Ant's Eye View and Jaques-Henri Lartigue
One of the most inspiring master’s of photography began his career at six years of age. The French boy Jaques-Henri Lartigue shot in stereo, on glass plates, and also was responsible for making some of the first autochromed prints towards the end of the 19th century. The subject of his photography was his immediate surroundings and the day-to-day life of a French bourgeois adolescence: sporting events, automobile races, friends, play and fun. Lartigue presents us with a complete autobiography of his life at the turn of the century. I find that his use of the media to document his early years, unprecedented. Not because he was a bright boy who made impressive photographs,...Read more
Welcome to the ILLITERATE Film Blog
Hi. My name is Isis and I love the moving image. I studied experimental film, animation, video, and installation art at the University of Colorado. Unbeknownst to me I was stumbling onto the legacy of Stan Brakhage - the founder of the program- and film for me was never the same. Suddenly there was an entire world beyond the theater, and even beyond narrative structure, that I never knew existed. I feel like I came into myself as an artist (with still much more growth to come) as well as learned to appreciate all different flavors of the moving image. While on a typical Friday night you might catch me at the local megaplex, that is not what this blog is about (okay, maybe it will be sometime...Read more
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