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Showing posts with label darkness/light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label darkness/light. Show all posts
11.14.2009
The Secret Life of Shadows: Deborah Turbeville at Ralph Pucci, NYC
Currently at the Ralph Pucci showroom, photographer Deborah Turbeville's soft and sexy series, SILENT FILM, stands on display in full elegance and austerity.
the photographs, all taken using a digital camera, portray the telltale weathered and antique elements which have garnered Turbeville's reputation in fashion photography
as the "Anti-Newton".
Some photos reveal a cast of greek and roman statues in the Versailles gardens and estate, much in the same vein as her portfolio of note, Unseen Versailles. Other works represent pastiches of many photographs combined into one total work, which illustrate the narrative of the Carnival at Venice or Paris on a rainy day, for example.
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11.11.2009
Sense & Sensibility
nighthawk at the diner: Paul Simonon, Bassist, The Clash
Today, a friend of mine educated me on the softer, more cerebral side of a punk rocker's heart.
I refer specifically to Paul Simonon, the bassist of a little band known formally
as The Clash, and his following quote:
"The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian, and we were Pollock.
As a painter, though, I'm essentially old-fashioned.
Conceptualism just doesn't do it for me.
I love Walter Sickert, Samuel Palmer, Rubens and Constable. That's just the way I am."
The qualities I find most attractive in a man
are the same that I appreciate in a Constable painting:
inwardly spiritual, moody, romantic, characterized by equal parts darkness and light.
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831.
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