This painting haunts me. I find it beautiful and fascinating. And yet the subject matter – German Stuka dive bombers returning to Greece after a mission over Crete – is, to say the least, disturbing. I have always felt that the Nazis were the gold standard for evil, no matter how glamorously portrayed. The painting […]

You say “Buffalo” and I say “Millard Fillmore! Cookie Gilchrist! Goo Goo Dolls!” But recently I learned of another reason to shout: Gene LaVerne. A professional dancer, he turned to photography when a back injury took him off the stage. Gene LaVerne with Jean Harlow Gene LaVerne became the nation’s preeminent photographer of exotic dancers, […]