+ the light hit the pavement with so much love and wonder, and I was there, looking at my shoes, looking at life, thinking of death, and thinking of you, mute, while my heart was beating like crazy, hurting my ears, imploding +
[afternoon and evening. same day. same man. same area.]
He created photos for a novel: the novel does not exist, but if it ever does, the photos are ready.
Christophe Goeury speaking about Brassaï
The Method (notes)
- how does your method affect what you're doing?
- the method gives a partial vision of the world
- how do the methods and the processes bring into visibility certain elements of aspects of the world?
- the method is the walk
- journey through the city and through yourself
- the relationship between the public space and the public activity
- THE CITY IS A TEXT
- exploring the narrative of a space in the city (e.g. the park)
- recontextualising the landscape: juxtaposition of the banal and the extraordinary
- THE CITY IS CONTROLLED
- time discipline - rationalised environment - spatial discipline
- THE CHANCE AS A METHOD
FURTHER READING:
- Meyerowits, Joel - BYSTANDER
- Long, Richard - WALKING AND MARKING
- Davis, Mike - CITY OF QUARTZ
- Berger, John - ANOTHER WAY OF TELLING