"Do you see these humps, these hills on the left side? That's the pleuritis your cousin had in his fifteenth year. [...] Do you see these caverns here? That's where the venoms that intoxicate him come from. "1 Experiments in recording microscopic images date back to the early history of photography. Among the many inventors attempting to photograph the fascinating microstructures of the world (they include...
The cover of a recently released publication dedicated to Ray Cook depicts him as a juggling clown surrounded by celebrities. This performer is magnificent, clever and talented. He brings to my mind the theater of the absurd, which is still not out of date. Indeed, in his references to homoerotic fantasy, the artist resembles the writer Jean Genet. Nevertheless, with works dating from the 1990s and the first...
When photographing the places that inspire him, Maciej Kuszela also tries to emphasize the personal nature of this inspiration. Therefore, the final form of these images is usually the result of various additional manipulations, which may be surprising when juxtaposed with the fact that the term "photojournalist" appears so often in the author's biography. However, it is understandable that when a photograph is created out of a purely personal need, it...
With the end of the story, the reader makes a decision [...], chooses one solution or another, as a result of which he gets out of fantasy. If he decides that the laws of reality remain untouched and allows the explanation of the described phenomena, we say that the work belongs to another genre: the uncanny. If, on the contrary, it decides that, given the phenomenon, a new law of nature must be considered....