CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/28/2017

Summer Reading: Midnight: The Tempest Essays by Molly Nesbit

Two spreads from Midnight: The Tempest Essays, the second in Molly Nesbit's Pre-Occupations series. This essay, “Without Walls,” begins with the tantalizing first lines, “In Buffalo, while still in art school, Cindy Sherman sat down in a photo booth and gave the camera a look. She came up under Lucille Ball’s face so successfully that her own face subsided. Most people her age were swimming in another direction, preferring the pond of their own individual non-conformity. Hers was a different, though still contrary position: in short, the negative of your negative is my Lucy.”