Last night I took an hour to watch Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye. It’s an interesting documentary about an amazing man.
The most amazing moment was a 15-second shot where Mr. Cartier-Bresson is beginning to sign a new edition of prints. He uncaps his pen, then decides where to make the signature. His hand shifts a little to the right, a little more to the right, now left. We can see that he’s as concerned about the composition of the signature as he is with the composition of his photographs. He shifts again, and then pauses. He starts to write in a confident, unhurried hand and we watch as that signature takes shape. I got goosebumps.
Such a simple thing, a masterwork.
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One of mine discovered while sifting the inbox:
one voluptuous
wimper does waft lightly on
midnight summer breeze
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50’s photo
her atomic breasts point
to the future
-Jeffrey Winke
More at tinywords.com.
David Rokeby is a multimedia artist.
Discovered via gmtPlus9: the stunning work of Fred E. Miller. Working on the Crow Reservation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the early 20th century, Mr. Miller made some remarkably sensitive photographs of the Crow Indians via the persnickety albumen photographic process.
The Miller Collection is managed by the Chicago Albumen Works.
And I thought I was bleak… Textism: Predictions for 2003
An excerpt: “OCTOBER A child, having his freshly skinned knees cleansed and bandaged, will respond with confused silence when his mother demands, ‘Why do you do this to me?’”