Philip Roth's 2004 paranoid classic premieres on TV tonight.
I prefer an alternative Lindbergh plot. See Peter Lindbergh in this journal.
At right below, a work of art that the fashion photographer Lindbergh
made when he was young and known as "Sultan."
Detail of an image in the previous post —
This suggests a review of a post on a work of art by fashion photographer
Peter Lindbergh, made when he was younger and known as "Sultan."
The balls in the foreground relate Sultan's work to my own.
Linguistic backstory —
The art space where the pieces by Talman and by Lindbergh
were displayed is Museum Tinguely in Basel.
As the previous post notes, the etymology of "glamour" (as in
fashion photography) has been linked to "grammar" (as in
George Steiner's Grammars of Creation ). A sculpture by
Tinguely (fancifully representing Heidegger) adorns one edition
of Grammars .
"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."
— Photographer Peter Lindbergh at his website
From a biography of Lindbergh —
"… it took Lindbergh awhile to find his true métier.
Born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1944….
Barely out of his teens, he became a painter who
embraced conceptual art and — for reasons he
has since forgotten — adopted the professional
name « Sultan. » Lindbergh… was a few years
short of his 30th birthday when he turned to
photography…."
— "The Man Who Loves Women," by Pamela Young,
Toronto Globe & Mail , September 19, 1996
A Lindbergh work (at right below) from his conceptual-art days —
For a connection between the above work by Paul Talman and the
above "Mono Type 1" of Lindbergh, see…
See the above weblog post honoring a Swiss artist‘s
“wit, his perception, his genius, his horizon,
his determination, his humour, his friendship,
and his immeasurable kindness.”
Not a bad sendoff. Contrast with events at Harvard
on the date of the artist’s death.
Related material: An album cover, and …
See also this journal in September 2008.
As far as Swiss art goes, I personally prefer the work of, say,
Karl Gerstner and Paul Talman.
For art collector Herbert Vogel,
who reportedly died today
Philip Kennicott in The Washington Post , July 3, 2009—
"The Vogels help allay deep cultural fears
within the art world— fears that art is elitist,
or some kind of confidence game,
or not a serious endeavor (a fear that has
dogged art since at least the time of Plato)."
Some related material from finitegeometry.org,
offered without comment—
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