A new show at the National Cinema Museum in Turin, directed by Italian film critic Alberto Barbera, showcases the movie work of Magnum photographers, who leaned heavily on friendships with the stars, he writes, “to create images that are often surprising, always original, and almost never what one would expect.” Click through for more photographs featured in “Magnum Sul Set”: http://nyr.kr/rUSM5b
Clowning, it seems to me, is where silent film is at its most playful and its most poetic. Nowadays, we talk of “standup” comedy, a phrase that indicates by its very description how frozen the body has become; entertainers are now “talking heads.” Silent films celebrated the poetry of motion. Silent film elevated the kinetic to metaphor. “I was alien to the slick tempo,” Chaplin wrote of his first trip to America in 1910. “In New York even the owner of the smallest enterprise acts with alacrity…. The soda jerk, when serving an egg malted milk, performs like a hopped up juggler.” The silent clowning—Chaplin’s especially—turned the exhausting American momentum into fun.
- John Lahr on the joy of silent film and his recent experience seeing Marion Davies in “Show People” (1928): http://nyr.kr/zJOysH
Nice moment i’ve seen it before~
Salvador Dali jumping, cats flying, water splashing – what more can one want? Philippe Halsman’s iconic jump portraits
Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and now would “stay”. Location: Vermont, August 1910 (via Exhibition: ‘ “Our Future Is In The Air”: Photographs from the 1910s’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York « Art Blart)
She’s on photography teacher’s list~
Erberto Carboni, 1958 (via Max Mara celebra 60 anos com exposição na Rússia « Elle News)
Omg classical max Mara!
Start to find a micro place to share.
