When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. - Weege
Member of Sudanese Militant Group on Plane to Peace Talks
Adam Yahia Ismain, member of the collective leadership of Sudanese rebel group Justice and Equality Movement, sleeps on the flight taking him from Juba, Sudan, to Sirte, Libya, where Darfur peace talks will take place.
24/10/2007. Sudan/Libya. UN Photo/Fred Noy. unmultimedia.org/p
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Man Ray, Compass, 1920, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Before leaving Paris for New York in 1921, Man Ray made several constructions that questioned the authority of logic and science over the imagination. This quirky instrument, which he called “Compass,” was one. The fields of force to which it might respond are as erratic and potentially as destructive as a game of Russian roulette. After making the exposure, Man Ray characteristically disassembled the magnet-and-pistol device, leaving only this single original print as the reminder of a provocative Dada idea. It is “purely cerebral yet material” (as Man Ray said of Marcel Duchamp’s “Large Glass”), whimsical yet deadly earnest. (via MET)
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from a color-theory class with wassily kandinsky - heinrich-siegfried bormann (1930)
‘Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, ‘that looks just like Cézanne.’ And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive.’
— Milton Glaser, from this
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During the filming of La Vérité (The Truth) in 1960, he wanted Brigitte Bardot to fall asleep and drool for one scene. As you do. So he gave her some pills saying they were painkillers. They turned out to be sleeping pills. Bardot had to have her stomach pumped.
- from this article about Clouzot’s unseen film, L’Enfer.
Oscar Bony, La Familia Obrera, 1968
The family was paid twice the minimum wage to pose as an installation.
I told John, “Your cock’s never been so hard,” and I told Peggy, “You’re a female dog in heat, and you want him. But don’t let him have it in a hurry. Keep him waiting.” That’s exactly how I talked to them and I turned them loose. I didn’t have to give them more directions.
- Director Joseph H. Lewis’s direction for Gun Grazy.
lawers office, new york - lars tunbjork (1997)
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Schreber was a successful and highly respected judge until middle age when the onset of his psychosis occurred. He woke up one morning with the thought that it would be pleasant to “succumb” to sexual intercourse as a woman. He was alarmed and felt that this thought had come from somewhere else, not from himself. He even hypothesized that the thought had come from a doctor who had experimented with hypnosis on him; he thought that the doctor had telepathically invaded his mind.
As his psychosis progressed, he believed that God was turning him into a woman, sending rays down to enact ‘miracles’ upon him, including little men to torture him.
Schreber died in 1911, in an asylum.
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