http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/08/04/mr-decisive/ "...that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me)." Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/08/04/mr-decisive/#comment-14 VV Veen Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:40:56 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=10#comment-14 Utopianism-- that's what M. C-B eut voulu. And then discovery (really fucking wonder-filled child-like discovery: think of that irrepressible image w/the kid w/the two wine bottles tucked under each arm proudly beaming dirty-faced at the camera!) turned on its heel and in an instatnt turned into commodity and commodity's shadow-- exploitation. Not to discover the other, but to use the other. Bresson must have wanted to puke on himself. It makes me want to puke on myself. Poor French Socialist Bastards. It's a long trek around the inherent ambiguities of the photographic condition... Utopianism– that’s what M. C-B eut voulu. And then discovery (really fucking wonder-filled child-like discovery: think of that irrepressible image w/the kid w/the two wine bottles tucked under each arm proudly beaming dirty-faced at the camera!) turned on its heel and in an instatnt turned into commodity and commodity’s shadow– exploitation. Not to discover the other, but to use the other. Bresson must have wanted to puke on himself. It makes me want to puke on myself. Poor French Socialist Bastards. It’s a long trek around the inherent ambiguities of the photographic condition…

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