Enrique Metinides was a Mexican photojournalist working for the nota roja tabloids, producing pictures of murders and accidents such as “Adela Legarreta Rivas is struck by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec, Mexico City, 29 April 1979” (1979).
Tag Archives: 1934
RIP Harrison Birtwistle (1934 – 2022)
Harrison Birtwistle (1934 – 2022) was an English composer of classical music. He is known for operas such as The Minotaur (2008).
RIP Joan Didion (1934 – 2021)
Joan Didion was an American writer.
I don’t quite know what to think of Didion’s writing and whether I would like to read it.
She seems similar to contemporary Susan Sontag, however, Didion seems strictly non-philosophical.
Something did catch my eye, however, it is Philosophy and Vulnerability: Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde (2019) by Matthew R. McLennan, a book in which Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion and Audre Lorde are called rigorous “nonphilosophers”.
Update 24/12: I was wrong. I came to that conclusion after delving into the White Album (1979) book, which seems to be an interesting portrait of 1960s counterculture. But not only that, she gave the world a beautiful nobrow analysis. In the book The White Album (1979)there is a passage where she writes about her habit of watching outlaw biker movies and she says:
“I suppose I kept going to these movies because there on the screen was some news I was not getting from The New York Times. I began to think I was seeing ideograms of the future.”
RIP Raul de Souza (1934 – 2021)
Raul de Souza was a Brazilian trombonist of quite some renown.
De Souza released at least two disco-ish songs: “Sweet Lucy” (1977), which is on the Derrick Carter Choice installment, and “‘Til Tomorrow Comes” (1979).
I give you Colors (1975).
RIP Alan Sheridan (1934 – 2015)
This happened at least five years ago but it escaped my attention.
Alan Sheridan was an English author and translator. He translated Gilles and Jeanne (1983) by Michel Tournier.
The death of Sheridan came to my attention while documenting Pornographic Archaeology which I read thoroughly vertically last week.
RIP Curtis Fuller (1934 – 2021)
Curtis Fuller was an American trombonist known for his work on the American jazz scene between the years 1957 and c. 1980.
Trombonists I admire include Rico Rodriguez, Peter Zummo, Vin Gordon, Don Drummond, Fred Wesley and Willie Colón.
RIP Ronald Inglehart (1934 — 2021)
Ronald Inglehart was an American political scientist, co-author of the Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world based on the World Values Survey.
I discovered Inglehart by reading and reviewing Whiteshift (2018).
I believe the studies of values became important again after the failure of the end of history by Fukuyama and 9/11.
These two events proved that it’s not the economy stupid.
RIP Willy Kurant (1934 – 2021)
Willy Kurant was a Belgian cinematographer, famous for shooting films such as Trans-Europ-Express (1966), Man on Horseback (1969), Cannabis (1970) and Je t’aime moi non plus (1976).
RIP George Segal (1934 – 2021)
George Segal was an American actor best-known for his portrayal of Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the man who admits he aims to charm and sleep his way to the top in this film that celebrates love gone awry.
RIP Diane di Prima (1934 – 2020)
Diane di Prima was an American poet.
Her book Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) was a fictionalized, erotic account about her experience in the Beat movement.
Di Prima is featured in Gang of Souls (1989), the Maria Beatty documentary on Beat poets.