"A beautiful Storm": David Lynch on the magic of watching photographs

"A beautiful Storm": David Lynch on the magic of watching (and choosing favourite) photographs


http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/david_lynch_talks_candidly_about_his_99_favorite_photographs.html

"Spaceship Earth" and the Overview Effect: what seeing the earth from space does to humans

"Spaceship Earth" and the Overview Effect: what seeing the Earth from space does to humans

watch OVERVIEW

"A GRACEFUL DEATH" by Antonia Rolls

I post the link of another artists who followed the journey of her partner from life to death by portraying him. The exhibition of this journey can be seen at St. James's Piccadilly - London from March 27 to April 10 2012. The author describes the exhibition with these words on her blog: 

"A Graceful Death started with painting the last few weeks, days and day of the life of my partner as he gracefully left this life. It has grown to include paintings of others at the most important part of their lives, as they near the end, and of those who are left behind." 

(http://www.agracefuldeath.blogspot.com/ )

'Death becomes him: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern – in pictures' @Guardian

First Damien Hirst retrospective in London at Tate Modern from April 4 to September 2012.

@Guardian

http://bit.ly/HAWiVT

Columbia University Seminar on Death

Are you in New York on Saturday March 24th? Make sure you go to Columbia for their seminar on Death:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/death/

CFP: Workshop: Haunting Memories – Unsettled pasts and disputed spaces

Call For Papers:

The workshop is being organised by the members of the Crossing Cultures Research Group based in the School of Arts and Humanities at Stirling University.

For more information please visit : http://www.crossingcultures.stir.ac.uk/events/haunting-memories-unsettled-pasts-and-disputed-spaces/

'The Lively Morgue' by NY Times

The New York times has launched a website where you can see (and buy prints of) their incredible photographic collection (5-6 million photographs).

http://livelymorgue.tumblr.com/

What is most interesting to me is the fact that each photograph is shown on the front and on the back side, where you can see all the stamps and scribbles of people who handled it. When we watch images on newspapers we only see the front, what they represent, but of course photographs are more than that and seeing the backside provides a glimpse of their complexity (and materiality, fellow anthropologists would say...).

Also interesting of course, is the choice of name...

Enjoy