Writing and Digging
My first reading at Telltales (the writers group in Falmouth–see last post) was called “Daisies”. It’s pretty much a description of something that happened to me–hard to say exactly when, but within the...
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The Blind Photographer
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...
True Translation
Translation was such an integral part of Flusser’s writing practice that it seems intrusive to translate again, or to translate what he did not. He was not in any way reassuring about the issue either:...
The Visibility of the Image
I am pleased to be the translator of this, the second edition of Lambert Wiesing’s Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes. The book, first published in 1996, draws on the history of formal aesthetics to present an...