Another day for early factory work after a long day and a late night. Bad throat, bad belly, I just wish for the day's end. I want to crawl up into a ball for awhile.
Photography may be the most complicated art. Not technically, but philosophically. What the fuck are we doing when we take a picture? Why do people like them so? Why are they so charged and dangerous? They are, without doubt, the "graven image" we have been warned about. There is little I dislike as much as a mundane photograph.
The New York Times ran an article on Sally Mann today. I have never understood the controversy of her pictures. I still can't. They are a beautiful glimpse into the secret of things. They are, as Diane Arbus said about photography, a "secret about a secret."
In general, I guess, they should just make laws against photography. There shouldn't be any. It is all trouble. All of it. Just make it illegal. If you can't learn to draw. . . .
Here is the article on Mann if you are interested (link).
ReplyDeleteI like this photo most of all the recents. The young girl looks scared out of her wits. I like the bold juicy thighs. I sort of wish for a not so made up face -- not that it isn't a beautiful face --- I just crave something that balances the realness of those thighs - ethereal and white and unsoiled. Course that could be a message the photo is communicating -- the made up face representing the artificial v. the real, more Nature based thighs.
Stoned and down a bottle of wine. Took Ma out to dinner for her 84th Birthday. Ate too much. Thought maybe a few hits would calm the tummy. :) Then I get talkative. And I'm alone except for the dogs and my Electronic Friends.
So. I'm not sure I want to read that article. I don't want to hear her whine about "what people said ..." I mean. C'mon really? You think people aren't going to react to your shit? That is all you want as an artist isn't it? Reaction? But of course artists are also fucking sensitive about their shit. So I don't think I really want to read a memoir. I want to think of her photographs. Not explanations etc.
It might be nice cooked too. I think I like your odd experimental processing things too.
Oh. . . you make up such things. Unsoiled thighs? Ho!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is very good pot.
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