i noticed this thing happening a couple of months ago, in the wonderful dashwood bookstore in nyc and also on a few random peoples' photo blogs and maybe also on not so random peoples' blogs (read: scandinavians, read: staid, read: affected 'oddities' in the presentation of a human face/expression)...anyway, i thought it was beautiful. and not that odd. and then when i saw one, i saw many - they were everywhere. then of course, a photograph crossed my path that showed the back of a woman, seated, slightly sepia-ed, amidst a base of ruffles and skirts and poofs, with her low neck bun precise and pinned and detailed, and i could read her face from her posture and tightness, or so i wanted to, and i realized yet again that nothing is new and if it is new it is just contemporary and the game is over until there are years between us and the work and so...so....so, i mean, how many angles of a person's bust/head can you really take? if not front, then back, and then what...well, an infinitum of angles and sides and degrees, true...but i suppose by virtue of the person's expression (i still try to understand where 'that thing' in photography meets those very scientific facts that make up its existence, the object, etc)...on the plus, this is how real-life trumps everything...all expressions all the time from any angles your two little eyes will grant you witness to...anyway, i like the back-of-the-head-stuff i've seen...i wonder when it will get old...so here is LP, who is going to FREAK OUT because god forbid anyone see a head of curls just slept on, twisted, unruly, unpresentable...i find them familiar, unique, singular...these are good words that don't just apply to borja-paull curls...you could BEEEE these things, and then we could have tea.
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