Steichens

A Splash of Photo History Comes to Light
By RANDY KENNEDY

At first glance the two pictures seem to be gorgeous anachronisms, full-color blasts from the black-and-white world of 1908, the year Ford introduced the Model T and Theodore Roosevelt was nearing the end of his second term.

But they are genuine products of their time, rare ones, among the few surviving masterpieces from the earliest days of color photography, made using a process developed by the Lumière brothers in France and imported to the United States by the photographer Edward Steichen a century ago this year. They were taken by Steichen, probably in Buffalo, and are thought to be portraits of Charlotte Spaulding, a friend and student who became his luminous subject for the portraits, which resemble pointillist miniatures on glass. More

Curse you:

Oak, Birch and Willow. May global warming end your obscene aerial sex acts!

Autistic License

I ran off from Laura Jean's to go see Autistic License last night at the Illusion.

The performance and play was a lot tighter than when it performed in Fresh Ink. The autistic boy's father still performed as the autistic boy. The announcer was recast as well, into a gravely voiced "TV" announcer. It picked up those segments that used him a lot. Lots of teary comments in the critique after the play from people with difficulties or the parents of. The audience was quite full. It was the last performance.

Best line: "What were you thinking?"

"Just get this over with so I can get some sleep." she said after telling her husband she was pregnant for the third time...