Perhaps, after all, the best way of talking about what you love is to speak of it lightly – Albert Camus Aase Texmon Rygh, Møbius (rund), 2013. Foto: Øystein Thorvaldsen. Aase Texmon Rygh (b 1925), found her artistic vision at an early point, remaining faithful to it throughout her career. With exceptionally strong determination, she…
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… discovered, but still a secrets
I came across this very interesting video: Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier spent most of her youth in Europe, but returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny for the rest of her life. In her free time however, she was a photographer. Consistently…
Becoming intimate with fear
—Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value * Maggie Nelson: I’ve often written about things that terrify me—likely out of compulsion more than hope for comfort, or catharsis; as Peter Handke says near the end of his horrified memoir of his mother’s suicide, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,…
W. G. Sebald
For a long time I’ve been wanting to read W. G. Sebald, thoroughly, like I’m currently reading the work of Virginia Woolf. Actually I planned Sebald to be my next project – in a year or so – . BUT … it seems I’m no longer the captain of this ship – Sebald won’t wait!…
An Academic Author’s Unintentional Masterpiece
Have you ever read Geoff Dyer? This morning I read his critique of Michael Fried’s: “Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before” (2008). Dyer’s analysis is sharp, to the point and very very funny – have a look!
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