A body of work can turn out to be a milestone in an artist’s career. Somehow it might seal this artist’s fate as well as the perception you can have from him / her.

Sometimes it ends tragically as for Pasolini who has probably been assassinated in the aftermath of Salò. At some other time, an inflatable rabbit can transform a trader into one of the most successful contemporary artists. More rarely, it can also be a redemption as with Leni Riefenstahl’s The Last of the Nuba. Published in 1973, this book is documenting the 15 years she spent in Sudan and rehabilitated her artist status.

Many thanks to Lyne Friederich who scanned these images.

Keeping Busy

Photo by Paolo Zerbini

like this book bought at LN-CC

WIKIPEDIA SAYS:

“Miroslav Tichý (born November 20, 1926) is a photographer who from the 1960s to 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted him, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real.[1][2]

During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Tichý was considered a dissident and badly treated. His photographs remained largely unknown until an exhibition was held for him in 2004. Tichý does not attend exhibitions, and continues to live a life of self-sufficiency and freedom from the standards of society.[4]“


I SAY:
(nothing for once)

Man Ray
The Fantasies of Mr. Seabrook
ca. 1930
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Reproduced in Surrealist Masculinities

today i was searching the term “deliriu tremens”- I found this.

http://sangbleu.com/sb5/