"Mike" Cuscuna Does Carla Bley (DB 3-30-72)

[JSngry]

Note the photo by Gary Winogrand, who's apparently somebody of some note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winogrand

[king ubu]

sure, do a google search, certainly some photos that show up are familiar! such as this here:

thanks for all that scanning work, will have to save some of these (they don't display at work, where much of my org reading these days is done...)

[Larry Kart]

Winogrand one of the small handful of Greatest American Photographers

I once walked two miles on a knee in need of surgical repair to buy a copy of Winogrand's OOP "Figments from the Real World."

[JSngry]

Never heard of the guy, but then, I'm not an actively curious photography afficianado. Learn something every day, and ain't that cool!

Anybody know if "Mike" wrote any more pieces like this for DB? I've looked at the issue god knows how many times and just now noticed his byline.

[Larry Kart]

He wrote at least one about the Chicago scene in '68-9.

[JSngry]

Ah, my active collection begins in late4 1971. But I have read (and more than once) the mid-late-60s run, all of which I would love to add to my archives. Seems to me in retrospect that the era that I came into into was the "aftermath" of that era, when pretty much all the bombs had been exploded and now it was time to rebuild the city, and maybe make it bigger and brighter than ever. At the time, it just seemed like that was a normal thing to do, and it probably was, all things considered, but I've since come to realize how much of a WTF ARE WE GETTING INTO there must have been.

Also, I just came across the issue announcing the resignation of Dan Morgenstern as editor. Perhaps not coincidentally, the nascent use of COLOR on damn near ALL the pages took off right after that, as did the use of "newer" fonts and layouts. Again, at the time it all seemed normal enough, but knowing now what I didn't know then...

And also in retrospect, some of that shit is damn near impossible to read now. But that's the eyes of a 52 year old as opposed to those of a 16 year old...

Tell you what - going back to "relive the good old days" sucks donkey dix. But going back and looking for clues that you might have previously missed about why we are where we are now is kinda...not bad.

[Larry Kart]

A Winogrand link:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12903

Worth a look.

[JSngry]

Very nice!

Now my curiosity is piqued.

[JSngry]

To show you how stupid I am, I at first misread the photo credit as "Gary Windogrand" and thought that I had discovered that Gary "Windo" was actually a stage name. Almost posted that, too.

DOH!

[paul secor]

A Winogrand link:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12903

Worth a look.

Fascinating video, Larry. Thanks for posting!

[JSngry]

No props for Carla, Escalator, and/or "Mike"?

[BruceH]

Winogrand one of the small handful of Greatest American Photographers

I once walked two miles on a knee in need of surgical repair to buy a copy of Winogrand's OOP "Figments from the Real World."

indeed!

Along with Lee Friedlander one of my favorite modern (post-modern?) photographers. I wish all his collections were back in print.

[RDK]

Winograd was a huge inspiration for me when I was more deeply involved in photography in the 80s and 90s. Now it's just snapshots of the kids.

[Chalupa]

How weird. Someone just returned to the library a copy of "The Man in the Crowd".

[Rosco]

No props for Carla, Escalator, and/or "Mike"?

Plenty of props for Carla, although I find Escalator impenetrable at best. It's intermittently intriguing but I'm not convinced it rewards the effort. The opening overture makes it a keeper, though.

I just got European Tour 1977 on which she is credited with tenor saxophone. I didn't know she played.