Manhattan - Her Failure of Identity
It's been said that in order to 'make it' in New York, one has to find a way to create a very unique and immediately recognizable identity, a kind of impressive "branding" of self. This is seen in particular in the arts and underground worlds, alternative culture, which New York is also famous for.
Here the almost completely dissolved face portrays the failure, perhaps, of achieving identity and recognition in a city so large that sometimes extreme behaviours and personas are the only way to survive and flourish in the massive caverns of indifference.
Like many of these New York images, windows are involved. What's behind them and what's reflected in them. This creates a rich potential of possibilities and layering. This was shot in a shop window in the Rockefeller Centre, just off 5th Avenue.
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Music Link: "Funnel of Love" - SQURL ( Film Director, Jim Jarmusch's band ), from the soundtrack to his film, "Only Lovers Left Alive". This is the opening sequence when we get our first and fantastic look at the two protagonists of this most incredible of love stories.
Jarmusch chose to make his main characters vampires who no longer kill to live, who've grown very erudite and cultured, and who've been in love ... for centuries. He did this in order to ask questions about the nature of love, it's longevity and what it means to be committed to another being. How would a deeply loving relationship be .... if it lasted centuries or millennia, he asks?
The song itself questions identity and sureness of being, like the lovers in the story. It's brash, odd, even rough texture seemed to suit the image, itself in identity crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2vyZgOK-A
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
Manhattan - Her Failure of Identity
It's been said that in order to 'make it' in New York, one has to find a way to create a very unique and immediately recognizable identity, a kind of impressive "branding" of self. This is seen in particular in the arts and underground worlds, alternative culture, which New York is also famous for.
Here the almost completely dissolved face portrays the failure, perhaps, of achieving identity and recognition in a city so large that sometimes extreme behaviours and personas are the only way to survive and flourish in the massive caverns of indifference.
Like many of these New York images, windows are involved. What's behind them and what's reflected in them. This creates a rich potential of possibilities and layering. This was shot in a shop window in the Rockefeller Centre, just off 5th Avenue.
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Music Link: "Funnel of Love" - SQURL ( Film Director, Jim Jarmusch's band ), from the soundtrack to his film, "Only Lovers Left Alive". This is the opening sequence when we get our first and fantastic look at the two protagonists of this most incredible of love stories.
Jarmusch chose to make his main characters vampires who no longer kill to live, who've grown very erudite and cultured, and who've been in love ... for centuries. He did this in order to ask questions about the nature of love, it's longevity and what it means to be committed to another being. How would a deeply loving relationship be .... if it lasted centuries or millennia, he asks?
The song itself questions identity and sureness of being, like the lovers in the story. It's brash, odd, even rough texture seemed to suit the image, itself in identity crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2vyZgOK-A
View Large on Black.
© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.