April 2011
22 posts
March 2011
33 posts
The causal process of which the photographer is a victim puts almost every detail outside his control. Even if he does, say, intentionally arrange each fold of his subject’s dress and meticulously construct…the appropriate scenario, that would still hardly be relevant, since there seem to be few ways in which such intentions can be revealed in the photograph…
…The search...
Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - Truth
The artwork has an internal truth content to the extent that the artwork’s import can be found internally and externally either true or false. Such truth content is not a metaphysical idea or essence hovering outside the artwork. But neither is it a merely human construct. It is historical but not arbitrary; nonpropositional, yet calling for propositional claims to be made about it;...
What am I missing?
I have a difficult time appreciating photos of the backs of people’s heads. Or faces obscured by hair.
Jazz - 1959
Wait until the ninth song, Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman - an emotional rollercoaster:
http://8tracks.com/dsemeniuk/autoinfanticidal-ski-accidents
