I can't put up Irving Penn photos forever, though I'd like to do it much longer. I've dug back in the vault to come up with this image that has no negative, that no longer exists but as a 35mm image, corner to corner, on an old, degenerating proof sheet. But I've told the story before.
This image seems so crazy dangerous and enigmatic to me now. I don't need to write about it.
In looking up the Albert Camus quote I posted yesterday, I came across so many good ones that I've decided to go back and reread him, for so many of the quotations make him seem more prophetic than I ever thought him before. He seems to have given birth to much of the postmodern thought of Lacan and Derrida and Foucault. I think. I'll let you know.
“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”
Naomi Wolf
you take that?
ReplyDeleteman that's awfully good.
It is a great image...scary even. For a minute I thought the little girl was drawn grafitti.
ReplyDeleteI bought a used copy of 'The Stranger' a few months ago because I wanted to read Camus again but it's still sitting by my bed.
I'm working on getting everyone I know to believe in my pain! :)
L, Yes, it is mine. You are surprised?
ReplyDeleteR, You may be better off reading the quotes. I do not look forward to re-reading the novel, for there is an empty hollowness to it, as I remember, that doesn't leave you when you close the covers.
Let me know how it goes on the recognition thing.
Only that I hadn't seen it before.
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