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The Sunday supplement: #40

The Sunday supplement: #40

Characters from a Hollywood motel, John Ashbery’s objets d'art, and some favorite new/old music, magazines, films, and other finds to pack for summer travel

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Aug 14, 2022
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The Sunday supplement: #40
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“Fruit Bowl, Book and Newspaper” (1916), Juan Gris

There’s a new picture book coming out, Guest Register, from photographer Penny Wolin. From the book’s description:

In 1975, twenty-one-year-old, Wyoming-raised photographer Penny Wolin checked into a pay-by-the-week residential hotel on a faded stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, and began to make portraits of her neighbors.

Those motels are still there, I go past them walking to the office, and they probably house some similar folks as the ones shot by Wolin. The pictures are great, but it’s the captions that really make it. Below, a selection from the publisher. All images credit © Penny Wolin.

“Room 421. Came from Nebraska, brothers orphaned and together since age three and five. Now out looking around, together.”

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