Le cachalot [Quartier Saint-Victor, Paris, Ile-de-France]: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 22 July 2017
Le cachalot [Quartier Saint-Victor, Paris, Ile-de-France]: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 22 July 2017
5204: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 29 October 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
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;] Romania 2017. 'Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway."― Dave Hickey: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 29 September 2017
my day: photo by Andrea Schuh, 6 October 2017
night walk [Tokyo]: photo by satoshi inagaki, 9 September 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
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;] England 2017. 'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.' - Lucien Freud: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 13 October 2017
fence: photo by Paul Lundberg, 18 October 2017
Incroyable scène ce matin au pont de la Tournelle, où un cachalot s'est échoué. Les scientifiques sont sur place: image via BLOOM Association @Bloom_FR, 20 July 2017
Maybe we could think our way
out of this spot we're in
if it were an art installation
Spot: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 17 October 2017
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
door. 1106 Monroe, Gary, Indiana.: photo by Annie Maus, 17 August 2014
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
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;] Ethiopia 2017. 'I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.' - Steve McQueen: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 8 November 2017
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016
door. 1106 Monroe, Gary, Indiana.: photo by Annie Maus, 17 August 2014
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017
;] Ethiopia 2017. 'I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.' - Steve McQueen: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 8 November 2017
5204: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 29 October 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011
;] Romania 2017. 'Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway."― Dave Hickey: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 29 September 2017
my day: photo by Andrea Schuh, 6 October 2017
night walk [Tokyo]: photo by satoshi inagaki, 9 September 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017
;] England 2017. 'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.' - Lucien Freud: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 13 October 2017
fence: photo by Paul Lundberg, 18 October 2017
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Ali Farka Touré: Yulli / Ketiné / Ai Du (live in Bamako)
(Ai Du, from 5:45)
Vieux Farka Touré: Ai Du (live, 2017)
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ReplyDeleteGreat selections and I love that conceptualist loupe thing you do. Reminds me of the photo scan scene in Blade Runner, the grain immersion, which is still hypnotic to me. I think I half-believed the Seine whale canard when I first saw the photo. I was probably falling into some false-fangled Coriolis force theory as "explanation."
ReplyDeleteThanks to all for good comments.
ReplyDeleteProbably everybody who looks at the top shot will have the same double take reaction William describes, upon grasping the canard.
It is indeed an art installation, done by a Belgian collective that calls itself Captain Boomer. This is the sixth such work they have done; earlier ones were in Rennes, Scheveningen, Valencia, etc. The works are erected with complete pretense of being "real".
(Well, maybe not quite so complete... in actual truth, dead whales are a sad spectacle, yet not so easily approached for gaping... when we lived out near Duxbury Reef, a couple of them turned up on RCA Beach, and ... phew!)
While the image itself evokes a powerful sense of things gone wrong, the wounding of the oceans, and so on, the group bases its work on a single simple premise: whale groundings are caused by human activity.
But that is pure speculation.
So there are skeptics.
"As with so many things in the natural world, human beings like to humor themselves, believing they understand why a magnificent creature like a whale would beach itself and using this conceit to create an art installation. In fact, humans have no idea, because they don't understand the natural world they so blithely destroy. In the end, all we may be left with is art installations like this one."
That comes not from a scientist but from someone in the photographic community. When it comes to whale groundings, marine biologists have to concede they don't know much more than the photographic community.
So, a bit of a complication.
(No such complication entangled the D Hirst shark, to take a blatant example. Hirst of course had no intent to save the world's oceans, nor the creatures thereof. Pretty simple. Get the money. Things were so much simpler before the world -- even possibly, who knows, the art world -- was coming to an end!)
The blog proposes a sort of picture language, in which the words would be pictures, and vice versa. The whale shot was meant to cast a mood which the further images sustain. Is it the mood of Now?
There is a second interesting picture that may have caused a spot of wonderment. If you're reading these comments you've very likely already guessed which one.
"Imagined 52" is a composite assemblage made of 52 Diane Arbus shots.