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Last login: 4 weeks agoHollyGolightly: HollyGolightly is a 28 year old woman from Bosnia and Herzegovina.; Likes 1,657 pages, 6 videos, 195 photos • 53 fans • Received 17 reviews; Member since Mar 11, 2005

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The Absinthe Literary Review: Jun 4, 6:17pm 7 reviews literature, poetry
http://absinthe-literary-review.com/

Smithsonian Photography Initiative: Jun 4, 6:02pm 4 reviews photography
http://www.photography.si.edu/; From the page:"Some of the best photographs are both discouraging and encouraging at once. Nicholas Nixon's picture of a calf is of that mixed sort, a cautiously astringent expression of hope.

Like all photographers, Nixon speaks to us in part by what he declines to tell us. In this case the title--"West Springfield, Massachusetts, 1978"--forces us to think. Are we visiting a family farm? Possibly, but it seems more likely that we are at a county fair, and with that realization we are brought to remember that many large animals there have at best only a few months to live.

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Is there hope? We see from Nixon's picture that this particular calf was not tormented by being confined tightly in a crate in order to turn it into veal. We even see evidence of humane care and of the possibility of human tenderness. And we know that the photographer saw these things too and wished to share them with us."