"The Fortune Teller"

I saw this 'new' painting today at the Met Museum. Because of the two dominant horizontal lines - the one on the eyes and the one on the hands -, it reminded me of Robert Bresson.

It's "The Fortune Teller" and it was painted by Georges de La Tour.

Bresson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBycPS414FY

Sr. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mr. Hiroshi Sugimoto

"I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes."

http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/

"Conversations with Rudy Burckhardt about everything" by Simon Pettet

"RB: ... because now we're having this extra problem, everything being recorded, that's really going to make trouble.

SP: You don't like that huh?

RB: No, because there's no time to play it all back. There's no time to play it all back and sort out whether it has value, what has value. So we have this big mess of stuff."