André Kertész ⌘ Martinique (1972) ∣ Silver print ∣ Frosted glass between body and horizon
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André Kertész ⌘ Martinique (1972) ∣ Silver print ∣ Frosted glass between body and horizon
Photography by Xuebing Du
"Successive stages of the dust-cloud of the eruption of Mt. Pelée (on Martinique) December 16, 1902." Physiography. 1919.
This December eruption came months after the May 8, 1902 eruption that killed some 30,000 people — one of the deadliest volcanic disasters in history.
Martinique
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Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (1990)
Melodie Monrose, Martinican model
right to opacity — from Glissant: the right to not be fully known, decoded, or made transparent; to resist being flattened into one meaning or one identity; a refusal or surveillance, overexposure, total explanation; a poetics of protection