Journal of Photographic Influences - how and why what makes me tick

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

Starting this journal because I really am becoming part of a resistance to Social Media, which is a form of pulverization. I just have to have somewhere to put my aesthetic impressions or thoughts. I'm not sure how much this will continue, but starting it helps.

Saw two spectacular movies I really didn't know. The Big Risk (1960) with Lino Ventura and Fassbinder's Love Is Colder Than Death (1969). Wow, both visually arresting.

The Big Risk full of vistas, framed out interiors, face portraiture, a beautiful serial on-the-run story that filled me with visual imagination.

 

Love is Colder Than Death has incredible blownout compositions with dark figures (scenes on white walls exposed to the black leather jackets, etc). Both have those Living Greys where grey becomes an unbelieveable White in the Mind's Eye.

 

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

Watched this film again, The Flowers of St. Francis. Nothing quite like it. As a black and white photographer filled with cinema, it is quite powerful. The fusing of subjects into the ground, and the characters caught in simplicities.

I'll try to get a screengrab of a few frame that struck me.

 

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

From the incredible film The Brutalist, 

Capitalism if you take the worker's out:

Sebastião Salgado, Brazil