a strange day

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

every 1940s movie watched (22 - ∞)

Scarlet Street (1945)  dir. Fritz Lang

The entrance

A blown up photo of the original 1960s Granny Takes a Trip shopfront

A map of all the boutiques in London in the 1960 and 1970s

1960s Biba (personally I like the 1970s Biba more)

Hung On You, Quorum, Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell and others

1970s Biba pieces, plus a ladies ensemble of that famous Granny Takes a Trip rainbow lurex stripe fabric (top left)

L->R: Marisa Martin, Bill Gibb, Zandra Rhodes. The exhibition placards claimed that Queen would've had pieces by Marisa Martin and I'm trying to figure out what they could have been.

“Nature can be said to hate symmetry... Symmetry is an accident of disorder.” Lippold, Richard, ‘Illusion as Structure’, in György Kepes (ed.) Structure in Art and in Science Photography is not the thing. It is the thing that gets us to the thing. Atkins used photography to illustrate nature and its structure. In a similar way, we use photography to illustrate reality and its structure. The possibility of having a tool to investigate reality is what first drew us to photography. We discovered that by using this medium we can nurture our interest and have a better understanding not only of perceived reality, but of the ‘structure of reality’, ‘the why of things’. Photography is, for us,  the perfect philosophical tool to learn more about the universe as a logical and architectural conception: the recognition of an order among individual pieces in which each piece is also illuminated by the arrangement of the whole. We wanted to create a book not about what we do or how we do it, but why we do it. A book without a beginning or and end, without a specific cover (that is why this book has three), and where the text talks about why we photograph and not the images per se. We are proud to present our new monograph: "The World's First Photobook was Blue" 📘 The title is a nod to Anna Atkins, the binding a nod to Brassaï and the entire book is a homage to this deceptively simple but really complex medium which is photography. It'll be available soon and right now there are only a few copies available, but if you happen to be visiting @unseenamsterdam this week you can take a look at it @themthemthemthem stand.

by W.S. Merwin

Clarence John Laughlin. Destructive Desire. The Mirror of Madness. Between 1940 and 1975.