Of images and likenesses
Consider the two images below, neither one perhaps what a camera might have seen if a photographer could time-travel back two thousand years, but each suited to the people for whom it was produced — in China, in Africa:
The Christs these two images evoke come from a different mode of seeing to the images captured in biometric scans and on ID cards — yet they are well-suited for devotion and inspiration…
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Grurray:
May 31st, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Very enjoyable post.
You’ve inspired me to re-watch Eisenstein’s Odessa Steps this morning. Jaw droppingly skillful evolution of the
Hegelian dialectic:
Truth consists, not of contradictions, but of moments which, if separated, would be contradictions, but which in their synthesis are reconciled and consistent
Now, if Coppola was really on the ball he would have used, for maximum contapuntal effect, something instead of the Doors. Perhaps the Beach Boys.
That tea pot is not innocent. It must have been intentional.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it an archetype.
More like a disturbing undercurrent.
Contrast and simultaneity indeed:
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