Pareidolia — Mousse Magazine and Publishing
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Pareidolia — Mousse Magazine and Publishing
the photograph as “memento mori” and “inventory of mortality”
Moyra Davey • Index Cards
there was no way for any single picture to tell its whole story without a thousand words of explanation. He thought wildly of printing them all on lantern-slides, and packing them together, packing more and more until their stained darknesses overlapped and nothing at all could be seen, no light came through: yet it would all be there. No. Not all.
... See moreJohn Crowley • Little, Big
There is a specific uncanny nausea that comes when you begin to look at every image or paragraph, and wonder, “does this mean anything?” Not is it real. But does it have meaning, does it have intention? Is there an intelligence behind it, trying to communicate something to you, or is it a simulation?
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Give the #1 bestseller to everyone you love this Christmas
Confession #1: This archive of images vexes me. They are photographs that affect me and images in which I see a multitude of things. I’m conflicted by the beauty I see in them, perplexed by the quiet introspection they so hauntingly depict.
Tina M. Campt • Listening to Images
object. A photograph turns a living person into a static mediated subject, anticipating his or her death. But a photograph, according to Barthes, does not always depict a dead subject or something that “is no longer” but rather something that “has been.”39 It represents the past without distinguishing between a living subject and a dead one.