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neptunesenceladus · 1 year ago

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The Most Beautiful Suicide, photographed by Robert C Wiles

I’ve been reading Crash (as one of Ballards works recommended by @lieu42) and the introduction by Zadie Smith (honestly that intro is my favourite bit of the book) and it’s made me think of this photo that I first saw in a tumblr post a while back.

The idea of how everyone uses everything and everything uses us. She didn’t have to land on a car, the photographer could have not even had his camera on him. But still her suicide damaged the car and the car being what cushioned her fall caused Robert C Wiles to find her body and take the photo.

The framing in particular is what makes me relate the photo to Crash. How her body and the car (and reflections on the car) interact feels like what Ballard was getting at in the book.

#anyway if you don’t mind uncomfortable literature i definitely recommend reading crash #and especially zadie smiths intro as that picks apart the book in a way that makes it easier to understand #i’m still trying to articulate all my thoughts on it so you will probably being hearing more #thanks lieu42 for recommending the book and ballards works in general #big fan #especially his writing style and the clinical way he uses descriptions #I did study photography so that probably why i connected this photo to crash #we once did a focus on photographing things that aren’t positive and create a negative reaction from people in beautiful ways #really interesting to discuss #en thinks thoughts

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