(Nicolas de Staël, Syracuse, Ménerbes, huile sur toile, 1954, détail)
le regard a besoin parfois de se perdre là où dans l'infini il retrouve ses repères ; l’horizon a tenu sa plainte, l’horizon a fait taire ses erreurs ; la couleur survient toujours pour démêler des vérités perdues
On this Milestone Monday, September 11, our minds and hearts wander to New York City and the stirring photography of American photographer Jerry Spagnoli (b. 1956). For those of us with memories of witnessing the attacks on the Twin Towers, our immediate reaction to Spagnoli’s photos may be to assume the worst. However, these photos taken between May and September 2012 mark an unexpected and pure New York experience fabricated by Spagnoli in Times Square.
In his book Regard, Spagnoli documents the faces of people transfixed on an enormous electronic billboard above Times Square. The billboard was programmed to periodically display live imagery of the crowd below it. What we see in the almost 500 faces captured in Regard are people encountering the billboard, looking for and finding themselves projected upon it. Spagnoli is best known for his work with the daguerreotype photographic process and is included in several major American art museums. At the heart of his photography, and prevalent in Regard, is an unearthing of his subjects' points of view. Regard was published in 2018 by Steidl and printed in Göttingen, Germany. UWM Special Collections holds a first edition.
Un regard à la dérobée
n’est pas forcément malintentionné,
ce peut être pour ne pas gêner, ne pas
déranger ou pour ne pas trop montrer
qu’on est attiré…
Romans 12:17-18 (NKJV) -
Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.