Author Archive "Conchita Fernandes"
Edward Hopper’s Silence
Undoubtedly, when you think of Edward Hopper, it is his painting, titled Nighthawks, that immediately comes to mind. It is your quintessential …
A Life of Rebellion
What does the word freedom imply? What does it mean to be free? To be an African American in the 19th century …
Setting Fire to Your Photographs
In 1991, on the day that he turned 80, Brett Weston willfully obliterated a lifetime of negatives, except for 12, in a …
The Pictures that are Not Made, But Taken
In a recent piece that he did for The New York Times Magazine, Teju Cole addressed how the common man photographs today, with …
How is Beauty Perceived?
In Edward Steichen’s The Pond–Moonlight, we see what appears to be a forested scene, with moonlight streaming through the trees and reflected …
Filling the Void with Stillness
This is a snippet from William Butler Yeats’ Easter, 1916 that describes the poet’s torn emotions over the Irish’s bloody struggle for independence, from the British.
