Davis destroyed 10 banned records and then recorded them playing back. If the photographs correspond to the music playing, its hard to see how some of them still play as recognizably as they do, and for so long. The magic of technology!
Sort of begs the question what is actually made to last? There's artwork in museums that's thousands of years old. And performance art, which can only be curated through means and materials other than the art itself (which then becomes the art itself?)
Can't believe I haven't linked to this before, but today would be the appropriate day for it, I guess. To my mind the single most resonant and wrenching response to the September 11th attacks.
George Lawrence was a devotee of flying cameras into the air on "Captive Airships" and taking unsettling photos with them. This shot is from, obviously, right after the SF earthquake in 1906. The multiple-point perspective is really making me nauseated.
