Clérambault (1872 - 1934) was a photographer and psychiatrist (apparently he invented, ahem I mean discovered, the concept of erotomania). He travelled to Morocco and obsessively took photos of women in veils. I don't know much more about him; about a year ago I found a book in a second-hand shop that contained some of his photos. They're troubling: the odd, repetitive overlap between woman and apparition. The apparent hint of cruelty and objectification. I wonder what he was doing? what was he looking for in these images?
4 comments:
seems like something about how they are walking ghosts/apparitions... as if they have already been murdered. or perhaps in repression their souls have been murdered. like a flower squashed after unfurling only its first leaf.
perhaps he meant to show, by the squishing of their souls in such intense repression, they were already dead, ghosts.
Happy Christmas, Alasdair!
Happy Christmas, Alasdair!
Post a Comment