Post-Proust

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Notes: 1 2/27/12 — 11:57am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxH7lLto

Paris 1929

André Kertész, On Reading

Notes: 1 2/10/12 — 3:24pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxGC9FcU Filed under: #Photography #Paris #Books #Reading

When everything that called itself art was stricken with palsy, the photographer switched on his thousand-candle-power lamp and gradually the light sensitive paper absorbed the darkness of a few everyday objects. He had discovered what could be done by a pure and sensitive flash of light- a light that was more important than all the constellations arranged for the eyes pleasure.:

Tristan Tzara, 1922

2/8/12 — 7:08pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxG6XHuR Filed under: #Tristan Tzara #Art #Photography #Quotes

Reading Rilke, Thinking about Portraiture

World was in the face of the beloved—,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.

Why didn’t I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn’t I drink
world, so near that I couldn’t almost taste it?

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: 2/3/12 — 5:52pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxFr0hQ2 Filed under: #Rilke #Poetry #photography #portrait

Jordi Gual, A portrait of Natasha

High-res Notes: 5038 1/31/12 — 2:08pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxFh1lec Filed under: #Photography #Black and White

Excerpt from Ocean I-VI by Andreas Gursky.

It would be misleading to say that Gursky photographed these pictures. Each image was lifted from satellite imaging devices and then edited in post-production by Gursky. Gursky, using information about the depth of the ocean and weather patterns, manipulated the photo’s color to artificially create and ‘accurate’ depiction of the coastal regions.

High-res Notes: 2 1/31/12 — 2:00pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxFh0fXV Filed under: #Gursky #Photography #Space #The Earth #Post Modern #Art

The Debut, The Grand Re-release, Back to the Blog!

Post-Proust is back with a vengeance. The latest assignment: examining the relationship between text and the photographic image. Let’s get to it.

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: 1/31/12 — 1:51pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgxFg-D2y

The Adderall Diaries

“This is a work of nonfiction…Events are sometimes presented out of sequence but timelines are not intentionally altered. Many names and details have been changed to protect identities. Much is based on my own memories and is faithful to my recollections, but only a fool mistakes memory for fact.”

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: Notes: 2 7/9/11 — 9:11pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgx6xHamj Filed under: #The Adderall Diaries #Stephen Elliott #Lit

There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us.

Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

Source: mythologyofblue

Notes: 311 7/8/11 — 2:03am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgx6tZ9-X

Beginners. A must-see.

High-res Notes: 52 7/3/11 — 12:58pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWglgx6itD_V Filed under: #Beginners #Film #Cinema #LGBTQ