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Not a new show on AMC. But that’s what I’m going to call, despite your objections, my baking series.
Today was a baguette kind of morning.
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I was heading out of Maker Faire 2012 after interviewing Stan Munro of Toothpick World (audio slideshow coming on Monday) when I spotted this exhibit by Kim Holleman.
Click here to view slideshow if you’re on a non-flash device.
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Got into bread baking last week. Yes, last week. If you’d told me a week and a half ago that someday I might bake bread (and enjoy it) I’d have laughed at you. Hard.
So after a week of baking ugly looking bread, this morning was born a pretty one.
No worries, I have no intention of (nor do I have what it takes) food blogging. I will just be posting a photo or two (with an iPhone because DSLR would just make it too serious, wouldn’t it) of what I bake.
Ladies and gents, I had feared the unknown in bread baking all those years. That cherry’s popped and I probably will never buy bread from the store again. If I can do it, so can anyone.
Eating your own creation has never felt this good.
This is the book I’m working from. And this is Jeff and Zoe’s blog.
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The following is quoted from Library of Congress’s “Manuscripts” section
“Theodore Roosevelt was a devoted father, who regularly wrote to his children when the family was apart. In this letter from ca. 1890 [the image above - emon], the future president entertains his young son Theodore with an illustrated fable about a wolf attacking a calf and about other barnyard animals rallying to drive the predator away. In addition to President Roosevelt’s papers, the division holds the papers of three of his children: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; Kermit Roosevelt; and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. (Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Papers)”
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Frances Benjamin Johnston (15 January 1864 – 16 May 1952)
One of the earliest American female photographers and photojournalists, Johnston was given her first camera by none other George Eastman himself. She had gone on to shoot portraits of some of the biggest names in American history including Mark Twain, Susan B. Anthony and the last portrait of President William McKinley. [source: Wikiepedia]
In 1947, Johnston donated her work, a collection of 20,000+ pictures, including 2 self portraits, to the Smithsonian. [source: Smithsonian]
Clio has a great section dedicated to Johnston’s career, including a great article by Johnston’s for Ladies Home Journal “What Can A Woman Do With A Camera (1897)”. I think it’s a must read for photographers. Here are a couple of excerpts from the article.
“The bane of the average professional photographer is the deadly commonplace—and it is safe to say that the majority of those who fail to make their business pay, do so because they are not progressive in keeping up the advancement of the art, and lack originality.”
“Any person of average intelligence can produce photographs by the thousand, but to give art value to the fixed image of the camera-obscura requires imagination, discriminating taste, and, in fact, all that is implied by a true appreciation of the beautiful.”
“It is a mistaken business policy to try and build up trade by doing something badly cheaper than somebody else. As to your personal attitude, be businesslike in all your methods; cultivate tact, and affable manner, and an unfailing courtesy. It costs nothing but a little self-control and determination to be patient and good-natured under most circumstances.”
The following are from Library of Congress’s Flickr page where a series of Johnston’s hand-colored lantern slides were posted. Click on each image to read details.
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