Tag Archives: Henri Cartier-Bresson

seine: inseinity

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Dave

What was it while gazing at the Seine that Verlaine came upon his definition of water,”that impure liquid, a drop of which is enough to spoil the transparency of absinthe.” ? What was it about the Seine that attracted so … Continue reading →

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dead to the world: and the hoax was on

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Dave

…Look closely at this corpse. It’s trying to tell you something. … Popular as it was, daguerreotypy was only one among many methods then being developed for making fixed images in the camera. Once Daguerre’s method was publicized, inventor’s of … Continue reading →

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cops with beards and bats

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dave

Common sense, such as it is, and it ain’t what it used to be, says toss a dash of logic and a sprinkle of justice and the Palestinians should have their state, except whatever their portion would be, parsimonious or … Continue reading →

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you don’t arrive: guest of the monkey king

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Dave

It is said that China is not a country where one arrives. To be there at all is sufficient, for once you are there, the rest of the world does not exist. So, it is deduced that China is a … Continue reading →

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take five with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Disrupted momentum.  A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading →

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between five and six: cruising with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading →

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frank images

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

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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exposure barely controlled

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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junk culture & creative destruction: open or closed playground

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave

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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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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