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just like the first time
Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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exposure barely controlled
Came across some photographs by Paul Schutzer this week and it was an eye stopper. I would put him up there with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Helen Levitt in terms of personal understanding; he seems to fall into the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Freedom Riders, Gagan singer, George Polk Award, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Julia Aaron freedom rider, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, paul schutzer, paul schutzer photography, Zoltan Kluger
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a brake on the yellow
I am curious yellow. The taxi as an orgone box. Orgone energy, according to Wilhelm Reich, organizes itself into matter. He believed that when earth is made to swell by boiling or autoclavation, orgone energy is released from the fragmentation and … Continue reading
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Tagged Helen Levitt photography, joe strummer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, New New York City taxi, New York City Taxi medallions, New york international auto show, nissan 200NV taxi, Orgone Energy, Taxi of Tomorrow Nissan Motor Company, TLC David Yassky, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich
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dark street notes
In Edward Adler’s Notes From a Dark Street the materials of common contemporary existence on the Lower East Side – circa late 1950’s- have been ordered and transmuted into a terrible cosmography far transcending its naturalistic events. The novel’s aesthetic … Continue reading
moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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the blue flame this time
James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison
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junk culture & creative destruction: open or closed playground
Citizenship and delinquency. Is destruction creative? Our capitalist system, the system, or ideology of markets is based on the the idea of creative destruction. The implication is that juvenile delinquents, the innately violent and destructive may have the necessary attributes … Continue reading
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Tagged august aichhorn, Charles Baudelaire, fred herzog photography, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, lady allen of hurtwood, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, margaret bourke-white, marie paneth, Sigmund Freud, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs closed system, stockhausen 9/11, Walter Benjamin
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forward to the past
Does authenticity have anything to do with the truth or are we conflating an idealized sense of self with a public perception of populism? Today, the mantra among the political pundits is that authenticity serves as the means to gain … Continue reading
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Tagged american gothic, Andrew Potter, Grant Wood American Gothic, harry truman turnip day, Helen Levitt photography, Jared Diamond, joe klein, marshall brain, martin ford, Michael Ferguson, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Ron Paul
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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
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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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lyric essence: there are no maybes
Henri Cartier-Bresson is recognized as one of the great masters of photography. Armed with only a Leica, he strove to capture the fleeting reality of what he called, “the decisive moment.” He employed neither gimmicks of craft nor tricks of … Continue reading
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Tagged ansel adams, Comte de Saint-Simon, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, lincoln kirstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Cezanne, photographic arts, Stendhal
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