The Missed Encounter
by Robert Gibbons
Stone monuments. One moves, as if alive, & stops, gigantic face near the ground.
Another rises before me, an obvious tomb – for an artist – some of his bronzes
displayed, attached to the stone. Angles & wedges, miniature chairs & doorstops,
& then a series of abstractions like those of Matisse at the [...]
“The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land. –Marshall McLuhan
This image has been haunting me [...]
Tagged Graphic Design, Popular CultureI was just looking through Todd Heisler’s absolutely spot-on revelations about Sara Palin. Heisler has been one of my favorite story tellers during this roller coaster election season and his latest photo essay is simply brilliant. While the lead image to the accompanying article, Back Home, Palin Finds Landscape Has Changed explains how Palin must [...]
“Although the land around Walden Pond has been preserved as a state park, the pond itself is hardly the quiet refuge it was in Thoreau’s day — at least not in the summer, when it is a popular swimming hole.”
This image really stood out from the accompanying photo essay to this NYT article, Thoreau is [...]
(Newsweek, November 20, 2000)
I wrote this a few days ago but was unable to post it until now.
Benita sent me an email link the other day to the Obama campaign’s latest online fund raising video. In the video, Obama is wearing a strong red tie and Biden a baby blue tie. She sent me [...]
Today is Memorial Day in the US. Doubtful there was any “coverage” by our local media here. But given the recent importance we’ve been placing on visual analysis, iconic studies, and semiotics I thought this image, featured today on the mainpage of John McCain’s campaign website, might be interesting to toss around.
I’ve recently been [...]
One of the most captivating presentations at the recent EAAS conference in Oslo was Kay Koppedrayer’s narration of the events at a Lakota sundance ceremony on the Pine Ridge reservation where American Flags were flown during the ceremony:
One year, four American flags flew over a Lakota sundance on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Raised on a [...]
Yesterday John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama. I know, old news already. But if you haven’t seen the video it’s worth noting the overwhelming enthusiasm from the Michigan crowd when Obama introduced Edwards. Considering he received 7% of the vote in West Virginia and isn’t even running I’d say he’s still got some serious mojo with [...]
Tagged 2008 Race, Narrative, PhotographyMy paper for the EAAS conference in Oslo last week dealt with icons and icon work, continuing a line of research I began about 5 years ago when I participated in a conference in Austria with the theme of US Icons. The convener of both the AAAS event in 2003 and of the Oslo workshop [...]
Tagged Journals and Publications, Photography, Popular Culture, Postmodern Culture, The 70s