Tuesday 30 June 2009

In Department Store


James Jowers
Woman in Department Store, 1968

Distance of time

It may be years before snaphots (that is recent ones)
resonate with the memory of the past.

Thoughts of Robert E Jackson

Père Lachaise 4


October 2008

2



Eve, Eve



Two images of the same scene, or rather Diptychs are Sonneman's primary focus in all aspects of her art. I came across an interesting article from the Village Voice published in 1978 by Ben Lifson:

' A situation described in the left panel changes in the right as time lapses between exposures. One can tell little slice-of-life stories with a technique like this...But Sonneman's style goes further. It can dramatize how our perceptions of things change when we take a second look at them from a slightly different point of view....

The black line between Sonneman's frames is thus like a semicolon in a sentence dividing an initial statement from an afterthought.... It makes no difference how much time has elapsed between the first shot of a couple lying on a beach and the second shot in which a horse and rider speed past them. Sonneman's fiction of the world's rapid change is accomplished.

Since we know that in each diptych the images were juxtaposed in real time- not in the darkroom at some later stage- we imagine the photographer when we look at the pictures. Sonneman thus creates a fiction of the photographer as well as the world.'



Coney Island Couple

ART

'Art is made by the alone
for the alone.'

Luis Barragán

The Party - Joker



Square America Archive

Birdie


Square America Archive

Bonheur du Jour

Angelica


Christer Strömholm,
Angelica, 1975

Gardez Vos Yeux


Bande a part

2 femmes


Guy Bourdain

Repulsion


Catherine Deneuve in Polanski's 'Repulsion'

Monday 29 June 2009

Grey Attic


Edward Weston,
Grey Attic

Clare E Sipprell


Clare E Sipprell,
Ivy and Old Glass, NY

Olive tree

Charis


Edward Weston, Charis 1934

Ilse Bing


Ilse Bing, Self portrait 1931

Route 50


Nancy Rexroth
Mountain Route 50, Albany Ohio

Angel at the tomb


Julia Margaret Cameron,
The Angel at the Tomb 1870

Imogen


By Imogen Cunningham
Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston, 1922

Corsets


Eugene Atget

Mollino Polaroid


1967 approx

Matching bathing suits


Diane Arbus, “Two girls in matching bathing suits,
Coney Island, N.Y.,” 1967

Model Belge


Image from Bibliodyssey

Sunday 28 June 2009

Celine & Julie



'Celine & Julie Go Boating'
Directed by Jaques Rivette

Friday 26 June 2009

R.I.P. Mr Jackson


White Sky, Chauncey, Ohio, 1976 by Nancy Rexroth

Nancy Rexroth


Aunt Martha's Hands, Grandview, Iowa, 1973


My Mother, Pennsville, Ohio, 1970


Waving House, Vanceburg, Kentucky, 1975

Thursday 25 June 2009

Backflip

Orchid


Charles C Zoller, Orchid

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Apartment 1938


Carlo Mollino

Like a good wine


By Juergen Teller


Charlotte Rampling - Still from Night Porter

Tuesday 23 June 2009

If


Diane Arbus
Girl sitting on her bed with her shirt off, 1968


All the books, all the exhibitions, and all the musings about her suicidal death lead me often to wonder whether her images would resonate such depth and sadness if we remained none the wiser?

In other words if we knew nothing of the history of her life and more importantly her sad end would the work still have this profound weight ?

I think you would have to say it would, it does.

Her vision and the body of work she created is so singular. To this day it still intrigues and emanates such an aura because of it's strength as an image.

So many theories and critics point out the fact that her work; these portraits she took are simply reflections of her, the dwarfs, the sword swallower- all her.
To an extent I agree, but having read a lot of her own writing I sense that her quest was to reveal and get to the inner core of all these people. Repeated shoots and frames, and as much time she possibly could get so as to capture the real nature of her subject in just one still image.

Like Chloe like Karl


Chloe Sevigny


Karl Waldmann Collage

Either its the tilt of the head or the specs there is something uncanny about these two images.
Then again it could just be me???

Affiche


Williamsburg 2008

Girl and a Gun


Les Carabiniers

A Copenhague


Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard
Copenhagen, 1962

Horizon


David Bailey, Jean Shrimpton 1962

La Mode


By Norbert Schoerner, Vogue

On the Bill



William Eggleston and Charlotte Rampling
By Juergen Teller