Three Decades of Days: One Diarist's Story
Submitted by Christine Nelson on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 1:31pm
Does the physical diary/scrapbook live on in the digital age? Claire Hamilton, a BBC journalist, tells her story.
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The Diary Exhibition
Waiting for Ginsberg
Submitted by Christine Nelson on Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:39am
When psychiatrists, Marxists, anarchists, and politicos converged on London in 1967 for the Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation, the young Iain Sinclair was there with camera in hand. He and a friend tracked down Allen Ginsberg, counterculture superstar, and interviewed him for their film Ah! Sunflower. In today's guest post, Sinclair describes how he created Kodak Mantra Diaries, a self-published account of that exhilarating summer, combining photographs, personal notes, and reportage into a sort of retrospective diary. A copy is on view in The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives.
What Do a Napoleonic Diary and its Cover Reveal about the Author?
Submitted by Christine Nelson on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 1:28pm
You may not be able to judge a published book by its cover, but can you judge a diarist by his notebook? Sandrine Lacorie looks at the journal of battlefield physician Dominique Jean Larrey (1766–1842)
What is a Diary?
Submitted by Christine Nelson on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:37am
We all know that a diary is a private notebook where we write about our days and our thoughts. But is it?
In today's post, curator Christine Nelson introduces a new blog to accompany the Morgan's exhibition The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives, opening on January 21.