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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
by possibly noteworthy at 11:26 am EST, Nov 16, 2008

A photo book by Lawrence Weschler.

Publishers Weekly gives it a Starred Review:

Charming, idiosyncratic and deeply intelligent, the book will likely captivate even readers who usually bypass the art history section of bookstores. The topic at hand is convergence: the visual rhyme between seemingly disparate images, and the way those rhymes stimulate new understanding of the scenes depicted.

All he does is articulate his own evocative visual and philosophical connections; we can make of them what we will.

Here's a sample:

The image itself (splayed across virtually every newspaper in the world) was uncanny, the caption more unsettling yet: Dec. 6, 1999, a pair of twelve-year-old ethnic Karen twin brothers, the Htoos, Johnny on the left (that's a boy?) and Luther (Luther!?) on the right, leaders of a beleaguered Myanmar insurgent group known as God's Army, whose members credit them with mystical godlike powers that "render them invulnerable during battle."


 
 
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