Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - The Drummer, 2004
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
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Showing posts with label Lux. Show all posts
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Pentimento I
Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - The Drummer, 2004
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Replay IV
The Ghosts of Innocence
Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - Girl with Marbles, 2005
I use children as a metaphor for a lost paradise.
I use children as a metaphor for a lost paradise.
Loretta Lux
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
Lewis Carroll
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections in the next.
Cesare Pavese
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Relics Of The Universal Thaw
Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - The Drummer, 2004
'When we are afraid, we shoot. When we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has aged or decayed or no longer exists. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.'
From On Photography by Susan Sontag
'When we are afraid, we shoot. When we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has aged or decayed or no longer exists. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.'
From On Photography by Susan Sontag
Saturday, January 06, 2007
The Ghosts Of Innocence
Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - Girl with Marbles, 2005
"I use children as a metaphor for a lost paradise."
"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
"I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day."
"Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections in the next."
"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
Loretta Lux
"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
Ambrose Bierce
"I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day."
Lewis Carroll
"Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections in the next."
Cesare Pavese
"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
George Eliot
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