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I just tried to post about how I never tire of looking at and writing about Francesca Woodman’s 1976 photograph ‘On Being an Angel’ but the algorithm police considered it nudity. There is an irony here. The rule would probably disqualify a fair amount of extraordinary works by Woodman being shared on social media. Woodman, who photographed her body, was not about nudity. I cannot quite articulate how nudity and the body are not the same but they are not. (Help me if you have any ideas). Do find ‘On Being an Angel’ – the version with the folded umbrella on the side – and look at it closely. In any case, I still want to let Woodman speak, articulate her truth eloquently as she does in her photographs so here is ‘Self-portrait talking to Vince’ (1977) which, as @eleanor8472 and I showed in our work on the hysteric’s voice, utters what cannot be said.
15 March 2024
Monday photograph
18 April 2011Olivier Theyskens for Nina Ricci, Fall/Winter 2007/2008, by Julien Claessens….
Today, 2pm (when I remembered I did not photograph 7am)
14 February 2020
Hysteria and photography
11 November 2011Richard Avedon, Martha Graham and the Martha Graham Dance Company, New York, 1961 A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does…
Taking photographs: the difference between New York and Glasgow
21 October 2007…is public, I suppose • We had a robbery a few moths back and we can’t allow photographs • Photographing shops is not allowed –(is this legally true?) This is…
Sophie Calle; or The Delusions of the Artist
2 June 2006…and invention are blended together in a combination of text installations, photographs and objects. In one of her most celebrated pieces, Autobiographical Stories (1988), Calle narrates events of her life,…
A Lacanian murder mystery
12 June 2011…photography do. Of course, this is partly due to the subject matter, as crime photography begs psychological questions. Still, the concepts introduced make sense within the framework and are applied…
Seducers
18 June 2006Naia del Castillo, Seductor. Photograph, Cibachrome, Edition 1/10, 103 cm x 103 cm, 2002. Artium Collection, Spain. Naia del Castillo, Cortejo. Photograph, Cibachrome, Edition 7/10, 100 cm x 76 cm,…
Practice in my PhD
27 September 2008…the event left me ever so slightly slapped. Some members of the audience gave me a bit of a hard time over the photographs. True, they were photographers, so they…
Technical matters
5 October 2008…work that relates to research degrees. Nicky Bird led the day and it was wonderful to hear her talk about her struggles with the photograph below, and compelling to see…
And next week…
13 February 2009…abstract. I want to see it; I want to photograph it. Any tips on where to go? Any 19th Century arcades, amazing shopping malls, secretly fashionable streets or bars? Let…
Nikon or Canon
15 March 2009…way to capture the relationship, to apprehend what was going on, to replicate it in order to study it in depth. Photography was my discovery. Four years later, photos are…
Valentino
12 April 2009…I have been looking at closely, my double screen, my double mirror image. I recommend opening it in a new window. Laura González. Valentino. Photograph, 195 x 73 cm. 2009…
Exposed at Tate Modern
27 May 2010…iconic and taboo subjects. Beginning with the idea of the ‘unseen photographer’, Exposed presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers including Brassaï’s erotic Secret Paris of the 1930s images;…
Margarita Gluzberg’s Avenue des Gobelins
1 June 2011…spent a long while trying to figure out what goes on in the picture plain, only to be sucked in by the photograph. It is a feeling I love, so…
Sensuous objects
15 October 2011…Marlene Little’s presentation allowed us to think and touch something I had no concept of: a hip replacement. She showed it in X-ray, object form and artistic photograph in a…
Endorsements and reviews
27 February 2018…aspects of practice and theory, conducted through art‐work, photography, writing and psychoanalysis, Make Me Yours: How Art Seduces presents an innovative challenge to the formulaic organisation of argument, method and…
Heroines by Kate Zambreno *****
31 December 2013…Important because it is a coming into consciousness book for a woman and a writer. Hysterics, Kate Zambreno tells us, were photographed but could not photograph. This is her as…
June 2020: On Injuries
22 November 2020…mind on the infinite nature of the present moment. The photograph above, by the way, is my computer desktop image. It has kept me going the whole year. I will…
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child **
8 August 2022…you, they cut you. The only opponents Reacher truly feared were small whippy guys with fast hands and sharp blades. And a photograph is more than an images, it is…
Worth Dying For by Lee Child ***
10 October 2022…the book. So it is not very believable. What I learned from Worth Dying For: On Reacher’s observation powers (I love photographic observation): In the living room there was a…
January 2023: On the secret 🤫
26 May 2023A curious observation from my meditation practice Window sill at Yoga Moves Glasgow. Photograph by Mysore Yoga Paris. Kia is returning to Glasgow 14-16 April. Join us! A few times,…
About
1 June 2006I am an artist, writer and yoga teacher. My recent practice involves performance, film, dance, photography and text, and my work has been performed, exhibited and published in Europe and…
Being seen by Blind Greta
30 January 2007Douglas Gordon, 100 Blind Stars: Mirror Blind Greta, 2002. Photograph by Robert McKeever. Courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery. Just like people queued to see the empty space of the Mona…