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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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naples yellow: pots of peculiar gold
Italian neo-realismo. Very much a complement to, and reaction towards, the American ideological war as docu-drama that took flight in Germany after WWII and ran the gamut clunker to precursor to cinema verite. Italian realismo was not created in a … Continue reading
examining the cracks
Play as an irrational pre-cultural activity. Fairytales have profound psychological meanings. Or so though Helen Levitt. In Europe, Mussolini was washing the Italian public through a cinematic industry that would gouge out the real for the most kitschy dog-show nonsense … Continue reading
paisan: real to reel
Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading
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Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last
Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, ernst haeckel, ernst haekl, fred herzog photography, Gustav Landauer, harry joy photography, Helen Levitt, Jerry Garcia, Leni Riefenstahl, leo durocher, Luchino Visconti, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Robert Hunter, Susan Sontag, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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happy days: manufacture of innocence
Halfway through the 1950’s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, elmo roper, Fred J. Cook, Friedrich Nietzsche, gil elvgren, Helen Levitt, James Dean, John Updike, jules aarons, kevin phillips, Norman Rockwell, president eisenhower, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, the 1950's, Tim Roth, tim roth murder in the heartland
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ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Before Helen Levitt and James Agee worked together on the documentary “The Quiet One” , they had planned to collaborate on a book of photographs and text. Levitt took the … Continue reading
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