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Amazing images from the world’s best photographers celebrate 50 years of Leica Galleries
In 1976, Leica’s German headquarters hosted the first ever Leica exhibition, showing travel photographs by Paul Gluske. Fifty years on, there are 28 dedicated Leica galleries in place, from London to Tokyo, Amsterdam to Mexico City. All bringing to light the singular ‘Leica look’ – artistic vision fused with a view of history, a clear social voice and an unwavering sense of exploration.
Divorce is traumatic but can be made child-healthy: Erica Komisar’s must-read book
“Divorce is a traumatic experience but there are ways to mitigate it, to help all involved handle it better” says Erica Komisar. “Parents and courts should take the child’s developmental stage into account, and stop thinking of children as a possession that can be evenly split, it is not about 50/50 or 70/30 but what is best for the child.” On ARC’s podium and as a guest on The Kardashians, psychoanalyst Erica Komisar rests on real life experience and solid research to bring the child into focus.
Divorce is traumatic but can be made child-healthy: Erica Komisar’s must-read book
Divorce is traumatic but can be made child-healthy: Erica Komisar's must-read book - Hannah Gal
In conversation with rock legend John Illsley – My Life In Dire Straits
“We were lucky we weren’t teenagers – that would certainly have been fatal” writes Mark Knopfler in his forward to John Illsley’s autobiography, reflecting on the band’s meteoric rise and an ever-changing landscape. “The ride is not for everyone” Knopfler concludes, “not for those who can’t take the pressures and the pace, for whatever reasons. It was a different world.
In conversation with rock legend John Illsley – My Life In Dire Straits
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Fearless: The Anthology, by Ronnie Wood
Copyright © Paul Natkin Fearless: The Anthology is Ronnie Wood’s chronicle of his lifelong musical journey – from his late forties London childhood to fame, rock stardom, and a rare double induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Number eight Whitehorn Avenue Wood’s tale opens with the family’s water-gypsy legacy going back to the 1700s, and the revelation that Ronnie and his two older brothers were the first in the family to be born on dry land.
Fearless: The Anthology, by Ronnie Wood
My parents, and all my family going back to the 1700s, were water gypsies. They lived on longboats and barges. My mum was born on a boat called the Orient, and my dad on the Antelope. I suppose that makes me a nomad.” Fearless: The Anthology is Ronnie Wood’s chronicle of his lifelong musical journey – from his late forties London childhood to fame, rock stardom, and a rare double induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.
Elizabeth Heyert’s THE UNBORN – what we are all like before we enter the world
The Unborn by Elizabeth Heyert ELIZABETH HEYERT THE UNBORN. Image courtesy of Elizabeth Heyert “Everyone will experience The Unborn portraits through the lens of their own emotions” said Heyert, “there is no right or wrong way to respond, although we can never really know anything about the nine figures in my series, we can each write their stories, if only in our imagination.” The highly noted photographer has been exploring the human experience for many years.
Elizabeth Heyert’s THE UNBORN – what we are all like before we enter the world
Elizabet Heyert’s striking new series Premieres at the Venice Bienalle, continuing the artist’s decades’ long exploration of the human experience. The Unborn consists of nine photographs of pre-natal subjects who were conceived in the first half of the 20th century, and died of natural causes. With faces fully formed and eyes shut, they evoke thoughts of the pre birth beginning that is common to all humans wherever they may be.
A New World Order in the Making
On 28 February, Israel and the United States began joint military operations to dismantle what remains of Iran’s nuclear program and topple the country’s revolutionary regime. Hannah Gal spoke to Israeli researcher and former intelligence officer Shmuel Bar for Quillette to discuss these historic developments.
The Blogs: Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Ted Widmer and Paul McCartney
Image courtesy of MPL Here Widmer talks about his humour-filled collaboration with the living legend, why it was important for him to “do a better job by Linda” who was “often dissed by snarky critics”, McCartney’s emotional reconciliation with John Lennon, his impact on social issues, why Maybe Im Amazed is the greatest love song ever and more.
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Ted Widmer and Paul McCartney - Hannah Gal
Well the rain exploded with a mighty crash as we fell into the sun Ted Widmer’s Wings book is the sweeping post-Beatles journey of the most influential musician of our time, Sir Paul McCartney. From the trauma of the Fab Four parting ways and the former Beatle feeling “completely lost”, to forming Wings with wife Linda, hitting the road, rediscovering his voice and songwriting magic to release an endless streak of classic tunes over a six-decades-and-counting career.
The Blogs: Dire Straits legend on art, painting and Knopfler magic
Red Stratocaster painting by John Illsley. Image courtesy of John Illsley. Here, John Illsley speaks about his lifelong passion for art and the paintings that have graced top galleries in Europe and America.
Preserving Holocaust Memory as the Last Survivors Vanish
“Nothing can replace the live testimonies of survivors who smelled, witnessed, and felt on their skin the inhumanity of the Holocaust, but eighty years on, very few survivors remain,” says Anat Bratman Elhalel, chief archivist and director of Archives at Israel’s Ghetto Fighters’ Museum. “We are now at a pivotal junction in history as we shift from personal to collective memory,” when the burden of keeping the Holocaust memory alive will fall fully on museums, archives, and dry encyclopaedias.
The Blogs: Children's Mental health crisis - Erica Komisar's wake-up call to society
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John Illsley on Dire Straits' Legacy
“‘Brothers in Arms’ is a one-off in the musical world,” says Dire Straits bassist John Illsley of the title track to the band’s iconic 1985 album. “On the one hand, it is a deep and arresting observation of the human condition, showing rare integrity, but it was also a massive commercial hit when it was released. This ‘clash’ baffled quite a few people at the time.” With its Scottish folk undertones and Charles Wolfe-inspired lyrics, the song soon became an anti-war anthem.
The Blogs: Hiding In Plain Sight – for traffickers, every child with a phone is a target
DailyWire’s stark documentary reveals the darker-than-dark world of digital predators using everyday apps to hunt, groom and traffic children. Exclusive insight into undercover law enforcement in action, coupled with harrowing survivor accounts, bring to light a global epidemic, and the sobering reality where every child with a phone is a target. Mike Richards.
The Blogs: Helping trafficking survivors turn pain into purpose
“We cannot fight monsters we don’t recognise” said June Haskell, survivor engagement director at Our Rescue, “but as soon as we know it and see it for what it is, we’re going to change the game. Trafficking survivor herself, Haskell speaks of many victims’ inability to recognise exploitation. One example of many is Haskell’s visit to a women’s prison in Australia. There she met a group of women with whom she shared her anti trafficking efforts as well as her personal experience.
The Blogs: The Hollywood History of Art by Christopher Frayling
From Kirk Douglas’s fiery Van Gogh and Charlton Heston’s Michelangelo, to Jeffrey Wright’s Basquiat, Derek Jacobi’s Francis Bacon, Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo and Ed Harris as the stormy Jackson Pollock – “Hollywood’s portrayal of the troubled, loner artist has shaped our very understanding of these legendary masters.” Here, Frayling reflects on Tinseltown’s beyond-dispute impact on Western culture, how it has moulded our perception of the eternally-tormented artist, and why British filmmakers...
The Blogs: Sowell's mission: Enable students to get an education despite being in college
Thomas Sowell has launched a milestone website that “will enable students to get an education despite being in college” – a hub of information thoughtfully curated by the maverick genius himself. Sowell has always considered education to be the single most impactful way to improve people’s lives. Again and again he has argued that real knowledge and facts are the most powerful tool you can equip young people with – a solid preparation for the challenges of real life.
Are you a lion or a scavenger? Are you a hunter, a warrior and a weaver who builds and defends Western civilisation? Or an envy-ridden looter seeking to destroy this civilization from within? In Lions and Scavengers Ben Shapiro draws a clear distinction between the two fundamentally different characters as he articulates what typifies, motivates and sustains them. The salt-of-the-earth hard workers whose labour continues to build America, against the scavengers who conspire to topple it.
The Blogs: Where churches and families decline, the West falls into decay – with Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro speaks of scavengers’ hatred of the West that is devouring our civilization from within, as he calls for virtuous lions to pass their values on to their children – “for civilisation is always one generation away from falling to the predations of the Scavenger.” Shapiro tells of the revelatory 2023 visit to fallen London that sparked a two-year long journey of deep reflection — how witnessing the city “conquered by the Scavengers” drove him to investigate the decline of the West...
Invisible Disability and Hidden Potential
On 27 May, Hannah Gal met with Sir Simon Baron-Cohen at Trinity College, Cambridge, to discuss autism and our evolving understanding of neurodiversity for Quillette. Sir Simon is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Cambridge University and director of the Autism Research Centre there. In 2020, he published The Patten Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
The Blogs: Peterson's Parenting wisdom-order where chaos once reigned
In his new DailyWire Parenting series, noted clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson sits face to face with parents troubled by child-raising issues. The problems they face will no doubt resonate with parents everywhere – reoccurring disruptions to daily life largely stemming from the child’s challenging behaviour.
The Blogs: London, Berlin, Tel Aviv - Neumark's singular Judaica art collection
Spanning over five centuries The Neumark collection is a singular, highly significant record of Jewish life. Over 5000 items gathered by generations of the Neumark clan – meticulously executed engravings, oil paintings, scrolls, drawings and etchings crafted by some of the finest masters of their respective day.
The Blogs: 'On Democracies and Death Cults' is a landmark publication
Throughout the book he raises matters of pivotal importance that fellow commentators fail to recognize, and perhaps more importantly, asks eye-opening questions that provoke thought and often lead to major epiphanies. Questions about the worst atrocity to hit the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the region’s recent and distant history leading up to the massacre, the world’s baffling response to the atrocity, and how Israel’s fate directly impacts the future of the Western world.
The Blogs: 'Do you cherish life or do you worship death?' -- with Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray is a rare breed – a journalist whose search for the truth saw him shift to post-October-7th Israel, where he lived for nearly a year and a half. There he breathed the unfathomable aftermath of the worst atrocity to hit the Jewish people since the Holocaust, charted the traumatised Israeli mindset, and reflected on the massacre that forever changed the world. The result is the monumental On Democracies And Death Cults: Israel, Hamas And The Future Of The West.
One Hand Clapping-Wings documentary is music heaven - Hannah Gal
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One Hand Clapping-Wings documentary is music heaven
With lyrics and sounds that transcend time and place, he is listened to by young and old alike the world over – the sight of Gen Zers singing along to one McCartney tune after another at Glastonbury two years ago, is testimony to that. It could safely be argued that there isn’t a musician alive who has given so much pleasure to so many people. One Hand Clapping is the former Beatle’s latest music documentary filmed in 1974 in Abbey Road Studios.
The Blogs: Context is everything because nothing is what it is without a context
HG You managed to do something quite remarkable – be highly visible within mainstream media. This is quite astonishing because what you talk about is so complex and ‘high brow’. IM Yes, for some reason it speaks to everybody. So amongst my correspondents I have obviously neurologists, psychologists and philosophers; but I also have politicians, a cleaner in Oxford and a long distance lorry driver in Australia, so I seem to be saying something that gets through to just about everyone.
When it comes to antisemitism, sunlight is the best disinfectant
When it comes to antisemitism – sunlight is the best disinfectant “Our motto is Tsedk Tsedek Tirdof – justice justice you shall pursue, and that is all we seek. We don’t seek anything other than the same Justice that is afforded to all other peoples.” Gideon Falter. Campaign Against Antisemitism.
The People Profiles - History Through the Biography Prism
What is the best way to understand history? Is history a chronological series of events driven by a multitude of factors? Could decision makers’ personal journey deepen our understanding of their actions and our past?
The Blogs: Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A curious and enduring relationship
“My life has been a curious one, and not the ideal of a happy woman’s existence – and I have often felt it hard and wondered whether it was all a mistake and a waste!” Georgina Hogarth Georgina Hogarth was Charles Dickens’s sister in law. At 15 the sharp and witty girl moved into the Dickens family home where she stayed for 28 years. What began as a father–daughter relationship blossomed into a genuine rapport with Dickens referring to Georgina as his ‘best and truest friend’.
The Blogs: Maren Enthoven – From Top Model To Master Painter
Postcards From My Inner Self – Maren Enthoven paints fantasy scenes that are rooted in real life Maren Greve Enthoven’s colourful paintings have a naive, childlike quality to them. Each painting tells a story, holding within it a multitude of little snippets of human life. Each creation is a journey into a conflict-free, somewhat idyllic outdoors, a multi layered scene beaming with life, made of paths, green fields, white clouds, bees and flowers.
A Love Letter to the Theatre
“Serendipity and the pandemic handed the Hamlet film to me,” director Sean Mathias tells me, as he explains how the play that he and Sir Ian McKellen had been preparing for the stage became a silver-screen production. “By the time we were ready to film, I knew every space, corner, room, corridor, lift, hallway, and even toilet in what became our film set.
The Blogs: The Lennon family's tale of generational trauma
Breaking the abandonment cycle – how Julian Lennon took a sad song and made it better At the age of 59, Julian Lennon released his seventh album Jude, the title boldly referring to The Beatles’ iconic Hey Jude. Originally titled Hey Jules, the 1968 song was penned by Paul McCartney to console the sad and angry three year old Julian, who was just abandoned by his famous dad.
Freud and Latin America
Freud and Latin America at the London Freud Museum, explores the roots of psychoanalysis in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Through the work of artists, photographers, practitioners and authors, it uncovers the links between Freud’s life and Latin America. It unravels Freud’s life long fascination with the Spanish language and the dramatic impact psychoanalysis has had on the region.
Victor Hanson on Israel, immigration and the demonisation of masculinity
“There are some on the Right who were too quiet about October 7.” — Victor Davis Hanson Three months after the October 7th massacre that shook Israel to the core, I put six burning questions before noted military historian, author and Hoover Institute fellow Victor Davis Hanson. I ask about Right-leaning luminaries who failed to condemn the atrocities, the Left’s rude awakening, the immigration crisis, Western civilisation’s demise, the boy crisis and the demonisation of masculinity.
To Save Us All From Satan’s Power
Today marks exactly five decades since the film version of The Exorcist debuted in theatres. There’s already been a rush of commemorative books, magazines, and other reflections on the enduring impact of the landmark horror story.
Merry Christmas, Little Wolf
While Quillette is not a religious publication, Christmas is a good time to remind ourselves of the debt of gratitude that even secular intellectuals owe to the Christian tradition. As the historical essays that Quillette has published over the last year help illustrate, the earliest Christian missionaries didn’t just spread Jesus’ teachings, but also helped develop the enduring literary habits and skills necessary for their widespread study and dissemination.
Sir Roger Deakins-An Englishman in LA
The sleek Leica gallery in Los Angeles is currently hosting a quintessentially English exhibition—39 arresting stills captured by Sir Roger Deakins, one of the most esteemed cinematographers of our time. Spanning five decades, the monochrome photographs are taken from Deakins’s 2021 book Byways—a title inspired by the time he spent as a young man during the early ’70s “wandering the byways” of north Devon in the southwest of England.
In Memoriam, 2023
Some of the most celebrated novelists of the past half-century died this year, including Cormac McCarthy, A.S. Byatt, Martin Amis, D.M. Thomas, Milan Kundera, and Kenzaburō Ōe. The deaths of those writers justifiably generated numerous tributes and appreciations in the pages of the world’s most venerable newspapers and magazines. I would like to take time here to remember three writers who also passed away in 2023 but whose deaths did not receive the attention they deserved.
Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. In February 1837, budding writer Charles Dickens moved into London’s 48 Doughty Street with his wife and six-week-old baby. In just two furious years, he would author The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, andNicholas Nickleby—three imperishable novels that would grip Victorian audiences and propel the young writer to literary superstardom.
Sailing Into Canada’s Great ‘Northern Sea’
What follows is the fifteenth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialized Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. In November 1609, Henry Hudson was in a predicament. The 45-year-old English whaler-turned-explorer had managed to get himself ensnared in a high stakes game of international politics, running afoul of both the government of his native England, and his recent Dutch employers.
The Blogs: Thomas Sowell wisdom sheds light on Israel at war
Israel is a microcosm of the world “What can Jews themselves do to stop antisemitism? Fail – because as long as you succeed you’re going to be hated.” Thomas Sowell. Described by Netanyahu as “the worst assault on Jewish people since the holocaust”, the Black Saturday atrocities, mark a historic global turning point. A time of reckoning for Israeli society and the Western world.
Faces of Leica La - Love letter to photography
FACES OF LEICA LOS ANGELES. Ren Gallery 743 Santee Street Los Angeles November 4 – 30th 2023 Faces of Leica LA is an engaging collection of photographs meticulously curated by Leica Gallery director Paris Chong.A truly diverse selection of images radiating craft mastery, great powers of observation and sincere appreciation of the photographic medium.
The Red Pill: Lotus Eaters Speaks to Cassie Jaye
Cassie Jaye went into her landmark 2016 documentary as a proud feminist, determined to expose the misogynistic, dark underbelly of the men's rights movement. She came out transformed, publicly stating, "I no longer call myself a feminist." Famously shunned by mainstream media, Jaye became the target of a smear campaign but stood firm. "It turns out I did meet my enemy while filming," she later noted.
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