aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Things are Queer
At a lecture tonight on the history of photography, one sequence of images really caught my eye. Things Are Queer:
[In] Duane Michals’s remarkable series of photographs, things are queer, not only because the world cannot be known and all representations are fallible, but because of the transforming process of art itself. In Michals’s beautiful photographs, queerness becomes an ideal; the circularity of the series suggests that the image is inexhaustible and unknowable. But in the end, art’s pleasures, its humor and mystery, do help us know the world in all its queerness.
