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how we

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considering that there

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death.

I

concerned

would say

our virtues and arts have to do with the fear of death.

He

his

theme

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is

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believes that

seriousness and logic because seriousness and logic remind us that

much

photographs

in his

we

most of

flee

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from

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amusement is beauty and truth, that nothing is worth grief or is certain, not even death. He thinks we look at every face to see if it alone is perfect enough or clever enough to help us escape a sense of worthlessness or of unused time. Or if it is a rival. Or is the hint of a life we might have had or might yet have. He quotes Robert Herrmann, the emigre philosopher: "My life's work logic

is

and

frivolity say

nothing makes

sense, that

demonstrate not Euclidean but mortal geometry."

to

that a photograph, like flesh or love,

hundred axioms fashions, to

in the

is

a clock.

He

said to

Herrmann has

me

it

was a truism

"There are

written,

a

mortal geometry that have to do with games, with clocks and

make time seem

pleasurable for a while, that use a quarrel or temperament

or the flash of a talent to drown the noise of the clocks in the room.

.

.

.

Perhaps the

Marcus has photographs of women in tears, women with dizzying smiles of confused meaning, women dancing: and in these photographs there are often no walls, and no real shadows, just now and then.

rich

and beautiful and talented hate time the most.

in the

.

.

."

angles and points of a composition, a scarf or a face, a

crease of agitation, a clear statement of folk and of pride.

model shout, "Ah God

I

am

And

so on.

is

a Jew.

snout of terror, a

once saw him make

a tired

so happy," and crazed with exhaustion and careful pretti-

ness she suddenly realized she almost meant

He

I

fish

it.

He

took the picture then.


You

Time. Oh, yes.

Time

see, well, the question

often time.

is

as wreckage, time as threat, time as obscurity.

pulse

isn't a single

time varies by

No one can

human measurements

amusement or boredom; in a sense, time is local; each of us time in some form is sewn to each atom; whatever time

everything: words, childhood and children, manuscripts, well or fail in,

we

dismay

of intelligence

In dreams and visions,

we

—and

which we

tell

ourselves.

have come

life's

is

a dream.

is

little

is. It

our

it,

born into a private envelope of

it is

lips.

that time does,

Much

it

does

it

to

of what we do not do

A common

statement of

more time.

which does not belong to the time of the world

in

our dreaming minds invent a time for us untied to

meanings, and the duration of such time has only to do with stories we

The word dream

dream. The book

Is

find a time

will die: this is a silkier time:

anything but our

had a

If only I

us what time

other than our sense of

are constrained to by lack of time to do otherwise. is

tell

It

is

almost always in our mouths a term of praise. The dress

seems

a dream

like

to

experience

this.

is

a

Look: all your dreams

true.

time painful? For a child in front of a mirror, a child alone

in a child's mirror, the questions, the helplessness; the child runs:

someone makes something. Some any time that

is

artifacts are

made

The slow time

in a field?

we

act.

Fashion, as a verb:

to suggest that present time

past, to suggest that Fate has taken a

new

turn, that

we

is

unlike

be unlike what

will

we take older objects and imagine virtues in the past dead or stilled virtues and we reform, we reverse time, rescue those virtues (we think) and objects, we hint that time makes beauty, proves value. Neither an emotion nor a pyramid, not beauty, not elephants can sustain the weight of time: our emotions change and we don't quite remember we don't know what the truth is here. Objects, feelings, gestures our moods, our emotions as we express them or name them, are fashion. Fashion, as a noun, means things that have been made for us to use as we try to live now. older people were; or

Fashion

is

us

trying to live.

Fashion, as a noun, can

mean

joined together only uncertainly in

a way, anyone's

common methods

attempt at superiority to immediate time; or

combined

in a

verses

itself,

a swindle.

we can have

salesmen.

A

style

restores

Style

it is

more

it

it.

can mean us

of attempt. Style, austere or not,

is

an

useful fashion, fashions strung together

grace or contract of rebelliousness against too-short-a-time

assert ourselves so

sonal worth then.

way of doing anything. Or

—we need

to

a sense of personal will in the face of time, a sense of per-

is difficult

to judge unless

one has time. Often history mocks

Usually, to say a style for

elegance or beauty

now

is

to joke

bitterly

it,

re-

or to intend

those words used a certain way are words for


— But

in

another sense they describe an

Style, realistically,

is

art.

a perception of hope, of a triumph of a kind.

Within the propositions and extent and grossness of time.

The amount of a maker's life and vested when it is fashioned matches

looking at

it,

in valuing

it.

care, time of that sort, with which an object

the approximately similar time and care

Such a symmetry

exists but not exactly.

first

most hidden order of time's quality

in

photograph may be seen

to

is

being con-

have a further and

something that provokes a second and,

it,

in

comprehension,

which may be as quick as a camera shutter's closing, which may indicate time efficiency, with technology, a

we take

Something sketched or

photographed, apparently quickly, may include years, so that after the

quered with

is in-

al-

in a sense,

an endless look. gives us an image.

It

I

want to say that

photograph there

in a

is

a

and enchants the hunting and scavenging animal

Our

lives, if

our attention

a hideous agony of love, say, lysts

is

we

caught,

if

we

romance of magical capture

in the

human

it

without

so?

see that our lives confuse us; and

Our own cleverness? Ah,

much

viewer.

are hectored by self-examination, because of

and Proust, does not explain much or hardly anything:

make

I

that deludes

memory,

in spite of ana-

not explicable: what would

life is

haven't that sort of pride. Our narratives are,

sense and are, therefore, astonishing

like

a novel: I could

tell

I

think,

you things

and you could make them into a book that would get you a fortune. Our senses and minds cannot grasp a present moment either: we say, "Christ. I m going crazy," we feel so harassed. We cannot, except willfully, make sense of anything. After all, actuality is not sane: what principle would make it sane or arrange it sanely? It is what we do in regard to it which we judge sane or not. A photograph aids our senses and bestows on our memory a gift of the stillness of an object or a face for study so that we can stalk it at leisure: we are flattered by seeing and remembering for study with such seeming exactness. The untruth and distortion in a photograph which makes it humanly true and important sometimes we often ignore in order to .

imagine another truth

— —

of testimony

.

.

in the

photograph, a romance of the true and untrue

mixed, of the ideal and the carnal reality inconsistently but often enough intoxicatingly joined.

What does

a photograph

show?

It

shows something never seen

in lite: in lite,

the light,

the object, the face are part of time, of a sequence, a parade of moments: of change, therefore: a in

long chain of variations.

these molecular chains

bits.

We make In a lie,

failure to

is

The

real nature of faces

too difficult for us.

We

and objects and

leap and seize and

dream

our perceptions in

portions and

parables, examples, the legendary, the dreamlike, a set of lies about

meaning, rightly or wrongly, can be certain (what makes

be believed

rate existence

ot

then

it

is

nonsense) because

from our mode of dealing with

it:

in a lie,

how we

a

4

lit

meaningless

meaning does not have

utter

it.

fixity.

what we sa\

is

is its

a sepa-

everything:


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but this

not so

is

if

we make

a conscious attempt at '"truth": then

form and content do

separately and problems of expression begin to tease us. 'Truth," so far as fuses purpose,

must

such an overriding purpose

it is

settle for a half-accuracy as

and

times;

dangerous

our

really,

—and

in itself;

we go about our

lives feel strange in us,

lovely

animals,

A

think.

I

becomes part of human boastfulness; and

we know

and we cannot always give

business. This

is

it

exist

it,

dif-

time but

vertiginous for us some-

—which makes

around us

us sudden and

photograph by representing superior senses

we

we were looking at photographs we don't often try very hard to see anything very clearly in life: we use common sense: we get along we are not perfect viewers how can we be? The interposition of machinery doesn't change the human quality of making or of seeing a photograph. A machine is

ness and finality

try to see as if

machine-like, not supernatural.

in a

in life

we wish

And

human

in the

to photograph,

we

photograph but only abstractions of

can,

lights

if

how much

order of things, no matter

we

still-

are honest, find no final subject matter

and darks, limitations and successes of the

camera, devices, simple and complex, of the photographer, the date we look

at the picture,

the date the picture

we look

is

fashioned, the light

actual or mental

with which

at

various representations, visually and emotionally misinterpreted or merely interpreted.

it,

We

don't like to admit this.

Nor an

art;

is

it is

photography an ancient form and

this

an old convention of misrepresentation

recent and perhaps temporary: photography

may turn

in

medium in short know how satisfying

out to be a

new methods will replace it holography, perhaps we do not the medium of photography is for us only that it is satisfying now. The romance of human flattery and aid and apparent instruction in a photograph causes love of a sort and so we prefer it if the picture can be regarded sentimentally, if it makes us gasp with admiration or some such feeling at ourselves; a soft love being easier for us than a hard one. A photograph that makes us see too much forces us sometimes to hate it, or to manage not to see it quite it slides by us, misunderstood, mislabeled. Most of us like the idea of a photograph of someone famous as mythically caught for all time: we don't like to admit that we are confronted with constructed testimony. Love wants us to lie, to comprehend generously, even ourselves: photographs should be docile, not sly dreams. To accept an actual photograph is a complex business in reality and can involve a great many kinds of romance. A photograph of a real person who is also a movie star is of little interest if that is all there is to the photograph: the photograph of the star is more important to us. Photographs use and

sell

and

the

woman

and

will

distill

a peculiar heroism: timelessness: the athlete in a

being

fully expressive of

not define

itself: it is

and misfortune are not

mersed is

in

some

success,

it is

inevitabilities but

quality or other.

what

we become

an okayed insanity restless

—and

Modern

succeed,

it is

is

entirety of being,

life, like

history.

misfortunes of the system so

time and in our times that fashion

sanity, or

will

spasm of

It

old religion, lies

argues that death

far.

We

often an evidence of respectability,

are so imis

an okay,

not too great an insanity. Language becomes inverse

say something

is

incredible but

we mean

the opposite:

—and

we mean

our individual existences and daring are safe somehow, but not so safe we are bored or must

accept our Fates as humans private inclination,

a

less

and

less possible

— —

and admired

it is

too singular:

it

meaning of a dissolves the

Good taste God if you recall was supposed to be timeless, like a religion. It with time. But our tastes die in a welter of arguments, bargain, it was a communion

congregation.

was

is

as like the Fates of our ancestors. Taste, in the


facts,

i

change, commercial pathos, and cultural and personal exhaustion.

ial

:

we trembled with

know more, to comprehend the world, we wanted things to hold still and to speak simply. As children we stared do you remember? As adults we consume and give orders and make clumsily make lives. Sometimes we create surprisingly primitive celebrities who stand for those childhood longings who are the dumb things and people we loved as children, and who will stand still, who will be looked at, who will be objects now, who will be fit subjects for photographs of a certain kind. Lies are sometimes predictions of what we will do. The staring child creates a culture arly in our lives

fugitive longings to

— —

based astonishingly on the eye and on a dementia which perhaps ought not

The

idea, after

Must

If

all, is

new

that all of us

must

try to live.

speak of something stirred his career, his

my

in

me.

produce a

I

flurry of

work and the occasion of this preface.

It

sense of the adventures of his eye.

book of

would be a multi-layered and

my

unreli-

words about Avedon

is

The photographs

erratic.

they are not pretensions: they are a particular

Avedon never was much

man

exist.

They do not represent moods;

as he lives.

influenced by painting. His photographs are always photo-

graphs, and they do not play sentimentally with the stillness of the photographic image

unearned or mechanical tion, the hint of

he can manage

stillness. In

Avedon's photographs, that

motion, or by feeling: that it,

a single picture:

is

to say, emotion.

He

on the motionlessness of a

perimpose the movement of a sequence

—movements

stillness is will

single

photograph a fact

odds with romance which

is

—and

backgrounds are

motion.

If

all

the

often refuse to have,

photograph he

of comparisons,

it

will su-

movements of

the

in a single

always so self-consciously present or so ab-

powerfully part of the effect on the mind.

settings or white

gence

at

ravaged by mo-

mind. Didactic and godless, kinetic and beyond moralizing (usually), he gives

it is

in

his photographs.

The photographer

sent

I

language and views aroused by him.

able and affectionate joke, the fiction of words applied to him, of a

be rebuked.

somehow.

live

speak of the actual man, the photographer,

I

to

The

shapes, angles,

name

of the

elements of a seduction by excitement, truth,

you see naivete and patience

in a face or

sitter, intelli-

an unlikely or almost

alle-

gorical juxtaposition of people or objects (or parts of people: their noses, say), you are invited to enter a fragmented novel, a special ist.

form of duration of time, by

a wordless novel-

His pictures are always blasphemous, are always prepared for misinterpretation

some-

comedy of misinterpretation: sometimes as an acid "truth": these, too. are further movements of the mind. Re gives no pictures to the viewer, he detaches them from himself, lets them be stolen or found. Much of the technique, the placement of heads, the secret times as a

meaning

in

an eye, the

detail of ill-grace or other grace in a hand, the build

up

of fluid or

means of divorce from him as photographer, are the elements of the gift he makes: an active gilt. He has become famous by claiming least, as a photographer by being the most modest of them all. Part ol the m\ stcrv in any

fleshy geometries, a stomach, a dress, a

photograph of

his

is

gown

are

the resonance of his personality. Hut the resonance

is

not defined

as

idealism or lunacy or bitterness, as anything but changeable, quick, often Inspired, maniacal,


inventively photographic: this

bothersome

is

dangerously, he invites words. There

to critics.

He

the model, the photograph in sequence are

is

at

photographs

Avedon

is,

on study,

most

but he too

is

in

most of these photographs there

in

you look blankly but from within yourself and time exist that is, don't divorce the photograph from time, yours, his, that of what pictured: Marella Agnelli, Suzy Parker, Penelope Tree, Irene Castle: observe the

games with over

if

time.

Have any

reaction you like, misuse the photograph however you wish.

stillness are

always there inside the

stilled

The movements

frame, beneath the necessarily

This relentlessness of opposition to the mechanical, this assertion of

stilled surface.

spirit is usually

part also of the subject matter; sometimes a lapse from this assertion of spirit

subject matter. Tensions of opposition and of echo plus the inevitable

graph combine to produce the resonance that evoke. His photographs have that photographs flatter in us

—made

dreams made actual

merge unexpectedly

in the

little

to

his

do with sentiment and even

and that mimics night dreams: actual foolishly, bravely. Real

part of the

romance of the photo-

his life

else's

less with the egocentricity

work has more

to

do with

and dream and daydream

queer ambience of photographic time. Language, so we are

wants to deal with meaning or feeling must

speak requires the connivance of lying

is

photographs more than anyone

taught nowadays, must be factual, must stick to numbers, or else

all

lie: it

it

lies:

so language

if it

cannot be factual. To make a photograph

sorts of facts

—and

but then the

processes of fact

must begin and a photographic language created which was not used by painters

their different is

and touch:

invisible: the shapes,

moments

at various

way but

in a private

something that appears most clearly

let

to see

not graspable quite.

is

Everyone looks is

mind

a careless, even suicidal self-revelation in the

is

innocent-seeming of his photographs but the revealed self motion; he

invites the

games with time and

truth and objects and faces.

comprehensible and the conventional

banal, banality

itself.

The

is

.

.

.

Only the conventional

the subject of most photographs perhaps

singular, the strange

is

the

human

in

the

voice, only half-comprehensible,

an importunate and important murmur, not an ideogram, not comprehensible

but present.

compounded of lie and "truth"; the tensions between these make up much of the structure of a work of art: the contrariety of elements of "truths" generates the desperate beauty or electricity of some performances, some accomplishments. We love and fear this. We embrace it: we run away. We are only human. We have our fashions. Avedon gravitates to those moments in which the oscillation between pretense and revelation is most intense. The subject of any of his photographs is likely to show in part isolation or gro-

The

best illusions are

tesquerie, courage to the point of madness, isolation-and-defiance or sly tion

and

wit, pride

and

sterility,

amusement, desola-

pride and triumph. Victories, defeats mingle in the same

moment sometimes or on adjoining pages. He is an extraordinarily hasty, careless, earnest man an artist. Each photograph is a confession by him, by the sitter, by the process of

—and

often a ribald or im-

a sexuality, a wryness, a madness, a

madness of love and

photography: and the conspiracy of confession has here a gaiety passioned or implicated sarcasm

excitement a

that

is

purposefully movement, moving, a dance and a confession

form of meaning. Avedon's work.

Avedon' s Art.

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March 1978

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July

1975

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John Avedon Laura Kanelous

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