{"id":110994,"date":"2017-05-18T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110994"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:43:11","slug":"visit-me-in-my-fake-tree-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/visit-me-in-my-fake-tree-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Me in My Fake Tree, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110995\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34673253956_885f078352_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110995\" class=\"wp-image-110995 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34673253956_885f078352_b.jpg\" width=\"699\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34673253956_885f078352_b.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34673253956_885f078352_b-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cArtificial tree-trunk, open,\u201d from Richard Kearton\u2019s <i>Wild Life at Home<\/i>, 1898. Image via Public Domain Review<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a sunny spring weekend, I like to go to the park and hide in a false tree trunk I\u2019ve built. There I stand, whiling away the hours and waiting for the birds to come around. I didn\u2019t invent this hobby. Don\u2019t give me that look. There are thousands of people like me. The whole thing started with Richard and Cherry Kearton, turn-of-the-century British nature photographers who went to ingenious lengths to capture their subjects up close. Artifice was their greatest ally, and they weren\u2019t afraid to waste many hours hoping for something to happen. John Bevis writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/05\/17\/stuffed-ox-dummy-tree-artificial-rock-deception-in-the-work-of-richard-and-cherry-kearton\/\">It might stretch credulity for Richard Kearton, a benign man in a benign profession, to be labeled \u2018the Machiavelli of bird photography.\u2019<\/a> But the fact is that he and his brother, Cherry, adapted a number of the tactics of <em>dell\u2019arte della guerra\u00a0<\/em>in their search for ways of going undercover into \u2018Birdland\u2019 to secure untainted images of wildlife at home. Between the years 1897 and 1903, their experiments included variations on such quasi-military techniques as the smoke screen, in which surprise through deception is achieved by camouflage; the feigned retreat, when a false sense of security leads the foe into ambush; the Trojan horse, famously gaining admittance to a restricted area under false pretenses; and further ploys under the catch-all heading of misinformation \u2026 In 1898 came the \u2018Artificial tree-trunk,\u2019 anticipating by nearly twenty years the observation trees, made of angle-iron and camouflaged with bark, that were used by the British and French on the Western Front. The Kearton tree was a pantomime prop-like contraption whose wigwam frame of bamboo uprights was dressed with mesh, and covered with fabric camouflaged with paint, moss, and lichen. The photographer stood to attention inside, pressed against his camera, whose tripod legs could be only partially spread. It may have lacked versatility, but when it came to photographing a bird perched six feet above ground level, in woodland, the dummy tree trunk was hard to beat.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Jewish Museum has dedicated an exhibition to Florine Stettheimer, a Jazz Age painter who remains, in Christopher Benfey\u2019s view, far too often unsung: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/16\/the-bruegel-of-bendels-florine-stettheimer\/\">Through her closely observant work, we are granted entr\u00e9e to exclusive birthday celebrations (with her pals Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz recognizably in attendance), Fourth of July fireworks over Manhattan, and a frenzied spring sale at Bendel\u2019s, though it might as well be Bruegel\u2019s<\/a>. Her signature filigrees of paint, especially red (associated at the time with the Ballets-Russes, for which Stettheimer dreamed of designing costumes, as well as with the Russian Revolution) and layer-cake-icing white, add a frothy dynamism to the festivities. Despite the apparent frivolity of her subjects, Stettheimer \u2026 was an ambitious, deadly serious artist who has never gotten the attention she deserves. Her varied, probing self-portraits\u2014palette in hand and red shoes on her feet, accompanied by a Nijinsky-ish faun; or floating in space on a magical red cape, like some exotic deity; or reclining in the nude,\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0la\u00a0<em>Olympia\u2014<\/em>convey a sophisticated self-awareness of the confining assumptions facing a hardworking woman artist between the wars.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Until she found Claire Dederer\u2019s <em>Love and Trouble<\/em>, Laura Kipnis despaired of discovering a memoir by a middle-aged woman that wasn\u2019t dispensing some pabulum about redemption and self-discovery: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2017\/06\/screw-wisdom\/524487\/\">The problem is not that I\u2019m uninterested in reading about how others are navigating such midlife quandaries as whether to get Botox, or how to spice up sex after thirty years with the same boring husband when you were never that into sex in the first place<\/a>. I\u2019m as fascinated as anyone by the sex lives of my peers, their medical conditions and romantic travails, their weight gains and other life exigencies. And don\u2019t get me started on that eternal heterosexual-female quandary: Men\u2014monsters or just perpetually disappointing? But the midlife progress report is a deadly genre for a writer; that way lie banality and drab prose.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Before acid was the much-ballyhooed countercultural symbol we all know and love, it was a therapy tool. And among its greatest proponents, as Xan Brooks writes, was Cary Grant, who tripped about a hundred times at the peak of his career and believed that the drug changed his worldview for the better: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/may\/12\/cary-grant-how-100-acid-trips-in-tinseltown-changed-my-life-lsd-documentary\">Grant submitted himself to weekly sessions\u00a0with Dr. Mortimer Hartman at the Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills<\/a>. The effects were startling. \u2018In one LSD dream I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from Earth like a spaceship.\u2019 \u2018He claimed he was saved by LSD,\u2019 explains Mark Kidel, the film\u2019s director. \u2018You have to remember that Cary was a private man. He rarely gave interviews. And yet, after taking acid, he personally contacted <em>Good Housekeeping <\/em>magazine and said: I want to tell the world about this. It has changed my life. Everyone\u2019s got to take it. I\u2019ve also heard that Timothy Leary\u00a0read this interview, or was told about it, and that his own interest in acid was essentially sparked by Cary Grant.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The internet\u2019s once unslakable thirst for personal essays has been \u2026 slaked. Jia Tolentino looks at the end of an era for online writing: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/jia-tolentino\/the-personal-essay-boom-is-over?intcid=mod-latest\">It helps to consider what gave rise to the personal essay\u2019s ubiquity in the first place. Around 2008, several factors converged<\/a>. In preceding years, private blogs and social platforms\u2014LiveJournal, Blogspot, Facebook\u2014trained people to write about their personal lives at length and in public. As Silvia Killingsworth, who was previously the managing editor of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>and took over the Awl and the Hairpin last year, put it to me, \u2018People love to talk about themselves, and they were given a platform and no rules.\u2019 Then the invisible hand of the page-view economy gave them a push: Web sites generated ad revenue in direct proportion to how many \u2018eyeballs\u2019 could be attracted to their offerings, and editorial budgets had contracted in the wake of the recession.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the ingenious bag of tricks used by early nature photographers; Cary Grant\u2019s LSD heyday; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[16675,11194,28855,3104,635,880,1022,28856,13808,67,27805,100,28854],"class_list":["post-110994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-acid","tag-cary-grant","tag-florine-stettheimer","tag-lsd","tag-memoir","tag-middle-age","tag-nature","tag-online-writing","tag-painters","tag-painting","tag-personal-essays","tag-photography","tag-richard-kearton"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Key to Good Nature Photography? 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