He'd been in Brussels back in March, through June. Well, now he's in Oporto. I can hardly wait to take a look. I just had **spoiler alert**
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He'd been in Brussels back in March, through June. Well, now he's in Oporto. I can hardly wait to take a look. I just had the chance for this snapshot. Alfândega, where once men traded goods, now looks are traded.
Well, I've been there, in Alfândega, on the 11th of November; absolutely great. Most of the iconic, color photographs by McCurry were there, in big format; also, some photographs from his work in the 1970's in black and white. I just took some snapshots.
“I was attracted to filmmaking’s ability to create an immersive experience, through image, sound and motion”
“Movies by directors such as Stanley Kub“I was attracted to filmmaking’s ability to create an immersive experience, through image, sound and motion”
“Movies by directors such as Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg transported me to suspenseful, strange and psychologically-charged places that didn’t merely entertain, but revealed complex truths about life, people and the world.
“Photography to me was the next best thing to filmmaking”
Whether you believe in them or not; or, whether you think you don't have the psychic ability to see them...; or, whether you think it's fake,...it just doesn't matter. Doyle's work presents a good discussion of the reactions of the people when the photos showed up. Perhaps, the artistic side of the matter nobody would dare to question.
"September 6, 1920. MY DEAR DOYLE, Greetings and best wishes .... I have received from Elsie three more negatives taken a few days back. I need not describe them, for enclosed are the three prints in a separate envelope. The Flying Fairy and the Fairies’ Bower are the most amazing that any modern eye has ever seen surely I received these plates on Friday morning last and have since been thinking furiously."
"MELBOURNE, October 21, 1920. DEAR GARDNER, My heart was gladdened when out here in far Australia I had your note and the three wonderful prints which are confirmatory of our published results. You and I needed no confirmation, but the whole line of thought will be so novel to the ordinary busy man who has not followed psychic inquiry, that he will need that it be repeated again and yet again before he realizes that this new order of life is really established and has to be taken into serious account, just as the pigmies of Central Africa. ... It almost seems to me that those wise entities who are conducting this campaign from the other side, and using some of us as humble instruments have recoiled before that sullen stupidity against which Goethe said the Gods themselves fight in vain, and have opened up an entirely new line of advance, which will turn that so -called religious,” and essentially irreligious, position, which has helped to bar our way. ... Yours sincerely, ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE."
"...a gentleman named Matthews, writing on January 3, 1921, from San Antonio, Texas. He declared that his three daughters, now married women, could all see fairies before the age of puberty, but never after it. The fairies said to them We are not of the human evolution".
“His images of London, taken with the keen eye and gentle humility of a recent immigrant, are so evocative you feel they must be stills from films mad“His images of London, taken with the keen eye and gentle humility of a recent immigrant, are so evocative you feel they must be stills from films made before the war, mysteriously replayed in your mind’s eye.” Gaby Wood, The Telegraph
"Without the camera —the eye of our victorious armies —we doubt whether the Teuton beast would yet be retreating to his lair. Now, free from war -time"Without the camera —the eye of our victorious armies —we doubt whether the Teuton beast would yet be retreating to his lair. Now, free from war -time trammels, we look to the coming days for a great forward movement of our Cinderella".
Right, war meant to be over, then new prospects to show up.
"The war has proved, however, beyond argument, that when mankind comes to grips, men —and what is euphemistically termed “human nature” are much the s"The war has proved, however, beyond argument, that when mankind comes to grips, men —and what is euphemistically termed “human nature” are much the same now as they were two thousand or more years ago."
Though a nation [Great Britain] under war , that didn't prevent the publication of this fine collection of world's pictorial photographic work. It had been so for 22 consecutive years.
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