{"product_id":"janet-malcolm-still-pictures","title":"Janet Malcolm: Still Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes’s \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e begins with the image of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague for New York at the age of five in 1939. From her fitful early loves, to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House, to her fascination with what it might mean to be a “bad girl,” Malcolm assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escapes the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStill Pictures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of William Shawn’s \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and the libel trial that led Malcolm to become a character in her own drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisplaying the sharp wit and astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume develops into a memoir like few others in our literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555580055609,"sku":"210000002207","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/81vebh0m45l.jpg?v=1790279238","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/janet-malcolm-still-pictures","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}