Merritt Hewitt
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Chestnut Hill, MA, United States |
| Interests | Meditation, Photography, Reading |
| Favorite Movies | War Photographer, Don't Look Back, Scorcese's Dylan documentary: No Direction Home, The Godfather trilogy, Apocolypse Now, A Prarie Home Companion, Godsford Park, Some Like it Hot, Eating Raoul, The Blue Red and White trilogy, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Eastern Promises, Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror: Newport 1963-65., Dream of Life/Patti Smith: images, music, Patti makes a great mom/but should be cut about 30 minutes |
| Favorite Music | 50's & 60 Jazz, Be-Bop, Swing, Most of T. Monk, Miles Davis, Early John Coltrane, Art Pepper, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Clifford Brown, Dexter Gordon, Count Basie, Jimmy Smith, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, lennie Tristano, Keith Jarrett, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Zoot Sims, Much of Duke Ellington, Much of Dylan, Much of the Stones, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Bennie Wallace |
| Favorite Books | Koudelka by Joseph Koudelka, Boswell's Journals, Henry Cartier Bresson Photographer, Chronicles by Bob Dylan, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Paul Caponigro Masterworks, Moving Out by Robert Frank, Freidlander by Lee Freidlander, Bystander: the history of street photography, Most of Nan Goldin, The New York School: Photographs 1936 to 1963 by Jane Livingston, New York by William Klein, Poet of Prague by Josef Sudek, Much of Walker Evans, Sid Grossman: Journey to the Cape, Road To Tyburn, Brett Weston: Master Photographer, Georgia O'Keeffe Portraits by Alfred Steiglitz, Much of Henry Miller, Anything by Norwich on Venice, Allen Ginsberg: Photographs, Henry Cartier Bresson: The Decisive Moment especially the introduction, Lines of My Hand and The Americans by Robert Frank, Time in New England by Paul Strand, everything by Paul Strand, Picasso by John Richardson, Brassai: Conversations with Picasso, Letters to my Parents, Henry Miller: The Paris Years, Henry Miller: Happy Rock, Proust in the Power of Photography, Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel, Ernst Haas: Color Photography, In Black and White; Living with Picasso by Francoise Gilot, A Freewhellin Time by Suze Rotolo Paris by Robert Frank; Koudelka: Invasion 1968; Peru: Robert Frank; Henri Matisse: A Biography by Hilary Spurling, 2 vols., The Diary of Samuel Pepys., Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter |