Anodyne
Friday, March 16, 2007
 

One Hundred Famous Ghosts (49), 2007

For Aaron Peck. Shinrei shashin city, baby! I thought I was making a location study of a bus shelter for a future project, but this sleepy-eyed guy had other ideas, and materialized in the thumbnails overnight. Tolagson might object that #49 isn't "conditioned by use" like the other ghosts, but it seems to me that #49 still responds to another series criterion; namely, that the otherwordly manifestation is connected to an specifically photographic way of seeing. And in this case I think the camera's peculiar way of pushing planes together -- eg., the glass back of the shelter and the road's painted lines -- definitely manifests a "personality."

I'm being coy about #49's whereabouts for the moment, because posters with my email address on them are up around a nearby location in the hope of finding commuters who won't mind being, a/ observed; and, b/ rearranged, and, c/ digitally recomposed.

Recent reading: Plato, "Socrates' Defense (Apology)," "Crito," "Phaedro." (All three via The Collected Dialogues of Plato, eds. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns)
- posted by cjb @ 9:57 AM


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