December 2008
72 posts
“Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing...”
– Jasper Johns
Technique
Technically “correct” photography is a fine notion but is really just another tool and if all you have is a hammer pretty soon everything starts to look like a nail.
“It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to...”
– Donald Judd
“…actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a...”
– Donald Judd
“Mama?
Congratulations!
It’s a Lensbaby.”
– On Lensbaby packaging
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“Do you know what was great? Finding out that a stupid, ridiculous thing like...”
– Gerhard Richter
“So once, so valuable, so there, so now.”
– W. H. Auden
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“The most transitory of things, a shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is...”
– W. H. Fox Talbot: Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, 1839
“…do we see, in dreams, or do we know?”
– Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida
“The Photograph does not call up the past (nothing Proustian in a photograph).”
– Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida
“Looking at something changes it.”
– Werner Heisenberg
Jim Dine: Photographs (UCR California) →
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“I photograph and then I preview. I preview all day until I get it right, but I...”
– Jim Dine
“Photography - it’s like dreaming.”
– Jim Dine
Sarah Moon DVD: Quatre Contes →
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris: Mimmo Jodice →
“Among many aspects of photography, one seems the most important and still...”
– Jerzy Tadeusz Lewczynski
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“Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s...”
– Marcel Proust
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
– Marcel Proust
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“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...”
– Marcel Proust
Focus: Jasper Johns - MoMA →
Formal Concerns →
New images by Ian Talbot.
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“Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it...”
– Franz Kafka
Hamilton's multiplex: Richard Hamilton has long... →
“I decided, quite consciously, that I should try and do it in my head more. I...”
– Howard Hodgkin
“Art is possible without artistic intention and can be better without it.”
– Hiroshi Sugimato
