Part 1 – Platinum Blondes and a Bearded Lady
“The grammar of cinema is a grammar uniquely its own.” Jean Epstein I remember once being fascinated at the discovery that the silky, almost-white, blond hair of many Hollywood stars from the Golden...
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One of the pictures that I always come back to when thinking about object photography is a black and white image by the artist Jean-Luc Moulène entitled Bi-Fixe, 7 September 2003. It shows two PET...
View ArticlePart 3 – The Opacity of Photography
One of my students recently declared she believed there was nothing to learn from Flusser’s writings on photography. For her, digital technology expanded the possibilities of photography well beyond...
View ArticlePart 4 – Another Threshold
Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Emile Zola, from 1868, currently on view at the Royal Academy in London in the Manet: Portraying Life exhibition is usually interpreted as a testimony of the friendship...
View ArticlePart 5 – The Production of Documents
“In history everything begins with the gesture of setting aside, of putting together, of transforming certain classified objects into ‘documents.’ This new cultural distribution is the first task. In...
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