Le premier mot qui me vient à l'esprit en regardant les images de John Stewart est un beau mot anglais : stillness. Le dictionnaire donne "immobilité", mais ce n'est pas ça, ni "tranquillité" ou "calme". Dans cette stillness il y a du temps en tension, une vibration contenue ; le silence, assourdissant, est celui qui suit une déflagration. D'où vient cette stillness, de quoi est-elle faite ?" Jonathan Littell. Monographie présentant le travail en noir et blans du photographe John Stewart. Les thématiques sont : les draperies, les fleurs, les portraits, les nus, les entropies et les natures mortes.
Standing for Justice is an account of a man who did just that - to understand the man would be to understand the potency of his message, a message that is all too relevant to the problems of the present age. Andrew MacLaren grew up in late Victorian Glasgow in the vicinity of the poverty-stricken Gorbals. His was not a privileged beginning - far from it, but the grinding poverty that he witnessed spurred him on to seek the cause, the reason why men lived in want when, clearly, there was plenty. MacLaren entered parliament in 1922 as a Labour member, supporting the Georgist approach, which was successfully introduced in Philip Snowden's 1931 budget. The collapse of the Labour government soon afterwards led to its suspension and repeal. Thereafter Labour became more socialist in outlook, relying on welfare and income redistribution to alleviate poverty, but MacLaren would not compromise: as poverty had a discernible cause, it could be eradicated without diminishing the liberty and sturdy independence of the individual through means testing and taxation. It was to keeping alive this knowledge that he devoted the rest of his life.
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