Reckon | The Whole World's a Stage
I'm Chris. I am: Poet. Artist. Lover of academy and porch, sidewalk and turning row. This is my Tumblr which is licensed under Creative Commons. Enjoy.
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The visible that is hidden and the visible that is present
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.” -René Magritte.
by Tom Phillips | A Humument
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Harlan Erskine, from the series “Ten Convenient Stores”
He says about his own work:
“The catalogue for Walker Evans’s exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, prepared by John Szarkowski in 1971, opened with a quotation from Walt Whitman:
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world …I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse, than I have supposed…This passage has been quoted countless times in the context of photography with good reason. It allows us to sum up the difference between photographing flowers and photographing a milk bottle on a tenement fire escape. I tend to gravitate to photographing the milk bottle and not the flower.”
rainy. (via kot_bonifacy)
(via page thirteen)