Ainda a respeito de Sebastião Salgado esse enorme fotógrafo

 O pintor Francis Bacon dizia que a fotografia não é uma figuração da realidade, a fotografia é o que o homem moderno consegue ver. Eu penso que isso significa o seguinte: os antigos não inventaram a pintura porque eram destituídos de câmeras fotográficas: eles inventaram a pintura porque ver o mundo não basta. Os antigos pintariam mesmo que tivessem iPhones.

Há outra história de que gosto muito. Um japonês criou uma agência que alugava seres humanos. Uma mãe solteira, por exemplo, alugou um pai por um dia para a sua filha: “Ela sempre quis conhecer o pai, que era um monstro e eu não sei por onde anda. Então eu aluguei esse pai por um dia na agência”. Essa agência ficou muito famosa no Japão e um dia um programa de TV quis entrevistar um cliente dela. O dono, então, ao invés de indicar um cliente, indicou secretamente um dos atores da agência, que foi para a TV e se passou por um solitário que alugava amigos de final de semana. A trapaça foi descoberta e o dono da agência foi chamado a se explicar. “Eu não queria mostrar um solitário, eu queria mostrar a solidão. Um solitário não tem nada a dizer além de clichés. Ninguém melhor que um artista para mostrar a solidão”.

Existem verdades que transcendem o realismo. Muitas vezes, ver as coisas nuas, cruas, é perdê-las. Muitas coisas só se deixam ver pintadas, nunca fotografadas. Por exemplo, os sapatos estropiados dos camponeses em Van Gogh, e esses pés de camponeses em Sebastião Salgado. Existe uma verdade nesses pés que uma fotografia jamais nos daria. Num sentido bem profundo, misterioso, Sebastião Salgado não era fotógrafo. Era vidente.

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Kate Bush e a minha adolescência

 Kate Bush tinha apenas 19 anos quando se tornou a primeira mulher no Reino Unido a chegar ao primeiro lugar com uma música que ela mesma escreveu. A música era Wuthering Heights, inspirada no romance clássico de Emily Brontë depois que ela o leu numa noite!

Antes de ser famosa, David Gilmour, dos Pink Floyd, descobriu o seu talento e pagou pela sua primeira demo. Sem a sua ajuda, talvez nunca teríamos ouvido a sua voz incrível.

Ela fomentou o art pop, dirigiu os seus próprios videoclipes antes da MTV existir e usou o Fairlight CMI, um dos primeiros sintetizadores digitais, muito antes de outros explorarem a música eletrónica.

Artistas como Björk, Florence Welch e até mesmo Prince a chamaram de génio. E quando a música "Running Up That Hill" se tornou popular novamente por causa da série "Stranger Things", uma nova geração descobriu o talento único de Kate Bush.

Woodstock 1969

 Did you know that the Woodstock 1969 hippies changed the world with their message of peace, love and music?

Dressed in tie-dye, flower crowns and bells, they created an atmosphere of unity that still inspires generations.

From dancing barefoot in the mud to embracing the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, they weren't just festival attendees, they were part of a movement.

Woodstock wasn't just a concert; it was a revolution against war, materialism, and social norms. Even today, the spirit of hippies lives on, reminding us to seek freedom, love, and harmony.

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A perspectiva de Tony Notarberardino

 The Chelsea was converted from an apartment building into a hotel in the early 20th century, and has housed both long-term residents and temporary guests. Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne who first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994, thought that he would be one of the latter. Instead, “I never left,” he said. When Notarberardino began living in the hotel, he was struck by the hodgepodge atmosphere, where a surprise seemingly lurked around every corner. One night, in the fall of 1997, he approached an aging drag queen he saw in the hotel elevator; she agreed to sit for a portrait in his room. With this, he embarked on a series that he would spend the next two decades pursuing. “I just saw all of these amazing people,” he said. “And I couldn’t not photograph them.” Notarberardino captured a cross-section of the hotel’s guests, as well as its employees. His project documents participants in a specific era of New York City that was on the verge of ending. See the full collection: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0JWlso

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Sebastião Salgado - um marco na fotografia!

 The world has lost one of its last true heroes.

Sebastião Salgado is no longer with us, but his legacy of truth, beauty, and dignity endures.

Often criticised for the “too beautiful” nature of his work, he once responded with a line I’ve never forgotten:

“Why should the materially poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light of love and respect is the same here as there — and dignity is the same everywhere.”

Salgado didn’t just take photographs — he gave a voice to the voiceless, and he showed us that humanity, in all its hardship, still glows with grace.

I will miss my hero.

And so should we all.

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Image by Sebastião Salgado

Korem Camp, Ethiopia, 1984

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Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé

In the summer of 1897, the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke passionately expressed his admiration for Lou Andreas-Salomé, a woman who, since her birth in Saint Petersburg in 1861, defied the strict social norms of her time. Born into a wealthy family, Lou was raised in a disciplined environment and received an education influenced by great philosophers like Kant and Nietzsche. An early heartbreak with her tutor, who proposed marriage despite being married himself, led her to renounce romantic love and sexual experience, setting the course for a life defined by intellectual and personal independence.

After her father’s death, Lou continued her studies across Europe, where she met influential figures such as Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche, both captivated by her brilliance but ultimately rejected by her in favor of purely intellectual relationships. She married Friedrich Carl Andreas, though their marriage lacked intimacy, and lived a peripatetic life that brought her into contact with Rilke, whom she mentored and loved deeply. Later, following Rée’s death and a period of deep depression, Lou embraced psychoanalysis, becoming one of the first women accepted into Freud’s inner circle and an influential psychoanalyst and writer in her own right.

Lou Andreas-Salomé left behind more than twenty books, essays, and poems covering psychology, philosophy, and literature. She challenged the prescribed roles for women in society and paved the way for future generations of free-thinking women. Her life stands as a testament to courage, intellect, and autonomy, continuing to inspire today and securing her place as a vital symbol in the history of Western thought and culture until her death in 1937.

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