January 2010
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WatchRoger Ballen, Lens Culture Conversation with Roger Ballen
“Many people over the years said my work is quite disturbing, quite dark. I always say, Well, I’m so pleased to hear that, what a great thing, this is what the doctor ordered for you. If one goes back to people like Jung, he called the dark side the shadow side, and he said very clearly — this was the side you had to open up,...
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Gut symmetries
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe, what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the Earth is not flat, but my feet are. I know that space is curved, but my brain has been cordoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l’oeil. I run after knowledge...
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Future of magazines
Fashion magazines should take note. At the end of the day, they will stay in business not by selling us clothes or by feeding us something we’ve seen hundreds of times before, but by allowing our imaginations to take flight. The Internet can give us runway pictures and analysis faster than any print publication ever could, but it hasn’t yet figured out a way to capture the experience...
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Tsparks asked:
“Do you still photograph the party scene for media outlets (sites or magazines)? Would you ever share your secrets for taking great event photos?”
I don’t — I pretty much stopped doing it two years ago, for reasons mentioned earlier, posted a bitchy goodbye on my nightlife site, and burned a few bridges just to make sure I’m not too tempted to go back to...
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Anonymous asked:
“Do you concentrate on a particular outlet for your work, or do you follow the money? If you could produce more of a type of work (art/portrait vs. commercial, or studio vs. on-site work) what would you like to be doing?”
I had a great opportunity with my nightlife work to do the smart thing and follow the money, and I stopped doing nightlife when it stopped being...
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Anonymous asked a lot of things today
“Are you Croatian?”
I’m a Serbian/Montenegrin/Croatian mutt. For what it’s worth, I grew up in Belgrade, and my passport is Serbian. These days, I think of myself more as this.
“Here’s a secret: I’m secretly in love with myself. Now a question: what is more important for good artwork — lust for that you’re doing, or loving yourself?”
Lust...
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Swans are back →
Norman Westberg is on board. And no Jarboe, thank God.
More Swans. More Gira.
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“In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse,...”
– Deborah Turbeville (via elettra)