NAN GOLDIN: “(Nan) Goldin’s Years” (2002)

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…o be a straight and generally harmonious eroticism–that is pretty well unprecedented in the Goldin oeuvre. The two focal French families Goldin has been tracking, “Aurele, Joana, and Lou” and “Valerie, Bruno, and Mel,” each a heterosexual couple with a young son, were more pungent than the twenty-or-so-year-old French lovers, while being no less cinematic. Of the two, I preferred “Valerie, Bruno, and Mel.”…

NAN GOLDIN: “(Nan) Goldin’s Years” (2002)

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

…eliefs in the power of photography to reveal hidden truths. At the same time, it contributes to a climate of suspicion in which O.J.Simpson’s lawyer can plausibly dismiss a photograph showing his client wearing the rare Bruno Magli shoes worn by the killer as fakes, only to be outdone when thirty more pictures were discovered. One photograph alone no longer shows the truth. …[omission of discussion of soap opera/comic books] At this point, …

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

THEORY: “The Treacherous Medium: Why Photography Critics Hate Photographs”

…0;insights of semiotics, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and poststructural theories of representation” to rescue us from such pesky, potentially uncontrollable subjectivity. 5 Other photo books documenting the war include Bruno Stevens’s Bagdad: Au-delà du miroir and Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. 6 Though not definitely. In his book Night Draws Near, Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post writes that I…

THEORY: “The Treacherous Medium: Why Photography Critics Hate Photographs”

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Last Decisive Moment” (2004)

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Greenfield, Indiana, 1960 By Bruno Chalifour, Afterimage, Sept-Oct, 2004 A lot has been written, and more will be, about the life in photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. If Europe contributed to the medium in the twentieth century, Cartier-Bresson, a.k.a. HCB, probably stood among the best, if not the spearhead of its protagonists. For decades, this now world-famous photographer tried to seize the essence of his time, and crystallize it in th…

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Last Decisive Moment” (2004)

 
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