December 2009
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On art and beauty
No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what?
There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part of the pattern...
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On compassion
All languages that derive from Latin form the word “compassion” by combining the prefix “with” (com-) and the root meaning “suffering” (Late Latin, passio). In other languages — Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish for instance — this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means “feeling” (Czech,...
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On fashion
It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is evil. There’s a lack of understanding, a moral dismissal, and an anger that fashion, and by extension...
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What you can’t see is her tiny mouth squealing and... →
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Photographer: Nikola Tamindzic →
An article about my work at Russian online magazine Look At Me — interesting because they went out of their way and included a few works each by people I mentioned as my favourite photographers — Sarah Moon, Nick Knight, David Bellemere, Clayton Cubitt, Noah Kalina — and other favourite artists, plus books, movies, music videos and blah blah blah.
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