Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 259

Thanks to everyone who braved the crowds, the rain, and the traffic to get to the Manila International Bookfair yesterday. I started signing books in the Anvil booth at 3.30 and finished over four hours later. Tired but not complaining, thank you too for buying my other books from UST Publishing.

This. Is. Not. A. Blog. (But Ambeth Rocks)
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This is not a blog. But friends still ask me about the lecture of Dr. Ambeth Ocampo last Saturday at the Ayala Museum. What can I tell you? Ambeth rocks. And I sooo love his topic ( QUERIDAS...

There is a world of difference between pre-war studio pictures from Manila and those taken in the late 19th century. The mood, the texture, the way people pose is a completely different sensibilty. I cant pinpoint why or how? One of my favorites was taken by a mirror, very creative, as it provides two views of the same sad-looking woman in her finery.


History

will be at the Anvil booth of the bookfair this afternoon from 4-6pm

My Inquirer column today on the Cagayan stone tools.


Stone-Age Philippines | Inquirer Opinion
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Then in his 80s, the late E. Arsenio Manuel held fort in the UP Anthropology Department, teaching a graduate class in Philippine Pre-History. He was hard of hearing and his eyesight had grown dim except for reading, and his students were bored witless. Although I was not enrolled in his class, I re...

Many people who follow this Fan Page are too young to remember the elegant, "THE ORIGINAL" Gretchen O. Cojuangco (on my left). This photo was taken 13 years ago in the lovely Paris home of the late Marietta Enriquez Guerrero de la Haye-Jousselin (standing on the right).


Near Famous

Will be signing books at the Anvil Booth of the Manila International Bookfair in MOA on Saturday afternoon. Will post exact time later.

Sometimes the Inquirer posts my column early like this one on anting-anting.


'Anting-anting' | Inquirer Opinion
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While signing copies of my latest book "Chulalongkorn's Elephants" with my trademark green ink, I was surprised when someone handed me a freshly sharpened Mongol pencil and requested that I use it on his book. I got some odd requests for special messages then, but using the iconic yellow pencil was ...

LEONOR RIVERA trying to look pensive in a studio shot of her sailing to far-away lands in a cardboard boat. If only her fiance Rizal was wacky enough to be photographed this way we would see him in a different light.


History

Another pre-war studio portrait of a family in their Sunday best complete with lifeless pets who are hard to photograph live.


History