Wednesday 16 June 2010

Am oN


Irving Penn

Miss Brooks


by Eugene Robert Richee

VH


Vilhem Hammershøi (1864 - 1916)

Damage


Land

'If you would understand the poet, you must go to the poet's land.'

Goethe

Points to...


Melodie Mcdaniel

Plate


Sally Mann

Bare back


McCall Johnson

Dans le rose


Edouard Plongeon

The Terry Sisters


The Terry Sisters (detail), 1875,
Lewis Carroll

Alphaville


Anna Karina
By Jean Luc-Godard, 1965

Camille



via Clément louis

B u III y


Photo by Tobin Yelland
From 'Bully' - Larry Clark

You were

Driving Circles

Around



me

Sunny in the Sauna


Sunny in the Sauna,
L’Hotel Paris, 2008

Nan Goldin

24 hr Church of Elvis


McCall Johnson

Blank

Failing to grasp

recall dreams

rien q'un vide
comme je reve pas

time lapse

comme rien passe

Tuesday 15 June 2010

What Remains


Sally Mann.

Study of a Peacock feather


John Ruskin 1863

Jeune Fille / La Guitare


Marie Laurencin

The container

Expanding the container
all very good

but the
ship

is
still
stuck

overbord

On the Rocks


Keith Richards at Joshua Tree
By Michael Cooper

Gather


Woolgathersome

Ruth Asawa


Ruth Asawa

Victoria Melita & Elizabeth


Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
with her first child Princess Elisabeth

Elisabeth of Hesse


Elisabeth of Hesse
byRhine

Sun Reflections


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....

Personne apelle

quand elle n'est pas la

...
. .

.

Brought to Light


from Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible,
1840-1900

Liza Stelle


Liza Stelle

Etre

Mal preparé

l'inconnu

cherchant l'espoir
et la joie

peut- etre

que l'etre se renouvelle

Par E Rose


Eric Rose

Amass


Alexandre Volkoff 1927

Rothko



Surfaces

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.. .

Starification Object Series


1974
Hannah Wilke

williamsburg


Melodie Mcdaniel

Portrait of a Lady in Pink


William Chase Merritt

Stills of Oz


New Version


via Clément louis

Pull a part


Monday 14 June 2010

En haut


George Rose

Ekleipsis


On se détruit

Connections Lost

'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

Victoria Melita


Princess Victoria Melita
Theatrical performance, July 1898

Entre nous



Only a Dream


Source Unknown

Edgarde


via Clément louis

Meshes of Veils


M Deren

White Gauze


White Gauze, 1984
R Mapplethorpe

Volutes bleues


via Clément louis

Robert & Sam


Robert Mappelthorpe and Sam Wagstaff

Marie Three


Marie Laurencin

As a feather


Patti Smith
By Linda Smith Bianucci

So Help Me Hannah


Hannah Wilke1978