“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audi
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced. A few years earlier the face of Valentino was causing suicides; that of Garbo still partakes of the same rule of Courtly Love, where the flesh gives rise to mystical feelings of perdition.”Roland Barthes, ‘The Face of Garbo’ in Mythologies.Above image is from an amazing collage by Jennifer Mathews who has truly explored (and continues to explore) the immense possibilities this medium offers to detourn and decentre. -- source link
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