About Me
April 17, 2008
Collector of books and art (and a few too many other things, as well). Compulsive reader of many books simultaneously. Fan of Danish modern. Art historian and curator; an art museum director since 1989. Author of numerous books and exhibition catalogs – mostly on the history of photography. Travel fanatic. Two wonderful children who now lead their own lives. Married to Kathy. Vertigo is my escape from everything.
May 10, 2008 at 5:23 am
Not being very proficient with computers, I tried to mail a comment on your item about a book called “Tale of three cities”, with photographs by my late father Sasha Stone. The fact that he had any other literary connections than Walter Benjamin came as a bit of a surprise
In recent times his work seems to have had more impact on modern photography than was formerly thought. The internet is absolutely amazing to people of my generation !
Kind regards,
Serge Stone
August 6, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I have just come across your very interesting blog by accident after looking around for things about W.G Sebald.
After seeing we had many prefernecs in art in common, I thought you may be interested in my site in which I try to combine photogaphy, writing, art, film etc in a way that I hope uses the inherent strengths of the internet.
It’s at http://www.area01.co.uk
Thanks for the blog – I’m off to have more of a delve!
All the best
John
August 8, 2008 at 4:40 am
Thanks for a fantastic blog. I have been a regular visitor since doing my Masters dissertation on the uncanny in Professor Sebald’s prose work, and am always pointed in interesting directions each time I visit.
I am currently doing an article on Sebald for Book and Magazine Collector. Would you drop me a line? It would be great to get a couple of images of some of your rarer items to include in the piece.
Thanks again
Chris
September 1, 2008 at 2:29 pm
thanks so much for the link to my blog, airform archives, i’ll add you to mine as well. i love what you are doing here, great stuff. have some friends attending the sebald conference this week. looking forward to hearing about it.
December 3, 2008 at 1:51 pm
When I have time on my hands, I search around for Sebald, Tacita Dean and Michael Ondaatje. If I have more time on my hands, I chase around for found photography or dig through the randomness of inherited photos from my family – mostly from across Germany before my family left for Canada in 1966… and then I left for Spain, then to Germany again, then to Holland and now London. I suppose that what I am trying to say is that the connection is a strange hybrid of memory, story and really, emigration. When I first read Sebald, he seemed exactly right, no surprises, just how things are. A bit of this and a bit of that with a big question on the perspective one takes as an insider/outsider or something in between. Thanks for doing Vertigo. Fun and thoughtful.
December 29, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I am collecting Sebald,s english and german editions.Have acquired two in german.Any ideas or leads on sources in Germany.The ZVAD site was suggested,but oddly no Sebald in inventory.
Joe
January 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Hi, great blog! Congratulations. I am the Greek translator of Die Ausgewanderten (2007), Luftkrieg und Literatur (2008) and Nach der Natur (2008), now working on the translation of Die Ringe des Saturn. I have been looking desperately to find an email address of the photographer Sharon-Louise Aldridge (one of her photos appears on the front cover of the English edition of Nach der Natur). Can someone help please?
Thanks a lot
Iannis
February 3, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Vielen Dank für den Link auf die deutsche Sebald-Seite!
In der anglikanischen Leserschaft hat Max mehr Freunde!
Tolle Seite
Chris
February 7, 2009 at 5:45 pm
hey,
enjoy to read ‘ vertigo’ ,
what a great source on Sebald,
soon exhibition in Brussels,
see passa porta,
today on Sebald and Will Self on guardian books
thanks for great Sebald site,
anne
February 28, 2009 at 9:34 pm
How lovely to find this site. I am planning a party to celebrate what would have been his 65th birthday here in Los Angeles (not all of us just go to movies) on May 17. This will also inaugurate a local society of those appreciative of W.G.Sebald. Thank you for running Vertigo.
March 10, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I feel the urgent need to congratulate you for your simply magnificent blog, just discovered and duly shown to several Sebald admirers: wish there were more like it, but there are not.
My most heartfelt thanks and my very best wishes.
April 2, 2009 at 7:33 am
hello terry
could you please send me a message so we are reconnected… i seem to have lost your email address
and wish to communicate
many thanks
will stone
April 8, 2009 at 12:11 pm
dear Terry,
what a wonderful source on Sebald!
did you find on your way to Paris the little pamphlet on Sebald by edition Actes-Sud ?
they where so kind to send me some to belgium,
kind regards,
anne
April 18, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Dear Terry,
I didn’t find an email-address to click on, so I’ll just post this here, hoping it’s not a problem… I don’t know if you have many French-speaking readers, but this might be of interest: there was a nice radio programme devoted to Sebald on France Culture a couple of days ago. More of an “introduction” to Sebald, really.
The programme is available on their website for a few weeks:
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/toutarrive/fiche.php?diffusion_id=72610
And after that, it becomes a sort of permanent/hidden but still available url :
http://ondemand.tv-radio.com/france_culture/TOUTARRIVE/TOUTARRIVE20090414.ram
Regards,
Anne-Lise
May 15, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Dear Terry
An excellent blog.
You might wish to look at my own fiction – which has been compared by critics to Sebald’s, if only in that I also incorporate photographs. My novel, ‘Freud’s Alphabet’ has photos taken mostly from the Freud archive, in counterpoint with the fictional narrative of Freud’s last months. My forthcoming book, ‘The Beijing of Possibilities’, set in contemporary China, uses photographs taken by myself there, which allude to, or interact with, the plot, without illustrating it.
If you’d like a copy of the book, let me know.
Jonathan Tel
May 18, 2009 at 1:13 am
Dear Terry,
on Sebald’s birthday a very special thanks for the great work you do!
i like the links and the combination : books & photography, with Bruges la morte on top !
anne from bruges
July 21, 2009 at 2:13 am
Dear Terry,
I received a copy of a book that could meet your interests: “Tomi: a childhood under the nazis”, by Tomi Ungerer. There is a lot to discover and think about in this great edited work.
I lost your email, so I decided to write here, please feel free to delete this message after reading it.
Best wishes, M
July 28, 2009 at 4:46 am
hello
thanks for your informative and interesting site.
i thought people might want to know that the dutch writer michael zeeman who interviewed sebald for VPRO so insightfully died the other day from a brain tumour diagnosed last may. he was 50 years old.
regards
August 10, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Terry:
Thanks for a good blog. I’ve read Rings of Saturn and Emigrants in English, and Austerlitz and a couple of essays from Logis in German. I’m sure I’ll keep visiting.
Also, you might be interested in my translation of Wanderungen mit Robert Walser. I need to clean up a few things and figure out some of the transliterations of the Swiss dialect, but it’s mostly done. It’s in a sort of blog format at http://bobskinner.org/seelig/
August 31, 2009 at 1:49 am
What a pleasure to find your site,
Sebald is my favourite author & I really like
several others you mention (Marquez, & Calvino, particularly his Invisible Cities),
so look forward to reading more of your blog, &
recommendations.
Thanks! Anie
October 10, 2009 at 10:19 am
Wonderful, wonderful blog. Thank you.