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STROKE OF GENIUS GIDEON HAIGH. HAMISH HAMILTON. RRP $39.95. HARDBACK. Haigh’s Ode on a Grecian Urn. The subject is one photograph – the image of Victor Trumper titled Jumping Out. The shot is an icon of personal remembrance to Haigh as well as a public monument. Stroke of Genius is an act of devotion, long in the preparation, lovingly germinated. Haigh’s first challenge is substantial: in a world of fluid expression, to persuade the modern reader that the very stillness of an image is its virtue – momentous; ageless, independent of time, immutable, even when old age shall this generation waste; to convince them that there’s a kind of consummation, not frustration, in stasis – the forever-unfulfilled. To invest his iconographic preoccupation with significance and context, Haigh delves into the…

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Inside Cricket (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2017

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