Taking Pictures (Les Amants)

Statement, February 8, 2011 In 2007, I began photographing the screens on people’s digital cameras in museums.

What did people do with all these photos?

Pictures constantly pass from screen to screen, plunging into the epistemic breach opened by photography. Each iteration pushes the picture a little farther from its origin.

Nicholas Knight Les Amants double-sided poster 33.3 x 50 cm 2014

Who speaks on behalf of an image when its tether becomes so attenuated that _MG_0977.CR2 its origin is lost?

8/30/07 2:01:45 PM 3456 x 2304 px 1/50imsec @ ƒ/2.8 Any claim about culture, ISO 400 must pass through many membranes: some 100 mm Canon 350D

leave barely perceptible imprints; some co-opt its meaning; and some wish to deny it permission to exist altogether.

By reporting on the world around us, art produces new facts that become part of the cultural reckoning of collective experience. Photography is now the calculus of this reckoning: relentlessly approximating the area beneath the curve of official permission, it insists on producing its own permissions.

World’s Leading Hair Restoration Physicians Gather to Present Latest Research

The BlackBerry Pearl 8100 is the latest model from Research in Motion (RIM). Even though this is a smartphone, not one of RIM’s larger cellular-wireless handhelds, it still breaks new ground for this company, as it is its first model of any kind with support for playing music and displaying video.

Frustrated desires are a common theme in René Magritte’s work. Here, a barrier of fabric prevents the intimate embrace between two lovers, transforming an act of passion into one of isolation and frustration.

Some have interpreted this work as a depiction of the inability to fully unveil the true nature of even our most intimate companions.

GENEVA, IL. - August 30, 2007. From new data of the first human clinical study demonstrating the safety and efficacy of a robotic-assisted hair transplantation device to cutting-edge research examining how donor hair There’s no doubt about it, the from other people could be Pearl is tiny. It’s one of the used successfully for future smallest smartphones I’ve Enshrouded faces were a hair transplants, the latest ever used. It makes RIM’s findings and technological typical devices look positively common motif in Magritte’s breakthroughs in hair gargantuan in comparison. If art. The artist was 14 when restoration will be presented you love your BlackBerry but his mother committed suicide René Magritte by the world’s foremostBlackberry Pearl 8100 would like something smaller, by drowning. He witnessed The Lovers, 1928 1.3 megapixel CCD hair restoration experts at this might be the way to go. her body being fished from Oil on canvas (1280 x 1024 px) the International Society the water, her wet nightgown 21.375 x 28.875 inches 5Xof zoom wrapped around her face.

Hair Restoration Surgery’s 2.25 inch TFT screen However, there is a majorMuseum of Modern Art (ISHRS) 15th Annual released September 2006 trade-off. Instead of having a York Some have speculated that New Scientific Meeting. More than regular QWERTY keyboard, this trauma inspired a series 500 physicians and surgical the Pearl uses RIM’s SureType of works in which Magritte assistants from around the system, in which each key obscured his subjects’ faces. handles two letters.

Magritte disagreed with such world dedicated to advancing the art and science of hair interpretations, denying any restoration are expected That’s really the only drawback, relation between his paintings to attend this premier though. This model offers all and his mother’s death. “My kinds of features no BlackBerry painting is visible images educational event, September 26-30, 2007, at The Venetian ever has before. which conceal nothing,” he in Las Vegas. wrote, “they evoke mystery One of the most significant of and, indeed, when one sees these is a trackball. Instead of one of my pictures, one asks “The demand for hair using a D-pad like virtually oneself this simple question, restoration procedures that deliver natural-looking, every over handheld and ‘What does it mean?’ It does permanent results that are smartphone, you move around not mean anything, because virtually undetectable has and select things on the Pearl’s mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” screen with a small roller-ball, never been stronger,” said Paul