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Interior Poetry

Cederwaydotorg -- Heather Wilmore Hornbeak (a Flickr user) has a nice collection of photographs of interiors (and exteriors) of homes.  These are some of the first images I stumbled across (I think they are from this gallery):

I believe these photos are taken for the purpose of documenting the interior of houses for potential buyers.  There are a number of photographers who have taken up photographing homes. . . I like these because they are being used. I should write more, but rather ask you if you've read Michael Blumenthal's Who Will Live  in Our Houses When We Die?  It is a beautiful poem (that I'm pretty sure I ripped the title off for a grad school project -- Where will your photos go when you die?) The last lines of the poem:

Oh, friend, who will live in our houses
when we can no longer sleep in them?  . . . 

And how can the unborn sing for us
when we return to the earth?

If you have that big Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (p. 1653-54). And read Blumenthal's other work. Especially: Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virgina. 

agents of Death

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death. --Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Quote #1: What is visual culture?

I'm going to be posting a few quotes mingled with my audio and image posts.  Here is a quote from Nicholas Mirzoeff's What is visual culture?  "Yet the visual is not simply the medium of information and mass culture.  It offers a sensual immediacy that cannot be rivalled by print media: the very element that makes visual imagery of all kinds distinct from texts.  This is not at all the same thing as simplicity but there is an undeniable impact on the first sight that a written text cannot replicate (p.9). 

notes for comps.