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The Romance of Decay in Photosnew

Cheer up and don't let this dust-to-dust business slow you down. That's something to keep in mind when confronting the work of Jerry Berndt and Eugene Richards, two photographers with Boston ties adept at making art from what a lot of people consider ugly, untouchable things.

Boston Phoenix | Clif Garboden | 03-05-2009 | Nonfiction

Tags: photography, Insight, Jerry Berndt, Eugene Richards

Victim, Not Vixennew

Evelyn Nesbit biographer Paula Uruburu makes a convincing case that sexual naïveté plus parental abandonment aggravated by an unearned notoriety based on looks alone added up to certain doom for the most beautiful woman in the world.

Boston Phoenix | Clif Garboden | 07-31-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Nonfiction Reviews, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl, and the Crime of the Century, Paula Uruburu, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, and the Crime of the Century, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl

Repression Illustrated: People's History in a Graphic Formatnew

National Lampoon/Heavy Metal illustrator Rick Geary’s graphic bio of the notorious FBI strongman, J. Edgar Hoover, and American Splendor author Harvey Pekar’s anthology of new-left living-history reminiscences, Students for a Democratic Society are well-drawn histories.

Boston Phoenix | Clif Garboden | 07-03-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: politics, Harvey Pekar, graphic novels, history, Nonfiction Reviews, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography, Rick Geary, Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History