On Fri, 17 May 2002, Guy Glorieux wrote: > 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 noticed the similarity the moment you announced the project, and the postcard reinforced that opinion. It is true, we honor our predecessors most when we stand on their shoulders, and reach even higher. > > 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? Exactly. I like the analogy to "Fitzcarraldo" a lot. > > 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? He has been in several, though I don't know if he has any that feature his work exclusively. I saw his work in San Francisco a few years ago, and loved it. --- Luis
