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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
6 Oct 2024

Unbearably Beautiful: Why I Love the Photographs of Rachel Fleminger Hudson

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An untitled photo by Rachel Fleminger Hudson  rachelflemingerhudson.com     I.   As someone who grew up in the 1970s and remains amorously f...
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16 Aug 2024

Punk's Dead Knot: Reflections on an Essay by Ian Trowell - Part 1: I Got You in My Camera ...

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  Sex Pistols on Carnaby Street  Photo by Ray Stevenson (1976)   I.    Ian Trowell's dead knot essay [a] provides a fascinating insigh...
28 Jun 2024

What Was I Thinking? (28 June)

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Images used for posts published on 28 June  in 2018, 2022, and 2023     Sometimes - especially those times when, like today, I'm STILL w...
28 Jun 2023

Glitch: The Art of Error and Imperfection (With Reference to the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron)

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Julia Margaret Cameron: The Holy Family (1872) [1] The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles     I.    Thanks in large part to Jews working in ...
21 Dec 2022

Just Because the Sky Has Turned a Pretty Shade of Orange and Red Doesn't Mean You Can Simply Point a Camera and Shoot ... Or Does It?

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Golden sunset and red sunrise over Harold Hill  (SA / Dec 2022)      I.    For many serious photographers, these two snaps taken from my bed...
22 Sept 2022

Derealisation

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Derealisation (A Cursed Image) SA (2021)     After a Greek art student described the photos on my Instagram account as cursed images , I wa...
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21 Sept 2022

A Brief Note on Cursed Images

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The first image posted on cursedimages.tumblr.com   (28 October, 2015)     For those who don't know, a cursed image refers to picture -...
7 Dec 2021

Might as Well Jump (Jump!)

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Philippe Halsman:   Grace Kelly Jump (1954)  philippehalsman.com   I.    As much as I admire Byung-Chul Han - and as much as I enjoy readin...
19 Oct 2021

Auschwitz-Geschichten 1: In Memory of Prisoner 26947 (Czesława Kwoka)

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Czesława Kwoka (1942/43) Photo by Wilhelm Brasse  Auschwitz-Birkenhau State Museum     I.    Most people find it extremely difficult to look...
18 Jun 2021

Reflections on The Rokeby Venus

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Diego Velázquez: The Toilet of Venus   aka 'The Rokeby Venus' (1647-51)   Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm  nationalgallery .org.uk   D...
20 Apr 2021

What if the Shoe Were on the Other Foot?

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Photo by Chris Buck for O - Oprah Magazine (May 2017) chrisbuck.com     New York based photographer Chris Buck is known for his unconventio...
23 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes

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Melanie Pullen: Untitled (ELLE) , 2014  From the series High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003-17) melaniepullen.com If, like me...
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22 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Izima Kaoru's Landscapes with a Corpse

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Izima Kaoru: Kimura Yoshino wears Alexander McQueen #484 (2007) Part of the Landscapes with a Corpse series Galerie Andreas Bin...