Thursday 03/21/2024
Main activity today was, that I had signed up for a bus trip to the City to visit the DeYoung museum. My main interest was the exhibit of photos by Irving Penn. Penn had a 60-year career primarily as a fashion photographer for Vogue, but also took many influential photos of ordinary people around the world. People were taking pictures of Penn’s pictures all over the place. I only took one, one of his earliest fashion shots that is just amazing in its composition.
Titled “Man Lighting Woman’s Cigarette”. The only thing in sharp focus is the wine bottle. It’s all insinuation and indirect storytelling and suggestions of how the elite lived in the 1950s. The gloves… the off-the-shoulder gown…
Back home, there was a “marketing update” — the marketing department (3 people) invited us in to the auditorium for snacks and wine, and told us about how we are at 100% with 37 different people on the “advantage” list. That’s people who have put down a refundable $10K deposit to be in line to move in. They won’t all move in; as someone at my table said, “how many of them will get tired of waiting and go to the V instead?”
Codgerville 