Stephanie Barber, Corruptible, 2014
Stephanie Barber is a writer-in-residence at M|I|C/A.
For this project she paired fragmented musings on the human condition with a pile of found photographs.
Stephanie Barber is a writer-in-residence at M|I|C/A.
For this project she paired fragmented musings on the human condition with a pile of found photographs.
..."[O]h the pleasure of feeling, privately. The singularity and specificity of the way we experience our senses are the carpets and cushions of our internal landscapes. This is one of our few possessions, this way we experience our senses. (Set aside for a moment the way the word “possess” flips backward and forward in this usage.) The way we think we own these experiences, these feelings.
"The conceptual dissonance of the prideful/shameful coveting we engage in when feeling… is weighed against the intense desire we have to share and trade, unite, and transcend the intensity that privacy exacerbates. This is why the humans try. And why there is a word lonesome. And also why there is such a thing as a camera. The way it seems to promise a pause or the miracle of another’s perspective... With its so many metaphors and its dangerous and tantalizing suggestion that experience can be shared, made public. “Remember it was sort of sunny? Remember you turned away and at just that moment Suzie saw the bird fly through the rainbow? Remember how sad and angry you were at having missed it? See how sad and angry you were? Look.'"
Read more here. A cool blog with more found photos. And another. And another.
"The conceptual dissonance of the prideful/shameful coveting we engage in when feeling… is weighed against the intense desire we have to share and trade, unite, and transcend the intensity that privacy exacerbates. This is why the humans try. And why there is a word lonesome. And also why there is such a thing as a camera. The way it seems to promise a pause or the miracle of another’s perspective... With its so many metaphors and its dangerous and tantalizing suggestion that experience can be shared, made public. “Remember it was sort of sunny? Remember you turned away and at just that moment Suzie saw the bird fly through the rainbow? Remember how sad and angry you were at having missed it? See how sad and angry you were? Look.'"
Read more here. A cool blog with more found photos. And another. And another.
A historical precedent for found objects as art was set by artists like Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso,
among many, many others.
among many, many others.
Marcel Duchamp and one of his Readymades
Picasso Bull's Head, 1942
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