so i wrote to geeta about this, but in this weeks new yorker there is this photo, so casually taken its almost a snap shot--but its immensely powerful.
from the 40s, of a burlesque dancer in a club in he bower, doing a leda routine with a live swan (i think its live, the shadows are dark, details are difficult to pick out) ...its so haunting, so oddly literalizing
the best hing though, is opposite the woman are 6 soilders, talking to each other, drinking, barely noticing the woman
(actually the real best thing, its not something you expect in something so middle brow, with so many pretenses as the new yorker, it seems like a secert text discovered by sons and sons of sons after death--the secert liberation of assumed death made dangerous again in peace time.)
i dont know, has anyone seen it ?
talk about it here. (cross posted on brown wedge)
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)
4 ae looking away, one is goggling. one is paying attention to the two groups.
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)
I can't find it, but there's a similar picture on page #86.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)
This one is more explicit in a way. The soldiers watch the woman, they want her sex. The waiter watches the soldiers, he wants their money.
The swan probably wants to go home.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)
86 of the new yorker, or 85 of something else
― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)
what is the date of the issue, anthony??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)
two years pass...
yeah, it was a few weeks ago
― Hurting 2, Monday, 1 October 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)