rodarte | spring 2019
no place to fall
angela | nyc | ig @ngldzn
Image for Heidi Lee and Swarovski .
Mask made with Swarovski diamonds.
Peter Kavinsky, I’m not trying to date you.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) dir. Susan Johnson
Manjit Thapp
In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art. In other words, a strange action: I do not stop imitating myself, and because of this, each time I am (or let myself be) photographed, I invariably suffer from a sensation of inauthenticity, sometimes of imposture (comparable to certain nightmares). In terms of image-repertoire, the Photograph (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death (of parenthesis): I am truly becoming a specter.
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981. Print. 13-14.
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