Outside, on the other side of a black iron grill, was another crowd, just as anxious, just as sweaty and frightened. These were the parents and friends of those departing. They all waited for deliverance. When all the customs procedures had been completed, when the crowd of travelers had passed through the last security booths and were walking toward the tarmac, you could see, on the faces of those left behind, the relief, the joy, the pride of vicarious success. The vision of a happier future elsewhere, anywhere but here. Smiles of contentment, faces radiant with happiness. Nowhere else in the world does separation bear the hideous face of joy. This was a grotesque face, a deviation from all rules of human nature.

Всего несколькими днями раньше в сотнях миль от Бостона поженилась и другая пара. Белый мужчина и черная женщина разделили славнейшую из фамилий – Лавинг. Спустя четыре месяца их арестуют в Вирджинии – закон напомнит им, что всемогущий Боженька не велел белым, черным, желтым и краснокожим перемешиваться, не должно быть никаких нечистокровных граждан, не положено попирать расовую гордость. Возмутятся они лишь через четыре года, пройдет еще четыре – и с ними согласится суд, но пройдет немало лет, прежде чем их поддержат люди. И не все.

Откуда берётся драгоценное? Потеряй, а потом найди.

Всем кажется, что они тебя уже знают. А ты всегда не то, что они думают.

To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.