Tag Archives: Henri Cartier-Bresson

lyric essence: there are no maybes

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Dave

Henri Cartier-Bresson is recognized as one of the great masters of photography. Armed with only a Leica, he strove to capture the fleeting reality of what he called, “the decisive moment.” He employed neither gimmicks of craft nor tricks of … Continue reading →

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turning the back pages: thin people redux

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Dave

Can memories be esthetically radicalized? What is the process? Taking the old image, the old picture, what Freud termed the hyper-aesthetic memory, the fragmented slivers of flash, then using them to catalyze creativity. D.W. Winnicott had a genial idea of … Continue reading →

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herzog and disavowal: images of knowing and unknowing

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

Lately, there has been a wave of interest in early color photography which at the time was shunned in the art world. Everything had to be black and white a la Joseph Stieglitz. But, there has been an awakened interest. … Continue reading →

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ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

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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MATISSE: War Years and the Morals of Color

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dave

Certainly, the war years seems to bring out some ambiguous behavior on the part of French artists in occupied France. On the one hand, it greatly reduced the competition from foreign sources and citizens not of the “vieux souche” , … Continue reading →

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PAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Dave

In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what he called “the eternal conflict between drawing … Continue reading →

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ROMA CHRISTMAS CARAVAN: A Nomadic Santa

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Dave

A Gypsy Christmas Carol from 1893 in England: King Pharim sat a-musing, A musing all alone; There came a blessed Saviour, And all to him unknown. Say, where did you come from, good man, Oh, where did you then pass? … Continue reading →

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ROCK THEIR GYPSY SOUL

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Dave

Wordsworth called the Gypsies “wild outcasts of society.” In the folklore of he nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they appear mainly in the guise of dark-haired, mysterious fortunetellers and colorfully dressed violinists, ready to break into song at the drop of … Continue reading →

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