Who photographs the photographer?
André Kertész, Self-portrait, 1927
2011/11/03
2011/10/31
2011/10/11
Moon
you'll be beautiful in my manner
John Adams Whipple, View of the Moon, Feb 26, 1852 (Daguerreotype )
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The Moon’s Favors
Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy,
the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere,
like a luminous poison; and all of that living light thought and said:
“You will be eternally subject to the influence of my kiss.
You will be beautiful in my manner.
You will love what I love and who loves me:
water, the clouds, silence, and the night; the immense, green sea;
formless and multiform water; the place where you will not be;
the lover you will not know; monstrous flowers;
perfumes that make you delirious; cats who swoon on pianos,
and who moan like women, with a hoarse, gentle voice!
Charles Baudelaire
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water, the clouds, silence, and the night; the immense, green sea;
formless and multiform water; the place where you will not be;
the lover you will not know; monstrous flowers;
perfumes that make you delirious; cats who swoon on pianos,
and who moan like women, with a hoarse, gentle voice!
Charles Baudelaire
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2011/10/09
Japanese animal masks
Children in the industrialized world are surrounded by animal
imagery: toys, cartoons, pictures, ...
... decorations of every sort. No other source of imagery can begin to compete with that of animals. The apparently spontaneous interest that children have in animals might lead one to suppose that this has always been the case…. Yet it was not until the nineteenth century that reproductions of animals became a regular part of the décor of middle class childhoods
John Berger, Why Look at Animals, 1980
2011/10/04
2011/09/29
Black & White - Masks, Rites and Transformations II (The artists)
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself.
That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty
one does not find as a member of society.
Man Ray 
Kati Horna, Remedios Varo, wearing a mask made by Leonora Carrington, 1957
2011/09/25
Black & White - Sunday Favorites
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses
Julio Cortázar
Larry Fink
2011/09/22
Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VIII
Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing
the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations
which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract,
repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again
Heinrich Heine
Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957
Jannis Kounellis, no title, 1999 (Etching on paper)
2011/09/20
Arthur Ganson - The notion of breath and time
A modern-day creator of "twittering machines," Arthur Ganson uses simple, plain materials to build witty mechanical art. But the wit is not simply about Rube Goldberg-ian chain-reaction gags (though you'll find a few of those). His work examines the quiet drama of physical motion, whether driven by a motor or by the actions of the viewer. Notions of balance, of rising and falling, of action and reaction and consequence, play themselves out in wire and steel and plastic. (source)
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2011/09/15
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