tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post909924967736338708..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Weldon Kees: RobinsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46696872443250180722013-10-03T20:55:32.982-07:002013-10-03T20:55:32.982-07:00Robinson here. Just wanted ya to know, I love the...Robinson here. Just wanted ya to know, I love the poem.<br />bill keyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633375163632017841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22169253358773360772013-09-30T02:54:00.886-07:002013-09-30T02:54:00.886-07:00Hazen,
The Kees tales lingered hereabouts for som...Hazen,<br /><br />The Kees tales lingered hereabouts for some time, reports of those who swore they'd encountered him in Mexico, & c. Mysterious, probably apocryphal. Certainly an enigmatic figure; and a fine poet in any case.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/weldon-kees-back.html" rel="nofollow">Weldon Kees: Back</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/weldon-kees-1926.html" rel="nofollow">Weldon Kees: 1926</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/weldon-kees-upstairs-room.html" rel="nofollow">Weldon Kees: The Upstairs Room</a><br /><br />The "Mammoth plate" photography of the early masters -- Jackson, O'Sullivan, Watkins -- has been overlooked in the recent vogue of large format work, now often made with the "production values" one thinks of as associated with movies (Burtynsky, Misrach, Gursky). The scale of the operations has obviously multiplied, but I don't know that the results have improved upon those of the originators. <br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/robert-creeley-heroes-william-henry.html" rel="nofollow">Some examples of William Henry Jackson's heroic work for the US Geological Survey</a>.<br /><br />(He was, by the way, a distant relation of William Henry Jackson Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21021879456938707782013-09-29T15:01:38.488-07:002013-09-29T15:01:38.488-07:00After reading this, I had to Wiki-up Weldon Kees, ...After reading this, I had to Wiki-up Weldon Kees, whom we’ve seen before here, if memory serves (and often it doesn’t). The term multi-talented hardly does the guy justice. He was an interesting human being—‘where trees are actual and take no holiday.’ That Jackson photo of the “likely retriever” is exceptional. I saw one of those mammoth plate photos in the Met in NYC, a landscape in France, 19th century, with very fine detail.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.com