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05 Oct 2011 10:20pm

Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault

Clérambault (1872 - 1934) was a photographer and psychiatrist (apparently he invented, ahem I mean discovered, the concept of erotomania). He travelled to Morocco and obsessively took photos of women in veils. I don’t know much more about him; about a year ago I found a book in a second-hand shop that contained some of his photos. They’re troubling: the odd, repetitive overlap between woman and apparition. The apparent hint of cruelty and objectification. I wonder what he was doing? what was he looking for in these images?

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noreply@blogger.com (gregory) 23 December 2011, 3:59 pm
Happy Christmas, Alasdair!
noreply@blogger.com (gregory) 23 December 2011, 3:59 pm
Happy Christmas, Alasdair!
noreply@blogger.com (Manvi) 6 October 2011, 7:46 pm
perhaps he meant to show, by the squishing of their souls in such intense repression, they were already dead, ghosts.
noreply@blogger.com (Manvi) 6 October 2011, 7:41 pm
seems like something about how they are walking ghosts/apparitions... as if they have already been murdered. or perhaps in repression their souls have been murdered. like a flower squashed after unfurling only its first leaf.

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