Joni Mitchell Update – April 2015
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An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca
Vitro NasuIconoclastic Incubator
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An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca
See more art by Fung Lin Hall (Gold Bird Variations)
Desert Time – more art here by FLH.
Last Life in the Lens Universe – (with bonus film links)
Andre Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958)
was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.
His personal friendships with many directors he wrote about also furthered his analysis of their work. He became a central figure not only in film critique, but in bringing about certain collaborators, as well. Bazin also preferred long takes to montage editing. He believed that less was more, and that narrative was key to great film.
Bazin, who was influenced by personalism, believed that a film should represent a director’s personal vision. This idea had a pivotal importance in the development of the auteur theory, the manifesto for which François Truffaut’s article, “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema”, was published by his mentor Bazin in Cahiers in 1954. Bazin also is known as a proponent of “appreciative criticism”, the notion that only critics who like a film should review it, thus encouraging constructive criticism.
François Truffaut dedicated The 400 Blows to Bazin, who died one day after shooting commenced on the film.
Jean Renoir dedicated the revival of The Rules of the Game to the memory of Bazin.
David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest references Bazin in regard to film and film criticism.
Cahiers
Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951
Eduardo Galeano Open Veins of Latin America Dies
My Hero, Eduardo Galeano – by Tariq Ali
Was he optimistic or pessimistic? Both, often together, but he never gave up hope. The right to dream, he insisted, should be inscribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That remained strong all his life. It is visible in his lyrical works on South American history. History written as poetry, three volumes of vignettes, each of them a pearl that went to make a stunning necklace. It is there in his journalism from Marcha in 1960s Uruguay to La Jornada in Mexico today. He was never dogmatic, always open to new ideas.
Democracy Now – Remembering Eduardo Galeano – Championo of Social Justice.
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Hugo Chavez gives the book Open Veins of Latin America to Obama.
Cunningham was named Imogen after the heroine of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
I don’t know what love means. (her quotes)
Ruth Asawa photo by Imogen Cunningham (previous post Ruth Asawa Art & Activism – San Francisco)
Ruth Asawa and Imogen Cunningham were good friends.
Click to see large
Mark Adams, Tapestry Designer, and His Wife, the Printmaker
Portrait of Imogen by David Park
Photo of David Park, 1958 by Imogen
Hands and Aloe Plicatilis, 1960
Harry Partch (Previous post)
Les Poets Maudits
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Brussels Oct 07, 1873
Total Eclipse (youtube here) (a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his play. Verlaine was portrayed by David Thewlis and Leonardo DiCaprio played Rimbaud.)
Where is Rimbaud (previous post )
Scroll down to see some Verlaine related erotic drawings
Claire de Lune (youtube)
The Movies’ Grandest Oldest Man: Manoel de Oliveira Dies at 106
Manoel de Oliveira at 100 (previous post)
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Egypt 107, 1983
Gelatin Silver print
More photos at Kenro Izu (homepage)
EL 1#4, 2013
Gelatin Silver Print
Varanasi, India 2013. At the “House of Liberation” a free housing where people come to die near the holy river Ganges
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WHERE PRAYER ECHOES
India 8, 2008
Platinum-Palladium printan
Kenro Izu (井津 建郎 Izu Kenrō?, born 1949) is a Japanese-born photographer based in the United States.[1]
Izu attended Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo from 1969-1972. After moving to the United States in 1972, he spent two years working as a photo assistant in New York City and subsequently established his own studio, specializing in still life photography. Since 1979, in addition to his well established commercial work, Kenro began his serious professional commitment to his fine art photography, traveling the world to capture the sacred ancient stone monuments in their natural settings. He traveled and documented Egypt, Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, France and Easter Island (Chile).
He has also focused on Buddhism and Hindu monuments in South East Asia: Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, Vietnam and India. Through them, he captures profound beauty with natural states of decay. Izu founded Friends Without a Border, an organization devoted to raising funds for children’s hospitals in Cambodia. Profits from select prints sales and his book, Light Over Ancient Angkor, are donated to this cause. Izu is the recipient of the 2007 Lucie Awards’ Visionary Photographer award, and was published by En Foco’s photographic journal Nueva Luz.