Tag Archives: Marvin Israel

Facing up: masked to uncover the other

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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spirit of the forbidden

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dave

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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A RICH MAN’S JOKES ARE ALWAYS FUNNY

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dave

It is about  creating moments of recognition. Almost a delicious and delightful sense of reverse-traumatism. Anti-traumatism. Flying so far gone, its actually earth bound illusion. Barbara Kruger as a detonator of some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience; … Continue reading →

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