{"id":93112,"date":"2016-01-01T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93112"},"modified":"2015-12-21T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:53:29","slug":"seeking-jaggers-muse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/seeking-jaggers-muse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Jagger\u2019s Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90233\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90233\" class=\"wp-image-90233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mickbeer-1024x711.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mick Jagger in Clearwater, Florida, 1965.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dear Lorin,<\/p>\n<p>Did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them\u2014they make oddly compelling photography books. Last year they did one about some candid \u201cfound photos\u201d of the Rolling Stones, pictures taken in the South that had somehow turned up at a flea market or estate sale out west. I wrote a piece to go with the book. But the book wound up getting squashed, or at least suppressed. There was some kind of legal problem\u2014a photographer\u2019s estate claimed rights, saying their man had taken the pictures, but it couldn\u2019t be proved, and there were other claimants. At one point the book was embargoed on a container ship, I\u2019m not inventing. Anyway it was all a shame because the book was beautiful to look at and would have been positive for all parties, and The Ice Plant\u2019s books are done for the love\u2014if nobody\u2019s profiting, nobody\u2019s profiting off\u2014but we are a people of the lawsuit, we like to own.<\/p>\n<p>All of that is background, though, to the actual pictures (referring here\u00a0only to those that have already been on the Web). There\u2019s something sweet and sad about them (a twenty-two-year-old Brian Jones flipping playfully into the pool \u2026 ), and something unglamorous that has postwar English childhoods in it, and at the edges maybe just a trace of eerie and autumnal pre\u2013Altamont Apocalypse vibes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/seeking-jaggers-muse\/\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! Dear Lorin, Did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them\u2014they make oddly compelling photography books. 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