NOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY

"I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination..." - R. Barthes History, culture, evolution, aesthetics, ideas, seminal works, practitioners, poetry. Past, Present and the Future

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Echoes XXXVIII

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Jeff Wall

Robert Doisneau

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Duane Michals

1932-2026

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Echoes XXXVI

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Saara Ekström

Torbjørn Rødland 

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Zed Nelson

Rebecca Norris Webb

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Self portrait Alphonse Mucha, 1897c

Self portrait Susan Meiselas 1971

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Echoes XXXIII

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Sergio Larrain

Todd Papageorge

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“Perhaps the desire to take photographs arises from the observation that on the broadest view, from the standpoint of reason, the world is a great disappointment. In its details, however, and caught by surprise, the world always has a stunning clarity.”

— Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

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Blow-Up (1966), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

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Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)

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Chris Marker - Sans Soleil (1983)

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Chen Wei / Carolyn Drake / Harry Gruyaert / Rafael Goldchain / Andrea Torrei

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Echoes XXXII

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Alex Prager Shopping Plaza 2, 2015

David Simpson, "Blue Tract #7," 1975

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Echoes XXXI

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František Drtikol

Michaela Knizova

František Drtikol

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Echoes XXX

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Heinrich Heidersberger

Neil Leifer

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Echoes XXIX

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Thomas Easkins (?)

Erst Ludwig Kirschner

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If my memory serves me right, in the documentary "In No Great Hurry", about the life and work of Saul Leiter, we learn that he was a great admirer of the work of Pierre Bonnard. If so, I hope to think that when he came across this moment, his heart skipped a beat, his mind jumped to this painting, and his brain ordered to lift and shoot his camera before she finished writing that letter...

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