Lou-Anna Ralite
I found two photos by Lou-Anna Ralite that interest me at Fisheye Magazine. There are more on her own website.
Photo from the back
I became interested in photos of people’s backs while reading Geoff Dyer’s book, The Ongoing Moment where he asserts that a photo of a back (or profile) drains the photograph of the subject’s individuality. This makes them suitable to represent a Platonic “thing itself” (Weston) or as propaganda (Lange).
Without going deeper, I’ll just say that I am intrigued by this photo:
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Photo of a snail
Ever since seeing an amazing tiny collection of snail figurines in the Folklore museum in Lviv, Ukraine, a few years ago, I have been collecting snails and paying attention to snail sightings. I like this one:
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I’m not sure what the significance of her tongue is.