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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
11 Dec 2025

Jean Baudrillard: Notes on a Biography by Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol (Part Three)

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Reworked front cover image to Jean Baudrillard  by Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol  (Reaktion Books, 2025)     I.   Baudrillard liked objec...
16 Sept 2025

Notes on Jean Baudrillard's 'Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?' (Part 2: Sections VI - XII)

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Cover of the paperback edition  (Seagull Books, 2016)    This is a continuation of a post the first part of which can be read by clicking he...
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...