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hermicent: Corner by Melissa Lunar on Flickr.

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:01:22 -0400

hermicent:

Corner by Melissa Lunar on Flickr.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 08:59:13 -0400

pomeray: Sophie Calle began following strangers because she...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:55:27 -0400

pomeray:

Sophie Calle began following strangers because she didn’t know what to do with herself; she had no friends. “It was a way to force myself to get out of the house without having to decide what I was doing.”

January 1980 in Paris, she followed a man for the day and then lost him in the crowd. She later attended an art exhibition to find him there, a coincidence which led her to believe it was fate. She overheard him talking to a friend about a holiday to Venice and decided to go to track him down.

She began to follow him every day, photographing him, writing down his every move together with her thoughts and feelings in a journal. If he stopped to take a photo, she would stand in the exact same spot and try to capture the image he had taken. Her work is more similar to a detective’s than a lover, as she highlights the vulnerability of the stranger while trying to examine his identity.

This project lead her into another: she requested her mother to hire a private investigator to follow her. She took him on a journey through the streets of Paris to her favourite places. She kept a journal of the things she was up to, to compare with the detectives notes for amusement.

She was intrigued with the idea of switching roles and her privacy being invaded, like the many that she had once followed, and the contrast of the scenarios the detective pieced together from following her, to the actual truth.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:16 -0400

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Thu, 23 May 2013 08:44:40 -0400

"I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:44:54 -0400

“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.”

- Iain Thomas (via darlingjustbehuman)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:36:28 -0400

pluviali: Hand in Glove by The Smiths

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:40:55 -0400

pluviali:

Hand in Glove by The Smiths

locpix: Beach Fashions. 1951

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:10:20 -0400

locpix:

Beach Fashions. 1951

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Tue, 21 May 2013 07:48:41 -0400

"I forget what it’s like to kiss you and what it’s like to want to. I forget what it feels like to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:23:42 -0400

“I forget what it’s like to kiss you and what it’s like to want to. I forget what it feels like to hold your hand, if we ever even held hands, it feels like we didn’t. I forget what it’s like to trust you, to believe in you, to need you. I forget what it’s like to think that I’d never forget any of it. For a long time, I thought I never would. You and I both know you left ghosts behind, but they seem to have found someone new to haunt. Maybe it’s you.”

- Stephanie Georgopulos (via compassio)