Category: Theory

In Frank’s West

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Cover to uncover… picture making method. Meaning within the frame. Understanding what comes from beyond the frame.

US 91, Leaving Blackfoot Idaho shows two young men picked up by the photographer. Though the men seem intently focussed on the road, the car windows are blank. A text by the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon is in the visor; this Frank had copied down when he visited Dorothea Lange before he set off on his journey to find the heart of America.

one aspect of “reading” for understanding is in your covering items contained within the frame… What is lost

in this instance, it is very difficult to understand the text — it cannot be read .. it is mere squiggle. What would it be?

We have to leave the frame for the content..

That text reads: ‘The contemplation of things as they are/without error or confusion/without substitution or imposture/is in itself a nobler thing/than a whole harvest of invention.’

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87174/u-s-91-leaving-blackfoot-idaho

For the second half of Dorothea Lange’s life, that quotation from the English philosopher Francis Bacon occupied space within her day. She pinned a printout of those words on her darkroom door in 1933. It remained there until she died, at 70, in 1965 — three months before her first retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York .

Referenced in publications

proof sheet: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.78965.html

2 possible frames … chose the one without the space between the figures.

same configuration choice in next row of grouped figures.. make the group of one blob.. cluster into single tone pack

Robert Frank’s book, The Americans, is divided into 4 sections. Flags mark the divisions of the book.

  • Flag blowing.. Parade, 1955.. two people “looking” out of windows (First Chapter)
  • Flag hanging over stripe shirt, and… Fourth of July, Jay, New York.
  • Flag as shade… Backyard, Venice West, California.. just two pages after Bar, Detroit.
  • Tuba player… 1956, Political Rally, Chicago (Fourth Chapter)

Robert Frank (b. 1924) traveled across the United States to photograph, as he wrote, “the kind of civilization born here and spreading elsewhere.” During his nine-month journey, he took 767 rolls of film (more than 27,000 images) and made more than 1,000 work prints. He then spent a year editing, selecting, and sequencing the photographs, linking them thematically, conceptually, formally, emotionally, and linguistically. https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-presents-looking-in-robert-franks-the-amer/

numbers happen

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, creativity, overnight notes, Theory

3.14. it is always a PI day celebration. Like all symbols, empty unless used.

pieranch

3.14159265359

other numbers: 01.10.01

On this yesterday in 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel.

or one that follows me:

… and dogs playing poker . The dogs, in this case, are the mistaken Xwits, opening files and folders, trying to figure out what “it all” means .. The worst of programmers write programs without domain knowledge .. that’s what is happening with Elon’s crew .. Smart enough to gain root but not smart enough to know what’s at stake ..Without knowing the path.

A thought experiment: How many millions of dollars do you think are paid by social security administration to those over 95; how about over 105 .. how much do you think the annual payment is for someone on SSA; someone who retired 35 years ago .. do you think it’s $2000 a year ? more, or less.. so, someone being paid $2000 a year, how many “someones” does it take to defraud the government by millions and millions … How many untaxed millionaires …

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian/statistics/

They, the valley dogs, arrived based on several assumptions. One being{ government is evil, another being, government employees and bureaucrats are lazy, incompetent ,stupid, and evil .. Finally, that they, the volunteer geniuses are saviors, saviors of the world; they, being smart, genius even ,creative beyond anyone’s expectation; that they will set it right, by first smashing it up …

None of their assumptions are correct.. none of their experiences are authentic. They’ve all been protected by a life of Glamping . They are each involved because of one thing: profit and proximity to someone who is profitable. A numbers game.

Their mistake is thinking profit is a prophet. Profit is excess capital; cultural fat. Money uncirculated. Retained earnings isn’t muscle, it is fat.