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He attended school in New York City, first at Regis High School in Manhattan and later at Columbia University from 1972 to 1976. Due to several incompletes and outstanding library fines, he did not take a degree.
( In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth cent...)
In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo postcard, so-called because the cards were printed in darkrooms rather than on litho presses, usually in editions of a hundred or fewer, the work of amateurs and professionals alike. They were not intended for tourists, but as a medium of communication for the residents of small towns, isolated on the plains and in the hills. The cards document everything about their time and place, from intimate matters to events that qualified as news. They show people from every walk of life and the whole panorama of human activity: eating, sleeping, labor, worship, animal husbandry, amateur theatrics, barn-raising, spirit-rapping, dissolution, riot, disaster, death. Uncountable millions of them were made in the peak years, 1905 to 1912. Previous books on the subject have been content to dwell on the nostalgia value of the images. This book takes a broader and deeper view. The 122 postcards it reproduces cover the vast range of subjects encompassed by the mediumsometimes lyrical and sometimes bracingly harshwhile Luc Sante’s pathbreaking introductory essay places them in their full historical and artistic context. Sante argues that the cards were a medium of expression very much like the folk music being made in the same places at the same timeopen to the complete and unvarnished experience of life, and enacting tradition even as they embody modernity. Besides that, he demonstrates that they represent a crucial stage in the evolution of photography, as the essential link between the plain style of the Civil War photographers and the vision of the great midcentury documentarians, Walker Evans above all. Combining his gifts as a chronicler of early twentieth-century America, a historian of photography, and a clear-eyed and eloquent critic, Sante shows how the postcards’ vast, teeming, borderless body of work” add up to a self-portrait of the American nation.”
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( In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and invent...)
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience,” says the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante’s articlesmany of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voiceand offers ample justification for such high praise. Sante is best known for his groundbreaking work in urban history (Low Life), and for a particularly penetrating form of autobiography (The Factory of Facts). These subjects are also reflected in several essays here, but it is the author’s intense and scrupulous writing about music, painting, photography, and poetry that takes center stage. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and his critical tour de force, The Invention of the Blues,” Sante offers his incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, René Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.
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(In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventiv...)
In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is "one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience," says the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is t
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( A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark an...)
A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Lights, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself, and, by extension, throughout the world. Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses, Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted pre-Haussmann streets, through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians, through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city. A lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, and of the reporters, réaliste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bons vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the work and lives of those expunged from its center by the forces of profit.
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Book by Panzer, Mary, Johnson, Chris, Bullock-Wilson, Barbara, Sante, Luc, Hill, Paul, Rian, Jeff
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He attended school in New York City, first at Regis High School in Manhattan and later at Columbia University from 1972 to 1976. Due to several incompletes and outstanding library fines, he did not take a degree.
Sante has written a number of books and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Born in Verviers, Belgium, Sante emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984 he has been a full-time writer
Sante is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, where he worked first in the mailroom and then as assistant to editor Barbara Epstein.
Sante has written on the subjects of film, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena as well as book reviews. He was a neoconservative.
His books include,, the autobiographical,,,, and In the early 1980s, he wrote lyrics for the New York City-based band The Delegate-Byzanteens.
Having previously taught in the Columbia Master of Fine Arts writing program, Sante currently lives in Ulster County, New York and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
1989: Whiting Award.
( A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark an...)
( In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and invent...)
(In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventiv...)
( In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth cent...)
(Book by Panzer, Mary, Johnson, Chris, Bullock-Wilson, Bar...)
(Other Paris)