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Updates on Selective Echo posts: foie gras, Archuleta, and JP Jespersen

0 Comments Published by Professor Les May 15th, 2008 in Current Events, Salt Lake City, Fine Art, Photography, Pop Culture, Cuisine.

Foie gras
Back in March, I criticized campaigns by so-called animal welfare activists to ban foie gras, the great goose and duck liver delicacy found in many fine restaurants and shops. Yesterday, the Chicago City Council, bolstered by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s comments that this was the silliest ordinance, repealed the ban on foie gras for […]

Junior’s Season - John-Paul Jespersen

0 Comments Published by Professor Les May 7th, 2008 in Fine Art, Photography.

The photo by John-Paul Jespersen, taken May 6 at Junior’s Tavern in downtown Salt Lake City, brings to mind the following:
Spring Comes To Murray Hill
I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue
And say to myself You have a responsible job havenue?
Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel?
If you have a […]

Jespersen’s Memory Grove photo featured in PDN/National Geographic World in Focus Contest

7 Comments Published by Professor Les February 17th, 2008 in Tourism, Photography.

John-Paul Jespersen, 25, a Salt Lake City photographer whose work is gaining attention not just locally but also in the world’s community of artists and professionals, is among the winners of the second annual World in Focus: The Ultimate Travel Photography Contest sponsored by PDN magazine and the National Geographic Traveler.
His beautiful photo of a […]

Jespersen’s moonlit, artistic vision

2 Comments Published by Professor Les August 15th, 2007 in Fine Art, Photography.

John-Paul Jespersen’s artistic epiphany arrived three years ago in the form of a bold, tradition-breaking painting from 1809 by Casper David Friedrich, the highly regarded artist of German Romanticism.
Seeing “The Monk by the Sea” for the first time in a humanities class at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, the young photographer […]

 

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