miércoles, junio 30, 2004


he encontrado en internet un artículo del washington post donde el niño de aquella fotografía de diane arbus, "Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962", ya crecido obviamente, habla algunas cosas. nuevamente se menciona la hoja de contactos de aquella sesión, que ha estado expuesta al público a inicios de año en el MOMA de san francisco. (esto con motivo de la publicación de "Diane Arbus: Revelations", con hartas notas biográficas, un libro que yo desearía realmente tener pero cuesta como $100). en fin, corto el rollo. ahí va una cita que me gustó mucho.


"There's a sadness in her that she also saw in me," one of Arbus' better known (though at the time anonymous) subjects told the San Francisco Chronicle recently. Arbus, the subject went on, responded to "this need, which was very big in me at the time, to be appreciated or paid attention to."
The speaker is Colin Wood, failed actor, now insurance salesman, father of two, and son of a 1931 Wimbledon champ, who happened to be in Central Park in his odd short pants – and toy hand grenade – in 1962 when Arbus encountered him.
"That grenade was one of two I bought at the five and ten," Wood told freelance writer Hugh Hart. The second one went out the window when I tried to blow up the alley behind our apartment..."


8:26 p. m. [césar]