Download a PDF Sample (700 KB)Comprised of essays published primarily in The New Yorker from the 1970s to mid-90s -- covering photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and more -- Diana & Nikon is the complete collection of Janet Malcolm's writings on photography.

"I admit to an acolytes devotion to Malcolm, to a thirst for everything she writes. There's a thrill to reading her that comes from the moments when her writing breaks ever so subtly with the decorum of journalistic worldliness to hint at something personal, painful even, about Malcolm herself." —photographer and writer Moyra Davey, Long Life Cool White

Project Notes:
First published in 1980 and then expanded and reissued in 1997, Diana & Nikon has again fallen out of print. If an interested team were to form, their first step would be to contact the author to determine copyright status and seek her involvement in the project.

Project Team Members:
None. This project was submitted by the Hol Editors and is open for anyone to take the lead on. Apply to work on this team.

Download a PDF Sample (1.1MB)From TIME magazine, "Sterile Modernism", March 10, 1930:

"Who can name an art critic? An art critic is a public commentator, supposedly invested by virtue of his learning and taste with the right to interpret the esthetic trend to the commonalty, to denounce that which he considers bad and proclaim that which he considers good. In any society pretending to cultivation and beauty, the position of art critic should obviously command renown and respect. Yet who can name an art critic?

"Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur."

Project Notes:
This book is currently out of print and in the public domain, so is freely available for republishing.

Project Team Members:
None. This project was submitted by the Hol Editors and is open for anyone to take the lead on. Apply to work on this team.

Download a PDF Sample (300 KB)Midway through his life, Winston Churchill took up painting as a rather serious amateur, Painting as a Pastime is his brief but spirited meditation on art.

Ernst Gombrich in, "Winston Churchill as Painter and Critic":
"For, let not one suppose that he just dabbled with paint with the naïve self-satisfaction of the nonartist. He knew as well as his critics what he owed to his time.  His supreme intelligence was certainly never fooled by the relative ease with which he learned to sketch from nature in the manner of his friends.  Anyone who wants to get a measure of Churchill's mind must read and savor the two astounding essays, one on "Hobbies," one on "Painting as a Pastime," which he included in Thoughts and Adventures in 1932 and issued as a little volume in 1948." (The Atlantic, Vol. 215, 1965, pp.90-3)

Project Notes:
There was fairly recently a large, illustrated volume published that included the full-text of Painting as a Pastime as well as a number of essays on Churchill's biography and specifically, how his work as a painter fit into his life at large. However, a smaller and less expensive volume of Churchill's original text might deservedly bring the work to a new audience. If an interested team were to form, their first step would be to determine the current copyright holder of the work and seek their approval and involvement in the project. 

Project Team Members:
None. This project was submitted by the Hol Editors and is open for anyone to take the lead on. Apply to work on this team.