Seneca: Capture Life's Precious 1918 Moments 📸
What stories would your $13 Seneca tell today?
Unfold a piece of history and rediscover vintage photography.
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Stillness - an idea seemingly at odds with the ever-moving speed of #Modernism - is what Louise Hornby highlights in her unconventional reading of #ModernistLiterature & #VisualCulture such as #earlyphotography & #ModernistFilm
1964 A Day in the Life of a Dairy Farmer
The image depicts a rural scene with a person in a long coat and hat riding on the back of a cow, which is pulling a cart.
This suggests that this photo captures a historical moment from around 1964, as indicated by the copyright date on the lower left corner.
It could be related to agricultural practices or farming culture during that time period.
https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/04-April1964-Page-161.png
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> In 1927, the cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer described his age in ways that speak uncannily to our own: “The world has taken on a photographic face,” he wrote. Everyday life was now subsumed beneath a “blizzard of photographs.”
> Kracauer was worried that the visual culture of modern had (paradoxically) hidden the world from us. For him, the blizzard of photographs clouds our view, preventing us from seeing the social and historical realities behind the world’s photographic face.
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> Perhaps the exemplar of this phenomenon is the Instagram influencer, usually, a young, thin, white woman employed by advertisers to hawk fashion or other products online—but always with a mask of authenticity, the crucial currency in the social media economy. The Instagram influencer—along with all selfie-snapping millennials—is the object of much of our culture’s anxieties about Internet-age narcissism and homogeneity.
> Indeed, there’s no doubt that social media provides a context for the assertion and maintenance of gendered social norms. It’s hardly a coincidence that Instagram influencers tend to replicate the same conventionalized standards of beauty that Naomi Wolf railed against in The Beauty Myth almost thirty years ago.
From #earlyphotography to the #Instagramage
https://blog.oup.com/2018/04/women-early-photography-instagram/
In our contemporary moment, as our digital spaces are saturated with feeds and streams of images, it’s clearer than ever that photography is a medium poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Art historians have conventionally focused on the singularity of the photograph and its instant of capture. But the digital turn has prompted many scholars to reconsider photography in its many serialized incarnations.
Wonderful portraits by Felix Nadar from the 1800s. I am always so fascinated to see details in the clothing like buttons, fabric or jewellery, especially in portraits. It makes me think of what they did only minutes before the photo was taken, and how they wanted us to see them. Or like Gustave Doré here, did he miss one button artistically on purpose🧐
#earlyphotography #portrait #photo #vintage
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-the-famous-by-felix-nadar/
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