This Week In Photography Books: Sugimoto/Misrach
I’ve been watching a lot of John Wayne movies lately. I was always a Clint Eastwood guy, so I’d never really understood the Duke, until recently. It’s stupefying to discover the way one man stood as a symbol for an entire nation.
John Wayne captures the rough, charismatic, violent and patriarchal vibe that permeated the US in the post-WWII years. If his middle name were actually Manifest Destiny, would anyone really be surprised?
He led with his big, hamhock fists, and we all needed to trust that he knew what he was doing. He was John Wayne, after …read more
Via: A Photo Editor
