Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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Musical accompaniment: Me, Myself, and I by Billie Holiday
Today’s edition of Mugshot March was a little grim and that won’t do for a Friday post. To balance it out, here’s a lovely photograph from 1928 that exudes joy.
It was taken by Edward Steichen. (Now that we’ve discovered him, I find his pictures to be irresistible!) The woman in the photograph is Gertrude Lawrence, an English singer, dancer, and theatre actress.
Edward Steichen’s use of lightning in the photograph of Gertrude Lawrence is masterful. It highlights her bare back and catches her smile, all while casting a Rorschach test type shadow on the wall.
You put it perfectly! I have trouble expressing why I like things. But you got it exactly right!