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Irving Penn
by Eugene Robert Richee
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Vilhem Hammershøi (1864 - 1916)
'If you would understand the poet, you must go to the poet's land.'
Goethe
Melodie Mcdaniel
Sally Mann
Edouard Plongeon
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The Terry Sisters (detail), 1875,
Lewis Carroll
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Anna Karina
By Jean Luc-Godard, 1965
Photo by Tobin Yelland
From 'Bully' - Larry Clark
Sunny in the Sauna,
L’Hotel Paris, 2008
Nan Goldin
Failing to grasp
recall dreams
rien q'un vide
comme je reve pas
time lapse
comme rien passe
Sally Mann.
John Ruskin 1863
Marie Laurencin
Expanding the container
all very good
but the
ship
is
still
stuck
overbord
Keith Richards at Joshua Tree
By Michael Cooper
Ruth Asawa
Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
with her first child Princess Elisabeth
Elisabeth of Hesse
byRhine
Gustave le Gray, 1856
If memory serves me correctly I first came across le Gray's work at the V & A, and fell in love instantly...How to make a cliche image stand apart from those soulless holiday snaps that always fail to recreate and capture the expanse of space, the beauty of a moment forever lost - see the sea landscapes of le Gray .A testament to overcoming the postcard tainted image rendering a nostalgic and painterly tone to moments meant to take and retake one's breath away....
quand elle n'est pas la
...
. .
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from Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible,
1840-1900
Liza Stelle
Mal preparé
l'inconnu
cherchant l'espoir
et la joie
peut- etre
que l'etre se renouvelle
Eric Rose
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Alexandre Volkoff 1927
Further points that reverberate, repeat and rear their ugly heads - question of forced, false aesthetics. Questions of senstaionalist images that on the surface entice viewers but lack the truth and unforced narratives that only the greats can achieve. The emotion is somehow missing. The mood is somewhat too contrived and I believe this is where, in the long run they will cease to be, cease to prevail. For these are the fads of the modern aesthetic, for the all too empty and shallow viewer. They overpower, their arrogance overshadows the reversed and subtle approach. Full of vainglory, surfaces that shout, qui n'ont rien a voir avec la verite.. .
1974
Hannah Wilke
Melodie Mcdaniel
William Chase Merritt
George Rose
'Art isn't about perfection. Before cameras, travelers sketched so that they could record what they saw on trips, as souvenirs, in the same way that bourgeois families, in the days before recordings, used to listen to music by making it themselves at home on the piano or singing in the parlour. There was a more intimate connection between the amateur musician or artist and the professional, because amateurs had firsthand experience. What's lost today is not just the accidental masterpiece but also that sense of art not as a remote commodity but as something we all make.
Michael Kimmelman
Princess Victoria Melita
Theatrical performance, July 1898
Source Unknown
M Deren
White Gauze, 1984
R Mapplethorpe
Robert Mappelthorpe and Sam Wagstaff
Marie Laurencin
Patti Smith
By Linda Smith Bianucci
Hannah Wilke1978
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