influences and confluences
to have the knowledge that you seek a particular vein of something is to be aware of not only your tastes, but what influences you, creates bias and division, separates one set of
2) everything else
the thing of the thing
i bring this up not because i have become stymied and inconsistent in my writing due to the fact that i know someone is looking, but because i find it worth mentioning that when one hesitates in the face of their experiment, and then when something outside of that niched out, projected-place she cre
what little girls want: the art of miwa yanagi
miwa yanagi creeps me out--in all the good kinds of ways. her images carry the capacity to go from surface to psychological in lightning-quick speed, and what lay in the subconscious afterwards folds into complex unease with a lingering, distinct aftertaste...her visual problem-solving mingled with
perfect images, written photographs and the absolute
I have come and come again to Hérve Guibert, Roland Barthes and Marguerite Duras, who all have much to say about memory, regret, experience and selfhood. All of them go to great effort to articulate a particular lost moment, and what losing that moment does to their memory of it, and of themselves.
correspondences
in the introductory essay to anne wilkes tucker's encylopedic tome the history of japanese photography, the author asserts that araki and fukase both became known to the japanese because they were the first to show the "intimate homelife and personal emotional state of their subjects." i also can't