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Tacita Dean. Images from The Russian Ending, 2001:
Tacita Dean. Images from The Russian Ending, 2001.
Each image in the portfolio is derived from a postcard collected by Dean in her visits to European flea markets. Most of the images depict accidents and disasters, both man-made and natural. Superimposed on each image are white handwritten notes in the style of film directions with instructions for lighting, sound and camera movements, suggesting that the each picture is the working note for a film. The title of the series is taken from a convention in the early years of the Danish film industry when each film was produced in two versions, one with a happy ending for the American market, the other with a tragic ending for Russian audiences. Dean's interventions encourage viewers to formulate narratives leading up to the tragic denouements in the prints, engaging and implicating the audience in the creative process.
Wim Wenders, Lounge Painting #1, Gila Bend,
Arizona, 1983
It
took me hours to find somebody
who could open up the lobby
of the old "Stout's" hotel on Main Street in Gila Bend.
It had been closed for years already.
That painting over the Coke machine haunts me ever since.
It's the dream version
of the perfect beginning
of a road movie.
Continue reading Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth.
Gerhart Richter, Tote Dead, 1988 Oil on Canvas
Images © Monika Bielskyte
from Issue 001 of the really great & inspirational magazine someslashthings
Shomei Tomatsu, Boy and the Sea Tokyo 1969
© Sally Mann, The Three Graces, 1994I love this photograph: from a woman's perspective it's both empowering and liberating. (Sally Mann, Jesse Mann and Virginia Mann).
