Last night I had dinner at Bill Jacobson’s in Brooklyn. Bill’s this really interesting photographer who became quite well known for photographing blurry people. And things. During the height of the AIDS epidemic, his images were an especially poignant reminder of the people who were slipping away. Well, he’s now photographing things in focus, which is sending everyone into a tizzy. His recent work seems to convey the same sense of stillness and formal rigor, just lovely images. He looked at my slides and we ate takeout Thai in his studio. It turns out that he will be visiting with friends in San Francisco who live a block away from me, so it’ll be nice to hang with him back home, too. He’s a very sweet, intelligent, and talented man. I didn’t get to see much of Brooklyn on the way to his studio, but man, the area near where he lives is super hip. I was the oldest one in the subway, by about 20 years, and everybody had on fabulous outfits. This one guy had on a fake fur coat that looked just like a tailored gorilla suit. I have to have one.
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