Introduction

What is The New Yorker? I know it’s a great magazine and that it’s a tremendous source of pleasure in my life. But what exactly is it? This blog’s premise is that The New Yorker is a work of art, as worthy of comment and analysis as, say, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Each week I review one or more aspects of the magazine’s latest issue. I suppose it’s possible to describe and analyze an entire issue, but I prefer to keep my reviews brief, and so I usually focus on just one or two pieces, to explore in each the signature style of its author. A piece by Nick Paumgarten is not like a piece by Jill Lepore, and neither is like a piece by Ian Frazier. One could not mistake Collins for Seabrook, or Bilger for Goldfield, or Mogelson for Kolbert. Each has found a style, and it is that style that I respond to as I read, and want to understand and describe.

Friday, April 30, 2021

Jerome Strauss's Exquisite "Cherry Trees"

Jerome Strauss, Cherry Trees, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (2021)














A special shout-out to Jerome Strauss for his exquisite “cherry trees” photo in the April 19, 2021 “Goings On About Town.”

This isn’t the first time Strauss’s work has appeared in the magazine. Four of his photos are featured in last year’s brilliant “April 15, 2020,” including this pink-blossomed beauty:

Jerome Strauss, 5:47 P.M., Upper East Side (2020)














Although there’s still another eight months to go before I post my “Best of 2021: Photos,” I have to say if I were picking that list now, Strauss’s wonderful “cherry trees” shot would be on it. 

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