Short Shadows Gerhard Schoeman edition by Gerhard Schoeman Arts Photography eBooks
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Short Shadows is a book of cultural criticism, inflected with the author’s lyrical touch. The author turns his attention to a wide spectrum of personal experience, ideas, and cultural phenomena, which include the loss of a mother, love and heartbreak, the phantom quality of photographs (the book includes over fifty photographs taken by the author), the folly of politicians, the hypocrisy of academia, the art of writing, art history, Facebook, television, branding, meditations on cities and towns. It is a poetically rich and intellectually astute book, which doesn’t shy away from critical reflection, but rather revels in it. Gentle and polemical, it is book of meditations, which will fascinate readers who are passionate about the cultural world around them.
Short Shadows Gerhard Schoeman edition by Gerhard Schoeman Arts Photography eBooks
A superb collection of essays. A very good read. It is the type of book you will read again and again. In the genre of Jabes.The author has a vast and impressive reference cadre in which writers, artists, philosophers and cinema script writers are summoned to comment on the images which are reflected on the pages. The text is enriched by some reflective photos taken by the author himself. It reminded me of the memoria thesis found in narrative theology.
Whilst I usually have a problem with quotations, the way in which the author uses the quotations as comments on contemporary society, actually eradicated my prejudice. In this instance the quotations interpret the text. I am of the opinion that textual commentary should lay bare the various layers in a text which inevitably exist in a fundamental piece of writing. Interpretation becomes an archaeological exercise - the interpreter sets himself the task to dig and dig and dig in an effort to lay bare the ruins. Schoeman does more than that. With dark humour, with sharp intellect, with bold candour he flicks on an impressive array of intellectual lights to bring the fragments of his quest to the reader’s attention. On this stage we cannot but notice the shadows. Fascinating.
It is a book that any student of Kafka and Benjamin cannot miss. Any lover of the big screen will be entertained and surprised how remarks of actors become relevant and actual. The diary notes on some of the cities and towns mentioned, makes a re-visit compulsory. It is a remarkable effort.
I certainly hope there is more to come from this original pen.
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Short Shadows Gerhard Schoeman edition by Gerhard Schoeman Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
Brilliant! A clear look into/onto existence now; as what Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project was to 19th century Paris.
A superb collection of essays. A very good read. It is the type of book you will read again and again. In the genre of Jabes.
The author has a vast and impressive reference cadre in which writers, artists, philosophers and cinema script writers are summoned to comment on the images which are reflected on the pages. The text is enriched by some reflective photos taken by the author himself. It reminded me of the memoria thesis found in narrative theology.
Whilst I usually have a problem with quotations, the way in which the author uses the quotations as comments on contemporary society, actually eradicated my prejudice. In this instance the quotations interpret the text. I am of the opinion that textual commentary should lay bare the various layers in a text which inevitably exist in a fundamental piece of writing. Interpretation becomes an archaeological exercise - the interpreter sets himself the task to dig and dig and dig in an effort to lay bare the ruins. Schoeman does more than that. With dark humour, with sharp intellect, with bold candour he flicks on an impressive array of intellectual lights to bring the fragments of his quest to the reader’s attention. On this stage we cannot but notice the shadows. Fascinating.
It is a book that any student of Kafka and Benjamin cannot miss. Any lover of the big screen will be entertained and surprised how remarks of actors become relevant and actual. The diary notes on some of the cities and towns mentioned, makes a re-visit compulsory. It is a remarkable effort.
I certainly hope there is more to come from this original pen.
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