January 2011
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Victor Burgin on photography and ideology
Work with an obvious ideological slant is often condemned as ‘manipulative’; that is to say, first, that the photographer manipulates what comes over in the image; second, that as a result his or her audience’s beliefs about the world are manipulated. …
Using the productive capabilities of photography to reproduce the world as an object of aesthetic contemplation, and...
“Manipulation is of the essence of photography; photography would not exist...”
– Victor Burgin (Art, common sense and photography)
Artist takes a different drug every day and draws... →
Sometimes the portraits seem a little too predictable with regard to the drug. You can question to what extent the artist’s preconceptions of the effect of a certain drug influence the style of the portrait he makes after knowingly having taken that drug. But it’s fascinating to look at them none the less. (-MaryDear)
quoi ? l'eternité: exactitude →
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Or, la photographie n’est pas un système représentatif comme les autres ; lorsqu’elle dénie son autoreprésentativité, son autoréférentialité, voire sa clôture, eh bien nous sommes toujours tout près de la croire. Elle a beau connoter, truquer, poser, esthétiser, déconnecter ses…
Hah! I don’t understand much of the french, but I just read that book on the iconography of...
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via hellovagina)
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Post Script
To clarify another part of the point I wanted to make with an anecdote:
A couple of years ago I slept with a friend of mine after a garden (or more like the patch of grass beside the parking lot outside the apartment building) party, an alcohol and Led Zeppein induced one-time thing. He must have been about 23 at the time, I was maybe 27. He then told me that more than once when he had been in...
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On Pussy Baldness
I happened to read this and the cogs started turning inside my little head. I decided not to bother with it, since I didn’t even know who this Amanda Palmer was (now I do). Obviously though, my inability to keep my rose-bud shut is borderline pathologic, so I have to say something anyway.
First of all it amazed me that so many seems to have been offended by a pop-song. About how to wear the...
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