Category: shop windows
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window shopping #4 (Paris)
Surrealism has always courted accidents, welcomed the uninvited, flattered disorderly presences. What could be more surreal than an object which virtually produces itself, and with a minimum of effort? An object whose beauty, fantastic disclosures, emotional weight are likely to be further enhanced by any new accidents that might befall it? It is photography that…
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the color purple
loosely interpreted, on a scale of pinkish mauve to mood indigo New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4 Kaeo #5 Kaitaia) New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1 Napier #2 Rawene #3 Wellington #4-6 Whangerei) #1 Florence #2-4 Rome January-March 2001 #5 San Francisco April 2002 San Francisco, April 2002 Los Angeles, April 2002 #1-2…
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window shopping #2 (Italy)
The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant. Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic than the one perceived by…
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diverted traffic
I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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are, bure, boke #1
The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…
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