ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photograph came to me in a dream -- a man running in his sleep, viewed from above, with lines in the pillow radiating out of his head. I hired a model and re-created what I had seen.

AUTHOR
Jonathan Leavitt started photography when he was twelve years old, with a 4×5 Graphex and instruction from his father. Early on he was exposed to the work of Cartier-Bresson, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ansel Adams. He went on to study many visual arts: painting, drawing, printmaking, and architecture, but never formally studied photography except in receiving critiques from other photographers. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts where he works as an architect specializing in evaluation and repair of historic structures, and continues to travel and takes pictures wherever he finds them. His first book of photographs, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", based on the poem by Wallace Stevens, is currently in production and will be released this year.

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