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Monday 13 November 2017

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Le cachalot | by hélène chantemerle

Le cachalot [Quartier Saint-Victor, Paris, Ile-de-France]: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 22 July 2017

Le cachalot | by hélène chantemerle

Le cachalot [Quartier Saint-Victor, Paris, Ile-de-France]: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 22 July 2017

Le cachalot | by hélène chantemerle

Le cachalot [Quartier Saint-Victor, Paris, Ile-de-France]: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 22 July 2017


Incroyable scène ce matin au pont de la Tournelle, où un cachalot s'est échoué. Les scientifiques sont sur place: image via BLOOM Association @Bloom_FR, 20 July 2017

Maybe we could think our way
out of this spot we're in
if it were an art installation 


Spot | by hélène chantemerle

Spot: photo by Hélène Chantemerle, 17 October 2017

Untitled | by xuhin

Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016

Untitled | by xuhin
 
Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016

Untitled | by xuhin

Untitled [France]: photo by Ksenia Tsykunova, 23 January 2016

door | by all quiet please proceed

door. 1106 Monroe, Gary, Indiana.: photo by Annie Maus, 17 August 2014

Checkered Past | by david grim

Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017

Checkered Past | by david grim


Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017

Checkered Past | by david grim

Checkered Past [Blawnox, PA]: photo by David Grim, 30 August 2017

DSC07524 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017
 
DSC07524 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017

DSC07524 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 18 October 2017

DSC04072 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017

DSC04072 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017

DSC04072 | by sotblindphot

Untitled: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 9 November 2017

;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/

;] Ethiopia 2017. 'I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.' - Steve McQueen: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 8 November 2017

5204 | by pkomo

5204: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 29 October 2017

Pearl Street | by neilsonabeel

Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017

Pearl Street | by neilsonabeel

Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017

Pearl Street | by neilsonabeel

Pearl Street [Brooklyn]: photo by neilson abeel, 6 November 2017

DSCF4744 | by Cristina De Maria

DSCF4744: photo by Cristina De Maria, 29 October 2017

Wisconsin, 2017. | by lxtworks

Wisconsin, 2017: photo by Alex Teltevskiy, 1 November 2017

Newell County No 4, Alberta | by chinese johnny

they're all around us | by gerhardkörsgen

they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011

they're all around us | by gerhardkörsgen

they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011

they're all around us | by gerhardkörsgen

they're all around us [Munich]: photo by Gerhard Körsgen, 21 June 2011

;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/

;] Romania 2017. 'Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway."― Dave Hickey: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 29 September 2017

my day | by Andrea Schuh

my day: photo by Andrea Schuh, 6 October 2017

night walk/夜の散歩 | by s_inagaki

night walk [Tokyo]: photo by satoshi inagaki, 9 September 2017

The Jerry #3 Ryde Street | by niggyl (catching up)

The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017

The Jerry #3 Ryde Street | by niggyl (catching up)

The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017

The Jerry #3 Ryde Street | by niggyl (catching up)

The Jerry #4 Ryde Street. Number Three in the Bridgewater Jerry series and here Ryde Street vanishes into the fog alongside the North Hobart Oval. I do like shooting into the sun but it brings its own hazards. I'd just shot this and a car turned into the space where I was crouched down low to the road... [North Hobart, Tasmania]: photo by niggyl (catching up), 15 August 2017

Titan | by efo

Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017

Titan | by efo

Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017

Titan | by efo

Titan. Djupavik, Iceland.: photo by efo, 7 October 2017

;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/

;] England 2017. 'The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.' - Lucien Freud: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 13 October 2017

fence | by Paul Lundberg

fence: photo by Paul Lundberg, 18 October 2017

fence | by Paul Lundberg

fence: photo by Paul Lundberg, 18 October 2017
fence | by Paul Lundberg

fence: photo by Paul Lundberg, 18 October 2017

5 comments:

TC said...


Ali Farka Touré: Savane

Ali Farka Touré: Yulli / Ketiné / Ai Du (live in Bamako)

(Ai Du, from 5:45)


Vieux Farka Touré: Ai Du (live, 2017)

kent said...

Or not. k

Hilton said...

Notre Dame de Baleine

William Keckler said...

Great selections and I love that conceptualist loupe thing you do. Reminds me of the photo scan scene in Blade Runner, the grain immersion, which is still hypnotic to me. I think I half-believed the Seine whale canard when I first saw the photo. I was probably falling into some false-fangled Coriolis force theory as "explanation."

TC said...

Thanks to all for good comments.

Probably everybody who looks at the top shot will have the same double take reaction William describes, upon grasping the canard.

It is indeed an art installation, done by a Belgian collective that calls itself Captain Boomer. This is the sixth such work they have done; earlier ones were in Rennes, Scheveningen, Valencia, etc. The works are erected with complete pretense of being "real".

(Well, maybe not quite so complete... in actual truth, dead whales are a sad spectacle, yet not so easily approached for gaping... when we lived out near Duxbury Reef, a couple of them turned up on RCA Beach, and ... phew!)

While the image itself evokes a powerful sense of things gone wrong, the wounding of the oceans, and so on, the group bases its work on a single simple premise: whale groundings are caused by human activity.

But that is pure speculation.

So there are skeptics.

"As with so many things in the natural world, human beings like to humor themselves, believing they understand why a magnificent creature like a whale would beach itself and using this conceit to create an art installation. In fact, humans have no idea, because they don't understand the natural world they so blithely destroy. In the end, all we may be left with is art installations like this one."

That comes not from a scientist but from someone in the photographic community. When it comes to whale groundings, marine biologists have to concede they don't know much more than the photographic community.

So, a bit of a complication.

(No such complication entangled the D Hirst shark, to take a blatant example. Hirst of course had no intent to save the world's oceans, nor the creatures thereof. Pretty simple. Get the money. Things were so much simpler before the world -- even possibly, who knows, the art world -- was coming to an end!)

The blog proposes a sort of picture language, in which the words would be pictures, and vice versa. The whale shot was meant to cast a mood which the further images sustain. Is it the mood of Now?

There is a second interesting picture that may have caused a spot of wonderment. If you're reading these comments you've very likely already guessed which one.

"Imagined 52" is a composite assemblage made of 52 Diane Arbus shots.