appears otherworldly, surreal and detached."

Meanwhile…. I highly recommend 5b4, a blog about photography, design and books.

And... if you’re in the mood, see “A Claim on Camelot,” an article I’ve written for the forthcoming issue of Vanity Fair. It was posted late Friday on VanityFair.com.

Finally, now that baseball’s spring training has commenced and Hope Springs Eternal, see this blog post by yours truly on Hillary (Cubs Fan) vs. Obama (White Sox Fan).