Lartigue vs Arbus | FA ep. 14

[@DAMUN]

I'm enjoying each one of your videos. Great material and analysis. Thank you!

[@FlashbackArrest]

Thank you so much for your encouraging words, means a lot.

[@scottallen4131]

My guess is he used a 4x5 ICA. I read that that is the camera he used for the famous 1912 photo of the race car, Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France, Course at Dieppe 1912. Couldn’t have been a 35mm in 1912.

[@FlashbackArrest]

Yeah I thought it would've been a 4x5. I wonder how he focused, the image looks candid, although that might be an illusion.

[@martylevenson7062]

Enjoyed your analysis! Seems strange that Sontag forced a comparison of these two images when all they share is that both subjects are veiled women. For such a critical thinker it's odd that she holds such a shallow idea of beauty, and gives that disproportionate emphasis. For sure we can't know the truth about a photo's subject, but for me, the Arbus subject evokes a love of life, an uninhibited, shameless "here I am", WYSIWYG. In comparison, the Lartigue woman feels so constrained...maybe even confined by conformity....while her mystery draws me in. In the Arbus the veil hides nothing, and is almost an anomaly, while in the Lartigue it actually does seem to express her desire to appear withdrawn. Enjoyed the Eno tangent! There's a related idea that when making art, mistakes are harbingers of something new starting to happen.

[@FlashbackArrest]

I agree! It's interesting how the veil creates different effects in these subjects, I hadn't thought much about this. There's something humorous about the Arbus portrait, not in a condescending way, quite the opposite; a very accepting eye. Thanks for your comment :)