Weekly Picture 87

Gael and Mae in Steven's Backyard Pool, Going Away Party for Mae, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 7.19.2007

John Szarkowski Dies at 81

John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81. NYT times link

Weekly Picture 86

Lifeguards, Gull, and Ann, Jacob Riis Beach, July 4th 2007, New York

Ann, Mae and I spent the day freezing on the beach today with our usual Independence Day accomplices: Terra, Derek, and Nola. The lifeguards were doing stretches to keep from frostbite. Good times, really.