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Having a friend in town got me out of the studio and into the city to explore it and revisit it. Ryan stayed with me for a week and we covered a lot of New York ground. Here are some of the photos from the museums we visited.
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All images copyright James Ryang 2009
The Skaters
We trudged out in Central Park, newly dusted with snow after a late lunch and a screening of “A Woman of Paris.” The film is a silent feature written, directed, and scored by Charlie Chaplin in 1928. To watch the film, click here:
A WOMAN OF PARIS
We continued through the park, shooting quite a bit and decided to head home, frozen.
Keren on a hill
Rabbithole
Seltzer (after Eggleston)
Cloud
MIssissippi River
Flight 1134
5:30 PM
Chia at the MoMA
Rie and Chia 1
Chia
Rie and Chia 2
Tourists from Spain 1
Tourists from Spain 2
Brunch
Keren in Astoria Park
Keren and a pizza
all images copyright James Ryang 2009
My friend Sara Soudavar and I went to see James Chance and the Contortions at P.S.1. Pat Place is playing guitar in the band and she put us on for the show. She told us that they only rehearsed for a few hours for this show but it seemed like old times when they played.
Today, Repulsion screened at the Museum of Modern Art. When I arrived for a ticket, there was only one remaining. Regardless, I’ve always considered Roman Polanski’s 1965 film, starring Catherine Deneuve,a major visual reference in my ideas on photography and its execution. Most notably, the montage sequence of a distressed Deneuve walking around 1960′s London, as if the camera is mounted to her waist and the lens is directed toward her. The resulting effect is a crop of her upper body that stays fixed in the 16:9 frame, thus the background (the urban landscape) is the only element that shifts. Beyond the psychological disruption in the film and the repetition of visual references like the razor blade and the skinned rabbit, Repulsion is not to be missed if anyone is free on Sunday afternoon at the MoMA.