December 2017… end of year … one batch of my inbox images. more than 250 in process folder.
wim wenders selfie
when you push against..
if you aren’t stong enough to push others away, you push yourself further from them
/after reading Wenders selfi lament/
wenders wanders memory lane until he loses himself in a selfie proclamation. every sin is found in a selfie. yah, i doubt it. as i read him through his word and picture he moves from shared self to other self. from his understanding to failures of others; attributing what he does wrong to what everyone must be doing wrong.
He has grown to prominence in a field in which he has control of all that is said, shown, worn or done – movies. A movie which happens to a passive audience. Movies light up a group and then throw them out so the garbage of commece can be cleaned for the next group of passive consumers can be enlarged with a big screen world.
footnote:
camera phone was from 1968. the cellphone had a microphone, phone being an audio device. Phillip Kahn put a camera in that mice spot – one version they flipped, forward or back. Phones have always been personal, always been about the self, and the contacts of the life.
cell phonie to cellphi to selfie
Photography Is Small
photography began as small, which meant it had to have details
because it was precious personal small… miniature, momento
small enough to carry, like a smartphone. smooth, polished, thin, like a smartphone
something that was shared with heads bent toward it, like a smartphone at a table
photgraphry stopped time and traveled across space. traveling by bringing end points together
like the web
photgraphy left objecthood centuries ago
objecthood is sculpture, is painting striving for its canvas – sculpture has walked off the plynth, painting from above the couch replaced by big as life postcards from the camera
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