Jack The Ripper: A Portrait's Gallery

where no endings end

before the dance, beyond the creek

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Martine Franck (April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012) - Photographer

FRANCE. Hauts de Seine. Meudon. 1991.

"A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth.

 It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression.

 What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected."

SWITZERLAND. Basel. Carnival. 1977.

FRANCE. Paris. Opéra Garnier. The "Petits Rats" of the Paris Opera in one of the dressing rooms. 1979.

USA. New York City. Veterans' parade, commemorating the armistice. November 11th, 1974. 

courtesy of Magnum Photos

Doors

"An open door says, “Come in.”

A shut door says, “Who are you?”

Shadows and ghosts go through shut doors.

If a door is shut and you want it shut,

     why open it?

If a door is open and you want it open,

     why shut it?

Doors forget but only doors know what it is

     doors forget."

--Carl Sandburg

tv shot

iPhone

a poem

Czeslaw Milosz

via The Antidote 

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The Bend

By Claude Esteban

Around the bend of a phrase

you return, it’s dawn in a book, it’s

a garden, one can

see everything, the dew, a moth

on a leaf and it’s you

who rises suddenly amid the pages

and the book grows more lovely

because it’s you

and you've not grown old, you walk

slowly to the door.

Source: Poetry (June 2011).

Translated from the French by Joanie Mackowski 

it's dawn in a book somewhere

BLUE BOOK ONE: DREAMHOUSE

"Dreamhouse consists of two high-quality photobooks and two tapes in a lovely wooden case. One book juxtaposes architectural details of men's bodies with architectural details of buildings and the other book juxtaposes architectural details of women's bodies with architectural details of buildings.

Porn, basically. For people who are sexually attracted to architecture.

Photographers featured in Dreamhouse are:

Adam Revington
Alejandra Vaculi
Alice LaComte
Andrew Schroer
Anton Novoselov
ar_graff
Artem Kolesnikov
Avard Woolaver
Barry Falk
black opal 2005
Blackstation
Catherine Mendez
Cedric Yon
Chris Friel
CM Goodenbury
David Olsson
Denis Cherim
Delay Tactics
Diane Powers
Dimas Veodovato
Douwe Dijkstra
Ece Bal
Eiko Weishaupt
Gabriel Green
Gary Poulton
Heitor Magno
Jacob Price
Jan Zimmerman
John Lamont
Jonathan Kos-Read
Juan D Quintero
Kaometet
Katie Bauer
Kenny Lok
Krystian Kujda
Larrend Lacuesta
Laurence Philomene Oliver
Louise Butterworth
Lena U
Luca Norbiato
Malte Wandel
Maria Luisa Corapi
Mariana Castro
Marquitos Sanabria
Maykel Lima
Melanie K
Michael Scholz
Minno Ramirez Terron
Miroslava Brooks
Natalie Kirk
orinoko42
Patrick Warner
Philippe Conquet
Rebecca Risjdijk
RS Nisio
Silvia Grav
Silvia Sani
Sumyko
Tim Schreier
tekktoo
Yves Castellano

The music contained on the tapes is a "soundtrack" of sorts. One tape is a mix of Blue Tapes artists Whitney George, Guzzlemug, Prayer and We are Bright & Broken. The other tape is a collage piece - called Sleeping in Houses - themed on architecture, memory and dreams, by Thank You, Merciless Onlookers."

order from: //bluetapes.co.uk/product/blue-book-one-dreamhouse

(the individual books are also available to buy separately from Blurb)

RD Laing - revisited / admin invite / 18+ Group

The way we have grown to see 'things' beyond the norm, beneath the surface, the fabric or matrix of a 'so-called society'.

Psychology and visual concepts in the 21st century.

Our experience in an ever-increasing technological age of ourselves and others.

February Features on Flickr

nothing but special
Charlotte Lucca, London