{"id":107569,"date":"2017-02-09T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107569"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:33:21","slug":"touch-someone-with-a-camera-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/touch-someone-with-a-camera-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Someone with a Camera, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107570\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107570\" class=\"wp-image-107570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/elsken-1024x798.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed van der Elsken, <i>Vali Myers dancing at La Scala, Paris<\/i>, 1950. Photo via <em>The\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\/Nederlands Fotomuseum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So there\u2019s this guy, Zoltan Istvan? He ran for president as a kind of single-issue candidate: he wanted to make America live forever. Literally. Steering his coffin-shaped \u201cImmortality Bus\u201d around the States, he laid out a transhumanist platform advocating for the abolition of death. He attracted a small but plucky band of volunteers, one of whom, Roen Horn, turned out to be especially fervent. Mark O\u2019Connell talked to Horn about the promises of eternal life on Earth: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/09\/magazine\/600-miles-in-a-coffin-shaped-bus-campaigning-against-death-itself.html\" target=\"_blank\">You know one really cool thing about being alive in the future?\u2019 [Horn] asked<\/a>. \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 \u2018Sexbots \u2026 You know, like A.I. robots that are built for having sex with.\u2019 \u2018Oh, sure,\u2019 I said. \u2018I\u2019ve heard of sexbots. It\u2019s a nice-enough idea. You really think that\u2019s going to happen, though?\u2019 \u2018For sure,\u2019 Horn said, closing his eyes and nodding beatifically, in momentary reflection upon some distant exaltation. \u2018It\u2019s something I\u2019m very much looking forward to.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nan Goldin remembers discovering Ed van der Elsken\u2019s photography when she was nineteen: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/photographing-as-a-need?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">When I first saw Ed van der Elsken\u2019s book <em>Love on the Left Bank<\/em>, I realized I had just met my predecessor<\/a>. My real predecessor \u2026 In my own life, I have been obsessed with photographing the people who were my lovers, had been my lovers, or whom I wanted as lovers. Like Ed, I wrote myself in as the lover. Sometimes, the obsession lasted for years. It was photography as the sublimation of sex, a means of seduction, and a way to remain a crucial part of my subjects\u2019 lives. A chance to touch someone with a camera rather than physically. It is this notion\u2014of being obsessed with someone, and, through photographs, making that person\u00a0iconic\u2014that resonated with me in his work.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Lincoln Center this week, those who came to see Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony got a surprise: during the last movement, a group of singers took to their feet throughout the auditorium, singing the words to \u201cOde to Joy.\u201d(\u201cYou millions, I embrace you \/ This kiss is for all the world!\u201d) They were, it turns out, singers from the Concert Chorale of New York. Alex Abramovich caught up with one of them, David Bryan, after the show, and he said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/alex-abramovich\/ode-to-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\">In the fourth movement, in the dialogue between the cello\/double bass and the rest of the orchestra, which then gives way to that beautiful melody and countermelodies so familiar to most of the Western world, the poetry of the text hit me pretty hard<\/a> \u2026 No matter what\u2019s happening out in the world, and regardless of individual political persuasions, in that moment people can\u2019t be sitting there fuming about politics \u2026 And, as I sat there, I wondered: all of these people with all the power and money and control \u2026 have they ever performed Beethoven\u2019s Ninth? \u2026 I just don\u2019t see how you could bomb people overseas one day and then sit on a stage the next with an instrument, performing such a cathartic piece of music. I believe music is the answer to all of the conflict the world is in right now. It always has been.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam Kriss thinks you should watch <em>Planet Earth II<\/em>, especially for its reckoning with humankind: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/02\/planet-earth-ii-and-the-fantastic-urban-fox\/515958\/\" target=\"_blank\">The final episode, showing animals in the city, is spectacular<\/a>. The natural world is no longer\u00a0<em>out there<\/em>, in the eternal wilderness, divided from our own lives by an absolute ontological barrier, and interacting with humanity only insofar as we destroy it. Instead it\u2019s rising up from underneath with a mocking challenge to the world we think we\u2019ve built \u2026 Animals do something to the city and its spaces; they remind us that we\u2019re not really free.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s often said that an education in the humanities opens one\u2019s mind, safeguarding it against myopia and provincialism. But Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English literature, is proof that you can read a lot of books and still end up a complete fool. After all, anyone who sees\u2014as Bauerlein claims to\u2014shades of Whitman in Trump\u2019s fitful, coarse mutterings about \u201cAmerican carnage\u201d can\u2019t even be called a student of literature, let alone a professor of it. \u201cI will take the inauguration speech,\u201d Braulein said. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/interrogation\/2017\/02\/what_pro_trump_english_professor_mark_bauerlein_thinks_now_that_his_candidate.html\" target=\"_blank\">That was simply a firm and vigorous reiteration of everything he promised in the campaign<\/a>. It sounded the hyperpopulist message that many found reminiscent of Huey Long and other demagogues. I actually found it closer to the populism of Walt Whitman and his paean to the working man, and the fact that the great spirit of America is not to be found in the legislatures or the executives but in the people, the ordinary common man.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Nan Goldin on the first photographer she loved; the transhumanist search for sexbots; singing \u201cOde to Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4387,1051,1260,7323,5931,22715,11652,4885,46,2168,100,27186,16493,13375,27185,264,27184],"class_list":["post-107569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-academia","tag-animals","tag-beethoven","tag-cameras","tag-cities","tag-ed-van-der-elsken","tag-immortality","tag-lincoln-center","tag-music","tag-nan-goldin","tag-photography","tag-planet-earth-ii","tag-professors","tag-singing","tag-transhumanism","tag-walt-whitman","tag-zoltan-istvan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nan Goldin: Photography Is \u201ca Chance to Touch Someone with a Camera\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s roundup: Nan Goldin on the first photographer she loved; 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