Just bought plane tickets to go to Los Angeles in late July/early August. It’s been a few years since I’ve been there - any suggestions as to places (book stores, galleries, coffee shops, record stores, etc.) I should go to?
“Style is like a rainbow. It is a phenomenon of perception governed by the coincidence of certain physical conditions. We can see it only briefly while we pause between the sun and the rain, and it vanishes when we go to the place where we thought we saw it. Whenever we think we can grasp it, as in the work of an individual painter, it dissolves into the farther perspectives of the work of that painter’s predecessors or his followers, and it multiplies even in the painter’s single works, so that any one picture becomes a profusion of latent and fossil material when we see the work of his youth and his old age, of his teachers and his pupils. Which is now valid: the isolated work in its total physical presence, or the chain of works marking the known range of its position? Style pertains to the consideration of static groups of entities. It vanishes once these entities are restored to the flow of time.”
- George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962)
Vilnius, 2012
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Eric Ruby
Indie Photobook Library Interview with John Gossage
Heyward Hart
Prisoner identifying concentration camp guard, 1945 (Photographer unknown)
Ola Rindal
R.L. Burnside’s wood-chopping holler (1978)
And then all wars ended
Arms of every kind were outlawed and the masses gladly contributed them to giant foundries in which they were melted down and the metal poured back into the earth
The Pentagon was turned on its side and painted purple, yellow & green
All boundaries were dissolved
The slaughter of animals was forbidden
The whole of lower Manhattan became a meadow in which unfortunates from the Bowery were allowed to live out their fantasies in the sunshine and were cured
People swam in the sparkling rivers under blue skies streaked only with incense pouring from the new factories
World health was restored
An abundance of organic vegetables, fruits and grains was growing wild along the discarded highways
National flags were sewn together into brightly colored circus tents under which politicians were allowed to perform harmless theatrical games
The concept of work was forgotten
– Liner notes from Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow in Curved Air” (1969)
Vilnius, Lithuania
(Left)
Antanas Sutkus, circa 1961-1963
(Right),
My photograph, 2012
Brian Eno Imaginary Landscapes (1989)
