Book Jacket Images

Jeff Sciortino

Gloria Vanderbilt

Joyce Carol Oates

Juliet van Otteren

Marion Ettlinger

Beth Gwinn

Mary Cross

Norman Seef

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PHOTOGRAPHY SESSION

—in memory of Jim Jacobs

You died on Wednesday. On Friday
I'm hauled by limousine to be photographed
for a magazine feature, Charles Street
near Varick, a garbagey smell to the air.
March 25 and warm as May! "My object,"
the photographer explains, "is an utterly
natural image." His five assistants, all male,
move like dancers in the semi-dark.

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Norman Seef

Brian J. Berman

David Annesley

Renée Heinecke

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For years you'd kept your dying a secret.
The illness . . . its dread name. Chemotherapy
and blood transfusions and the rest. Sparing
us, one might say cheating us of premature sorrow.

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Jerry Bauer

Jerry Bauer

Jill Krementz

Jerry Bauer

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Thirty minutes were required to make up my face.
Pain doesn't sweat at any pore, nor
does the meager soul reveal itself.
Layered in paste, paint, rouge . . . I'm safe.
"Look into the lens," the photographer says
patiently, repeatedly, "—look at me."

From The Time Traveler
Copyright © 1989 The Ontario Review
(reprinted by permission)

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Jerry Bauer

Layle Silbert

Graeme Gibson

Graeme Gibson

Layle Silbert

Jack Robinson

Fay Godwin

Raymond Smith

Robert Benyas

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