Anodyne
Saturday, August 12, 2006
 
Kind words about the ghosts from Isola-di-Rifiuti's John Latta (ex- Rue Hazard, ex- Hotel Point), a fiercely independent poet, thinker, photographer:

"I am certain that 'seeing' is all, and that 'seeing ironically' is nearly, of late, all we do. Is it that before seeing occurs, a sort of interposing scrim must be present? (One scrim is 'irony,' another 'awe,' another 'beauty'? 'Scrim' is used to identify period, or fashion.) I keep thinking of Christopher Brayshaw’s photographs, a series called One Hundred Famous Ghosts. An unfinished series that begins with some unassuming pictures of the commonest urban dejecta, tossed off plastic shopping bags. Not prettify’d, not ironized, just undeniably made noticeable, 'seeable.'

One long weekend in New York City, I saw Brayshaw 'ghosts' everywhere—detritus made present—all, I think, one asks of art. (All art is able to do.)"
- posted by cjb @ 10:26 PM


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