N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
© Andrea Polli, Appetite 4, installation detail, Here Space, NY, 1995 © Andrea Polli, Appetite 4, detail from installation WWW site showing a studio photograph of objects on a plate, 1995 “Research into the concept of appetite led me to consider my personal appetite for possessions. It became clear to me that I (like many…
Read More© Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, photographs taken between 1914 and 1918, while C was in Morocco recuperating from a war wound. “…consider the relation of this figure to the photographs taken by Clerambault. Does this historical fantasy of colonial cloth underlie his photographs? Do we see in them not, as some of them seemed earlier…
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© Vilma Pimenoff, Untitled (figures-left + beings-right), from The Dark Collection © Vilma Pimenoff, Untitled (beings), from The Dark Collection © Vilma Pimenoff, Untitled, from the series Demoiselles de Paris “Pierce called indexical the process of signification (semiosis) in which the signifier is bound to the referent not by a social convention ( = “symbol”),…
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