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Charles Baudelaire Not even I understand everything I am ¬Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo In 2013 I started a series of photo albums on Blurb.com, named '36Exp' (a subject adressed in 36 exposures, a reference to the exposures on most common rolls of 35 mm film: 12, 24 & 36.). |
FRIDAY ON MY MIND by NICCI FRENCH | BOOKS CRIME FICTION ![]()
By the time his corpse is fished out of the Thames, neurologist Alexander 'Sandy' Holland is scarcely identifiable. But a hospital bracelet he’s wearing labeled 'Dr. F. Klein' leads DCI Sarah Hussein and DC Glen Bryant to Frieda, and she makes the dry-eyed identification. www.kirkusreviews.com/.../friday-on-my-mind/ [07FEB2019]
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THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH by DONNA LEON | BOOKS CRIME FICTION ![]()
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ZILVEREN CAMERA 2018 | PHOTO JOURNALISM AWARD Dutch photographer Cynthia Boll has won the Dutch photography award Zilveren Camera ('Silver Camera') 2018 in the category Documentary International for her photo series Sinking Cities, Jakarta. The series is a direct result of her photo project The People Behind The Seawall, that DutchCulture helped produce. dutchculture.nl/nl/news/zilveren-camera-award [06FEB2019] |
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STONEMOUTH | TV-FILM CRIME FICTION Stonemouth is a 2012 novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. The novel was published in 2012 and was filmed in a two episode tv-film. Stewart Gilmour returns to Stonemouth, a fictional seaport town north of Aberdeen, for a funeral. It is five years since he ran away to London after a sexual indiscretion at a wedding. Stonemouth is controlled by two rival gangs, the Murstons and the MacAvetts, and Gilmour was engaged to a member of the former clan before he had to leave. [.27JAN2019]
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IN A HOUSE OF LIES by IAN RANKIN | CRIME FICTION NOVEL BOOKS ![]() Another splendid novel by Ian Rankin, again featuring the three partite: John Rebus, DI Siobhan Clarke and DI Malcolm Fox. Three boys discover a car deep in a gully in thick woodland. It has been there for a long time, and there’s a decomposed body in the boot. The legs are handcuffed and appear to be police-issue equipment. Rebus is suffering from COPD (emphysema) and needs to keep an inhaler on him. He had to stop smoking and all but has given up on alcohol; he seems a typical pensioner as he walks his dog Brillo in the Meadows. But from the Meadows he can see the apartment where his old adversary Big Ger Cafferty lives... The protagonist in 'In A House Of Lies' is still John Rebus, though Siobhan is very much on the foreground as well (obviously Rankin may have difficulty writing from the thoughts and emotions of a woman), while Fox has taken a backseat in this novel. www.scotsman.com
[20JAN2019]
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IN ALLE STATEN - MAX WESTERMAN | WORLD MEDIA JOURNALISM ![]() 'Het Amerika van Max Westerman'
While this book was published over 10 years ago (2007, Nieuw Amsterdam) it still provides valuable insights, but it's also very much a pleasure to read through the concise, 'to the point'-style of writing and while critical never negative, Indeed, Max often proclaims his love for this powerful country where people have a plentitude of optimism and bounce back from disappointments for a 2nd (3rd, 4th..) attempt on success and the American Dream. The author keeps it light, there is plenty of self-criticism and he occasionally shares a tongue-in-cheek remark. nl.wikipedia.org:_Max_Westerman (NL) [16JAN2019]
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GOLDSTONE | FILM DVD AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple light duty investigation opens a web of crime and corruption. The film has extraordinary sceneries of the outback and the community consists only of a handful of houses and trailers. www.imdb.com
[13JAN2019]
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THE COLOUR OF TIME | HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHY
'The Colour of Time', of which I recently acquired a Dutch translation (published in 2018) spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history. Marina Amaral has created 200 stunning images from the original B&W photos and each photo has a short narrative describing the situation in context. marinamaral.com/the-colour-of-time [.....2019]
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MARC RIBOUD, PHOTOFILE | PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an affordable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced at the highest quality. [10JAN2019]
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FORTITUDE, SEASON 2 | CRIME FICTION TV DRAMA DVD
In this second series I think they tried to cram in so many weird ideas and subplots, things became quite complicated and it needed some knowledge of the first series too to grasp the plotlines. I am not too keen on supernatural aspects in these mystery series, too many easy ways out. [04JAN2019]
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