stacy j. platt - the space in between (Page 7)

13 Mar 2007 7 min read

the personal aesthetic

does one learn aesthetics or does aesthetics learn you? meaning: is aesthetics a panoply of ideas and concerns one encounters in a ripe and meaningful fashion, something to add to an artistic arsenal that will further give shape and weight to work made--or is it a different kind of encounter, a shoc

27 Sep 2006 7 min read

the limits of photographic character: images you thought never existed

beyond my first flush of shock and thinking that this is a photograph i'd never imagined she'd make, i have come instead to see that this image is really a prelude to all the other photographs that i have come to know as arbus's--touching, vulnerable, a little skewed--as if she made this one imprint

23 May 2006 13 min read

that which moves and shakes

what was so extraordinary about black box was that it managed so many things that art usually so stupendously fails at dealing with: things that have to do with politics both past and present; cultural guilt and grief; memory and forgetting; the evocation of universal themes and then the subsequent

10 Jul 2005 11 min read

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

02 Feb 2005 11 min read

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.