Lunch at Aji Limo

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A while back I was in Ossining, NY and feeling hungry so I decided to have some Peruvian food at “Aji Limo” (The name means lemon drop pepper). A good friend of mine is Peruvian, and I’ve been there before. The food was excellent. The lunch was called “Tuco Tuco lo pobre”. The eggs are on top of a piece of steak and a pile of rice. Behind them sweet plantains. In front sliced red onions. In the small bowl, lettuce, tomatoes and avocado. Yum Yum!

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These two guys were clearly enjoying their lunch. They were also very loud. At one point the guy on the right was talking to someone on his phone. He wanted to bring his friend in on the conversation, but rather than hand his friend the phone instead he held the phone up near his face and his friend shouted across the table. Thankfully they left soon after and I was able to enjoy my lunch in peace.

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Sign by the entrance.

First Picture taken with an iPhone SEII and the other two with a Panasonic Lumix GX85 and Panasonic Lumix 20mm f1.7

André Kertész. Of Paris and New York

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I volunteer for our Local Historical Society: The Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society (BMSHS). The Society is housed in the Eileen O’Connor Weber Historical Center, which is on the lower level of Briarcliff Manor Library building.

The other day I had a few minutes to spare, and I fancied a change of scene, so I went into the library and browsed around the shelves and came across this volume: André Kertész of Paris and New York. It was designed to accompany a 1985 exhibition of his work in The Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. There’s a review of the book here. I started to read it and after a while I decided that I wanted to get a copy for myself. I managed to find a very good, and quite inexpensive copy on Ebay.

Many photobooks have lots of pictures, but only limited text. I guess the logic is that the pictures should be able to stand by themselves and shouldn’t need the text to explain them. I’m not convinced that this is necessarily true even for captions and/or descriptions of individual photographs. But what I like is what this book has: substantial essays on various topics, in this case: “André Kertész: The Years in Paris” by Sandra S. Phillips; “Kertész and his Contemporaries in in Germany and France” by David Travis; “André Kertész: The Making of an American Photographer” by Weston J. Naef. With the Foreword, Acknowledgements and Preface these take up 95 pages! They are followed by 131 pages of plates, sections of the exhibitions catalogue, a bibliography and index.

There’s a lot of good stuff here and so far, I’ve only scratched the surface. I can’t wait to read the rest.

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