{"id":9609,"date":"2011-06-27T02:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2011-06-27T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:42:05","slug":"dead-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/27\/dead-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead roads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canon de Chelly \u2014 Navaho (1904) by Edward Sheriff Curtis.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few pictures from the substantial Flickr collection belonging to San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts<\/a>. Many of these are views of the western states of the USA from a time when photographers were documenting the vanishing world of Native American tribes. A couple of pictures in the series by Edward Sheriff Curtis<\/a> would work as cover illustrations for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian<\/em>, while the results of a gunshot injury below is the kind of thing you never see in Westerns.<\/p>\n

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Untitled (1910) by Richard Throssel.<\/em><\/p>\n

And speaking of McCarthy’s baleful masterpiece, William Gibson recently recounted his first experience of reading the book on a journey to Berlin. “I awoke from it as from some terribly potent dream, and found myself, quite unexpectedly, in a strange city,” he says. Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo tip via Beautiful Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Distortion of Left Lower Extremity after Gunshot Injury, November 30, 1865.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Repackaging Cormac<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cormac McCarthy book covers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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