Richard Powers
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Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many oth
Powers reading in April 2018
Young Farmers (photograph)
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Young Farmers, also known as Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance, is a black and white photograph taken by August Sander in 1914. It is one of his better known photographs and it was included in his
Richard Powers
…computer programming at Illinois as a user of PLATO and moved to Boston to work as a programmer. One Saturday in 1980, Powers saw the 1914 photograph "Young Farmers" by August Sander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was so inspired that he quit his job two days later to write a novel about the people in the…
Young Farmers (1914) by August Sander