Junk for Code

recoil

The world of instrumental reason:

Ezra Stoller, Salk Institute (Louis I. Kahn), 1977

You can understand why being with a whore is a release from the repressions of power and work.

Ezra Stoller, Seagrams interior (Mies van der Rohe), 1958

Or at least why Adorno and Bataille thought so. One recoils from the bleakness of modernist world:

Ezra Stoller, Salk Institute for Biological Research, La Jolla CA, Photographed 1977, Louis Kahn, Architect

And yearns for this

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 9, 2004 10:43 PM | TrackBack