From Times Quotidian, the on-line arts and culture journal.

Selections from an ongoing series by Janet on Photography and Words, sometimes with music and always with reflections on time and memory.

 

THE AMBIDEXTROUS ARTIST: The Photograph and Text (Wright Morris, Robert Frank, et al)

 

SALVAGE AND SABOTAGE: on Maya Zack, W. G. Sebald, Walter Benjamin and Chris Marker

 

THE M– USEUM OF EXILE: Photography and Time at the Border (with music by Paco Ibanez)

 

ON HER OWN: Photography and Time in Maine, A Meditation on Chansonetta Emmons

 
 

THREE SUITCASES: Walter Benjamin; Agusti Centelles; and the Hypothetical Suitcase of Baltasar Garzon

Part One
Part Two

 

LA VIDA: PHOTOGRAPHY AND TIME AT THE CENTER/ CENTRO? : Thoughts sparked by Return to Centro Historico by Ilan Stavans (with music by Klemerson)

 

THANK YOU FOR LOOKING: Peter Nadas, Victor Erice, Photography, Words, Trees, and the Passages of Times 

 

HOLES IN THE NET OF TIME: Photography and Time in Observatory and Forest. Reflections on two recent books of photography and text: ‘From The Observatory’ by Julio Cortazar and ‘December’ by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter

 

AUTOMOTIVE reflections on Leos Carax’s film HOLY MOTORS

 

THE SHACK OF FILM: On the Occasion of ‘Agnes Varda in Californialand’