writing and translation
I recently reviewed this book (in Source: The Photographic Review 87). The information–both the images and the slight details about the photographers–is more than sufficient to provoke a rethinking of vision itself. I would have appreciated a more considered organizational structure and more about the individuals, their decisions and their working methods.
Lambert Wiesing’s new book Ich für Mich: eine Phänomenolgie des Selbstbewusstseins, sounds difficult. And it is. But I have it on very good authority — namely his — that I did actually grasp the main idea, which is that self-awareness is an aesthetic awareness. Brilliant! This time, we won’t, we can’t get “aesthetic” mixed up with art!
