This display showcases the work of Simon Annand, photographer of leading actors in the West End for the last 20 years. It provides a rare glimpse into the dressing rooms of actors in the precious, private few moments before the show: The Half. This half an hour before curtain up is used for focus and [...]
Categories: exhibition, photography
Tagged: actor, character, concentration, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day Lewis, dressing room, exhibition, half, Ian Mckellen, photography, play, private, public, ritual, Simon Annand, theatre, time, transition, V & A, Victoria & Albert Museum
- Published:
- 27/01/2010 – 3:38 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
‘Tis not a set of features, or complexion,
The tincture of a skin, that I admire.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Image: © Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2008/09. Digital print, brass candle sconces, candles. Print size: 76.2 x 94.7 cm
Text: Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719), Cato (A Tragedy in [...]
Categories: contemporary art, word
Tagged: admire, Beauty, candles, Cato, complexion, eye, fade, familiar, features, Joseph Addison, lover, Marlo Pascual, play, sense, skin, tragedy
- Published:
- 22/01/2010 – 8:11 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
If music be the food of love, play on.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Images: © Aymeric Giraudel
Music: Chopin’s Waltz Op.69 No.2 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1981
Quotes: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Categories: music, photography, word
Tagged: Aymeric Giraudel, Chopin, drink, food, gentleman, love, man, music, piano, play, unkindness, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Waltz, William Shakespeare
- Published:
- 18/12/2009 – 4:32 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Images: © Sylvain Norget, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Quote: Carl Jung
Categories: fashion, photography, word
Tagged: accomplished, body, Carl Jung, creative, fashion, instinct, love, male, man, mind, necessity, new, photography, play, Sylvain Norget
- Published:
- 14/12/2009 – 1:09 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Mario Giacomelli (1925 – 2000)
From There Are No Hand to Caress My Face
Senigallia
Italy
1961-1963
Categories: photography
Tagged: black and white photography, Italy, Mario Giacomelli, play, Priest, Senigallia
- Published:
- 13/10/2009 – 2:50 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Down by a shining water well
I found a very little dell,
No higher than my head.
The heather and the gorse about
In summer bloom were coming out,
Some yellow and some red.
I called the little pool a sea;
The little hills were big to me;
For I am very small.
I made a boat, I made a town,
I searched the caverns [...]
Categories: photography, poem
Tagged: boy, Kingdom, play, poem, Robert Louis Stevenson, rocking horse
- Published:
- 31/08/2009 – 10:11 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
