This image reminds me so much of Hopper. Give me back this film and I'll show you what I can do. There is a strange, long loneliness in this picture. I've been staring at if for a very long time. Sometimes the woman moves. She comes to life.
I've written without success this morning. I've just deleted hundreds of words. They were not pretty enough, neither cohesive nor profound.
I am glad I have had the chance to make this, though. I will print it large. Perhaps I'll hang a copy of it in my own house, though I don't as a rule hang my own work there. She makes a perfect figure, both haunted and haunting. But I say too much.
I must go a-walking. I've sat here for too long saying nothing. When you can't write, try not to write. There is enough work in the picture.
Yes, fantastic photo.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day, Selavy!
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I caught up on your blog last night, a combination of flu and commercial work had me in knots.
ReplyDeleteI know what you meant in a previous post where you said you no longer hear anything of remarkable language (these days?). I find this too of late. However if you ever get a chance to read anything by Mark Z Danielewski do it! I am constantly grateful that he is alive today.
You said you wanted my girl on your wall. You know I'd love to do a swap? I could have one of your girls in return, you know my email address if you decide to take me up on that.
As for the question every photographer gets from a non photographer... "What do you do with these?" You never said your reply.
It is a rather redundant question really but for what it’s worth here is how I see them. I see your work as an expression of you certainly but to me they are synonymous with your personal story especially the way they marry with the words on your blog. They are to me a kind of illustration of you and your words. How you feel inwardly is transposed on to the models as though she were an actor conveying the mood of the script below. Roland Bathes wrote extensively about the power of anchoring images and words and how you will read images according to the words associated with it. It’s the main reason I too write a blog. I know its basic semiotics but its powerful stuff.
Red, she is in Europe? Send her my email... if she comes to England that is...
N, Thank you, of course. And I love the triple X.
ReplyDeleteEJR, Well that is simply too flattering. Yes. . . I jump at the chance to exchange prints. I am collected, you know, by some of the finest photographers in the world :) And thank you for the other lovely words, too.
I've sent Red your email address and am certain she will be in touch. She will be in England at the end of the month, I think.
As always. . . .