The other day I was reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 1961 essay on phenomenology, Eye And Mind (I’ve recently started doing an MA in Art In The Contemporary World at NCAD so you can probably expect more of this kind of thing in the future – those of you who just want to know who the band is are free to skip right to the end). There’s a section in it where he talks about the representation of time and movement within both painting and photography. He argues that artists such as Cezanne and Matisse provide more faithful renditions of our actual perceptual experience of being in the world than those provided by objective scientific accounts and the Cartesian perspective-based art inspired by them. At one point, he discusses photography, and argues that it also falls short of capturing our real experience of the world because it cannot capture movement in the way that a painter can, shackled as it is to capturing frozen, instantaneous snapshots. Painting, on the other hand …. (more…)
Archive for October, 2011
Eye And Mind
Posted in Bands, Photography, tagged Andreas Feininger, Eye And Mind, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Merleau-Ponty, ncad, Petah Coyne, phenomenology, Rodin, whelans on October 29, 2011| 2 Comments »
Liberty Hall
Posted in Bands, Photography, tagged Artur Sikora, Globe, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, Liberty Hall, Liberty Hall Theatre, long exposure, Paddy Cahill, SIPTU, Trade Unions on October 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This picture is a 10 minute exposure taken at a show called Globe in the Liberty Hall Theatre a few weeks ago. I had never been there before although many people had told me about it, and I had always been curious about the place. It turns out that it’s a superb 400-seater theatre housed in a building just adjacent to Liberty Hall itself. Liberty Hall is of course the home of Ireland’s largest trade union, SIPTU, and the theatre itself is owned and ran by SIPTU also. (more…)