Random notes from this weekend,
The William Kentridge exhibit at the MOMA (see this!), notably the stop motion movies,
video: excerpt from Stereoscope (no sound), ©William Kentridge
Valerie Belin’s work, incredible black and white prints,
photo: ©Valerie Belin.
David Godblatt’s work, notably this portrait,
photo: Hillrow, Johannesburg, South Africa. ©David Goldblatt.
Karl Blossfeldt‘s work, so German, so exquisite, doing what much later the Becher‘s would do for industrial buildings,
photo: a picture of Monkshood by Karl Blossfeldt.
and also Blossfeldt’s uncanny resemblance to Dash Snow…
photo: a portrait of Karl Blossfeldt, 1895.
Finally, Nicholas Nixon‘s new book, Live, Love, Look, Last, which shows a 4 decade dedicated vision and Nixon’s adherence to something akin to a poetic form, showing how the singular becomes expansive, and furthermore how in the specific resides the universal,
photo: John Grady and Tesair Lauve, Cambridge, 1997, ©Nicholas Nixon.
