POSNER,
IGOR
CONTENTS
· Cargó and other stories
· Past Perfect Continuous
· No Such Records
· The other stories
· Postal Cards
BOOKS AND PRINTS
BIOGRAPHY/CV
PUBLICATIONS
EXHIBITIONS
FILMS/PROJECTIONS
CONTACT
posnerigor@gmail.com
posnerigor@gmail.com
©2024 IGOR POSNER
2006-2010
Past Perfect Continuous
In 2006, Igor Posner returned to St. Petersburg, the city where he was born, for the first time in 14 years. Confronted by the shifting resonance of place and memory, the resulting pictures are grasped through distances of time.
This is a city half-seen and half-recollected, one version overlaid imperfectly on the other, mapping where the past and the present intersect – a fictional city, then, one that is, in a sense, conjured up by the desire to find some lost incarnation of what was once familiar – a desire that will never, ultimately, be realized.
This is a city half-seen and half-recollected, one version overlaid imperfectly on the other, mapping where the past and the present intersect – a fictional city, then, one that is, in a sense, conjured up by the desire to find some lost incarnation of what was once familiar – a desire that will never, ultimately, be realized.
Posner is trying to get the measure of what it means to deal with the past in photographic terms.
There is a collision of distinct experiences and times. His present encounter with the city is inevitably shaped by what he knew of it – the narrative is one of the return and expectation; the dark uncertainty of these images, their haunting sense of dislocation, is a testament to that, these places speak not only of what they are now, but also of what they might have been.
There is a collision of distinct experiences and times. His present encounter with the city is inevitably shaped by what he knew of it – the narrative is one of the return and expectation; the dark uncertainty of these images, their haunting sense of dislocation, is a testament to that, these places speak not only of what they are now, but also of what they might have been.
Darren Campion
Past Perfect Continuous* -
was published by Red Hook Editions, Brooklyn, New York in 2017.
*This book is simultaneously published with Accompaniments by Mary Di Lucia (Literary fiction), Red Hook Editions, 2017.
was published by Red Hook Editions, Brooklyn, New York in 2017.
*This book is simultaneously published with Accompaniments by Mary Di Lucia (Literary fiction), Red Hook Editions, 2017.
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It is a collision
Not an accident, but a crush
between yourself
and the light
and what stands
in between you,
the two of you:
the black dog,
the white dog,
the him and her,
of the moment
you did not remember
taking.
from The Return of not Returning
by Mary Di Lucia
It is a collision
Not an accident, but a crush
between yourself
and the light
and what stands
in between you,
the two of you:
the black dog,
the white dog,
the him and her,
of the moment
you did not remember
taking.
from The Return of not Returning
by Mary Di Lucia
