100 years of loneliness

Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters (1978-93)

Artist’s statement: 

“I’m a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led to this vision went something like this: 

Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? 

And the answer: You get a shining screen. 

Immediately I sprang to action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. 

That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.”

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Selected Details From Irish Artist Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass Works (Sources from Flickr)

Harry Clarke (March 17, 1889 – January 6, 1931) was an Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. 

 

Between the years 1917 to 1931 he carried out over forty commissions for churches in Ireland, Great Britain and elsewhere. Clarke’s windows have been described as “breathtaking”, “magnificent” and “intensely moving”, by some and vividly illustrate Clarke’s unique style with lively animated faces, a profusion of rich vibrant colours and generous ornamentation. 

 

Having been plagued by poor health for most of his life, Clarke died at the age of 41.

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lohrien:

Paintings by Milenka Delic

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Greta Garbo at age 18, photographed by Olaf Ekstrand, Stockholm, 1923.

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