2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
objects with no historical significance and traces of people who had no (known) glorious achievement or tragic death.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Scribbles for visiting tutors
Photographs objectify: turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
-Susan Sontag. Regarding the pain of others. Farrar, straus and Giroux:New York. 2003. P81
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
-Susan Sontag. On Phtography. 2002. P64
keywords:
secondhand nostalgia
ownership/consent/rejected/disregarded/replaced
Found images/photos:
-The identifier and identified is separated and I would never know the identity. It is this gap where I can plant something else…
Rejecting the gaze:
-of the one who took the photo?
-of the viewer of the artwork?
-or is it mine?
-Susan Sontag. Regarding the pain of others. Farrar, straus and Giroux:New York. 2003. P81
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
-Susan Sontag. On Phtography. 2002. P64
keywords:
secondhand nostalgia
ownership/consent/rejected/disregarded/replaced
Found images/photos:
-The identifier and identified is separated and I would never know the identity. It is this gap where I can plant something else…
Rejecting the gaze:
-of the one who took the photo?
-of the viewer of the artwork?
-or is it mine?
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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