Tag Archives: Richard Avedon

fashionable bodies

No shoe was too bone breaking, nor corset too breathtaking, nor bodily alteration too excruciating fro man not to have tried it out in his continuing pursuit of the fashionable body. The urge to alter his body is felt by … Continue reading

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ahmed: melancholy imperfections

…Ahmed came from the forests of Mount Marsabit in Kenya. The only elephant to be declared a living monument, President Kenyatta also provided him with a permanent guard against poachers. A loner and quite elusive, Ahmed was seldom seen and … Continue reading

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6 degrees of derealization

Its a paradox of sorts, that the great technology of reproduction which ostensibly is supposed to serve memory, in fact tends to make us forget what is memorable: namely a real experience, a conjunction of thought processes and emotions reduced … Continue reading

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let it bleed: lame brand images

Missing You. Memo From Turner: the Rolling Stones graphics really suck. Lame and tame. You can’t always get what you want, but….. unless you really care….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This poster/advert/whatever for the 1975 Rolling Stones world tour (specifically promoting … Continue reading

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their favorite game

He was considered the most glamorous name in photography and his fusion of commercial and high art brought him controversy, but also redefined fashion photography. It was high-end marketing with a pop sheen to it. Cinema noir with a trace … Continue reading

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SOCIAL CLASS THEORY: Breaking Through the Skin of Human Culture

August Sander photographed German citizens from all classes and walks of life. Rich, poor, men, women, revolutionaries, artists, tramps, professionals, children, laborers, Communists, Social Democrats, Anglo Saxons, Gypsies,Nazis and Negroes stood or sat squarely in front of his camera, fully … Continue reading

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PORTION GENEROSO: ORAL DESIRE A LA CARTE

“Researching one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, although food implies a consistent research into the bodily (taboos). To Nietzsche, largely responsible for rehabilitating the body in later humanistic thought, sinning is not a basic state of humanity, but merely … Continue reading

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WHEELS OF FORTUNE & FAME

The bicycle. It doesn’t make smoke, it doesn’t make smog and it never makes a bad picture. In the 1880’s the bicycle was young then; it antedated the automobile by only a few decades. it is hard to believe now, … Continue reading

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BOMB SQUAD: IDEOLOGICAL DETONATION ON A CONVERGING PATH

”As anarchist and convicted terrorist Emile Henry put it (quite ironically, in light of the argument of this paper) on the way to the guillotine, Beware of believing anarchy to be a dogma, a doctrine above question or debate, to be venerated by … Continue reading

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