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Archives for November 2014
posted in November, 2014
today’s daily snap: in tokyo
posted on 10/11/2014
london was ours
posted on 07/11/2014
In London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, author Amy Helen Bell writes:
Diarists’ and memoirists’ descriptions of London during the Blitz were heavily indebted to modernist metaphors. Civilian writers used metaphors of reading, watching films and photography to link raids to the familiar, and to emphasize their own importance as viewers. Like the Crimean soldier and the Great War journalist in London, Londoners during the Blitz were awed, saddened and excited by what they saw during the Blitz, and by their own privileged position as witnesses. The use of modernist and surrealist imagery points to the new artistic and historical interrelationship between the spectator and the London they watched.
This is a fascinating book and I’ll be posting more excerpts as I read.
From the book’s paperback cover: A milkman delivering milk in a London street devastated during a German bombing raid. Photo by Fred Morley.
Bill Brandt, 1940. Taking shelter in the Elephant and Castle tube station.
a penny for the old guy 2
posted on 05/11/2014
Vienna, 1933. Bill Brandt.
The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy
I.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
remember, remember the 5th of november
posted on 05/11/2014