On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:36 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Well, reading that he switched from poetry to photoGRAPHy is
> interesting since both are forms of writing, as that 'graph' in the
> term implies. But I dont see the writer's need to 'read' the photo
> through White's homosexuality as a kind of 'climax', when what the
> photograph asks (at least of me) is just to See, as clearly as
> possible what he has laid out before us (written there?).
>
> I at least feel no need to read his personal life into such a
> beautiful, & as stated, abstract, image....
>
> Doug
> On 4-Feb-09, at 10:15 PM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 09:03 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >> These comments connect to my way of seeing both photography &
> >> painting, & are neatly put....
> >
> > The full article on Minor White can be found below, best wishes, Chris
> > Jones (by far too hot here, so little to say or do, except drinking
> > dolce rosso cheap sweet red Australian cask wine with four ice
> > cubes. At
> > least the wine makes the heat appear to disappear.)
> >
> >
> > Mirror of Pathos (Minor White, American Photographer) Yujiro Otsuki.
> > American photographer, Minor White (1908~1976), was one of the most
> > influential, ...
> > www.yujirootsuki.com/personal/nakedman.htm
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> Charles Ives
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