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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Alix Cleo Roubaud was a brilliantly gifted writer and photographer. She had an extremely acute mind and a stunning body to go with it. She liked to photograph herself nude in a sparse room and then do magic in her darkroom. She often thought of killing herself. She was seriously asthmatic since childhood. She died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of thirty-one. She was in love with a poet. It may not have been a good thing. He thinks it was. She had her doubts. Alix had good form, style, and knew how to dress. More importantly, for me, she knew how to undress. I love her breasts, or what I can see of them. I imagine dark nipples behind gauze fabric. Her legs were beautiful. I would have liked to move my finger softly across her lips. I would have pressed. She was very pretty in a French sort of way. She was from Canada, but born in Mexico. Bi-lingual and well-traveled at a young age. Left Canada in 1972 to study philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence primarily out of her chronic need for an excellent health care system and the fact that in France it was free. She was fascinated with her study of Wittgenstein. Benjamin came second. Alix drank alcohol heavily and I am not sure why. Demons perhaps. Restlessness maybe. Depression, why not. There is a fog made by drinking beer. She had many friends, or so it seemed. Her best friend committed suicide. In analysis she discovered she herself lived in tableaus vivants. She also experienced lethargy, fainting, back pain, and nervousness. All of them, in her mind, not related to her asthmatic condition. She made a film with Jean Eustache titled Les Photos d'Alix. She made notes for this film in preparation for her commentaries addressed to students. She somewhat explains her positions on photography. Or feels she has to. Alix was a writer who turned to photography and the making of images because of her spouse, the poet, and his greater talent for words. In her photography Alix attempted to re-stage memory. She did not perform text. She claimed doing that made it fiction. She photographed what was disposable. Mainly herself. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Alix's Journal" is a collection of private notebooks kept by Canadian photographer Alix Cleo Roubaud during the last four years of her life, before her death at the age of 31. Written, in a sense, for her husband--acclaimed novelist, poet, and mathematician Jacques Roubaud--"Alix's Journal" straddles the gap between French and English, poetry and prose, the tragic and the comic, the profound and the quotidian. Alix's idiosyncratic and revealing work gives us access to a singular consciousness, one that was profoundly influential on her husband's subsequent works, in style as well as content. The notebooks center on themes of love, marriage, photography, addiction, and death, and include examples of Alix's photographic work, whose strangeness and poignancy is enhanced by its juxtaposition with her plans for and interpretations of it. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)770.92The arts Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography Photography Biography And History BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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