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David Gahr

From the NY Times:

David Gahr, who turned his back on a promising career as a scholar to take pictures and listen to music and who as a result landed among the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s and beyond, died on Sunday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 85.

Mr. Gahr’s prodigious output included posed photos and reportorial documents. Popular among his subjects for what they saw as a desire to elevate rather than merely capture them...

Mr. Gahr’s portfolio was not restricted to music. He spent much of a decade from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s on assignments for Time magazine, many on art-related subjects with the writer Robert Hughes. He also worked for Life and later People. He photographed Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Salvador Dalí, Willem de Kooning and Georgia O’Keeffe. He took book-jacket photos of John Cheever and Arthur Miller.
 


 

April is National Poetry Month

Freedom

I dive deep down
Fishes around
Me.
Blue water.
I start
Paddling
Up out of the sea
I take a breath,
I'm free.

Anya Arami, age 10, Burlingame, California

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Tibetan rights advocates demonstrated in New Delhi, where 50 Tibetans were detained after demonstrations over the Beijing Games were broken up in front of the Chinese Embassy. India has shortened the torch's route ahead of its arrival Wednesday to counter the threat of disruption. (NY Times)

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Hinkelien Schreuder of the Netherlands dived in to start her women's 50-meter butterfly heat on the second day of the world short course swimming championships in Manchester, England. (NY Times)

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      Irish cyclist Stephen Roche in the 1988 Tour of Flanders. (Photo: Graham Watson).   In a 13-year professional career, Roche peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist in history to win the Triple Crown of overall victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus victory in the World Cycling Championship.  (Link)

The first Tour of Flanders was 1913, and is famous for the number of climbs and difficult cobble sections, including the steep, cobbled Koppenberg climb (returning in the 2008 race).  The 2008 Tour of Flanders is this Sunday, April 8th. 

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From the photoblog, Wink