7 thoughts on “Bela Bahia”

1. daktari164 February 10, 2017 at 00:13

   great work, its as if time got frozen ….

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   1. Tamar Granovsky Post authorFebruary 10, 2017 at 04:35

      it feels exactly like this in some places. but of course there are hints, here and there, that we are in the here and now, grounded in the today. but in many ways life in the countryside, in particular, is still very much steeped in a different time.

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      1. Tamar Granovsky Post authorFebruary 10, 2017 at 05:31

         and…
         “Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter ‘repented,’ changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again… The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.” -Introduction to Lillian Hellman’s Pentimento

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2. Rudy February 10, 2017 at 07:01

   Wow. Such mood. Love these.

   Sent from my iPhone

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   1. Tamar Granovsky Post authorFebruary 10, 2017 at 07:10

      it appears i am honing in on what i would like to do with my photography in brasil. i reaslise, more and more, that tactility is what i crave and is critical to my sensibility. this was more obvious during my days as a sculptor where my hands touched as much as they could without tools. i am now using the camera to touch objects – however mundane.

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3. Joan McNeil February 14, 2017 at 11:19

   These are fabulous photographs, Tamar.

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   1. Tamar Granovsky Post authorFebruary 14, 2017 at 13:32

      thank you!

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