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the art of losing love, pt.2: seiichi furuya and christine gössler

Thursday, October 28, 2004

i first came to seiichi furuya through his most famous image, the contact sheet that shows his wife’s suicide, or more precisely, shows him showing us his wife’s suicide. and then coming to him through all the questions which follow such a fantastically passive event. is it mediation? astonishment? a need to rely on something normal or everyday in order to understand, or assimilate, something unfathomable and out of time? stop time in order to stop life from happening at that very moment?

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the art of losing love, pt.1 : words on masahisa fukase

Monday, September 27, 2004

i’ve been thinking about photographers in love, and the photographs they make while in that state. and also its shadow-twin: same photographer, making something out of a place of loss from that love. what is it to make a memory out of loss? to distill the precise ache of mourning? in photographs that become about loss‚Äîdid the losing already happen before the photo? did it happen in the course of it? is the photo then a document of loss? are these then the most documentary of all documentary images?

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