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Tag Archives: Diane Arbus
status: enduring symbols
…Actually, we are living not so much in a status system as in the wreckage of one, a storeroom full of broken monuments; for the process of destroying status is self-destructive, and ruins each new idol that it raises. Once … Continue reading
arbus: grittiness of the common humanity
by Art Chantry: this is a contact sheet of (likely) the single most famous image by photographer diane arbus (she pronounced pronounced it de-AHN). it’s so cool to see the out-takes. one of greatest ‘eyes’ of all time. ADDENDUM: (see … Continue reading
exile: angels in b&w
by Art Chantry: this is a nifty photo of the original pasted up ‘artwork” (such as it is) of the rolling stones’ “exile on main street” LP cover. it belongs to the permanenet collection of the EMP (experience music project) … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Diane Arbus, Edward Steichen, EMP Seattle, Exile on Main Street, Experience Music Project Seattle, Jack Kerouac, John Van Hammersveld, robert frank, Robert Frank photography, Robert frank The Americans, The Rolling Stones
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corpse poetics
Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading
Facing up: masked to uncover the other
Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz
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spirit of the forbidden
The unvarnished truth. Banal attractiveness sauntering into the realm of tedious familiarity? Bourgeois effrontery through others as a form of marketable cliche? Diane Arbus remains somewhat of a mystery. There is a contrast here, marked, between a Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diane Arbus, Franz Kafka, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Marvin Israel, Nicole Kidman, patricia bosworth, Susan Sontag, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, william todd schultz
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