Bertrom.

Francesco Zizola.

"The peculiarity of my position lies in having found myself walking the ridge that separates two worlds: the one that divides the world of the viewer from that of the viewed.”

‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is this photo the ultimate royal portrait? — The Guardian This image of Mountbatten-Windsor is full of shock, pain and horror, bringing to mind dark works by Munch, Goya and Courbet. Will this portrait of power rotting away in real time be how history rememb...

It’s the eyes that do it. They suck you into the photo’s abyss: Mountbatten-Windsor is aghast, stupefied, frozen in wide-eyed dismay and distress.

Good.
About time.

Hello!

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

More relevant than ever.

You read all his books?
Have you recovered?!

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Cormac McCarthy.

The Road.

Opinion | Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong — The Guardian By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

“Ultimately, the film was an act of cynical co-option by someone who didn’t understand the molten core of this novel and its groundbreaking approach to class, race and gender, or chose not to. And that’s why it made me feel so bored, and sad.”

Finally a review that makes sense of the hype.

‘He couldn’t be happier’: celebrating William Eggleston’s incredible photography — The Guardian A new exhibition brings together new dye-transfer prints of the classically American photographer’s work

“Eggleston’s photos tend to feel decontextualized. They do not have titles or captions and he is hostile to interpretation. “Words and pictures are like two different animals,” he told the New York Times in 2016. “They don’t particularly like each other.”

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Daidō Moriyama
emerged from the influential Provoke movement, which began as a magazine in 1968 aiming to ‘free photography from subservience to the language of words’.

Opinion | Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong — The Guardian By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

“Ultimately, the film was an act of cynical co-option by someone who didn’t understand the molten core of this novel and its groundbreaking approach to class, race and gender, or chose not to. And that’s why it made me feel so bored, and sad.”

Finally a review that makes sense of the hype.

Felix Nussbaum.

Fear.
Self-Portrait With His Niece Marianne.

1941.

Nussbaum embraces Marianne while behind them on the page of a French newspaper, we read, "storm over Europe".

They were both murdered in Auschwitz in August 1944.

No voiceover, text, or score; no clear protagonists, no simplistic narrative arc.
He was a genius who “.. didn’t want to break the thread between the subject and the viewer.”
A sad loss, but what a magnificent life.
@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social

Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96 — The Guardian Recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, Wiseman directed and produced almost 50 films with a lifelong commitment to curiosity and naturalism

“The variety and complexity of human behaviour observed in making one of the films, and cumulatively, all of the films is staggering, and I think it is important to document kindness, civility and generosity of spirit as it is to show cruelty, banality and indifference.”
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Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Screenplay by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra.

L'eclisse.

1962.

“Your vigilance as an artist is an amorous vigilance, a vigilance of desire.”
Roland Barthes to Michelangelo Antonioni, 1979.

Priscilla, 1969.

Joseph Szabo's most iconic photograph shot in 1969 on Jones Beach, exudes all the moments of uncertainty, awkwardness and bravado of pre-adulthood.

Herbert List.

"The dark impressions of Paris seem at odds with our concept of List as the master of Mediterranean sunlight".

Jakob Steinnardt.

The City.

1913.

Felix Nussbaum.

Lamenting Women (Two Girls in Front of a Wall).

1941.

This is him Bob.
I posted some of his work many years ago and had, literally thousands and thousands of responses. Proved to me how wide the interest is in these wonderful quotidian images.
A lovely man.

It does Cathy.

Peter Mitchell.

Leeds.
1970s.

The man of the pavement.

I have always loved his work.
Inspirational, and a master of the quotidian.

Delaine Le Bas.

England.

2005.

Funchal.

Blackbird.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

Mexican.

1902 - 2002.

One of the founders of modern photography and considered the main representative of Latin American photography in the 20th century.

Looks like Vertigo to me 😊

How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir? | TheCollector Before German Expressionism of the 1920s changed cinema forever, it would make its way to Hollywood and shape the hard-boiled detective genre of Film Noir.

It is Bob. I taught a module on this linking European silent film and Hollywood.

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Apparently it’s on Amazon Prime Bob.

Go on.. give it a go Pauline..