urban animals

We are face-to-face,
in the company of significant others,
companion species to one another.

Donna J. Haraway

Sunday Favorites - Behind the Curtains

You can keep as quiet as you like,
but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84


Ernst Haas

Animals in Art - Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera



© Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Naked Dog, Belgium, 1993

Black & White - Angels

put out your eyes, and touch the black skin
of an angel named imagination

E. E. Cummings



Ralph Eugene Meatyard


Warning: This post contains photographs of female nudity

Underwater (Photography)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

Arthur C. Clarke


Trent Parke

Black & White - R.I.P. Robert Häusser

Bewusst Sehen ist ein permanentes Abenteuer und erhält in uns eine Unruhe,
die uns bewegt, hinter die Dinge sehen zu wollen.

Robert Häusser




Robert Häusser, Self-portrait, 1981

Monday, August 5th, 2013 german photographer Robert Häusser
(born 1924 in Stuttgart) died at age 88 in Mannheim.

Black & White - Beautiful Decay

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats



Keith Carter, Hummingbirds, 1989
(more Keith Carter)

Warning:
This post contains photographs of dead people and/or animals which some viewers may find disturbing

Animals in Art - Martin Usborne

the difference in mind between man and the higher animals,
great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind

Darwin


Buzz, from the series The Silence of Dogs in Cars

Visible - Invisible V

Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible

Paul Klee


Agnes Martin, Untitled #9, 2003
(more Agnes Martin)

Animals in Art - Early Photographs

I stumbled across this mysterious daguerreotype of a bird from 1851.
It is one of the first photographic images taken of an animal...

Animals in Art - Yamamoto Masao

I photograph to capture existing phenomena.
Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain,
the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . .
maybe I begin to see what only I can see.

Yamamoto Masao



#1315, 2005

Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations III

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

William Shakespeare.



Elliot Erwitt, Kent, England, 1968

Black & White - Shadows

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light

C.G. Jung



Lee Friedlander, New York City, 1966

Black & White - Transportation

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Pablo Neruda



Louis Stettner, 1958

Black & White - Doppelganger

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do
is to suppose that they are like himself

John Steinbeck



Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967

Animals in Art - Adam Fuss

The aesthetic of me not being there

Adam Fuss,  Untitled, From the series 'My Ghost', 2000

Black & White - Dogs

When the Man waked up he said,
'What is Wild Dog doing here?'
And the Woman said,
'His name is not Wild Dog any more,
but the First Friend,
because he will be our friend
for always and always and always.'

Rudyard Kipling



Elliott Erwitt,  New York City, 2000

19th Century Stereographs

Form is henceforth divorced from matter. In fact,
matter as a visible object is of no great use any longer, ...

... except as the mould on which form is shaped. Give us a few negatives of a thing worth seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it. Pull it down or burn it up, if you please. We must, perhaps, sacrifice some luxury in the loss of color; but form and light and shade are the great things, and even color can be added, and perhaps by and by may be got direct from Nature.
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Sunday Favorites

Childhood is the sleep of reason

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


William Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1971

Black & White - Hands III

Please leave your fingerprints

Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp, The Witch’s Cradle, 1943