----- Original Message ----- From: "*- CHILLED DELIRIUM-*" > > Congratulations to Guy and his collaborators on this > amazing photograph ! It has the aura of a late 1800's cyclorama, > and embodies echoes of Nicephore Niepce's "View from his window at > Gras", one of the earliest photographs ever made. Like Niepce's, > it is a view from a window, of other buildings, using a camera > obscura, and a long exposure (Niepce's was 8+ hrs). Whaooo! I never had that in mind when I initiated the project. -:)) But one rises high ONLY because one dares to stand on the shoulders of those whose vision one admires! > > I do not consider events like this a stunt. They push back the horizon, > effectively creating fertile, new conceptual ground for exploration. > [I like to think of things like this as a "dream engine".] I think that this is the right word: "dreaming". Anybody seen Werner Herzog's "Fitzcaraldo" with Klaus Kinski? Now here IS a real dreamer (and he does get his opera in the jungle, in the end...)! What would life be if one did not reach out to one's own most impossible dreams? > Hopefully, the team will find sponsorship for this work to be seen > and furnish inspiration and wonder to countless viewers. > > --- Luis > > Ps. For those interested in this type of image, I urge you to search for > Abelardo Morrel's (sp ?) work on the web. It has some methodological > similarities, yet is very different. What little I did find has really clicked something with me, Luis. http://www.bu.edu/prc/anx.org/ This work is absolutely terrific! I really have to find more! Has he published books?
