Underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke was one of Harry Smith’s neighbors in Chelsea Hotel. From Dee Dee Halleck’s eulogy to Shirley Clarke: In the early seventies I somehow found my way up to her workshop space in the penthouse of the Chelsea Hotel. Shirley lived and worked there making live and taped video performance, installation and documentation … Continue reading
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Harry Smith Goes To A Wedding
Lionel and Joanna Ziprin One of the most mysterious periods of Harry Smith’s life, for people trying to piece his chronology together, is the period of time he was living in New York, after finishing the Anthology (1952) and before starting Heaven And Earth Magic (1957). During this period he worked for a greeting card … Continue reading
Genius In The Village: Tennessee Williams On Harry Smith
“The world is far more fulsome if you imagine it to be full of churches that can fill your mind and your heart. One goes to mass; one says the rosary. One goes to help those who most need it. One consumes those things–liquid or smoke or powder–that allow one to walk among the world … Continue reading
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