"The traditional practice of social documentary photography as a means of helping underprivileged, dispossessed or marginalised groups has become deeply problematic for a number of reasons. Chief among these is that photography’s status as a unique medium for offering direct insight into truthful reality has been destroyed – by the widespread use of digital manipulation on the one hand, and by the postmodern tendency to question and analyse the motives of the photographer (and dissect the possible multiple meanings of the work they produce) on the other."
"Post-Documentary, Post-Photography," Martha Rosler (2003)
Sorry, my internal mechanisms are on the fritz. I have not been sleeping. Last night, dead tired, I went to bed before ten. Woke up like I'd had a night's sleep at one. Rolled around until four and got up. Drank a pot of coffee and surfed the net until six. Went back to bed until 8:30. Now I can't clear my head. It's the Horrors. The Terror. I can't shake them. They are haunting my waking and sleeping hours. I must find a cure.
there's always the pharmaceutical cure...which can lead to all sorts of other problems.
ReplyDeleteI've been leaving comments every day and then they disappear and I don't have the energy to repeat them. So I'm trying again with this quote that I've been saving to use somehow with my mask series but I may never get back to it so I'm giving it to you.
"I hold more and more surely to the conviction that the use of masks will be discovered eventually to be the freest solution of the modern dramatist's problem as to how -- with the greatest possible dramatic clarity and economy of means -- he can express those profound hidden conflicts of the mind which the probings of psychology continue to disclose to us."
EUGENE O'NEILL, "Memoranda on Masks"
she looks like one of those dolls on the canepari site.
ReplyDeleteR, Hmm. I don't know where the comments are going. I haven't seen a trace. Blogger problems?
ReplyDeleteOneill's Iceman is one of my favorite characters. The mask.
L, I will have to go see about the dolls. But don't they all.