To Be a Poet...

Figure playing a harp, 1948, Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989) 

- Watercolor on Paper - 

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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Robert Frost

 

Where have all the childhood gone ?

Kids have always done wild things for my camera. They sense that I’m a happy idiot who itches to join in their games. Of course they’re right about that. The sadness is that today very few children play in the streets, perhaps preferring video games. Too bad for street photography.

― Fred Lyon

RFOTOFOLIO

About' Past'

”The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

ー Milan Kundera ’Ignorance’

About 'Past'

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images–one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.”

― Susan Sontag, On Photography

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"But one can possess the past."

Really? then why I'm keep feeling Homesick in this ugly big city ?

"One can’t possess the present." 

Then why I'm keep suffering this age ? 

Inner Optics 

 

Stranger, why should you not speak to me ?

Untitled, 1960, Ralph Eugene Meatyard. (1925 - 1972)

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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me,

why should you not speak to me?

And why should I not speak to you?”

－Walt Whitman - 'Leaves of Grass', 1900

Marine Solitude

Marine Solitude, 1852, Anton Melbye (1818 - 1875)

- Oil on Canvas -

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When no one's watching it,

The sea stops being the sea

And turns into what we are

When no one can see us.

It spaws other kinds of fish

And makes other kinds of waves.

It's the sea for the sea

And for those dreaming of it

Just as I am doing here.

ーJules Supervielle

Meet the world

Two Figures Silhouetted on Hill Top, Max Dupain (1911 - 1992)

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

― Anaïs Nin - The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Fragile

Untitled, ca 1931, Ladislav Emil Berka

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” Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. ”

— Simone Weil. Letter to Gustave Thibon.

Alberto Giacometti and his life

Giacometti's bust of his brother Diego, an early work, ca 1950

Giacometti's studio walls served as a surface for sketches, ca 1950

 

 

  Annette Giacometti entertaining a friend in the studio, ca 1950

Giacometti's plastered pant leg, ca 1950

 

 

Craig Krull Gallery

 

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“Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
Giacometti’s art seems to me determined to discover this secret wound in each being and even in each thing, in order for it to illuminate .” 

Jean Genet

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

An Old Oak, 1920, Kondratenko Gavriil Pavlovich (1854 - 1924) - Oil on Board -

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“Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.” 

 
― Rainer Maria Rilke - Duino Elegies

 

 

 

 

 

I am alone, Therefore I am...

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Nude Figure and Waterfall, N.D, Max Dupain (1911- 1992)

 

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“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears.”
 

― William Shakespeare - Hamlet

 

 

 

 

Hugging

 

 

New York City, 1942, Helen Levitt

 

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”More than kisses touches mingle souls”

(Original - "More than kisses, letters mingle souls" by John Donne (1572 - 1631)

 

Dreaming

 

Moravia, 1942, Jan Lukas

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe 

 

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne

 

 

 

 

 

Scent of ...

 Apple Perfume, 1911, Charles Courtney Curran. American (1861 - 1942)
- Oil on Canvas - 

“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”


― Christian Dior

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” 女性の香りは、手書きの文字以上にその人を語る ”


ー クリスチャン・ディオール

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“French women choose a scent when they’re girls and use it until they’re grandmothers. It becomes their trademark.
'Ah,' he murmurs in the dark theater, 'Giselle is here tonight!'

― Joan Crawford. 'My Way of Life'

”フランスの女性たちは子供の頃に「自分の香り」を選んで、おばあさんになるまでそれを使うの。それが彼女のトレード・マークになるのね。
男性は真っ暗な劇場の中で「おお、今夜ジゼルはこの劇場に来ている！」と呟くの。”

ージョーン・クロフォード

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ディオールの言葉を借りるなら、
くだものの香りは、何よりも、その果実の質を語っていると言えるだろう。


ジョーン・クロフォードはこれに続けて、「でもわたしは、女性は歳を重ねるごとに自分の香りを変えた方がいいと思うわ」と言っている。


女性はそれでよくても、果実の香りは、いつまでもわたしたちの子供の頃の記憶と同じであってほしいと願う・・・

 

Can’t take my eyes off of you...

Paris, 1950, Maico Barneveld 

” Two persons, looking each other in the eye, see not their eyes but their looks. ”

─ Robert Bresson 

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” 眼と眼を見つめ合っているふたりは、眼ではなく、視線を見ているのだ。”

─ ロベール・ブレッソン

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long lasting company

                             Nosy Barker, Ireland, 1974, Jill Freedman (1939 - 2019)

“Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

― E.M. Forster, Maurice

Dog can be our forever friends...

 

 

 

 

In the cold weather...

Erster Schnee (View from the photographer's studio, Munich-Schwabing), ca 1950, Hrebert List (1903 - 1975) 

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“It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.”

ー George Eliot 

Garden and Books

Garden scene, Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919) 

- Watercolor - 

” If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”

Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC

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もしあなたが庭と図書館を持っていたら、あなたにとって必要なすべてを持っていることになる。

キケロ

母のためにあるような言葉だ。

そしてこの言葉に深く頷く者はわたしの友だ

・・・友・・・

なんと遠い言葉、遠い存在か・・・

September Song...

Sunset at Zandvoort, ca 1952, Kees Scherer

” It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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”いまこの瞬間、あなたとわたしが確かに存在していること、それで充分ではないか ”

ー ガルシア・マルケス

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Oh, it's a long, long time, from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game


Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you ...


'September Song' © Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill

Song by Bing Crosby and many of singers

From a depth

Venetian Twilight, 1896, Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932)

- Watercolor, Gouache, and Crayon on Composition board - 

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“ I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

― Anaïs Nin

”わたしは人魚になるべきだわ。深い海の底に恐怖は感じない。むしろ浅瀬の、上辺の生を怖れるの。”

ー アナイス・ニン