Bug Springs Trail Landscape — Black & White Image by kenne
Silent knowledge —
the spirit is enlightened of itself.
Contemplate the void:
this world exceeds stillness.
— from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder
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This World Exceeds Stillness Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Picnic Site Leave a comment
Sabino Canyon Picnic Site with View of Thimble Peak (February 2017) — Image by kenne
Thimble Peak (Elevation 5,323 ft.) is a landmark in the Santa Catalina Mountains on the ridge that divides Sabino Canyon and Bear Canyon.
— kenne
The Picture Leave a comment
“The Picture” (December 10, 2016) — Image by kenne
The picture was there in my mind,
it always had been.
To capture it I must first find it —
suddenly, the scene was set
repeating what was now scripted.
— kenne
Windswept Grasslands Leave a comment
Windswept Grasslands in the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
Taking inspiration from the likes of Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg.
Branches reach into the dark sky
over windswept grasslands,
directing our eyes and ears
to the relationship between
the living and the dead.
— kenne
Black & White Street Photo Essay Leave a comment
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Black & White Street Photo Essay by kenne
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality,
and eventually in one’s own.
— Susan Sontag
Seeing Through Their Eyes, Not With Them Leave a comment
Truman Capote — Image by Karl Bissinger
ART IN BLACK AND WHITE –SEEING THROUGH THEIR EYES, NOT WITH THEM
For years I have belonged to a monthly book club, “Society of the 5th Cave.” In November of 2008, the book selection was Portraits and Observations – The Essays of Truman Capote. Capote’s prose has superb style, as illustrated in this early morning walk in New Orleans:
“…I stopped still in the middle of a block, for I’d caught out of the corner of my eye a tunnel-passage, an overgrown courtyard. A crazy-looking white hound stood stiffly in the green fern light shinning at the tunnel’s end, and compulsively I went toward it. Inside there was a fountain; water spilled delicately from a monkey-statue’s bronze mouth and made on pool pebbles desolated bell-like sounds. He was hanging from a willow, a bandit-faced man with kinky platinum hair; he hung so limply, like the willow itself. There was terror in that silent suffocated garden. Closed windows looked on blindly; sail tracks glittered silver on elephant ears, nothing moved except his shadow.”
I love it, “…nothing moved except his shadow.”
However, the posting is not so much about Truman Capote as it’s about the photographer, Karl Bissinger, who died November 25, 2008. Bissinger photographed many artists, actors, and writers in the 1950’s, among them, Truman Capote.
Gore Vidal has written on the Bissinger image below (from left: ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq, novelist Donald Windham, artist Buffie Johnson, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Karl Bissinger):
“So study this picture, and see what optimistic people looked like as they began what they thought would be lifelong careers, and in some cases indeed lasted as we lost more and more of a country that is no country without Karl Bissinger to make art of it.”
kenne
Image by Karl Bissinger (Source — NY Times)
(First posted, November 28, 2008)
Desert Ranch Leave a comment
Desert Ranch — Black & White Computer Art
