I'd love to attend, but impossible. The secular angels of Rafael Alberti
have always been favourites of mine - maybe a new spectrum of angels will be
created by Vincent and Barbour ...
Maybe this meeting is the seed of a poetryetc festival, to be held at Uluru
or some more exotic (and cheaper!) venue.
Andrew
2009/8/11 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
> Bowering's Diamond Angels are fine - if they are not already out for hire!
> I am sure Shelia will up the ante with some serious Monglolian jade, lapis
> lazuli and flint for fire. At the sight of each angel, Alison promises to
> chant 'awesome'.
> I think I am down to carrying the rations.
> Who knows who else might show up - even just to roar as we may.
>
> --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Photography, affects and cybernetics
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 1:42 PM
>
> No, no, it's Bowering's Rilke, so to speak, with baseball players playing
> for the Angels; otherwise, I expect to roar...
>
> Doug
>
> Quoting "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Chris - I am talking off the top of my head - but you may looking into
> early Ansel Adams in the 30's when he was a correspondent with Stieglitz -
> who may have also given him a show and, some now say, a serious artist,
> rather than the falling off in his later work. This period is discussed in
> a new catalog from the O'Keefe Museum for a traveling show based on the
> period in the 30's in which Adams was in New Mexico with O'Keefe making
> photographs, many of the same sites that she painted.
> >
> > Stephen, who is soon off to the upper-zones of Mt. Whitney for that
> meeting with Doug Barbour. Great to hear, Doug, that you plan to give the
> group a read from Rilke. What could be more pure? Rilke at 14,000 feet. If
> Angels appear I will have my butterfly catching net on the ready, and an
> Angel Delivery box in my pack. I hear that the stronger angels can give us
> an aerial lift back down to the parking lot. In that case, I will give up
> the box.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Photography, affects and cybernetics
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 3:41 AM
> >
> > I have become fascinated by a connection the Zone System of Ansel Adams,
> > Minor White and the f64 group of photographers have as an aesthetics
> > what could be termed cybernetic culture. This also connects with Silvan
> > Tomkins 8 innate affects as the innate 8 zones of the f64 photographers.
> > By cybernetic culture I can also connect this to the PhDs that came out
> > of the Cybernetic and Culture Research Unit at Warwick in the 90s. The
> > dates also fit in, given Ansel Adams, The Negative, was published first
> > in 1948.
> >
> > I should perhaps write fully more on this? Anyways, others here may be
> > interested, best Chris Jones.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
>
> That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
>
> Frank O’Hara
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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