Thanks, Doug. I've observed a number of filmmakers/photographers wax elegiac about
the end of film, most recently James Benning, Robert Frank, and Agnes Varda, but I've
also been impressed by what can be done digitally. Museums, libraries, and archives will
continue to preserve and exhibit what's on film. Perhaps elegiac aspects can be detected
in my continuing texts on photographers and filmmakers, but I'd argue that a larger
percentage entered through the language of my subjects rather than by a deliberate effort
on my part to write elegies. As a theme of films and novels, "the end of an era"
resonates with me.
Barry
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:34:27 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Neat, Barry, & an intriguing reminder of the way the whole series
>'takes on' an art/technology still important but perhaps already
>beginning to approach its end? That your series of such poems are a
>kind of elegy?
>
>Doug
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