Night window
As the daguerreotype returns to life, it recedes into the dark behind its protective glass. In the dark we are vouchsafed a glimpse of an image in flight from us toward the not seen. Source: M. P....
View ArticleImage: two properties
1. Craquelure 2. Pigment Sources: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive, Theodore (TP) Hall Collection, catalog number TP Hall_000311; J. Paul Getty Museum,...
View ArticleLast gleaming: a date changes a connotation
I’m not going to state a source for this image. It probably wasn’t original to the site where I found it, and the site itself is a fetish blog mostly devoted to Third Reich militaria. The blogger has...
View ArticleSeen from on high
When a camera on the Brooklyn Bridge opened its shutter to admit light reflected from the American battleship New Jersey one day in about 1916, it recorded an image that not many Americans at the time...
View ArticleShe experiences a want / That image satisfies
The poem by Emily Dickinson is “A charm invests a face.” The two words you probably can’t read are “beheld” in line 2 and “interview” in line 7.
View ArticleEstampe XVI: blemish
In waters off Chicago the 1901 race for the Canada’s Cup is on, and judges on board the yacht Pathfinder are recording the progress of its history. From a distance, a man with a black curtain over his...
View ArticleThe term “a break in the communication”
1 2 3 Source: Costică Acsinte Archive, https://www.flickr.com/photos/costicaacsinte/
View ArticleToward the end, a new way of reading the word “light”
In New York, one cold morning as the long nineteenth century drew to its close, the front page of the New York Sun bustled with news of the continuing revolution in transportation. Off the coast of...
View ArticleThe image against the idea
1 Interviewer Thomas Vašek: You speak of a “metaphysical antisemitism” . . . Donatella di Cesare, vice president of the Martin Heidegger Society and author of Heidegger e gli ebrei. I “Quaderni Neri”...
View ArticleFanfare for bagpipe
What is the woman thinking as she grasps a glass in her huge hand? Her clothes are firmly secured and no communication can be opened with her eyes or her mouth. What is the man in the cap thinking? His...
View ArticleCitizens
1. “Mr. Greenwood in the office of the Knox Woolen Company, August 1900.” Mr. Greenwood is at his work in a little museum of calendars — at least six of them, by my count. The one behind him is the...
View ArticleTestament
Reflected from horsehide, light glows in a specific horsehide way. Wanting to believe that having seen the glow has conveyed it to me, I may try to prove my possession by making a bequest. I may try to...
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