French communards

After the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war parisian insurgents took power in the post war chaos.  The so-called 'Paris Commune' lasted from March 18 to May 28, 1871.
The french government abolished the commune. Around 18.000 parisians were killed by government soldiers during bloody week
A lot of the the french communards were executed.

The psychiatric patient in the previous article actually depicted such an execution in the top-right hand  corner of the Charbonnier photograph. In his drawing he adds an executioner to the already coffined communards. So the drawing must have been based on these two photographs. Ironically, with the photographic process of 1871 it was important to have your subjects to sit  motionless.
The french commune and its bloody suppression took root in the collective memory of the sane and the insane alike.








photographs: probably André Adolphe Eugène Disderi 

Charbonnier documents french psychiatric hospitals.

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Hopital Clermont
[Psychiatric hospitals]
1954
 
Gelatin silver print
Galerie Agathe Gaillard

LL/15415
 
In 1954 Jean-Philippe Charbonnier documented French Psychiatric hospitals and this photograph was a part of that series. Some of the photographs were published in Réalités in January 1955. In 2006 a 24 page booklet Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: HP hôpitaux psychiatriques was published by Le traitement contemporain n°4 in conjunction with gallery Agathe Gaillard.
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Shaker drawing

This amazing 'shaker' GIFT drawing is pure eye candy for me. But impossible for me to understand. There must be a code to crack. Because of the taboo on images they had to convert to 'depicting' : using pictograms to translate heartfelt heavenly beliefs and visions
A long jump from the rather austere 'shaker style' in furniture.
More on this subject in:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_40/ai_84182781/
exerpt from this site: " . The Shakers, whose laws strictly prohibited "pictures or paintings set in frames," referred to these drawings variously as sheets, notices, rolls, hearts, and tokens of love. Writing, especially calligraphy, provides the conceptual framework"

The trouble with the classicist..........

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The trouble with the classicist........ He looks at a tree, That’s all he sees, he paints a tree. The trouble with the classicist. He looks at the sky. He doesn’t ask why,  just paints the sky................................
uit ‘the trouble with classicists’, album ‘Seducing down the floor’, John Cale and Lou Reed, 1997

Metafori! 2

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metafori!

metaphor |ˈmetəˌfôr; -fər|
noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
A 'figure' such as: beetle
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Memory as an image making device 1

Lately I've been working on a series of photographs using the tools of  memory. And I mean the memory in our brain. Neuro-stuff. Will expand on this later. First I want to show some images.
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