"For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." -Derek Jarman.
Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's text - serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis.
Written poetically and surrealistically, Jarman's text moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life--getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk--escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue - a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth's compelling introduction brings Blue into conversation with Jarman's visual paintings as never before.
Dans la série Aperture Reader, ce volume 1 de Lives of the Images est conçu pour répondre aux besoins des étudiants et des amateurs dans le champ de la photographie contemporaine. Il rassemble une série d'essais sur les perspectives contemporaines de la photo. Considérant à la fois l'image comme un outil de libération et de répression dans nos sociétés, Repetition, Reproduction, Circulation interroge les différents cycles de vie de l'image, ses modes de diffusion, de réception, de consommation et d'aggrégation ainsi que la signification de sa reproduction technologique pour les formes de vie sociale, culturelle et politique.
