<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686</id><updated>2012-02-13T05:36:41.237-08:00</updated><category term='Gaston-Marie Martin'/><category term='Taormina'/><category term='Vincenzo Galdi'/><category term='désir'/><category term='Kazantzakis'/><category term='von Plüschow'/><category term='Homer'/><category term='Capri'/><category term='Ganymedes'/><category term='Marco Silombria'/><category term='Sébastien Paul Lucien'/><category term='Poems without words'/><category term='Lecture'/><category term='Bertel Thorvaldsen'/><category term='Pasqualino'/><category term='Gaston Goor'/><category term='Jean Cocteau'/><category term='Fersen'/><category term='Tadzio'/><category term='Paul Belmondo'/><category term='Roland Barthes'/><category term='Truman Capote'/><category term='Alexandrie'/><category term='Naples'/><category term='André Gide'/><category term='Salome'/><category term='Florence'/><category term='Newman'/><category term='Danilo'/><category term='Renaud Icard'/><category term='Roger Peyrefitte'/><category term='Tunis'/><category term='Philip'/><category term='Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><category term='Canova'/><category term='Elisar von Kupffer'/><category term='livre'/><category term='Satyricon'/><category term='Von Gloeden'/><category term='Critios'/><category term='Uranian Poetry'/><category term='Tuke'/><category term='Ganymède'/><category term='Essebac'/><category term='Rome'/><category term='Belmondo'/><category term='Dionysius'/><category term='Francis Edwin Murray'/><category term='Lucien de Samosate'/><category term='Stendhal'/><category term='Uraniens'/><category term='Egon'/><category term='Exhibition'/><category term='Venise'/><category term='D&apos;Agata'/><category term='Lehnert'/><category term='Orient'/><category term='Memmingen'/><title type='text'>Rêves Siciliens</title><subtitle type='html'>Une libre rêverie visuelle et poétique autour du Baron W. von Gloeden (1856-1931)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>256</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7008500618663430400</id><published>2012-02-04T12:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T12:30:23.828-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Greek Tragedy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tmqeNDYvbZs/Ty2Or0DXLFI/AAAAAAAABFc/xA0jE2H3gUw/s1600/rock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="363" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tmqeNDYvbZs/Ty2Or0DXLFI/AAAAAAAABFc/xA0jE2H3gUw/s400/rock.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;In the background, there are just rocks and stones, the most inhuman background for a fully human tragedy...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hn5gn_ZKnS8/Ty2OsV_j__I/AAAAAAAABFg/JYE2E52k6Wc/s1600/sand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="337" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hn5gn_ZKnS8/Ty2OsV_j__I/AAAAAAAABFg/JYE2E52k6Wc/s400/sand.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;On the ground, there is just sand, nothing else, just sand, flying through human fingers as the time flies away... Sand is the only possible ground for a human tragedy...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fOLmdT6gOW8/Ty2P3Fh2GxI/AAAAAAAABFs/51Oe6hsWu_A/s1600/Face+Two.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fOLmdT6gOW8/Ty2P3Fh2GxI/AAAAAAAABFs/51Oe6hsWu_A/s640/Face+Two.jpg" width="371" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As in all Greek tragedies, there is anger and madness, there is love and hate, there is tenderness and despair, there is the will to kill, the desire to caress, there is an older one, a younger one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1WGEcvYmHFs/Ty2OoHO8oBI/AAAAAAAABFA/TgmKu8JsSqI/s1600/Face+Pasq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1WGEcvYmHFs/Ty2OoHO8oBI/AAAAAAAABFA/TgmKu8JsSqI/s640/Face+Pasq.jpg" width="444" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Fear in your eyes, fear and a prayer in your eyes, and a promiss, an oath, never more, for eternity, I will be yours, I will be your loved one, I never betrayed, never...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jk0qcs-CdCs/Ty2OmyePZWI/AAAAAAAABE0/P-RG-AF499o/s1600/Bod+H+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="355" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jk0qcs-CdCs/Ty2OmyePZWI/AAAAAAAABE0/P-RG-AF499o/s400/Bod+H+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;But he does not believe him, he want to kill him, he is ready, he want to kill him, such a betrayal, he loved him so much, they were so close, they were brothers in love, they shared so much, warmth and breathe....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y-3KoFRg-08/Ty2OnhcGZpI/AAAAAAAABE4/2W1kBiUj5SQ/s1600/Bod+Pasq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y-3KoFRg-08/Ty2OnhcGZpI/AAAAAAAABE4/2W1kBiUj5SQ/s640/Bod+Pasq.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;No, not now, my brother, my lover, don't kill me now... I love you so much, we shared so much, warmth and breathe... Don't forget our love, what we shared, the warmth of my body, my youth, my love... No, no, my brother, my lover, don't kill me now, I will be yours for ever... I want a kiss from you, not a blow...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OP5f1il6AQA/Ty2OpB-chiI/AAAAAAAABFI/vDZqrTkMlnc/s1600/Full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OP5f1il6AQA/Ty2OpB-chiI/AAAAAAAABFI/vDZqrTkMlnc/s640/Full.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I can hear Wilhelm von Gloeden's instructions to his favorite models... I can hear his voice, while he is carefully creating the stage set-up of this photograph... These two Taormina lads forgot they were shepherds, young peasants, fishermen... They forgot their time, the last years of the XIXth century...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They became heroes from a remote past, Greek heroes, playing the intemporal game of love and hate, of life and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never seen this von Gloeden's photograph in any of the modern books devoted to his art... I have not seen it in the web databases...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it seems this photograph is pretty rare... It was probably in some private collection, and it was saved from the destruction of von Gloeden's photographic plates, during the fascist rule in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This beautiful and expressive photograph is now in my collection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love it very much...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I look at it, I can hear the voices, the music of a very old, of a very in temporal Greek tragedy...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7008500618663430400?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7008500618663430400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7008500618663430400&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7008500618663430400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7008500618663430400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2012/02/greek-tragedy.html' title='Greek Tragedy'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tmqeNDYvbZs/Ty2Or0DXLFI/AAAAAAAABFc/xA0jE2H3gUw/s72-c/rock.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6663751782239470592</id><published>2012-02-02T12:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T12:10:42.253-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Imago lucis opera expressa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0BNbviEA6S8/Tyrm6dj226I/AAAAAAAABEs/OImffZSM-n8/s1600/Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0BNbviEA6S8/Tyrm6dj226I/AAAAAAAABEs/OImffZSM-n8/s640/Gloeden.jpg" width="492" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"La photo est littéralement une émanation du référent. D'un corps réel, qui était là, sont parties des radiations qui viennent me toucher, moi qui suis ici; peu importe la durée de la transmission; la photo de l'être disparu vient me toucher comme les rayons différés d'une étoile. Une sorte de lien ombilical relie le corps de la chose photographiée à mon regard: la lumière, quoi qu'impalpable, est bien ici un milieu charnel, une peau que je partage avec celui ou celle qui a été photographié.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il paraît qu'en latin "photographie" se dirait: "imago lucis opera expressa"; c'est-à-dire : image révélée, "sortie", "montée", "exprimée" (comme le jus d'un citron) par l'action de la lumière. Et si la Photographie appartenait à un monde qui ait encore quelque sensibilité au mythe, on ne manquerait pas d'exulter devant la richesse du symbole: le corps aimé est immortalisé par la médiation d'un métal précieux, l'argent (monument et luxe); à quoi on ajouterait l'idée que ce métal, comme tous les métaux de l'Alchimie, est vivant".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;La Chambre claire. Note sur la Photographie&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Cahiers du Cinéma, Gallimard, Seuil, 1980, p. 126-127.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6663751782239470592?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6663751782239470592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6663751782239470592&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6663751782239470592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6663751782239470592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2012/02/imago-lucis-opera-expressa.html' title='Imago lucis opera expressa'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0BNbviEA6S8/Tyrm6dj226I/AAAAAAAABEs/OImffZSM-n8/s72-c/Gloeden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-135357853006774950</id><published>2012-01-28T11:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T11:42:50.984-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uraniens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uranian Poetry'/><title type='text'>Alone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DQJLOYrsmTo/TyRPQkPMTvI/AAAAAAAABEc/3Rk7pQuxnyg/s1600/gloeden+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DQJLOYrsmTo/TyRPQkPMTvI/AAAAAAAABEc/3Rk7pQuxnyg/s640/gloeden+2.jpg" width="458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Where art thou, friend ? — Day after day,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Youth like a river flows away;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And forth we fare to meet decay: —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where art thou, friend ? — Beneath the sun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Man hath one life, but only done;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And Life to Death doth hourly run: —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where art thou, friend ? —&amp;nbsp;Must our own will&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Combine with chance and change to chill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The hearts that once were won't to thrill? —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where art thou, friend ? —&amp;nbsp;Stretch forth thine hand&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Across the waste to where I stand;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Let love not fade like fires unfanned: —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where art thou, friend ? — Can love secure&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In gloom and solitude endure ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oblivion's wound what skill can cure ? —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where art thou, friend ? —&amp;nbsp;In vain I wail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Let me not spread my spirit's sail&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Alone, to drift before the gale!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Where are thou ?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lad's Love&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Edited with an introduction by Michael Matthew Kaylor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Kansas City, Valancourt Books, 2010, vol. 2, p. 365.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-135357853006774950?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/135357853006774950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=135357853006774950&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/135357853006774950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/135357853006774950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2012/01/alone.html' title='Alone'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DQJLOYrsmTo/TyRPQkPMTvI/AAAAAAAABEc/3Rk7pQuxnyg/s72-c/gloeden+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1112981914663482639</id><published>2012-01-26T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T11:15:37.280-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Une pensée qui passe...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JjF8V1gvCK4/TyGhmCdlk8I/AAAAAAAABEM/Zh0prpjuzlU/s1600/Portrait+Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JjF8V1gvCK4/TyGhmCdlk8I/AAAAAAAABEM/Zh0prpjuzlU/s640/Portrait+Gloeden.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Collection privée)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peut-on photographier une pensée qui passe, un état d'âme, un instant d'absence, une seconde d'éternité ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qu'est-ce qui se joue dans ce moment fugitif figé pour toujours ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a quelque chose de sublime dans cette image de von Gloeden, qui fait de ce portrait d'adolescent comme l'emblème de la photographie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le temps de la pose, de la pause, figé pour l'éternité.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un regard qui se détourne du photographe, du spectateur pour plonger à l'intérieur de soi, au coeur d'une âme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce garçon me semble être le même que celui qui incarnait les rêves orientaux de von Gloeden, Ahmed, Asrah, le garçon des sables et des oasis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-melancolie-dahmed-asrah-melancholy.html"&gt;Rêves Siciliens: La mélancolie d'Ahmed - Asrah / The Melancholy of Ahmed - Asrah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je retrouve dans ce portrait le même regard, la même mélancolie, la même gravité, trop profonde pour un visage si jeune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette photographie invite à une méditation sans fin, à aller loin au coeur de sa mémoire et son imaginaire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette photographie a la mélancolie d'un &lt;i&gt;Nocturne&lt;/i&gt; de Chopin, la beauté de la sonate de Vinteuil...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'aime le trait de plume de Gloeden qui a souligné le contour des yeux, là où tout se joue, à la jonction du regard et de l'âme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette photographie est une invitation au rêve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pourquoi es-tu si sérieux, si mélancolique, si grave, jeune garçon de Taormina, au seuil du XXe siècle ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1112981914663482639?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1112981914663482639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1112981914663482639&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1112981914663482639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1112981914663482639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pensee-qui-passe.html' title='Une pensée qui passe...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JjF8V1gvCK4/TyGhmCdlk8I/AAAAAAAABEM/Zh0prpjuzlU/s72-c/Portrait+Gloeden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7778564275714691938</id><published>2012-01-21T00:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T00:28:04.619-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>Fersen. Le baiser de Narcisse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lioRhjYMtAY/Txp2f2MmZtI/AAAAAAAABEE/WyvlvMvTb8E/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lioRhjYMtAY/Txp2f2MmZtI/AAAAAAAABEE/WyvlvMvTb8E/s400/image.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;Après la réédition remarquée de&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Lord Lyllian. Messes noires&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(1905) par Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, les éditions QuestionDeGenre/GKC inaugurent l'année &amp;nbsp;2012 en rééditant, du même auteur,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Le Baiser de Narcisse&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;dans sa version illustrée par Brisset (1912).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;On se souvient que Fersen est le fondateur de la première revue homosexuelle française (&lt;i&gt;Akademos&lt;/i&gt;, 1909).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;Ce cahier de 80 pages est disponible dès maintenant à la librairie “Les Mots à la Bouche”, 6 rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie à Paris (75004) au prix de 14 €&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;ou par commande franco de port = chèque de 14 euros libellé à GKC à adresser à&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;Patrick Cardon c/o Faria,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;37 rue Gabrielle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;94220 Charenton-le-Pont&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;div bgcolor="#F9F0D5" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div bgcolor="#F9F0D5" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7778564275714691938?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7778564275714691938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7778564275714691938&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7778564275714691938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7778564275714691938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2012/01/fersen-le-baiser-de-narcisse.html' title='Fersen. Le baiser de Narcisse'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lioRhjYMtAY/Txp2f2MmZtI/AAAAAAAABEE/WyvlvMvTb8E/s72-c/image.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8286159563250478080</id><published>2011-12-22T12:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T12:49:46.029-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>About dream and desire...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-28BinIB0cQ4/TvOS97JD7qI/AAAAAAAABD8/VBgdWWMXRZY/s1600/portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-28BinIB0cQ4/TvOS97JD7qI/AAAAAAAABD8/VBgdWWMXRZY/s400/portrait.jpg" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Wilhelm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sorry to be back to you after such a long time... I was traveling abroad, so far away from Taormina... But I brought with me the sun of Sicily, the light of the San Domenico piazza, and the beauty of your models...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;How could I forget them... They make me dream so much... I see them, I talk to them so much in my dreams... Your photographic eye made them so perfect, so relevant, so splendid, so desirable... Desire is such a strange thing... How could we desire a boy pictured on a photograph... ? The aura is more important than the body, the gaze is more important than touch, a photograph haunts his viewer longer than a body haunts its lover... At least, I think, I hope so...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I will never be tired to love your photographs, to love your models... You caught their youth, their beauty, what makes them so desirable, so lovable... Looking at your photographs is just reading a love story, a never ending love story, and day after day, I will say "I love you" to the boy you chose to focus on...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Am I loving a boy or a photograph ? I am loving beauty, intemporal beauty, hauting eyes, half open lips, waiting for a kiss, or about to say some loving words...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I am loving a boy from Athens or Sparta, from Alexandria or Rome, a blossoming boy at the peak of youth and beauty, just a flower that will last as far as youth does...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;How to forget him, how to forget you... Each of your photograph is the first chapter of a love story, and the viewer should write its ending part...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Loving a photograph is loving a boy for ever... Looking carefully at the photograph, I can feel the breathe, the warmth of your model, I can almost touch him and embrass him.... "Almost" is &amp;nbsp;what makes the difference... "Almost" is what will never put an end to my longing, to my love, to my desire, "almost" is what will allow the magic of your photograph to go on and on, for ever, for the fortunate viewer who will perhaps get it, after I disappeared...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Dear Wilhem, thanks so much for experimenting such a new way to write love poetry...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Yours, as always, Philip"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, Letter from Philip to W. von Gloeden, ca. 1912, call number 1912/00/05&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8286159563250478080?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8286159563250478080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8286159563250478080&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8286159563250478080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8286159563250478080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/12/about-dream-and-desire.html' title='About dream and desire...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-28BinIB0cQ4/TvOS97JD7qI/AAAAAAAABD8/VBgdWWMXRZY/s72-c/portrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-829141610483511892</id><published>2011-11-17T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T12:50:21.061-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Stage set up</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Philip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You asked me to share with you some of my little secrets, how I create the stage set up for my neo-Arcadian photographs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I think about the stage set up as a painter. Every detail has its own importance. Foreground or background, various objects and props should contribute to build up the imaginary world where I want my Taormina boys to be displayed...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;First, I am thinking about the floor: my old zebra skin suggests a world of luxury and sensuality, an exotic horizon, where Africa meets Sicily.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLhdJLIt9C0/TsVnmHY28UI/AAAAAAAABC4/qpOXUX18IR0/s1600/detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLhdJLIt9C0/TsVnmHY28UI/AAAAAAAABC4/qpOXUX18IR0/s400/detail+3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Then, I choose some of my favorite singing birds, sometimes some cicadas, and I put them into a small wicker cage. They will create the musical background of my photograph, a drone or a melody that will help the boys to focus and to relax...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uE3sw5qQVJU/TsVnlUPA90I/AAAAAAAABCs/XgDuTVV8IQE/s1600/detail+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uE3sw5qQVJU/TsVnlUPA90I/AAAAAAAABCs/XgDuTVV8IQE/s400/detail+4.jpg" width="337" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Details matter so much... I love to use some of the Greek vases Taormina's peasants sometimes find in a forgotten tumb... A lekythos has such a perfect shape, it was devoted to the dead, and somehow, I think a lekythos is relevant in my photographic art, since I try to dig into cultural memory while making my models immortal...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VSqIYW1WrgQ/TsVnkn1LjAI/AAAAAAAABCk/i_G5jd19oD8/s1600/detail+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VSqIYW1WrgQ/TsVnkn1LjAI/AAAAAAAABCk/i_G5jd19oD8/s400/detail+5.jpg" width="249" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Taormina's potters still remember the skill of their ancestors and a modern eartheware jar evokes a remote Antiquity where water, vine and oil where kept in such a way...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OdIpaiI18S8/TsVnmr-LUYI/AAAAAAAABC8/YR-M_vhMQrY/s1600/detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OdIpaiI18S8/TsVnmr-LUYI/AAAAAAAABC8/YR-M_vhMQrY/s400/detail+2.jpg" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;My house, Piazza San Domenico, and the surrounding buildings are timeless and suggest what the urban landscape of antique Tauromenium could be...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ld1f5DHX31Q/TsVnnW9gMBI/AAAAAAAABDE/x14DC0Jm1qc/s1600/detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ld1f5DHX31Q/TsVnnW9gMBI/AAAAAAAABDE/x14DC0Jm1qc/s400/detail+1.jpg" width="173" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Then, I speak gently to my models, and I try to suggest a mood, a story, a legend. I want them to forget my camera, and to be the intemporal young men that adorned so many Greek temples... Pasqualino is my favorite model, he loves so much to play the part of a Theocritus shepherd, he loves so much to be loved and to inspire tenderness and desire... Who could fight against his gaze, again his grace ? &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9yKKrbEJ4J0/TsVnj0wI7sI/AAAAAAAABCg/l3tjF0wZaBY/s1600/detail+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9yKKrbEJ4J0/TsVnj0wI7sI/AAAAAAAABCg/l3tjF0wZaBY/s400/detail+6.jpg" width="236" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pietro has such a natural grace, who could ever guess that a Taormina's young fisherman remembers so well the grace and curves, the sensuality and boldness, the pride and tenderness of ancient Greek ephebes, who inspired so many dreams of beauty, so many desires and memories...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aLtlq5KsGws/TsVnjaIfuSI/AAAAAAAABCU/23bEXH5r-O0/s1600/detail+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aLtlq5KsGws/TsVnjaIfuSI/AAAAAAAABCU/23bEXH5r-O0/s400/detail+7.jpg" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I am a perfectionist, and every detail matters for me... I spend so much times finding the right light, the perfect stage set up... Sometimes, I miss something... Sometimes a flower may hide another one... Actually, I love this visual lapsus... My Taormina boys do not belong to Arcadia, they live here and now, they love and they are loved, they are not concepts, they are real guys, and the most ethereal desire should not make us forget that there is no soul without a body, and that boys could be loved by men for who they are, sensual worlds to dream about and to caress with the eyes, lovable boys to be loved for their soul as well as for their body...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z_B7SRc-Ju8/TsVni5-3siI/AAAAAAAABCQ/jVZR_BMFe_s/s1600/detail+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z_B7SRc-Ju8/TsVni5-3siI/AAAAAAAABCQ/jVZR_BMFe_s/s400/detail+8.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Each of my photographs is a love story... A love story between my Taormina models, between them and me... A love story between my photograph and the viewer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Each of my photographs is the archive of a moment that vanished, of light and shade, of a birds song, of a splendid beauty...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;In my craziest dreams, dear Philip, I hope my photographs will survive me and that in the future, someone will understand them and love them as well as you do...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;With my warmest regards,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ui-a_9HwTl8/TsVwRU-4tcI/AAAAAAAABDw/6QDCAWFnMjA/s1600/Mise+en+sce%25CC%2580ne+Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ui-a_9HwTl8/TsVwRU-4tcI/AAAAAAAABDw/6QDCAWFnMjA/s640/Mise+en+sce%25CC%2580ne+Gloeden.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(Private collection)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Von Gloeden's letter to Philip, around 1902, Von Gloeden Archive, Call number ca 1902/00/04.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-829141610483511892?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/829141610483511892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=829141610483511892&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/829141610483511892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/829141610483511892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/11/stage-set-up.html' title='Stage set up'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLhdJLIt9C0/TsVnmHY28UI/AAAAAAAABC4/qpOXUX18IR0/s72-c/detail+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4259532189643663271</id><published>2011-10-29T12:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T12:20:12.630-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Boy or girl... ? Desire and imagination</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZ-eB7hQFeI/TqxKRjNk9BI/AAAAAAAABB4/i93lvj6wV80/s1600/Gloeden.+Portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZ-eB7hQFeI/TqxKRjNk9BI/AAAAAAAABB4/i93lvj6wV80/s640/Gloeden.+Portrait.jpg" width="484" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A boy or a girl ? A boy with a whig and with a girlish veil and dress ?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, most likely, a boy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love so much this photograph... I love the sweet face, I love the dreaming eyes, we will never know what he was looking at...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the intemporal poetry of this photograph, the beauty of this face is shining for ever, these eyes will haunt me for ever...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden's camera caught for ever the fugitive time of a dream, of a memory, of a thought...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This boy of Taormina is looking at eternity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know your name... Perhaps in Taormina someone still remember it...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Were you a friend of Pasqualino ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You make me dream and I would love so much, so much to tell you, so many things...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know you would listen to me, you would understand me and even smile, and again, you would turn your gaze towards this so remote horizon, back to an immemorial past or to a future beyond your imagination...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, in 2011, there is still someone who is moved by your beauty, by your youth, by the mystery, the riddle of your gaze, so focussed, so deep, so silent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are now a part of my small collection of von Gloeden's masterworks... I choose only photographs that inspire me, photographs that are a music for my eyes, for my heart, for my thought...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps I am wrong, but I think I already crossed your path, a while ago, I was already seduced by your beauty, by your mystery, by your ambiguity. Boy or girl ? Pure beauty ignores borders... Any collection is ruled by its inner logic, by the gaze and the sensitivity of the collector...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you the same boy as &lt;a href="http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/01/une-question-question.html"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, I posted on my blog on January 29, in 2010 ???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I think so...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this photograph, and, may I tell it frankly, I love you too, so much...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4259532189643663271?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4259532189643663271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4259532189643663271&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4259532189643663271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4259532189643663271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/10/boy-or-girl-desire-and-imagination.html' title='Boy or girl... ? Desire and imagination'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TZ-eB7hQFeI/TqxKRjNk9BI/AAAAAAAABB4/i93lvj6wV80/s72-c/Gloeden.+Portrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1385765379361693299</id><published>2011-10-29T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T11:38:22.257-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uraniens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>The Old Story</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iiyX1zdsI6k/TqxGGLk6SCI/AAAAAAAABBw/lO5RrgumuaI/s1600/glo02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iiyX1zdsI6k/TqxGGLk6SCI/AAAAAAAABBw/lO5RrgumuaI/s640/glo02.jpg" width="458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Von Gloeden, &lt;i&gt;Portrait of a Young Boy&lt;/i&gt;, c. 1899.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"You loved me, sweet, and I loved you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Each of us deemed the other true —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;What was it fell between us two ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Your mouth a crimson flower to me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Your eyes an &amp;nbsp;unsung melody&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Woven to which I fain would be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Each unto each we were complete,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No sound unto my ears was sweet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As the soft echo of your feet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Was it because we loved too well,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We tired and broke the fervid spell ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wearied of heaven, longed for hell?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I know not, and I do not fret,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Because I hear that you forget&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Even that we have ever met.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yes, I remember without pain,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ou joy in sunshine and in rain,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And only sigh to love again."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Standley Addleshaw (aka. Alan Stanley)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in: Michael Matthew Kailor (ed.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lad's Love. An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Volume 1, Kansas City, Valancourt Books, 2010, p. 9.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1385765379361693299?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1385765379361693299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1385765379361693299&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1385765379361693299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1385765379361693299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-story.html' title='The Old Story'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iiyX1zdsI6k/TqxGGLk6SCI/AAAAAAAABBw/lO5RrgumuaI/s72-c/glo02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-5213976526882952775</id><published>2011-10-22T13:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T13:01:59.460-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Dreaming about...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eQcaDKMoHPA/TqMcAEq_j_I/AAAAAAAABBo/6BXpczFQ9ZI/s1600/Pasqualino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eQcaDKMoHPA/TqMcAEq_j_I/AAAAAAAABBo/6BXpczFQ9ZI/s640/Pasqualino.jpg" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"You are so beautiful, the both of you, Taormina's lads,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You are pure youth and beauty, you are a caress for my eyes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You are a song, a dream, a sorrow and a memory,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You are so close, so far away,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here and now, such a &amp;nbsp;long time ago and so far away...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;How could I reach you, through the mirror of photography&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You are on one side of the photograph,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I am on the other side,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Never, never we will meet... I will look at you for ever...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love so much, so much to love you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Actually I do, I would love so much to be loved by you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Or just to be looked at, where I am, who I am, on the other side of the photograph...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So much sun, so much light, I love the curves, the shapes, the teen grace,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love what is shown as much as what is hidden,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love you, Taormina's shepherds, I love the both of you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love so much to hear your voice and your laughs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love so much to feel you, so close, so close,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I just love you through a photograph, on the other side of the mirror...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It was such a warm day, such a summer day, at the peak of a wave,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;At the peak of the hot wave... in the Taormina's wilderness...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love so much to caress the curves, the curves of the hot wave,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The curves of your bodies, so hot young sheperds from Taormina...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Perhaps we will meet, somewhere, elsewhere...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Perhaps we will meet if I can go through &amp;nbsp;this photograph,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;If I can reach you, on the other side of this print,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;If I can reach you, in Taormina's wilderness...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My Pasqualino, what is the name of your friend, so tender, so graceful ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love the curves, the grace of your friend, while he looks at you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love to be a Joshua tree, to be a cicada, or just a rock,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A rock in Taormina's wilderness,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I would love to be a sun's beam, to be the breathe of the wind,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And to caress the both of you, so close, so far away,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;From somewhere else, from the other side of the photograph"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Anonymous poem,&lt;i&gt; Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, Call number ca 1900/anon/17.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-5213976526882952775?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5213976526882952775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=5213976526882952775&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5213976526882952775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5213976526882952775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/10/dreaming-about.html' title='Dreaming about...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eQcaDKMoHPA/TqMcAEq_j_I/AAAAAAAABBo/6BXpczFQ9ZI/s72-c/Pasqualino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3971366145454916799</id><published>2011-10-01T12:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T12:05:53.141-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Essebac'/><title type='text'>Partenza vers la beauté !</title><content type='html'>Comme l'a remarqué l'un des lecteurs perspicaces de mon blog, la photographie de von Gloeden que j'ai postée sous le titre "Orfeo" (et qui fait partie de ma collection personnelle) a été choisie par Achille Essebac pour la couverture de son beau livre "Partenza... vers la beauté !", racontant son voyage en Italie. Ce livre mythique est à présent dans ma bibliothèque, grâce à la générosité de mon amie Nicole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As one of the clever readers of my blog stressed it, the von Gloeden photograph I posted in my previous message, "Orfeo" (part of my private collection), was chosen by Achille Essebac for the cover of his beautiful book "Partenza... towards beauty !", an account of his journey across Italy. This mythical book is now in my library, thanks to the generosity of my friend Nicole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEKalopEn_Y/TodjpXsC5kI/AAAAAAAABBY/KVs4oIvGl1M/s1600/detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEKalopEn_Y/TodjpXsC5kI/AAAAAAAABBY/KVs4oIvGl1M/s400/detail+3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LIs_TKELRP8/TodjrBUaB3I/AAAAAAAABBg/AiZug87zBIY/s1600/essebac+detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LIs_TKELRP8/TodjrBUaB3I/AAAAAAAABBg/AiZug87zBIY/s400/essebac+detail+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GY-Vg1hyybA/Tnj3dewjDPI/AAAAAAAABBM/wqCyjyGdL80/s1600/Gloeden.+Jeune+flu%25CC%2582tiste.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GY-Vg1hyybA/Tnj3dewjDPI/AAAAAAAABBM/wqCyjyGdL80/s640/Gloeden.+Jeune+flu%25CC%2582tiste.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Von Gloeden, ca 1900 (private collection)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Teach me to kiss the Dorian flute,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Dorian pipe to blow;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I with my own breath would salute&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Great Pan before I go;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And may the genius of the place&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Adopt me in the shepherd race!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So, perched on Monte Venere,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I prayed a little goat-skin boy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;To leave his herd and sit by me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And teach me all the shepherd's joy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"What is your name?" to him I said:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Orfèo," blithe reply he made.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I took the flute, I took the pipe;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;No reed would to my breath respond,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;He laughed to see me blow, and wipe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My lips, the pretty vagabond;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Still nature's child, though notes I snatch,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Was victor in that singing match.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;But I was paid when, as behooved,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I threw into his shaggy lap&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The gifts by ancient time approved,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My London scarf and Naples cap;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And, as of old, the happy boy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Leaped high, and clapped his hands for joy".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;George Edward Woodberry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8076264910900179830?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8076264910900179830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8076264910900179830&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8076264910900179830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8076264910900179830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/09/orfeo.html' title='Orféo'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GY-Vg1hyybA/Tnj3dewjDPI/AAAAAAAABBM/wqCyjyGdL80/s72-c/Gloeden.+Jeune+flu%25CC%2582tiste.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-2477265695642221453</id><published>2011-09-13T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T00:09:16.348-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><title type='text'>Youth, beauty, flowers and love.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YZzWkj4yrQI/Tm-1QxpMaZI/AAAAAAAABBE/JApe9CfvecM/s1600/JH+Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YZzWkj4yrQI/Tm-1QxpMaZI/AAAAAAAABBE/JApe9CfvecM/s640/JH+Gloeden.jpg" width="484" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Von Gloeden, &lt;i&gt;Young man with a crown of flowers&lt;/i&gt; (ca. 1900)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dear Pancrazio,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for your letter and for the news from Taormina. I feel so sad, so sorry about the raids of fascist police. How did they dare ? You told me they destroyed so many photographic plates... No print will ever be possible from them... Fascists are killing dreams, desires, imagination and just humanity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there still a space for imagination, for longing, for desire ? Are we still allowed to dream about beauty and youth ? Is it still possible to dream about a photograph ? It is still possible to have a private, an intimate space where one could love who he/she wants?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Pancrazio, the photographs of von Gloeden are an horizon, a landscape, an eldorado, a paradise... Looking at them made me happy... I know I cannot go beyond the photograph, I cannot go through the photographic print: the cute lade is somewhere else, out of reach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These photographs are so perfect, so elaborated, so relevant. The stage set up, the pose of the model, his face expression, the props, everything is so &amp;nbsp;beautiful...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Fascist police does not understand is that such pictures are not pornography, they are just an hymn to the beauty of lads, they are a visual translation of so many Greek and Roman texts we studied in our schools, gymnasia and universities....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The model's nudity is not my main focus... I feel seduced by the whole stage set-up, by flowers and plants, by the model's face, by the curves of his body, by &amp;nbsp;the way he is standing in front of the camera...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a small collection of Von Goeden's photographs. Most of them are vintage prints, I have a few later prints..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I felt in love with a few of von Gloeden's boys. I talk to them when I look at their photographs, sometimes I ever write poems for them.. They make me dream, they make me happy, they answer in such a perfect way to my dreams, to my desires...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond their sepia backgound, dear Pancrazio, these photographs are such an inspiration, such a world to dive in...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dear Pancrazio, of course I felt in love with the &amp;nbsp;photograph you sent me.. Comments are useless, silence is required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many thanks from the depth of my heart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the best&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, 13 May 1935 (1935/05/13)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-2477265695642221453?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2477265695642221453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=2477265695642221453&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2477265695642221453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2477265695642221453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/09/t.html' title='Youth, beauty, flowers and love.'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YZzWkj4yrQI/Tm-1QxpMaZI/AAAAAAAABBE/JApe9CfvecM/s72-c/JH+Gloeden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-93573597963857186</id><published>2011-09-10T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T13:51:47.857-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaston-Marie Martin'/><title type='text'>Une archéologie du désir / Archaeology of desire</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUtGYwDMWVw/TmupRHOS_7I/AAAAAAAABBA/-7OMVzUX41o/s1600/Gaston+Marie+Martin+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="283" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUtGYwDMWVw/TmupRHOS_7I/AAAAAAAABBA/-7OMVzUX41o/s400/Gaston+Marie+Martin+4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ce sont des objets sans âge, venus de la nuit des temps, des tréfonds de la mémoire. C'est la plus primitive des technologies, celle des métaux que l'on fait fondre, que l'on moule, avec lesquels on façonne des coffres massifs, des sarcophages intimes où va s'imprimer le souvenir d'un amant, d'un amour.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ce sont des objets de l'âge du plomb fondu, aux racines du coeur et de la mémoire, ce sont les reliquaires du désir qui se referment sur l'empreinte d'un amant, d'un amour, évanescente et immortelle comme une fresque de Pompéi, comme une photographie de von Gloeden...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;These are ageless artefacts, inherited from the most remote past, from the very depth of memory. It is the most primitive of human technologies, melting metals, molding them, sculpting chests (or safes ?), intimate sarcophagi where the memory of a lover, the memory of love will be printed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;These are artefacts from the age of melted lead, at the roots of the heart and memory, these are reliquaries of desire one can close upon the print of a lover, of a lover, fragile and ever-lesting as a Pompei frescoe, as a von Gloeden photograph...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7RQm7c-cAHk/TmuoDD_-m5I/AAAAAAAABA0/k3yTPA8w0Fo/s1600/Gaston+Marie+Martin+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7RQm7c-cAHk/TmuoDD_-m5I/AAAAAAAABA0/k3yTPA8w0Fo/s400/Gaston+Marie+Martin+3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ouvrir, refermer. Se souvenir, oublier. Regretter, espérer. Aimer encore, aimer toujours. Trouver les mots, écouter le silence. Les reliquaires amoureux de Gaston Marie Martin invitent à une archéologie du désir, si profond, si loin, dans la mémoire d'un autre, dans une vie antérieure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ouvrir les boites, déplier les diptyques ou les triptyques, c'est entrer dans l'intimité d'un coeur, c'est partager une mémoire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening, closing down. Remembering, forgetting. Being sorry, hoping. Being still in love, loving forever. Finding the right words, listening to silence. The loving reliquaries of Gaston Marie Martin are an invitation towards an archaeology of desire, so deep, so far away, within the memory of someone else, in a previous life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opening the boxes, unfolding diptychs or triptychs, it is like entering a human heart, it is sharing a memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e6bM0SI_ANs/TmuoDpCuO1I/AAAAAAAABA4/glO1fAzSM4o/s1600/Gaston+Marie+Martin+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="287" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e6bM0SI_ANs/TmuoDpCuO1I/AAAAAAAABA4/glO1fAzSM4o/s400/Gaston+Marie+Martin+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Que de rêves, que de souvenirs, que de regards, que de caresses, que de mots d'amour s'envolent lorsqu'on ouvre le coffre, le coffre de plomb qui enferme les amours d'un autre temps, d'une autre vie...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;So many dreams and memories, so many gazes, caresses and loving words are flying away when I open the chest, the lead chest locking up the loves of another life, of another time...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wi4WTzItz9c/TmuoECmh10I/AAAAAAAABA8/mqcnfqWHJP8/s1600/Gaston+Marie+Martin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wi4WTzItz9c/TmuoECmh10I/AAAAAAAABA8/mqcnfqWHJP8/s400/Gaston+Marie+Martin.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Qui es-tu, toi que j'ai tant aimé et dont je ne sais plus le nom... ? Les fils ténus du rêve, du désir me permettent de passer de l'autre côté du miroir et de te dire, encore et toujours, des mots d'amour doux comme nos caresses, ailleurs et dans une autre vie, il y a si longtemps, avant que le métal durcisse, avant que la photographie s'estompe...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are you, you I loved so much and whose name I forgot... ? The so fragile threads of dream and desire allow me to to go across the mirror and to tell you, again and for ever, loving words sweet as our caresses, in another place, in another time, such a long time ago, before lead hardened, before the photograph faded away....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaston Marie Martin est un sculpteur et photographe français &amp;nbsp;d'une grande originalité, qui élabore, d'exposition en exposition, une archéologie du désir, un art de la mémoire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaston Marie Martin is a French sculptor and photograph, a very original artist. Along his many exhibitions, he is creating something like an archaeology of desire, an art of memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous pouvez visiter son site web &lt;a href="http://www.gastonmariemartin.com/"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can visit his website &lt;a href="http://www.gastonmariemartin.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-93573597963857186?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/93573597963857186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=93573597963857186&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/93573597963857186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/93573597963857186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/09/une-archeologie-du-desir-archaeology-of.html' title='Une archéologie du désir / Archaeology of desire'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUtGYwDMWVw/TmupRHOS_7I/AAAAAAAABBA/-7OMVzUX41o/s72-c/Gaston+Marie+Martin+4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6930931889126419039</id><published>2011-09-09T12:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T12:37:29.778-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><title type='text'>A blossoming boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5SfIA5agnRA/Tmpj-Nae9-I/AAAAAAAABAw/U4gykdp6Fkc/s1600/Gloeden+Narcissus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5SfIA5agnRA/Tmpj-Nae9-I/AAAAAAAABAw/U4gykdp6Fkc/s640/Gloeden+Narcissus.jpg" width="466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dear Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the last photograph I purchased, in your villa at Taormina, and its is now within a frame, against a wall in my living room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, your photographic art makes me dream, takes me so far away and so deep within myself. Everything is shown, everything is said, everything is expressed... This photograph is a visual poem about youth, about young male beauty and sensuality, about this secrete and sublime lad's love burning in the heart, in the soul of older men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such a photograph is a world to dream about, a love story to &amp;nbsp;imagine, a endless dialogue to start with a splendid, with a blossoming boy. Flowers of spring, flowers of youth, flowers of a blossoming boy, at the threshold of manhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The set-up of your photograph, the balance between what is shown, what is hidden, the grace of the pose, the enigm of the face expression, of the gaze diving deep into an unknown horizon... Everything in your photograph sings to my ears, speaks to my heart, fullfils my secrete dreams, my unsaid hopes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the pose of your model, offered to your mechanical eye, at the same time hiding what he is thinking about, who he is. This photograph leaves such an open space for imagination and poetry...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could sing forever the feelings, the thoughts, the memories, the longings this photograph, this beautiful lad inspire to me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only blind eyes could consider a photograph as a mere surface. For me, it has such a depth, such an horizon... Looking at this photograph, on the wall of my living room, will be for me a way to travel far far away, to the ropes of Mount Etna, to the cliffs of Taormina... I will also travel through time, until classical Antiquity, to Athens, to Alexandria, or to Taorminium... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the crazy time, the crazy society I am living in, I don't know if it still allowed to fall in love with a model on a photograph, with a photograph... I could embrace just a shade, just a ghost, a photograph is nothing but a paper with a printing of light and shade. This blossoming boy I will never meet, never caress, he is far away, he is absent. At the same time, he is so present, I can touch and reach his essence, his eternal beauty, his youth blossoming for ever...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will tell him loving words everyday and I know that he will listen to them and understand them, within the frame....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love him so much and I am so happy we actually met, thanks to one of your photographs, my dear Wilhelm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yours, as always&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, &lt;i&gt;Letter from Philip to Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, 23 June 1906 (Call number 1906/23/06/12)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6930931889126419039?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6930931889126419039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6930931889126419039&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6930931889126419039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6930931889126419039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/09/blossoming-boy.html' title='A blossoming boy'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5SfIA5agnRA/Tmpj-Nae9-I/AAAAAAAABAw/U4gykdp6Fkc/s72-c/Gloeden+Narcissus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1004523048164492018</id><published>2011-09-07T12:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T12:38:37.362-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaston-Marie Martin'/><title type='text'>Machines à rêves / Dream Machines</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;Boîtes à secrets photographiques de Gaston-Marie Martin (créations uniques)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Issu d'une famille d'artistes, Gaston-Marie Martin baigne dans le flot incessant des échanges et des révélations... Porté&amp;nbsp;par cet héritage, il surgit sur la scène contemporaine en bousculant médiums et frontières.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Stupeur devant ces objets :&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;boîtes, reliquaires, instruments de mémoire, fossiles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;jaillissants d'un imaginaire&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;qui mêle histoire de la peinture, épopée de la photographie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Célébration d'une fête secrète peuplée de&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;corps masculins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Enchâssés au coeur d'un exceptionnel corpus de boîtes toutes plus précieuses et inattendues, les garçons&amp;nbsp;de G.M. Martin nous étreignent par leur présence fascinante.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Faune Barberini, lutteurs de Canova, icônes des photographes taorminiens, l'artiste revisite, restitue, réinvente.&amp;nbsp;Les boîtes à secrets photographiques de G.M. Martin&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;posent de manière personnelle la question du nu dans le champ artistique : statut, support, symbolisme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En savoir plus: &lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zc0_AGqwqw0/TmfDbU_4zkI/AAAAAAAABAo/GGDyMLVpk9E/s1600/gaston-marie+martin+bo%25EF%25BF%25BDte+%25EF%25BF%25BD+secrets+photographiques.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zc0_AGqwqw0/TmfDbU_4zkI/AAAAAAAABAo/GGDyMLVpk9E/s400/gaston-marie+martin+bo%25EF%25BF%25BDte+%25EF%25BF%25BD+secrets+photographiques.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Boxes with secrete photographs by Gaston-Marie Martin (hand-made and unique objects)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Born in a family of artists, Gaston-Marie Martin grew up among a endless flow of creativity and revelations... With such an heritage, he appears on the contemporary art scene and subverts media conventions as well as borders.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;These objects are a source of fascination for the viewer: boxes, reliquaire, memory tools, fossils born from an imagination mixing together the history of painting and the epics of photography.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here is celebrated a secrete ceremony haunted by male bodies. Hidden within an unbelievable collection of boxes, precious as well as unexpected, G.M. Martin's boys move us through their fascinating presence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Barberini Faun, Canova's wrestlers, icons of photographers from Taormina... The artist revisits classical references, he recreates, he reinvents. These boxes with secrete photographs by G.M. Martin raise in a very personal way the issue of nudity in art: its status, its medium, its symbolism.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To know more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zIFz7_DxNho/TmfDaZrPO7I/AAAAAAAABAg/jQZbryeedyg/s1600/reliquaire+pi%25EF%25BF%25BDce+unique.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zIFz7_DxNho/TmfDaZrPO7I/AAAAAAAABAg/jQZbryeedyg/s640/reliquaire+pi%25EF%25BF%25BDce+unique.jpg" width="356" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1004523048164492018?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1004523048164492018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1004523048164492018&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1004523048164492018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1004523048164492018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/09/machines-reves-dream-machines.html' title='Machines à rêves / Dream Machines'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zc0_AGqwqw0/TmfDbU_4zkI/AAAAAAAABAo/GGDyMLVpk9E/s72-c/gaston-marie+martin+bo%25EF%25BF%25BDte+%25EF%25BF%25BD+secrets+photographiques.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-687885141234104852</id><published>2011-08-25T12:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T12:44:30.443-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paul Belmondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uranian Poetry'/><title type='text'>Love and Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNKbJ2NEfeU/TladGsGFaoI/AAAAAAAABAc/KGWJj-Z4fko/s1600/Amours.+Detail2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNKbJ2NEfeU/TladGsGFaoI/AAAAAAAABAc/KGWJj-Z4fko/s640/Amours.+Detail2.jpg" width="556" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Paul Belmondo. Engraving in R. Peyrefitte, Les Amours de Lucien de Samosate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Love and Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Life is ! so, Sweet, we both must make&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The best of it, and ever take&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All that it holds with both our hands,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And keep it ere the shifting sands&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Of life run out, and our hopes shake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Snatch now the joys for which I ache,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Sleep comes so soon. Awake, awake !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;For life is love, &amp;nbsp;not wealth or lands:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Life is so, Sweet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Without your love my heart would break,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;For that great prize my all I stake,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You bind me with love's silken strands&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The strength of which none understands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I only know for your love's sake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Life is so sweet !"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A. Newman (aka Francis Edwin Murray ?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lad's Love. An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose&lt;/i&gt;, II&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Edited by Michael Matthew Kaylor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Kansas City, Valancourt Books, 2010, p. 69.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-687885141234104852?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/687885141234104852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=687885141234104852&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/687885141234104852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/687885141234104852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/love-and-life.html' title='Love and Life'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNKbJ2NEfeU/TladGsGFaoI/AAAAAAAABAc/KGWJj-Z4fko/s72-c/Amours.+Detail2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7231395642482454287</id><published>2011-08-25T12:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T12:05:22.251-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Belmondo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lucien de Samosate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roger Peyrefitte'/><title type='text'>Les Amours de Lucien de Samosate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C88qCsT3spM/TlaaZLzJPhI/AAAAAAAABAQ/kJmpnwaErhI/s640/Belmondo1.jpg" width="451" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7231395642482454287?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7231395642482454287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7231395642482454287&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7231395642482454287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7231395642482454287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/les-amours-de-lucien-de-samosate.html' title='Les Amours de Lucien de Samosate'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2vwwqlVvXUQ/TlackSa1W6I/AAAAAAAABAY/OxiJmWE_tL4/s72-c/Les+amours2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4185799860444214214</id><published>2011-08-19T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T13:24:48.258-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uraniens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Francis Edwin Murray'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tuke'/><title type='text'>A boy's absence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yFDgvRsyQic/Tk7D7ZVqyyI/AAAAAAAABAM/jSXrDABRz0s/s1600/Tuke%252C_Henry_Scott_%25281858%25E2%2580%25931929%2529_-_Charlie_Mitchell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yFDgvRsyQic/Tk7D7ZVqyyI/AAAAAAAABAM/jSXrDABRz0s/s640/Tuke%252C_Henry_Scott_%25281858%25E2%2580%25931929%2529_-_Charlie_Mitchell.jpg" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) - "Charlie Mitchell"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Dear boy, I'm sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I miss your smile,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Which for a while&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Had made me glad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;In dreams, dear lad,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I see your eyes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Which no disguise&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Have ever had.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Do you still prize&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The books we read ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The days long sped&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Recall with sighs ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The flowers are dead,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our summer's gone,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I grive alone —&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All joy has fled."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A. Newman (aka. Francis Edwin Murray ?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;in: Michael Matthew Kaylor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Lad's Love. An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose&lt;/i&gt;, Kansas City, Valancourt Books, vol. 1, 2010, p. 98&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4185799860444214214?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4185799860444214214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4185799860444214214&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4185799860444214214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4185799860444214214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/boys-absence.html' title='A boy&apos;s absence'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yFDgvRsyQic/Tk7D7ZVqyyI/AAAAAAAABAM/jSXrDABRz0s/s72-c/Tuke%252C_Henry_Scott_%25281858%25E2%2580%25931929%2529_-_Charlie_Mitchell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3849305708834132502</id><published>2011-08-19T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T13:25:16.754-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uraniens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='von Plüschow'/><title type='text'>When Uranian poets collected von Gloeden's photographs...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8W7o3NoiYHE/Tk7A8k721aI/AAAAAAAABAI/iC6y8aru3ow/s1600/Secret+Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8W7o3NoiYHE/Tk7A8k721aI/AAAAAAAABAI/iC6y8aru3ow/s1600/Secret+Gloeden.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;An excerpt from: Michael Matthew Kaylor, &lt;i&gt;Secreted Desires. The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde&lt;/i&gt;, Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk University, 2006,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;p. 86-87&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XESjjaLIli4/Tk7AP4YDUHI/AAAAAAAABAE/0rWpFoVor5A/s1600/Kaylor_Secreted_Desires-234x355.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XESjjaLIli4/Tk7AP4YDUHI/AAAAAAAABAE/0rWpFoVor5A/s640/Kaylor_Secreted_Desires-234x355.jpg" width="419" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;This book is available as a free .pdf download &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mmkaylor.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;"For their own more private and masturbatory purposes, the Uranians &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;collected artworks of a different sort: nudes of Italian boys by photographers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;such as Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931), residing in Taormina, Sicily, and his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;distant relative Wilhelm (Guglielmo) von Plüschow (1852-1930), residing mostly&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;in Rome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;1&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;— photographs that have themselves become collectables dispersed by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;auction houses and chronicled in sales catalogues. However, for the Uranian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;scholar, catalogues have much to tell, and von Gloeden’s guest book was itself a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;catalogue of the paederastically-inclined, and included the signature of Oscar&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wilde, one of his staunchest admirers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;2 &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Like children with packets of baseball&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;cards, the Uranians exchanged these salacious photographs as a form of pictorial&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;insinuation and friendship. In a New Year’s Eve letter for &amp;nbsp;1889, Edmund Gosse&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(1849-1928) thanks Symonds for sending him one such photograph, undoubtedly&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;as a Christmas gift: ‘As I sat in the Choir [of Westminster Abbey during Robert&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Browning’s funeral], with George Meredith at my side, I peeped at it again and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;again’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;3 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Boys will be boys — but there were real dangers involved in such&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;exchanges and glances, though the Uranians had, it must be admitted, ‘the ability&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;to devise elegant stratagems to legitimize sexual display’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;4 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is difficult to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;imagine an ‘elegant stratagem’ that would have ‘legitimized’ Gosse’s constant&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;peeping at a nude, provocatively posed Sicilian boy during Browning’s funeral —&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;however, for the Uranians the danger was half the pleasure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;5"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(1)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;The fact that these two paederastic aristocrats, who were also photographers, left&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Germany to reside in Italy is explained by Vicki Goldberg in ‘A Man-Made Arcadia&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Enshrining Male Beauty’, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;New York Times &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(13 August 2000), ‘Art/Architecture’ section,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;pp.30-31: ‘Germany in the 1880s was still prosecuting men for nude sunbathing, but in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Sicily, male children ordinarily went nude on the beach, and most Mediterranean&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;countries tacitly accepted homosexuality as a passing phase in a boy’s development’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(p.30). She also comments on von Gloeden’s success as a photographer:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Not bad for a man who might have well been arrested for child pornography in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;our supposedly more tolerant and certainly less wilfully innocent culture. Von&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Gloeden was interested only in young boys and early adolescents […] He&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;photographed some of the same models for years but usually stopped doing so as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;they reached early manhood. A couple of young children who cannot be much&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;more than 5 or 6 also turn up in his photographs. (P.31)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;‘Von Gloeden, a young Prussian country squire, left his homeland for Italy to regain his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;physical (he suffered from a disabling lung condition) and mental health (the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;psychological distress he experienced as a pederast unable to indulge his erotic fantasies)’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;— ‘Wilhelm von Gloeden’ [Exhibition press release], Throckmorton Fine Art, New York&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;City, NY (exhibition of 12 July – 9 September 2000).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 6.5px/normal Times;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(2) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Goldberg, p.30.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(3) &amp;nbsp;As quoted in Ann Thwaite, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(London:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Secker &amp;amp; Warburg, 1984), p.323. I &amp;nbsp;ish to thank Dr Rictor Norton for corresponding&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;with me regarding this point. According to d’Arch Smith, Symonds made such gifts to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;others as well, as a sign of friendship and understanding: ‘Symonds was extremely kind&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;to [Charles Kains] Jackson, [and] sent him photographs of nude Italian youths from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;studios of von Gloeden and others’ (p.18). It should be noted that von Gloeden’s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;photographs were not always treated as mere pornography: ‘His work was shown in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;international exhibitions and published in art journals, which doubtless preferred the more&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;discreet images’ (Goldberg, p. 30). The details I have provided for each of Wilhelm von&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Gloeden’s photographs reproduced here — photographs von Gloeden produced in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;multiple copies — merely accounts for one of the extant prints. These details come from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Peter Weiermair, ed. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;with intro., &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden: Erotische Photographien&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 1993).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(4) &amp;nbsp;Goldberg, p.31.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;(5)&amp;nbsp;George Meredith wrote a poem commemorating Browning’s funeral, ‘Now Dumb Is He&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Who Walked the World to Speak’. This poem does not mention Gosse’s prurient asides&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font: 10.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3849305708834132502?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3849305708834132502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3849305708834132502&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3849305708834132502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3849305708834132502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-uranian-poets-collected-von.html' title='When Uranian poets collected von Gloeden&apos;s photographs...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8W7o3NoiYHE/Tk7A8k721aI/AAAAAAAABAI/iC6y8aru3ow/s72-c/Secret+Gloeden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-151047547353379269</id><published>2011-08-15T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T13:08:56.080-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Newman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uranian Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tuke'/><title type='text'>That is the question</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkSmixzAoSQ/Tkl462ZYBxI/AAAAAAAABAA/6wEd6OJj88w/s1600/tuke1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkSmixzAoSQ/Tkl462ZYBxI/AAAAAAAABAA/6wEd6OJj88w/s640/tuke1.jpg" width="483" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"I wonder why my heart beats fast&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;As you I see, coming past .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Your step has all the spring of youth,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Your eye the bold brights light of Truth:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Will you my future bless or blast ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Round you I long my arms to cast&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Like ship-wrecked sailors around a mast,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Such confidence I feel. In sooth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I wonder why ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Could you love me ? I stand aghast&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And tremble at a change so vast:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My love might seem to you uncouth,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It might bring you regret and ruth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Why has love come to me at last&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I wonder ? Why ?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A. Newman (aka. Francis &amp;nbsp;Edwin Murray, 1854-1932 ?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;in: Michael Matthew Kaylor. &lt;i&gt;Lad's Love. An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose&lt;/i&gt;, Kansas City, Valancourt Books, vol. 1, 2010.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-151047547353379269?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/151047547353379269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=151047547353379269&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/151047547353379269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/151047547353379269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/that-is-question.html' title='That is the question'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkSmixzAoSQ/Tkl462ZYBxI/AAAAAAAABAA/6wEd6OJj88w/s72-c/tuke1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1486453410839436430</id><published>2011-08-15T12:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T12:49:07.111-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My blog is two years old...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Two years is such a short time... In the virtual world of blogs, however, it is just a long, long time... My blog was not deleted... I did not receive (yet) any hate message. I am still motivated to add new posts, new contents, either photographs, paintings, drawings or texts...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This blog is a mirror of a part of my life... It is a way to depict my inner world, my feelings, my identity, my dreams and my imagination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I felt in love with Taormina, with the baron von Gloeden and with some of his models... I find in von Gloeden's photographic art something that makes me dream, that inspires me. It is a world of Arcadia recreated on the shore of Sicilia, it is a world between Antiquity and modernity, just an aesthetic fiction, where Sicily and ancient Greece are an alibi providing a gay desire with its alibi, with its cultural roots, with its visual fullfilment...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Would von Gloeden be allowed to share his photographic art today ? I don't know... On the other hand, his vintage albuminate and argentic prints are collected by major Museums and Libraries today, and are &amp;nbsp;sometimes displayed in international auctions....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;It seems my blog has a small follow-up, and I am very happy to share my vision, my texts and my photographs with so many visitors from so many countries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Please, feel free to comment, to give some feedback, or just to say "Hi" and why you visit my blog...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Thanks to all&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Butterfly&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFNZCWMxSGI/Tklz2WdjhsI/AAAAAAAAA_8/SbQlXl0ZY-c/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFNZCWMxSGI/Tklz2WdjhsI/AAAAAAAAA_8/SbQlXl0ZY-c/s640/Pasqua+nu+detail+4.jpg" width="268" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1486453410839436430?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1486453410839436430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1486453410839436430&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1486453410839436430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1486453410839436430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-blog-is-two-years-old.html' title='My blog is two years old...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFNZCWMxSGI/Tklz2WdjhsI/AAAAAAAAA_8/SbQlXl0ZY-c/s72-c/Pasqua+nu+detail+4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3039080777683964667</id><published>2011-08-15T12:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T12:29:21.975-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egon'/><title type='text'>The Photographic Art of Egon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I love Egon's photographic art... If you want to know more about his artistic universe and his books, you should click  &lt;a href="http://www.jkkfinearts.com/photography1/index.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I repost on Sicilian Dreams some sample of Egon's work with his permission. Enjoy !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"&gt;"For me, it is all about HUMAN EMOTIONS, how to show them, how to explain something unexplained, human soul, human chaos, desires, loves, sorrows. It is the meaning of life for me as a photographer. Human face, especially eyes, hands, and gestures, are magical signs to human soul and heart. Melancho , mystery, surreal fantasy, and often somber physical presence are well recognized qualities of my work. I am after “pure form”, art that shows the mystery of existence. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I admire work of photographers of the XIX/XX Century, Photo-Secessionists and members of The New School of American Photography, e.g., Fred Holland Day, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Anne Brigman … and Modern Masters: Joel-Peter Witkin, McDermott &amp;amp; McGough, John Dugdale, Robert ParkeHarrison, Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and David Vance …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am interested in historical and alternative processes in photography, especially unique Cyanotype prints, Palladium/Platinum prints, and Silver Gelatin prints".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:egonsphoto@yahoo.com"&gt;egonsphoto@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o8IF0VKokA8/TklwSmo5p4I/AAAAAAAAA_g/MgKZ4X5UWeY/s1600/The+Blue+Book+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o8IF0VKokA8/TklwSmo5p4I/AAAAAAAAA_g/MgKZ4X5UWeY/s320/The+Blue+Book+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRs2ZxIoKQk/TklwXgJgSOI/AAAAAAAAA_k/E4rX81IIwAM/s1600/Paintedbythelight+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAnJ1vhGLQU/Ti8NNtT29kI/AAAAAAAAA_c/D9-Ub_JV-jc/s1600/Bucoliques3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAnJ1vhGLQU/Ti8NNtT29kI/AAAAAAAAA_c/D9-Ub_JV-jc/s400/Bucoliques3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"In the most remote areas of Taormina's wilderness,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Young shepherds met fauns and satyrs, Pan and Dionysos,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Hidding behind a rock, vanishing in a flash, a flash of light.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Most of the time they were mere illusions, a reflection of the sun,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;A mirage in Taormina's wilderness, at the peak of the hot wave,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Or just a noise of a rock falling down from a cliff...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;But Pasqualino met a faun, a real faun, sitting on a rock,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Far away from the usual paths of Taormina's young shepherds,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;So far that he was in the middle of nowhere...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Are you a god or just an illusion ?", asked Pasqualino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Did I love you a long time ago, I am sure I know you",&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Answered the faun with his Dionysiac horns...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Cute shepherd of Taormina, please, play a melody for me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;A melody from your reed flute, perhaps I will sing one for you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;A song of love, of the love of gods for Taormina's shepherds...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Please, have a seat on this rock, beside me, let us sing and dream,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Hope and remember, love and be loved, let me tell you the legend of fauns,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Please tell me the story of your life, where you are from, what you dream about..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;And Pasqualino played the most beautiful of the tunes the boys of Taormina know,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;A music wide as an horizon, deep as eyes, sensitive as a caressing hand,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;A music of longing and sorrow, of dream and hope, of loneliness and communion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden's &lt;i&gt;camera obscura&lt;/i&gt; was able to catch the magic of this encounter,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The encounter of a Faun and of a young shepherd from Taormina,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;At the turn of a century, at the threshold of two worlds, reality and imagination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;While looking at this photograph, forever I can listen to this forgotten melody,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;To the melody of Fauns meeting young shepherds in the most remote wilderness,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Of Fauns falling in love with them, and crossing the invisible border,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The border between gods and humans, between dream and reality,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Between hope and memory,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;So far, so deep, at this crossroads where a lover meet his loved one".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Anonymous poet, around 1907, Von Gloeden Archive, 1907, call number 1907/Anon/12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-9197504423945700518?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/9197504423945700518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=9197504423945700518&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9197504423945700518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9197504423945700518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html' title='Anonymous poem: A Faun meets a Taormina shepherd'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAnJ1vhGLQU/Ti8NNtT29kI/AAAAAAAAA_c/D9-Ub_JV-jc/s72-c/Bucoliques3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7571454059357314873</id><published>2011-07-26T11:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T11:49:02.046-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bertel Thorvaldsen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ganymedes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kazantzakis'/><title type='text'>Ganymedes and Zeus Eagle</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A Gay Reader's Digest&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;(written in modern Greek)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gaynewsingreek.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post_1725.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BOwvSDp32to/Ti8Ico8H8CI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/CA7pmSmGi00/s1600/Thorvaldsen+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BOwvSDp32to/Ti8Ico8H8CI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/CA7pmSmGi00/s400/Thorvaldsen+3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0AVkLXmmSMU/Ti8IXRMHDzI/AAAAAAAAA_U/cnTQGXK0k7o/s1600/Thorvaldsen+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0AVkLXmmSMU/Ti8IXRMHDzI/AAAAAAAAA_U/cnTQGXK0k7o/s400/Thorvaldsen+5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DaCD2IhY_yc/Ti8IQpyLlvI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/abtuG2JbAX0/s1600/Thorvaldsen+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DaCD2IhY_yc/Ti8IQpyLlvI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/abtuG2JbAX0/s400/Thorvaldsen+4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kT2nz11Oixs/Ti8IL6SdDII/AAAAAAAAA_M/oE-JlI_XnZ8/s1600/Thorvaldsen+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kT2nz11Oixs/Ti8IL6SdDII/AAAAAAAAA_M/oE-JlI_XnZ8/s400/Thorvaldsen+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8qq0SexQKkU/Ti8IGyl_k1I/AAAAAAAAA_I/w4SZKEDWfDw/s1600/Thorvaldsen+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8qq0SexQKkU/Ti8IGyl_k1I/AAAAAAAAA_I/w4SZKEDWfDw/s400/Thorvaldsen+6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ayqVbTqVWI4/Ti8IGGykGsI/AAAAAAAAA_E/dLp1Kthi9r8/s1600/Thorvaldsen+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ayqVbTqVWI4/Ti8IGGykGsI/AAAAAAAAA_E/dLp1Kthi9r8/s400/Thorvaldsen+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ganymedes and the Eagle&lt;/i&gt; (1818-1829)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Minneapolis Institute of Arts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Et Erikthonios engendra le roi des Troiens, Trôos. Et Trôos engendra trois fils irréprochables, Ilos, Assarakos et le divin Ganymèdès, qui fut le plus beau des hommes mortels, et que les Dieux enlevèrent à cause de sa beauté, afin qu'il fût l'échanson de Zeus et qu'il habitât parmi les Immortels."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Homère, &lt;i&gt;Iliade&lt;/i&gt;, chant 20, traduction de Leconte de Lisle (1866)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Erichthonius begat Tros, king of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="183"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;the Trojans, and Tros had three noble sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="184"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;who was comeliest of mortal men; wherefore the gods carried him off to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="185"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;be Jove's cupbearer, for his beauty's sake, that he might dwell among the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="" name="186"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;immortals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Homer, &lt;i&gt;Iliad&lt;/i&gt;, 20, translated by Samuel Butler.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Γιος του Έριχθόνιου ο Τρώας ακούστηκε, μέσα στους Τρώες ρηγάρχης,&lt;br /&gt;κι ο Τρώας τρείς πάλε υγιούς ασύγκριτους έγέννησε, τον Ίλο&lt;br /&gt;και τον Ασσάρακο, τον έμνοστο στερνά το Γανυμήδη,&lt;br /&gt;που για τα κάλλη του ξεχώριζε μες στους ανθρώπους όλους'&lt;br /&gt;κι ως ήταν όμορφος, τον άρπαξαν ψηλά οι θεοί στα ουράνια&lt;br /&gt;για κεραστή του Δία, να βρίσκεται στους αθανάτους μέσα.&lt;br /&gt;Το Λαομέδοντα τον άψεγο γέννησε ο Ίλος πάλε,&lt;br /&gt;κι ο Λαομέδοντας εγέννησε τον Τιθωνό, το Λάμπο,&lt;br /&gt;τον Ικετάονα τον πολέμαρχο, τον Πρίαμο, τον Κλυτίο'&lt;br /&gt;κι ο Ασσάρακος τον Κάπη εγέννησε, κι εκείνος τον Αγχίση'&lt;br /&gt;240 και πάλε εγώ του Αγχίση, κι ο Έχτορας του Πρίαμου γιος λογιέται.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ομήρου: Ιλιάδα (ΧΧ)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;Μετάφραση: Ν. Καζαντζάκη - Ι.Θ. Κακριδή&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="lws_0"&gt;&lt;div class="linkwithin_outer" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="linkwithin_inner" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 477px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VUcamY32Fh8/TiCTG9-YgLI/AAAAAAAAA_A/4WFf54EC74k/s1600/glo10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VUcamY32Fh8/TiCTG9-YgLI/AAAAAAAAA_A/4WFf54EC74k/s640/glo10.jpg" width="456" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am a lover, but I am not loved;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a lover loving all the beauties,&lt;br /&gt;I am a lover who dreams, but who never reached reality,&lt;br /&gt;I am waiting for the royal ephebe who will fulfill my expectations,&lt;br /&gt;The horizon of my dreams, the ocean of my desire,&lt;br /&gt;A desert to walk through, an oasis I could drink from...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a lover, I dream so much about being loved,&lt;br /&gt;I met you once, but you did not notice me...&lt;br /&gt;You belong to another time, I am from another world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would have loved you so much in a palestra of Athens,&lt;br /&gt;In the Lyceum or the Academia where you were studying philosophy,&lt;br /&gt;I would have loved you so much in the Museum of Alexandria&lt;br /&gt;Or just siting beside you, in the theater of Tauromenium...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am lover, perhaps I will meet a special one who loves me,&lt;br /&gt;I am dreaming about a soul as well as about a body,&lt;br /&gt;The soul of a cute ephebe whose beauty will be my horizon,&lt;br /&gt;My desert and my ocean, the sun who will burn my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am such a lonely lover, I love images,&lt;br /&gt;But the ephebe I am dreaming about will perhaps live again if I am going to the next page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you in my dreams, I dream about you in my love stories,&lt;br /&gt;My cute royal ephebe, who came from such a distant place just to inspire me desire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your smile and your gaze, the curves of your body and your walk, &lt;br /&gt;Your youth and your maturity, and the fragile border between a man and a boy,&lt;br /&gt;My cute royal ephebe, you are the desert and the ocean, you are the sky and the horizon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am waiting for you, I am dreaming about you, I remember you, since I met you so long ago,&lt;br /&gt;So close, so far away, here, or there, yesterday, or such a long time ago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a lover, but I will never be loved,&lt;br /&gt;I am lover who loves shades, shade from the past,&lt;br /&gt;But you are here, so close, so far away, you can hear me, I see you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am dreaming about a soul as well as about a body, I dream about your lips as well as about your voice,&lt;br /&gt;I love you in my dreams, my cute royal Ephebes, you will never be mine,&lt;br /&gt;I am in the desert, the desert of a desire where there are no oasis...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps one day in the future, in another life, perhaps in the future, in another horizon,&lt;br /&gt;My cute royal Ephebe, I will loose myself into your eyes, as in an oasis of the desert,&lt;br /&gt;And I will tell some loving words, so close to your lips, it will be a caress rather than words".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;Philip,Elegy for an unknown ephebe, Archive von Gloeden, call number 1898/07/16/05.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-198475538710202256?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/198475538710202256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=198475538710202256&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/198475538710202256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/198475538710202256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/elegy-for-royal-ephebe.html' title='Elegy for a royal Ephebe'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VUcamY32Fh8/TiCTG9-YgLI/AAAAAAAAA_A/4WFf54EC74k/s72-c/glo10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4615300298237811231</id><published>2011-07-15T12:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T12:14:43.193-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><title type='text'>Elégie à l'éphèbe roi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MDYvtrqSRq8/TiCRCh3DoHI/AAAAAAAAA-8/3uTUM37cOp4/s1600/glo10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MDYvtrqSRq8/TiCRCh3DoHI/AAAAAAAAA-8/3uTUM37cOp4/s640/glo10.jpg" width="456" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Je suis un amant mais ne suis pas aimé,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant amoureux de toutes les beautés,&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant qui rêve, mais qui n'ai pas rencontré la réalité,&lt;br /&gt;J'attends l'éphèbe roi qui me comblera,&lt;br /&gt;L'horizon de mes rêves, l'océan de mon désir,&lt;br /&gt;Le désert à parcourir, l'oasis où m'abreuver...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant et je rêve tant d'être aimé,&lt;br /&gt;Je t'ai croisé, mais tu ne m'as pas regardé...&lt;br /&gt;Tu appartiens à un autre temps, je suis d'un autre monde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je t'aurais aimé dans une palestre d'Athènes,&lt;br /&gt;Dans un Lycée ou une Académie où tu apprendrais la philosophie,&lt;br /&gt;Je t'aurais aimé dans le Musée d'Alexandrie&lt;br /&gt;Ou à tes côtés, dans le théâtre de Tauromenium...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant, peut-être rencontrerais-je celui qui m'aime,&lt;br /&gt;Je rêve d'une âme autant que d'un corps,&lt;br /&gt;L'âme d'un bel éphèbe dont la beauté sera mon horizon,&lt;br /&gt;Mon désert et mon océan, le soleil où brûler mes yeux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant si solitaire, j'aime des images,&lt;br /&gt;Mais l'éphèbe rêvé prendra peut-être vie si je tourne la page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je t'aime dans mes rêves, je te rêve dans mes amours,&lt;br /&gt;Mon bel éphèbe roi, venu de si loin pour m'inspirer le désir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ton sourire et ton regard, tes courbes et ta démarche,&lt;br /&gt;Ta jeunesse et ta maturité, et la frontière fragile entre l'homme et le garçon,&lt;br /&gt;Mon bel éphèbe roi, tu es le désert et l'océan, tu es le ciel et l'horizon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je t'attends, je te rêve, je me souviens de toi, que j'ai rencontré autrefois,&lt;br /&gt;Si loin, si près, ici, là, hier, il y a si longtemps...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis un amant, je ne serai jamais aimé,&lt;br /&gt;Je suis l'amant qui aime les ombres, les ombres du temps jadis.&lt;br /&gt;Et pourtant tu es là, si près, si loin, tu m'entends, je te vois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je rêve d'une âme autant que d'un corps, je rêve de tes lèvres autant que de ta voix,&lt;br /&gt;Je t'aime dans mes rêves, mon bel éphèbe roi, tu ne seras jamais à moi,&lt;br /&gt;Je suis dans le désert, le désert d'un désir sans oasis...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peut-être un jour, dans une autre vie, peut-être un jour, dans un autre horizon,&lt;br /&gt;Mon bel éphèbe roi, je me perdrai dans tes yeux comme dans une oasis du désir,&lt;br /&gt;Et je dirai des mots d'amour, si près de tes lèvres, une caresse plus que des mots..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip, &lt;i&gt;Elégie pour un éphèbe inconnu&lt;/i&gt;, Archive von Gloeden, call number 1898/07/16/05.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4615300298237811231?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4615300298237811231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4615300298237811231&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4615300298237811231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4615300298237811231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/elegie-lephebe-roi.html' title='Elégie à l&apos;éphèbe roi'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MDYvtrqSRq8/TiCRCh3DoHI/AAAAAAAAA-8/3uTUM37cOp4/s72-c/glo10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3292658648152435904</id><published>2011-07-14T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-14T12:52:22.850-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>Formosus pastor ardebat Alexim</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q2TLTxbi8I/Th9Fi2JzDsI/AAAAAAAAA-4/85QPszOU74Q/s1600/Combeloup+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q2TLTxbi8I/Th9Fi2JzDsI/AAAAAAAAA-4/85QPszOU74Q/s640/Combeloup+2.jpg" width="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Jean-Xavier de Combeloup (vers 1980)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Portrait&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(collection personnelle)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Petit berger, je t'aime à cause du sourire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Dont ta lèvre fleurit comme un jour de printemps;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Je t'aime pour ton regard où mon âme s'étend&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Pleine du doux sommeil que ta langueur m'inspire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Je t'aime aussi à cause de ta svelte finesse,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;De tes cheveux bouclés plus sombres que la nuit;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Vers ce rêve, je crois, mon rêve s'est évanoui&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Et des mots de passion me disent ta caresse;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;J'ai pour toi des parfums et des apothéoses&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Je t'aime ainsi qu'un dieu enfantin et rieur...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Petit berger, voici mes yeux, ravis mon coeur,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Demain, si tu le veux, j'aurai un lit de roses."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Jacques Adeswärd Fersen, &lt;i&gt;L'Hymnaire d'Adonis&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Paris, Librairie Léon Vanier éditeur, 1902, &amp;nbsp;p. 17&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3292658648152435904?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3292658648152435904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3292658648152435904&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3292658648152435904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3292658648152435904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/formosus-pastor-ardebat-alexim.html' title='Formosus pastor ardebat Alexim'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q2TLTxbi8I/Th9Fi2JzDsI/AAAAAAAAA-4/85QPszOU74Q/s72-c/Combeloup+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-2975302896313182822</id><published>2011-07-14T11:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-14T11:50:48.954-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Le commencement de l'écriture / The beginning of writing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTAenm7xsY8/Th83XZxQCtI/AAAAAAAAA-0/im-wXhWtyks/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTAenm7xsY8/Th83XZxQCtI/AAAAAAAAA-0/im-wXhWtyks/s400/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg" width="211" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Savoir qu'on n'écrit pas pour l'autre, savoir que ces choses que je vais écrire ne me feront jamais aimer de qui j'aime, savoir que l'écriture ne compense rien, ne sublime rien, qu'elle est précisément là où tu n'es pas — c'est le commencement de l'écriture".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Just being aware one does not write for someone else, just being aware that the things I will write will never make me loved by the one I love, being aware that writing does not compensate anything, that it does &amp;nbsp;not sublimate anything, that it is precisely in this place where you are not — this is the beginning of writing".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;Fragments d'un discours amoureux&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1977, p. 116.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-2975302896313182822?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2975302896313182822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=2975302896313182822&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2975302896313182822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2975302896313182822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/savoir-quon-necrit-pas-pour-lautre.html' title='Le commencement de l&apos;écriture / The beginning of writing'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTAenm7xsY8/Th83XZxQCtI/AAAAAAAAA-0/im-wXhWtyks/s72-c/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6199755555356767910</id><published>2011-07-12T13:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T13:07:22.938-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Le labyrinthe de la photographie / Photography's Labyrinth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F9PO3QdmQgg/ThymcuhOwbI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MDjVxsJ_wnE/s1600/glo26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F9PO3QdmQgg/ThymcuhOwbI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MDjVxsJ_wnE/s400/glo26.jpg" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Quelque chose comme une essence de la Photographie flottait dans cette photo particulière. Je décidai alors de "sortir" toute la Photographie (sa "nature") de la seule photo qui existât assurément pour moi, et de la prendre en quelque sorte pour guide de ma dernière recherche. Toutes les photographies du monde forment un Labyrinthe. Je savais qu'au centre de ce Labyrinthe, je ne trouverais rien d'autre que cette seule photo, accomplissant le mot de Nietzsche: "Un homme Labyrinthique ne cherche jamais la vérité, mais uniquement son Ariane".&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;br /&gt;J'avais compris qu'il fallait désormais interroger l'évidence de la Photographie, non du point de vue du plaisir, mais par rapport à ce qu'on appellerait romantiquement l'amour et la mort".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;La chambre claire. Note sur la Photographie&lt;/i&gt;, Cahiers du Cinéma, Gallimard, Seuil, 1980, p. 114-115.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Something like an essence of photography was emanating from this particular photograph. I decided to draw out the whole of Photography (its "nature") from the only photograph really existing for me, and to use it as a guide of my ultimate search. All the photographs in the world form a Labyrinth. I knew that at the center of this Labyrinth, I would find nothing else than this particular photograph, just provind what Nietzsche said: "A labyrinthic man does not look after truth, but only after his Ariane."&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;br /&gt;I understood that I should from now question the evidence of Photography, not from the point of view of pleasure, but according to what one could call, in a romantic way, love and death."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;La chambre claire. Note sur la Photographie&lt;/i&gt;, Cahiers du Cinéma, Gallimard, Seuil, 1980, p. 114-115.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6199755555356767910?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6199755555356767910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6199755555356767910&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6199755555356767910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6199755555356767910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-labyrinthe-de-la-photographie.html' title='Le labyrinthe de la photographie / Photography&apos;s Labyrinth'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F9PO3QdmQgg/ThymcuhOwbI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MDjVxsJ_wnE/s72-c/glo26.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8068408990820387970</id><published>2011-07-05T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T12:21:43.765-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Drawing and Photography</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0GollN_sG0/ThNd2OJXwXI/AAAAAAAAA-s/uWy_bm_o4zs/s1600/Combeloup+3x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0GollN_sG0/ThNd2OJXwXI/AAAAAAAAA-s/uWy_bm_o4zs/s400/Combeloup+3x.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dear Jean-Xavier de Combeloup,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much for sending me &lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/Dessins/jean-xavier-de-combeloup"&gt;this drawing&lt;/a&gt;. It is illuminating the wall of my bedroom, in my Taormina house, Piazza San Domenico... I could almost regret I did not spend more energy in learning the art of painting, and that I chose to devote myself to photography, this modern and mechanic art. Your drawing is unique... My photographs could be reproduced in many copies, even if each print has its own material features... Walter Benjamin, a German like me, wrote a beautiful text about the status of art in the age of mechanic reproduction...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My photographs are a window towards an horizon, towards a gaze, towards an obvious frame, a contrast, black and white, light and shade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your drawings, dear Jean-Xavier, have other qualities... I like in them what is indefinite, what is just a sketch, I love the blurred aura around the outlines of a body, between black, red and white... I love too the perfect pose, the languidness of the body as well as the gaze's acuity, the skin velvety as well as the shades' gradation, the smoothness of the chest as well as the lips expression, half-closed, half-open, just silent before expressing, perhaps, a few loving words...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like me, you read Strato and Theocritus, Ovid and Plato, and you dreamt about Alcibiades and about Antinoos as well, and about all the young shepherds who inspired Arcadian dreams...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desire is just a particular hamonic, through which some pictures are vibrating to the gaze, my photographs, sometimes, your drawings, quite often...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no desire without an horizon... There is no beauty that cannot inspire desire... There is no desire if one is unable to listen to beauty... women, men, young men, some human beings allow this music to be heard... Looking at is listening to... One cannot desire without loving music, without loving silence...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yours, as always,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, &lt;i&gt;Letter from W. von Gloeden to J.X. de Combeloup&lt;/i&gt;, date unknown, call number: special request 0123.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8068408990820387970?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8068408990820387970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8068408990820387970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8068408990820387970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8068408990820387970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/drawing-and-photography.html' title='Drawing and Photography'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0GollN_sG0/ThNd2OJXwXI/AAAAAAAAA-s/uWy_bm_o4zs/s72-c/Combeloup+3x.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-498931976092781377</id><published>2011-07-05T11:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T12:22:36.072-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Dessin et photographie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5A75B0KehPo/ThNXThccG4I/AAAAAAAAA-o/OnfQuS8q5Hg/s1600/Combeloup+3x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5A75B0KehPo/ThNXThccG4I/AAAAAAAAA-o/OnfQuS8q5Hg/s400/Combeloup+3x.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Cher Jean-Xavier de Combeloup,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merci de m'avoir envoyé &lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/Dessins/jean-xavier-de-combeloup"&gt;ce dessin&lt;/a&gt;. Il illumine le mur de ma chambre, dans ma maison de Taormina, Piazza San Domenico... Vous me faites presque regretter de ne pas avoir persévéré dans la voie de la peinture, et d'avoir choisi cet art nouveau et mécanique qu'est la photographie. Votre dessin est unique... Mes photographies peuvent être reproduites en série, même si chaque photographie a son grain propre... Walter Benjamin, mon compatriote, a écrit de belles pages sur le statut de l'art à l'âge de la reproduction mécanique...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mes photographies s'ouvrent sur un horizon, sur un regard, sur l'évidence d'un cadre, d'un contraste, noir et blanc, de la lumière et de l'ombre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vos dessins, cher Jean-Xavier, ont d'autres qualités... J'aime en eux l'indéfini et l'esquisse, l'aura imprécise qui entoure les contours d'un corps, entre noir, rouge et blanc... J'aime la perfection de la pose, la langueur comme l'acuité du regard, le velouté de la peau comme le dégradé des ombres, le satiné de la chair comme la moue des lèvres, mi-refermées sur un silence qui précède peut-être des mots d'amour...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme moi, vous avez lu Straton et Théocrite, Ovide et Platon, vous avez rêvé d'Alcibiade comme d'Antinoos, et de tous les jeunes bergers qui ont inspiré les rêves de l'Arcadie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le désir est cette harmonique particulière qui fait vibrer certaines images, mes photographies parfois, vos dessins souvent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il n'y a pas de désir sans horizon... Il n'est pas de beauté qui ne puisse inspirer le désir... Il n'est pas de désir qui ne sache écouter la beauté... femmes, hommes, garçons, certains êtres font entendre cette musique... Le regard est une écoute... Il n'est pas de désir sans l'amour de la musique, sans l'amour du silence...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Votre affectionné&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, &lt;i&gt;Letter from W. von Gloeden to J.X. de Combeloup&lt;/i&gt;, date unknown, call number: special request 0123.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-498931976092781377?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/498931976092781377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=498931976092781377&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/498931976092781377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/498931976092781377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/07/dessin-et-photographie.html' title='Dessin et photographie'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5A75B0KehPo/ThNXThccG4I/AAAAAAAAA-o/OnfQuS8q5Hg/s72-c/Combeloup+3x.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7660084878694703157</id><published>2011-06-28T13:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T13:15:18.603-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Dreams of a butterfly</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CNUD7wM2ZU/TgoiVDpBm3I/AAAAAAAAA-k/uqkd98A1MTQ/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CNUD7wM2ZU/TgoiVDpBm3I/AAAAAAAAA-k/uqkd98A1MTQ/s1600/images.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Butterfly,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;From the place where I am now, I have a high speed internet access, it is a huge step for me, and I enjoy very much browsing the web, in order to check if my photographic art is still reminded, loved and known, in your XXIst century world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Among many web sites or groups or blogs, I noticed your "Rêves Siciliens" site, and as far I can see, it seems you know quite well Taormina and my photographic production, my aesthetic choices, and my favorite models....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I just want to thank you for keeping my vision and my dream alive and up to date, for adding words to what I tried to display through my photographic camera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I think you understand so well that between photography and painting the border is very tiny, that between my Taormina models and their European viewers, there is such an alchemy of desire that what is felt and dreamt is more important than what is actually seen...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I would like to thank you warmly for your hard work, and also to ask you a basic question... Why a butterfly at the beginning of the XXIst century is so concerned by the photographic art, the aesthetic universe of Wilhem von Gloeden, a German photographer who was active in Taormina in the late XIXth c, in the early XXth c. ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Yours, as always,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5QxEmuwCx3k/Tgohu67le2I/AAAAAAAAA-g/D5XKD2-S2s4/s1600/glo17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5QxEmuwCx3k/Tgohu67le2I/AAAAAAAAA-g/D5XKD2-S2s4/s640/glo17.jpg" width="506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dear Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much for your email. I am so happy some Internet service providers made possible the communication between the past and the present times, between the dead ones and those who are still alive (for how long ?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just a butterfly, I do not intend to live for a long time, I am just happy if I fly around, if I inspire dreams of beauty, if I inspire music or poetry...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I felt in love with your universe, dear Wilhem... I love these old photographs, some of them are albuminate, other ones are argentic ones, some of them have your stamp on the verso, or the date of the print, and sometimes you even signed the photograph on its recto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I felt in love with Taormina, this Sicilian village above the sea, telling so many stories, from its ancient Greek past... I felt in love with the library of Tauromenium, a part of its catalogue was discovered by modern archaeologists. I felt in love with the Taormina's Greek theater, where the audience was in front of the stage and of the Aetna mountain... These very old stones are still singing the verses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, I can even hear echoes of comic poets, is it Aristophanes or Menander ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also felt in love with your models and their photographs, dear Wilhelm... This kind of love did have a name in your time... Uranist love, pederasty, perhaps... Homosexuality ? Today, the key-words would be "gay" or even "queer"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your visual universe depicts and expresses something I did not find in the gay web and blogs. we have so many sites to browse, so many photos albums, so many videos. They do not bring me the fulfillement I feel while looking at your photographs, either in my own collection or in other museums, art galleries or web sites...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at your photographs make me aware of what desire, of what my desire are about... A gaze, a shape, the curves of a body, a way to undress, a face expression, a young male body, lips half open, the way a late teen boys shows and hides at the same times, this is what makes me dream...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desire and dream are very strange feelings. Why do I feel them, why did my feelings chose such or such model...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at your vintage photographs, my dear Wilhelm, I feel that some of your cute models can still listen to my voice, to the way I am looking to them... They were at the top of their blossoming age when you chose to photograph them... They are young for ever, they are the ideal of youth, and they were loved as such by all the travelers who came to Taormina and visited you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I love so much in your photographic art is its intemporal part... Your lads could be from 1st century BC, they could from late XIXc. AD, and they actually are from XIXc AD... But hey are so actual to me, at the beginning of XXI c. Yes, I felt in love with boys I will never meet, because they are just in a cimetary now... These boys made my dream and desire, they inspired me so many feelings, well, love was the main of them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't explain why... I feel I could look for ever into the eyes of some of your models, into their souls, or just experiencing their whole body as a map to look upon, to caress, to feel close to mine... And I am dreaming about the words, the breathe we could share...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each of your photographs, my dear Wilhelm, is just as a potential love story. Desire, sensuality and the feeling that such a boy is the one I could spend my life with, listening to his beauty, to his own language, to his pains and his joices...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the boys I am in love with today are dead since a long time... But I love them anyway, because I feel so much my love for them, because I feel what their youth and their beauty expressed and express still today...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dear Wilhelm, they are so many ways to love, so many cute lads to fall in love with...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falling in love with a photograph is just loving a concept, a shade, a reflection...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A boy's gaze, or smile, or posture are just a concept, a share and a reflection....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dear Wilhelm, what makes me dream and desire so much about your photographic work is just that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;young men to fall in love with. A young man could be hidden beyond a shade, a concept, a reflection...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Butterfly&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7660084878694703157?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7660084878694703157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7660084878694703157&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7660084878694703157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7660084878694703157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/dreams-of-butterfly.html' title='Dreams of a butterfly'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CNUD7wM2ZU/TgoiVDpBm3I/AAAAAAAAA-k/uqkd98A1MTQ/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3135035111503866505</id><published>2011-06-28T11:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T11:44:45.259-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Preuve d'amour / Proof of Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mx0EXGv4Ylg/TgoYAz45HcI/AAAAAAAAA-c/Ms77mADRaGY/s1600/glo10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mx0EXGv4Ylg/TgoYAz45HcI/AAAAAAAAA-c/Ms77mADRaGY/s640/glo10.jpg" width="456" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Je dédie ce message à Pasqualino Stracuzzi, modèle de W. von Gloeden, dont je suis tombé amoureux dans une autre vie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is dedicated to Pasqualino Stracuzzi, a W. von Gloeden model I felt in love with in one of my previous lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Preuve d'amour: je te sacrifie mon Imaginaire — comme on &amp;nbsp;faisait la dédicace d'une chevelure. Ainsi peut-être (du moins le dit-on) accéderai-je à l'"amour vrai". S'il y a quelque similitude entre la crise amoureuse et la cure analytique, je fais alors le deuil de qui j'aime, comme le patient fait le deuil de son analyste: je liquide mon transfert, et c'est ainsi, paraît-il que la cure et la crise finissent. Cependant, a-t-on fait remarquer, cette théorie oublie que l'analyste, lui aussi, doit faire le deuil de son patient (faute de quoi l'analyse risque d'être interminable); de même, l'être aimé — si je lui sacrifie un Imaginaire qui cependant l'empoissait —, l'être aimé doit entrer dans la mélancolie de sa propre déchéance. Et il faut, concurremment à mon propre deuil, prévoir et assumer cette mélancolie de l'autre, et j'en souffre, &lt;i&gt;car je l'aime encore&lt;/i&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;Fragments d'un discours amoureux&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1977, p. 125.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My attempt to translate this text for my English-speaking readers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As a proof of love, I offer you the sacrifice of my Imagination -- just as ancient Greeks could offer the sacrifice of some of their hairs. Doing so, perhaps, at least it is said so, I could reach the "true love". If there is any similarity between a crisis of love and a psychoanalytical course of treatment, I should be mourning the one I love just as the patient mourns his (or her) analyst. I am getting rid of my transfer, such is the way, it seems, the course of treatment and the crisis of love are supposed to end up. However, &amp;nbsp;it has been noticed that such a theory forgets the fact that the analyst should also forget his (her) patient, otherwise psychoanalysis would be endless; in a similar way, my loved one, if I provide him with the sacrifice of my Imagination that was surrounding him, my loved one should feel the melancholy of his own vanishing condition. As an addition to my own grief, I should anticipate and take on myself the melancholy of the other one, and it causes to me a lot of pain, because I am still in love with him".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Fragments d'un discours amoureux&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1977, p. 125.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3135035111503866505?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3135035111503866505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3135035111503866505&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3135035111503866505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3135035111503866505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/preuve-damour-proof-of-love.html' title='Preuve d&apos;amour / Proof of Love'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mx0EXGv4Ylg/TgoYAz45HcI/AAAAAAAAA-c/Ms77mADRaGY/s72-c/glo10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-9049152650154334574</id><published>2011-06-25T12:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T12:38:27.307-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Le théâtre du désir (1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llmuXSMxA5s/TgYxKQS2yxI/AAAAAAAAA98/7GGTNEcvptM/s1600/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="288" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llmuXSMxA5s/TgYxKQS2yxI/AAAAAAAAA98/7GGTNEcvptM/s320/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+5.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Comment pourrais-je oublier que j'aime tout en toi, ton regard, tes lèvres, la forme de ton visage, ce que ton visage exprime, les nuages du coeur, le voile des états d'âme, les désirs et les peines, ton histoire à toi, mon Pasqualino de Taormina...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;How could I forget that I love everything in you, your gaze, your lips, the shape of your face, what your face is telling to me, the clouds upon your heart, a veil upon your emotions, desires and pains, your own story, my Pasqualino from Taormina....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h7FCycHhIg4/TgYxJkPHabI/AAAAAAAAA90/ZEQBgcq1K-M/s1600/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h7FCycHhIg4/TgYxJkPHabI/AAAAAAAAA90/ZEQBgcq1K-M/s640/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+1.jpg" width="353" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Comment pourrais-je t'oublier, mon Francesco en fleurs, comment pourrais-je t'oublier, jeune berger des collines lointaines, toi qui sait chanter les chants qui font revenir les moutons, le soir, vers les lumières du village...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And how could I forget you, my blossoming Francesco, how could I forget you, young shepherd going to remote hills, you who knows how to sing the songs bringing the sheeps back home, at night, towards the lights of Taormina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ApN0I84PB_Y/TgYxKHqtd1I/AAAAAAAAA94/bblJVgDe2C0/s1600/pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ApN0I84PB_Y/TgYxKHqtd1I/AAAAAAAAA94/bblJVgDe2C0/s400/pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+4.jpg" width="259" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Les fleurs sont entre tes mains, mon Francesco en fleurs, tu fleuris l'épaule de Pasqualino, mon ami, mon amant de toujours...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You have flowers in your hands, my blossoming Francesco, you are flourishing Pasqualino's shoulder - he is my friend, my lover since ever...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V-TC3_4vhyI/TgYxJb-a-JI/AAAAAAAAA9w/FVcDIKpqWms/s1600/Pasqua+detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V-TC3_4vhyI/TgYxJb-a-JI/AAAAAAAAA9w/FVcDIKpqWms/s640/Pasqua+detail+2.jpg" width="456" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Penses à tes amis, à tes amants, Pasqualino, mon bel ami... Pense à celui qui aimera cette photographie, demain, ailleurs, dans un autre siècle... Regarde ton ami, ton amant, Pasqualino, mon bel ami... Il aime ton âme autant que ton visage....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Please, just have a thought about your friends, your lovers, Pasqualino, my so cute friend... Just think about the guy who will love this photograph, tomorrow, elsewhere, in another century... Just look at your friend, your lover, Pasqualino, my cute friend... He loves your soul as much as your face...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgQZi3zeqRs/TgYxLc0Iy1I/AAAAAAAAA-A/GPpPikdhfAk/s1600/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgQZi3zeqRs/TgYxLc0Iy1I/AAAAAAAAA-A/GPpPikdhfAk/s640/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581.jpg" width="446" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aime cette photographie, douce et sensuelle, j'aime ces étoffes improbables qui entourent les corps, tuniques de bergers d'aujourd'hui dans une cité grecque rêvée, Taormina, Tauromenium, séjour de tous mes rêves, de tous mes amours...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Merci, Wilhelm, mon ami, pour la douce sensualité qui se dégage de cette image... Cette photographie est pleine de désir, de parfum, le parfum que s'échangent des garçons qui se désirent, ou qui regardent au delà de l'appareil photographique celui qui, peut-être, dans un autre lieu et un autre temps, les désirera aussi...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I love this photograph, so sweet, so sensual, I love these weird clothes surrounding these boys bodies, these tunics of shephers in a dreamt Greek city, Taormina, Tauromenium, the place of all my dreams, of all my loves...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Thanks so much, Wilhelm, my friend, for the sweet sensuality emanating from this photograph... It is full of desire and perfume, the perfume shared by boys who desire one another or who look beyond the camera the viewer, in another place, in another time, who will desire them too...."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Letter from Philip to Wilhem von Gloeden, March 12 1902, Von Gloeden Archive, call number 1902/03/12/01.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-9049152650154334574?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/9049152650154334574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=9049152650154334574&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9049152650154334574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9049152650154334574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/le-theatre-du-desir-1.html' title='Le théâtre du désir (1)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llmuXSMxA5s/TgYxKQS2yxI/AAAAAAAAA98/7GGTNEcvptM/s72-c/Pasqua+habille%25CC%2581+detail+5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8793849850302399098</id><published>2011-06-25T10:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-26T03:33:14.867-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Le théâtre du désir (2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R1srrjehs4o/TgY5dyskLAI/AAAAAAAAA-M/jnQWQd0U_OQ/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R1srrjehs4o/TgY5dyskLAI/AAAAAAAAA-M/jnQWQd0U_OQ/s400/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg" width="212" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Oui, j'aime tout en toi, mon Pasqualino, j'aime ton regard et tes lèvres, j'aime la musique de ton visage, j'aime le souffle de ta bouche, les questions de tes yeux, j'aimerai tant entendre le son de ta voix....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, I love anything in you, my deare Pasqualino, I love your gaze and your lips, I love the music of your face as well as the breathe from your mouth or the questions asked by your eyes, I would love so much to hear the sound of your voice...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bOIqZzBLkcQ/TgY5djgO0RI/AAAAAAAAA-I/tN7RmKMmcIg/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bOIqZzBLkcQ/TgY5djgO0RI/AAAAAAAAA-I/tN7RmKMmcIg/s400/Pasqua+nu+detail+2.jpg" width="269" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Et toi, mon Francesco en fleurs, je t'envie tant d'être l'aîné, l'amant, l'éraste, celui qui a choisi l'éromène à aimer, le garçon qui aime ta jeunesse en fleurs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;And you, my blossoming Francesco, I envy you so much for being the older one, the loving one, the erastes who chose the eromenos to fall in love with, the boy who will love your blossoming youth...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3X6D9JXQoAo/TgY5dfrPyiI/AAAAAAAAA-E/O_wmLUu_WxE/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3X6D9JXQoAo/TgY5dfrPyiI/AAAAAAAAA-E/O_wmLUu_WxE/s400/Pasqua+nu+detail+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il n'est pas besoin de mots, quand on aime et quand est aimé, les gestes suffisent, les mains et les doigts dessinent des poèmes, d'un corps à l'autre, d'une épaule à une poitrine, entre deux garçons qui écoutent la musique du désir...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Words are useless when one loves and when one is loved... Gestures are enough, hands and fingers are drawing poems, from a body to another one, from a shoulder to a chest, between two boys who are listening to the music of desire....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IsjS46jvyaU/TgY5emgPcNI/AAAAAAAAA-U/CmqK__xlwZs/s1600/Pasqua+nu+detail+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IsjS46jvyaU/TgY5emgPcNI/AAAAAAAAA-U/CmqK__xlwZs/s640/Pasqua+nu+detail+5.jpg" width="554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il n'est pas besoin de mots, tout est dit, la musique du désir peut s'entendre dans le silence des voix, dans la polyphonie des gestes, dans la proximité des corps, dans l'arias des regards, dans le souffle d'une bouche entrouverte...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pasqualino, mon ami, mon aimé, tu es aimé par l'aîné qui te caresse des yeux, que tu caresses de la main...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Words are not needed, everything is said, the music of desire can be listened through silent voices, through the polyphony of gestures, in bodies being close one to another, in the arias sung by the eyes, in the breathe of a half-open mouth...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pasqualino, my friend, my loved one, your are loved by an older boy who is caressing you with his eyes, whom you are caressing with your hand...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--HCW5V5pR2I/TgY5fbVmF8I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/hZz22qCsFog/s1600/Pasqua+nu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--HCW5V5pR2I/TgY5fbVmF8I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/hZz22qCsFog/s640/Pasqua+nu.jpg" width="454" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je vous aime tous les deux, Pasqualino et Francesco, je vous aime pour les poèmes que vous me rappelez, pour la musique que vous me faites entendre... Il est des mondes où des garçons peuvent s'aimer et de désirer, se caresser et se regarder...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est des théâtres du désir où il n'est pas besoin de mots, les gestes, les regards, les corps disent l'essentiel en dehors duquel tout n'est que bavardage vain...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhem, mon ami, certaines de vos photographies sont des opéras, elles font chanter mon regard et mon désir, aimer vos garçons, c'est être un mélomane....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I love the both of you, Pasqualino and Francesco, I love your for the poems you remind me, for the music that you allow me to listen to... Yes, there are worlds where boys can love and desire one each other, can caress themselves and look one to another one....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;There are some theaters of desire where words are not &amp;nbsp;needed: gestures, gazes, bodies tell hat really matters, and beyond what there is just useless gossip....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, my friend, some of your photographs are just operas, thanks to them, my gaze and my desire are singing... One cannot love your models without being a music lover... "&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Letter from Philip to Wilhem von Gloeden, March 12 1902, Von Gloeden Archive, call number 1902/03/12/01.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8793849850302399098?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8793849850302399098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8793849850302399098&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8793849850302399098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8793849850302399098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/le-theatre-du-desir-2.html' title='Le théâtre du désir (2)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R1srrjehs4o/TgY5dyskLAI/AAAAAAAAA-M/jnQWQd0U_OQ/s72-c/Pasqua+nu+detail+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-9196146064688894591</id><published>2011-06-21T12:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T12:36:45.634-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Un lien / A link</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bSNsNXWz6dY/TgDyUsorwkI/AAAAAAAAA9s/ByqHuW_L5Qg/s1600/10-05-combeloup-pensif248x350-avt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bSNsNXWz6dY/TgDyUsorwkI/AAAAAAAAA9s/ByqHuW_L5Qg/s640/10-05-combeloup-pensif248x350-avt.jpg" width="452" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Si vous aimez la musique de ce dessin, vous devriez visiter le site suivant:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/"&gt;Gay Bonheur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;If you like the music of this drawing, you should visit this web site:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gaybonheur.com/"&gt;Gay Bonheur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-9196146064688894591?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/9196146064688894591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=9196146064688894591&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9196146064688894591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/9196146064688894591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/un-lien-link.html' title='Un lien / A link'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bSNsNXWz6dY/TgDyUsorwkI/AAAAAAAAA9s/ByqHuW_L5Qg/s72-c/10-05-combeloup-pensif248x350-avt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1124205866985444900</id><published>2011-06-21T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T00:41:45.055-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Camera Obscura</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VuxBFSUh1k4/TgDpHl7DXsI/AAAAAAAAA9k/z-7aYnxJKic/s1600/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VuxBFSUh1k4/TgDpHl7DXsI/AAAAAAAAA9k/z-7aYnxJKic/s640/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"My dear Wilhelm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I am very grateful for the new photograph you sent me... It is just sublime, in its composition, in its intent, in what it invites me to dream and think about... There is a wall and a body, a jar and flesh, white and brown, plants and a bird in a cage, a boy and a column.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I know you chose the frame and the angles, light and shades, and that you shot this photograph just as one catches a flying away moment...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Giovanni is splendid and his muscular body would have been an inspiration for Michel Angelo, for his frescoes on the Sistina Chapel ceiling... What a beautiful depiction of youth and grace, of body and mind, of balance and thought !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Your photograph, maestro, my dear friend, makes me dream and think... Giovanni is looking through the window into an obscure room, into the &lt;i&gt;camera obscura&lt;/i&gt;, where light and shapes are printed forever on the albuminate paper sheet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This photograph is an hymn to what is visible or invisible, to what Giovanni is looking at and what I will miss for ever. I can see Giovanni so focussed in his contemplation, in his gaze from the outside to the inside... Your Taormina lads, Wilhelm, are sometimes so strange...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I love this photograph, because it makes me imagine what I will never see, that is why Giovanni is leaning that way, why he is so focussed onto what he sees within the &lt;i&gt;camera obscura&lt;/i&gt;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This photograph is an allegory of photography....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;If I try to listen to your photograph, Wilhelm, my good old friend, I can hear a song, the song of a bird inside a cage. It is also a Sicilian song, an immemorial song that is sung at the top of Taormina rocks, since the most remote antiquity... "Carpe diem", says this love song, this song of wisdom... "Carpe diem", youth does not last for ever and even the most beautiful photographs will fade away, sometimes in the future, there will be only white on a white background, a solar wall to desire and to love..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip, &lt;i&gt;Letter to Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, june 6, 1902 (&lt;i&gt;Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, call number 1902/06/04).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1124205866985444900?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1124205866985444900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1124205866985444900&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1124205866985444900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1124205866985444900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/camera-obscura_21.html' title='Camera Obscura'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VuxBFSUh1k4/TgDpHl7DXsI/AAAAAAAAA9k/z-7aYnxJKic/s72-c/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6749243139080282913</id><published>2011-06-21T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T00:42:18.630-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Camera Obscura</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9TV3FlfyyM/TgDkCWK58JI/AAAAAAAAA9g/oBlAOWylBtg/s1600/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9TV3FlfyyM/TgDkCWK58JI/AAAAAAAAA9g/oBlAOWylBtg/s640/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Mon cher Wilhelm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Merci de m'avoir envoyé cette nouvelle photographie... Je la trouve sublime dans sa composition, dans son intention, dans ce qu'elle donne à rêver et à penser... Il y a le mur et le corps, la jarre et la chair, le blanc et le brun, le végétal et l'oiseau dans sa cage, le garçon et la colonne.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je sais que tu as choisi le cadre et les angles, la lumière et les ombres, et que tu as pris cette photographie comme on saisit au vol un instant fugitif...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Giovanni est magnifique et son corps musclé aurait inspiré à Michel-Ange un ajout aux plafonds de la Chapelle Sistine... Quelle belle expression de la jeunesse et de la grâce, du corps et de l'esprit, de l'équilibre et de la pensée... !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ta photographie, Maestro, mon cher ami, me fait rêver et penser... Giovanni regarde par la fenêtre dans une chambre obscure, dans la &lt;i&gt;camera obscura&lt;/i&gt;, où la lumière et les formes viennent impressionner le papier albuminé et s'y fixer pour toujours.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Cette photographie est un hymne au visible et à l'invisible, à ce que voit Giovanni et ce qui m'échappera à jamais. Je vois Giovanni absorbé dans cette contemplation, dans ce regard du dehors vers le dedans, tes garçons de Taormina, Wilhelm, sont si curieux...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aime cette photographie car elle me donne à imaginer ce que je ne verrai jamais, ce qui courbe le corps de Giovanni, ce qui l'absorbe au dedans de la chambre noire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Cette photographie est une allégorie de la photographie...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;En approchant l'oreille de ta photographie, Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, je peux entendre le chant, le chant de l'oiseau enfermé dans sa cage. C'est un chant sicilien, un chant immémorial que l'on chante sur les falaises de Taormina, depuis la nuit des temps... "Carpe diem", dit ce chant d'amour, ce chant de sagesse... "Carpe diem", la jeunesse n'a qu'un temps, et même les plus belles photographies s'effaceront un jour, blanches sur un fond blanc, il n'y aura plus qu'un mur blanc, un mur solaire à désirer et à aimer..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Lettre à Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, 6 juin 1902 &amp;nbsp;(&lt;i&gt;Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, call number 1902/06/04)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6749243139080282913?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6749243139080282913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6749243139080282913&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6749243139080282913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6749243139080282913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/camera-obscura.html' title='Camera Obscura'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9TV3FlfyyM/TgDkCWK58JI/AAAAAAAAA9g/oBlAOWylBtg/s72-c/Gloeden.+Fene%25CC%2582tre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4507792299397710071</id><published>2011-06-04T11:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T11:46:22.076-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>La légende passionnée (Jacques Adeswärd-Fersen)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Y3_A4ZZKz0/Tep9YDm1ehI/AAAAAAAAA9c/0v7ffyzo2ZY/s1600/glo513.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Y3_A4ZZKz0/Tep9YDm1ehI/AAAAAAAAA9c/0v7ffyzo2ZY/s400/glo513.jpg" width="295" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Pardonne-moi de t'écrire au hasard des sentiments qui me troublent et qui me grisent, en écoutant les voix qui chantent l'amour, un amour nouveau, si blanc et si clair, qu'il semble être né d'une fleur de cristal. Puisque l'on dit que c'est c'est un mal à contagion délicieuse, tu as peut-être deviné que je t'aime sans attendre que je te l'aie dit... Jusqu'ici j'ai été mon chemin, tout simplement ému par ma pensée intérieure où se reflétait un peu de ton coeur. J'ai attendu que les regards s'aimantent à un contact plus doux que les baisers. Toujours à ton approche j'ai ressenti l'impression de voix très lointaines qui m'environnaient d'une atmosphère d'amour; j'entendais comme l'écho de vieux cantiques tout ruisselants de tendresse inexprimée: Et voici maintenant que je laisse ces voix te dire: je t'aime ! légères comme des oiseaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je t'aime... Je t'aime...! si tu savais à quel point, tu aurais à ton tour de l'émotion pour moi. Car il me semble que je t'ai voulu ainsi dans mon inconscience et que déjà, au rêve des nuits anciennes, j'ai vu tes yeux. Ce sont tes yeux, tes jolis yeux de violette qui m'ont agenouillé, tes yeux si jolis qu'ils doivent parfumer l'air. Et vers eux j'élève la douce offrande de moi-même, avec le geste impudique et vainqueur des héros d'autrefois &amp;nbsp;!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacques Adeswärd-Fersen, &lt;i&gt;Ebauches et Débauches&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Librairie Léon Vanier, 1901, p. 3-4.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4507792299397710071?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4507792299397710071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4507792299397710071&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4507792299397710071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4507792299397710071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-legende-passionnee-jacques-adesward.html' title='La légende passionnée (Jacques Adeswärd-Fersen)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Y3_A4ZZKz0/Tep9YDm1ehI/AAAAAAAAA9c/0v7ffyzo2ZY/s72-c/glo513.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7129687608769323033</id><published>2011-05-28T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-28T12:31:48.205-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Eternité / Eternity</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4OwEVawoUg/TeFGNboPSCI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/c4sbKOAppYM/s1600/Gloeden.+Tableau.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4OwEVawoUg/TeFGNboPSCI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/c4sbKOAppYM/s640/Gloeden.+Tableau.jpg" width="408" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Quatre garçons sur une terrasse, noyée de lumière, de soleil...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhem von Gloeden les a disposés les uns à côté des autres. Il a composé ce tableau vivant, en indiquant les postures, en dessinant les déhanchements, en fixant les mains et les regards. Ne bougez plus !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un jeune homme, assis sur une peau de léopard, est entouré de trois autres garçons. Peut-être est-il un jeune aristocrate romain, entouré de ses esclaves, des esclaves grecs, peut-être.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'un deux, debout, au corps noirci par le soleil, joue de la flûte, la jambe fléchie pour suivre le rythme, pour suivre le souffle. C'est une antique mélodie, venue du fond des âges, qui a accompagné le chant de Pindare et de Simonide, de Bacchylide et de bien d'autres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un autre garçon, habillé par le seul bandeau qui traverse ses cheveux, raconte les exploits d'Héraklès, la vaillance d'Achille, ou les voyages d'Ulysse, les amours des bergers arcadiens ou la geste des dieux olympiens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il porte un bandeau blanc lui aussi, le garçon debout, qui du bout des doigts, démêle les boucles de son maître assis sur une peau de léopard...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette carte postale, modèle réduit d'une magnifique photographie de Wilhelm von Gloeden, est comme un opéra, un chant à la beauté, un chant à la beauté de ces garçons qui traversent les siècles, rêve antique, rêve vintage, 1er siècle après J.-C, début du XXe siècle, les corps et les courbes restent aussi désirables...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a une infinie douceur dans cette photographie... Celle de garçons qui savent écouter la musique de leur beauté, celle de garçons qui mettent en scène leur corps dans le plus sensuel des théâtres... Se voir entre soi, entre quatre garçons, se voir vus par le photographe, se rêver vus par celui qui regardera cette carte postale, cette photographie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une image vaut mieux qu'un long discours, qu'une description, qu'un plaidoyer, qu'une confidence, qu'une confession...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout est dit de mes rêves, de mon désir, de mes souvenirs rêvés, de mes vies imaginées...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne sais si j'aime plus le maître ou les esclaves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'aime le désir qui circule entre eux, dans un infini respect comme dans l'intimité la plus rapprochée...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette photographie baigne dans l'évidence d'un désir, un désir aveuglant comme le soleil de Naples ou de Taormina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un désir qui est chant, mélodie, opéra...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il n'est pas de photographie qui ne soit aussi une musique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il n'est pas d'amant qui n'ait pas appris à écouter, à écouter la musique singulière de la beauté...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7129687608769323033?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7129687608769323033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7129687608769323033&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7129687608769323033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7129687608769323033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/05/eternite-eternity.html' title='Eternité / Eternity'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4OwEVawoUg/TeFGNboPSCI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/c4sbKOAppYM/s72-c/Gloeden.+Tableau.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-327164865141279020</id><published>2011-05-28T11:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-28T11:58:30.407-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaston Goor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Renaud Icard'/><title type='text'>Renaud Icard - Mon Page - Illustrations de Gaston Goor</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9uUUfKj1zfY/TeE_X6MNXpI/AAAAAAAAA9U/VWJEbKoKx2I/s1600/Mon+Page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9uUUfKj1zfY/TeE_X6MNXpI/AAAAAAAAA9U/VWJEbKoKx2I/s400/Mon+Page.jpg" width="247" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Renaud Icard (1886-1971) est un écrivain et un sculpteur lyonnais encore mal connu, en dépit de l'audace de ses écrits comme de sa vie. Il a été le premier à développer le thème de l'homoparentalité, en 1937, dans une pièce de théâtre: &lt;i&gt;Hors Jeu&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mon Page&lt;/i&gt;, dont c'est ici la première édition, a été écrit par Renaud Icard en 1918, peu de temps après l'armistice. Ce conte peut être mis entre toutes les mains: les intentions de l'auteur ne feront l'objet d'un questionnement que par les seuls lecteurs habitués à voir bien au-delà des apparences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Gaston Goor (1902-1977), qui partageait les goûts esthétiques de Renaud Icard, réalisa 44 illustrations au crayon, dont trente deux ont été sauvegardées. Elles sont livrées ici pour la première fois au public.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7IiJVa3mqiQ/TeE93LgD_OI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/v1VjqN1-q8A/s1600/Goor.+Mon+Page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7IiJVa3mqiQ/TeE93LgD_OI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/v1VjqN1-q8A/s400/Goor.+Mon+Page.jpg" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Renaud Icard (1886-1971) was a writer and a sculptor living in the area of Lyon, in France. He is still almost unknown, despite his courageous writings and his bold life as well. He was the first to promote the idea of homoparentality, in 1937, in a theatrical play, &lt;i&gt;Hors Jeu&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mon page&lt;/i&gt; was an unpublished work until now. Renaud Icard wrote it in 1918, just after the end of WW1. This faery tale can be read by anyone. The writer's intent will be appeal only to the rare reader who are able to look beyond appearances...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Gaston Goor (1902-1977) shared many of Renaud Icard's aesthetic tastes. He drawn 44 plates with his pencil for Icard's novel. Only 32 plates have been saved. They are all published for the first time in this edition of Icard's text.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Renaud Icard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mon Page&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Illustrations de Gaston Goor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Préface de Jean-Loup Salètes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(petit-fils de Renaud Icard)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;suivi de&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;L'histoire de Mon Page, de ses illustrations et de l'amitié Goor-Icard&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Paris, Editions Quintes-Feuilles, 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;ISBN: 978-2-9532885-1-3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-fr.amazon.fr/e/cm?t=siciliandr21-21&amp;amp;o=8&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=2953288511&amp;amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="height: 240px; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FZFZeTibL04/TdbCc4FceKI/AAAAAAAAA9I/cm8M0FEdkSk/s1600/Gloeden+Pascualino+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FZFZeTibL04/TdbCc4FceKI/AAAAAAAAA9I/cm8M0FEdkSk/s640/Gloeden+Pascualino+.jpg" width="465" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu es entré dans ma vie lorsque cette photographie est entrée dans ma collection...&lt;br /&gt;J'ai écouté la musique, la musique de ta flûte, la musique des cigales, la musique du soleil.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai écouté la musique d'un berger sicilien, assis sur un rocher.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai écouté la musique d'une photographie sepia du siècle dernier, d'un temps oublié...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai écouté le souffle de tes lèvres entrouvertes, j'ai suivi ton regard distrait,&lt;br /&gt;J'ai caressé les courbes de tes jambes, j'ai écouté la musique de ton adolescence...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veux-tu chanter les travaux et les jours, les jours et les nuits, la pierre et la chair ?&lt;br /&gt;Veux-tu chanter le berger ou la campagne, les dieux ou les bêtes, la solitude des campagnes ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'entends ton chant si proche, si beau, j'écoute le chant d'une photographie sepia...&lt;br /&gt;Tu es là si près, si loin, tu es un poème de Théocrite, tu es une photographie de Gloeden...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je te vois entre deux, entre Théocrite et Gloeden, entre deux siècles, le tien et le mien...&lt;br /&gt;Entends-tu, beau berger, entends-tu, beau berger de Taormina, la musique de mes rêves,&lt;br /&gt;Je suis si seul ce soir, j'aimerais être l'écho des montagnes, des montagnes de Taormina,&lt;br /&gt;Et te renvoyer une mélodie d'amour, rien n'importe ce soir que la musique du désir,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elle peut traverser les siècles, je l'entends si fort, peut-être l'entends-tu aussi,&lt;br /&gt;De l'autre côté du miroir, si près, si loin, dans les montagnes de Taormina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqAIZWPZmuE/TdbG6EYOpWI/AAAAAAAAA9M/CqL-UODoT2c/s1600/Gloeden+Pascual.+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqAIZWPZmuE/TdbG6EYOpWI/AAAAAAAAA9M/CqL-UODoT2c/s640/Gloeden+Pascual.+detail.jpg" width="458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You entered my life as soon as this photograph was part of my collection...&lt;br /&gt;I listened to the music, the music of your flute, the music of cicadas, the music of sun.&lt;br /&gt;I listened to the music of a Sicilian shepherd, sitting on a rock.&lt;br /&gt;I listened to the music of a sepia photograph from the last century, from a forgotten time....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I listened to the breathe from your half open lips, I looked at your eyes, while you were looking elsewhere...&lt;br /&gt;I caressed the curves of your legs, I listened to the music of your youth....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to sing the works and days, the days and nights, the rock and the flesh ?&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to sing the shepherd or the wilderness, gods or beasts, the loneliness of wild spaces ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am listening to your song, so close, so beautiful, I am listening to the song of a sepia photograph...&lt;br /&gt;You are so close, so far away, you are a poem written by Theocritus, you are a photograph shot by von Gloeden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am looking at you, somewhere in between, between Theocritus and von Gloeden, between two centuries, yours and mine...&lt;br /&gt;Do you hear, cute shepherd, do you hear, cute shepherd of Taormina, the music of my dreams,&lt;br /&gt;I feel so alone, tonight, I would love so much to be just the echo of mountains, of the mountains of Taormina,&lt;br /&gt;And to send you back a love song, nothing else matters tonight, except the music of longing,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This music can be heard through centuries, it is so loud for my ears, perhaps you can hear it too,&lt;br /&gt;On the other side of the mirror, so close, so far away, in the mountains of Taormina...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8150717364506387497?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8150717364506387497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8150717364506387497&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8150717364506387497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8150717364506387497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/05/la-musique-du-desir-music-of-longing.html' title='La musique du désir / Music of longing'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FZFZeTibL04/TdbCc4FceKI/AAAAAAAAA9I/cm8M0FEdkSk/s72-c/Gloeden+Pascualino+.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-998518545386116238</id><published>2011-05-14T09:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-14T09:24:01.712-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>Autour de Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (1880-1923)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vendredi 27 mai 2011, 19 heures&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;La librairie&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les Mots à la Bouche &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(Paris)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;les éditions&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GayKitschCamp/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;Question de genre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;et&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quintes-feuilles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;vous invitent à une&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;rencontre sur le thème&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;Pédérastie et efféminement dans la littérature fin-de-siècle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;Autour de Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (1880-1923)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bA3y6KErgTc/Tc6shDl8fyI/AAAAAAAAA9E/Ef9OoMurXCI/s1600/nume%25CC%2581risation0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bA3y6KErgTc/Tc6shDl8fyI/AAAAAAAAA9E/Ef9OoMurXCI/s400/nume%25CC%2581risation0004.jpg" width="285" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUq_JIbou1g/Tc6nipxevaI/AAAAAAAAA9A/IasMncfgLQY/s1600/adelsward.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUq_JIbou1g/Tc6nipxevaI/AAAAAAAAA9A/IasMncfgLQY/s400/adelsward.JPG" width="277" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;A l'occasion de la réédition de&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Une Jeunesse/La Neuvaine du petit faune&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;et&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lord Lyllian&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;les éditeurs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jean-Claude Féray (Quintes-feuilles)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;et&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Patrick Cardon (GayKitschCamp/Question de Genre)&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;spécialisés dans la réédition de textes écrits à la fin du 19ème et au début du 20ème siècle,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;viendront présenter le travail littéraire et journalistique du&amp;nbsp;fondateur d'&lt;em&gt;Akademos&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;première revue homosexuelle française.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord Lyllian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;est un roman&amp;nbsp; à clefs où se rencontrent les sommités homosexuelles de la fin du XIX : Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, JohnGray, Jean Lorrain, Joseph Péladan, Achille Essebac, Robert de Montesquiou, Friedrich Krupp, Fersen lui-même, ainsi que leurs égéries, les actrices Ellen Terry et Sarah Bernhard. L'auteur les met en scène avec des dialogues très "camp" que Wilde n'aurait pas reniés, dans des poses mélodramatiques à souhait.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Le roman&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Une jeunesse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;et les poèmes réunis sous le titre&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;La neuvaine du petit faune&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; rassemblent les hommages que l'auteur&amp;nbsp;a rendus aux trois grands amours de sa vie. Trois amours rencontrées à des moments distincts de son existence, et qui ont compté, de ce fait, à des titres très dissemblables.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Par ailleurs,&amp;nbsp;GayKitschCamp sort une nouvelle édition&amp;nbsp;de&amp;nbsp;deux bestsellers&amp;nbsp;qui n'étaient plus disponibles depuis plusieurs mois :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pédérastie active&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;et&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pédérastie passive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;-----------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Librairie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les Mots à la Bouche&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;6 rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie,&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;75004 Paris,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;métro Hôtel de Ville&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;amp;postID=998518545386116238" style="color: #0000cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9wFaaTAzm8/TcRjBxSRXuI/AAAAAAAAA88/rZXuwoSuzIg/s1600/JEUNESSE-NEUVAINE-ADELSWARD-FERSEN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9wFaaTAzm8/TcRjBxSRXuI/AAAAAAAAA88/rZXuwoSuzIg/s400/JEUNESSE-NEUVAINE-ADELSWARD-FERSEN.jpg" width="271" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"J'avais rêvé l'amour plus beau que ton pays...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Parfumé, comme avril, dans un patio d'Espagne,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Un amour douloureux, mais qui vous accompagne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Comme un violoncelle en prière, la nuit...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;J'avais rêvé son coeur plus chaste qu'un ciboire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Je voulais adorer son hostie à genoux...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Et ce rêve était vrai et ce rêve est si doux,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Que l'oubli aux doigts purs efface la mémoire....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mais l'adieu, Corrado !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Que l'on saigne à partir&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sans avoir respiré — extase et fin suprêmes —&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ta langueur, ta jeunesse — et cette âme que j'aime&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Comme un dernier bouquet cueilli pour en mourir"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;poème extrait de "La Neuvaine du petit faune"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Editions Quintes-feuilles, Paris, &amp;nbsp;2010, p. 153.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-5255322367757626491?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5255322367757626491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=5255322367757626491&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5255322367757626491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5255322367757626491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/05/un-petit-faune-fersen.html' title='Un petit faune (Fersen)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9wFaaTAzm8/TcRjBxSRXuI/AAAAAAAAA88/rZXuwoSuzIg/s72-c/JEUNESSE-NEUVAINE-ADELSWARD-FERSEN.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6693559495774925097</id><published>2011-05-05T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T08:26:49.575-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vincenzo Galdi'/><title type='text'>Qui connaît Vincenzo Galdi ? Who knows Vincenzo Galdi ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Vincenzo Galdi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Von Gloeden &amp;amp; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;from tuesday to saturday, 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Xn6zWExqco/TcMDwktgnAI/AAAAAAAAA84/79A9BU443Do/s1600/Galdi+portrait+b3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Xn6zWExqco/TcMDwktgnAI/AAAAAAAAA84/79A9BU443Do/s640/Galdi+portrait+b3.jpg" width="454" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden, Guglielmo von Plüschow, Vincenzo Galdi... Des trois photographes de beautés masculines qui travaillent en Italie, entre la fin du XIXe siècle et les premières décennies du XXe siècle, Vincenzo Galdi (1871-1961) est le moins connu, le plus secret, le plus moderne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ami et amant, il est d'abord un modèle de von Plüschow. Il apprend l'art photographique de son mentor, il devient photographe à son tour. Il reste fidèle, pour une part, aux rêves arcadiens, aux mises en scène à l'antique de son maître. Mais son univers visuel affirme très vite sa différence. D'abord par la modernité de ses choix esthétiques, par l'univers urbain dans lequel il est intégré. Les bergers de Taormina, les éphèbes de Pompéi sont loin, nous sommes à Rome, les modèles sont des garçons de la ville, qui viennent se faire tirer le portrait contre quelque indemnité. Pas seulement des garçons, d'ailleurs, mais aussi des femmes qui viennent offrir leur nudités plantureuses à l'appareil photographique de Galdi. Quant aux garçons, les portraits, les mises en scène à l'antique ne sont qu'un prélude. Vincenzo Galdi aime les hommes, les vrais, les hommes bien membrés, au repos comme en service. Il décline les mille nuances d'une symphonie du désir, celle d'un garçon dans un jeu soliste, celle de deux garçons absorbés dans la gymnastique du plaisir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est bien de sexe dont il s'agit ici: le sexe mâle dans sa physiologie, que l'on peut décliner dans ses multiples variétés, comme une collection de fleurs ou d'insectes rares; le sexe comme un art de vivre et de sentir, comme une quête du plaisir jouant sur toutes les gammes du corps masculin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vincenzo Galdi ne se cache pas derrière les voiles de l'Antiquité. Il appelle un chat un chat, et il le montre. Il est le premier pornographe de notre modernité: il donne à voir des corps imbriqués selon les mille figures de l'art d'aimer hétérosexuel et homosexuel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a une dimension éminemment vintage, ce sont des photographies sepia et albuminées, tous les garçons représentés ne sont plus que poussière aujourd'hui...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a en même temps une dimension moderne, voire contemporaine... Une audace extraordinaire qui donne à voir le désir et le plaisir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La pornographie de Vincenzo Galdi est aujourd'hui oubliée, enfouie dans les collections privées, nimbée d'une aura vintage et sepia qui l'inscrit dans la préhistoire des imageries érotiques d'aujourd'hui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est le mérite de Nicole Canet que d'avoir réuni une collection unique de ces photographies et d'en avoir fait un livre (&lt;a href="http://www.aubonheurdujour.net/les-catalogues/15-form-les-catalogues-galdi-secret.htm"&gt;voir ici/click on this link&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous en avez la possibilité, visitez cette exposition unique, où Vincenzo Galdi figure parmi ses maîtres, von Gloeden et von Plüschow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An English translation will perhaps be available later (not sure yet ! but if you ask... !)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6693559495774925097?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6693559495774925097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6693559495774925097&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6693559495774925097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6693559495774925097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/05/qui-connait-vincenzo-galdi-who-knows.html' title='Qui connaît Vincenzo Galdi ? Who knows Vincenzo Galdi ?'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Xn6zWExqco/TcMDwktgnAI/AAAAAAAAA84/79A9BU443Do/s72-c/Galdi+portrait+b3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6747572418010142745</id><published>2011-04-30T11:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-30T11:26:26.410-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vincenzo Galdi'/><title type='text'>L'envol d'une pensée</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uCi7iiZu9yQ/TbxG8cnoOaI/AAAAAAAAA8M/Nj71M8SORT4/s1600/Galdi+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uCi7iiZu9yQ/TbxG8cnoOaI/AAAAAAAAA8M/Nj71M8SORT4/s640/Galdi+3.jpg" width="459" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;collection privée&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il y a d'abord les fleurs et les tissus, des parfums et le toucher soyeux d'une draperie et d'un tapis brodé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il y a ensuite cette posture, entre deux... Ce jeune homme vient-il de s'asseoir ? Ou s'apprête-t-il à se relever &amp;nbsp;? La main gauche prend appui sur le mur. L'index de la main droite caresse le menton... Un simple contact, la caresse d'un doigt. Le doigt soutient la tête, qui doucement s'incline, suivant l'échappée d'un regard.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Que regarde-t-il ? Cette photographie lumineuse et contrastée nous montre l'invisible: ce que son modèle est le seul à voir. Elle nous montre l'envol d'une pensée, l'ailleurs d'une rêverie, l'intimité d'un état d'âme, un &amp;nbsp;souvenir ou une idée qui s'attardent sur un beau visage méditatif.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est entre deux mondes, ce garçon mélancolique.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est cet ami, cet amant qu'ont chanté Ovide ou Horace, Martial ou Juvénal. Il est assis sur les marches d'une villa, la villa d'un riche patricien, un chevalier ou un sénateur, il est son jardin secret, son ami de coeur. Il rêve à la démesure de Néron, à la culture d'Hadrien, à la folie de Caligula, à la sagesse de Marc-Aurèle. Il se souvient de la Grèce, de sa lumière, de ses rivages. Il se souvient d'Athènes où il est né, et la poésie de Sophocle traverse sa mémoire...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est aussi l'un de ces ragazzi romains qui quittent l'habit de l'ouvrier pour revêtir la tunique de l'éphèbe-roi, le temps d'une photographie, pour quelques lires et pour faire plaisir au Signore Galdi. Nous sommes à Rome, au seuil du XXe siècle, entre deux mondes, entre deux temps, entre l'Antiquité et aujourd'hui.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est si facile d'oublier Rome et ses rumeurs, les bruits de la modernité, la réalité et même le photographe, caché derrière son appareil, silencieux, concentré. C'était hier ou avant-hier, c'était autrefois, il y a si longtemps, et il était assis sur ces marches, les marches d'une villa, la villa d'un riche patricien, un chevalier ou un sénateur.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est entre deux mondes, ce garçon mélancolique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est là, sur cette photographie albuminée, tirage vintage de l'un des rares clichés de Vincenzo Galdi, ce poète visuel qui sait chanter le sexe le plus cru comme le désir le plus éthéré. C'est une photographie où il est à jamais fixé, le doigt contre le menton, concentré sur ce qui se refuse au regard, sur un état d'âme fugitif comme l'envol d'une pensée, mais que la photographie a figé à jamais.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est là aussi, devant moi, plus d'un siècle après... Il m'invite à le suivre, si loin, si profondément, au coeur de cette photographie, pour retrouver cet état d'âme, pour revivre ce matin romain, sous la chaude lumière de l'été, où le soleil baignait les marches et le garçon, au seuil du jardin de la villa d'un riche patricien...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Que me dit-il, ce garçon qui n'est plus que poussière aujourd'hui... Que me dit-il de ses yeux pensifs, à moi qui regarde cette photographie ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il me dit... "&lt;i&gt;Carpe diem&lt;/i&gt;, mon ami. N'oublie pas, tout passe, les idées, les états d'âme, les couleurs, la jeunesse. &lt;i&gt;Carpe diem, hic et nunc&lt;/i&gt;. Ici et maintenant. Tout à l'heure, il sera trop tard. Ce n'est que sur une photographie que l'on a l'éternité devant soi. Ce n'est que sur une photographie de Vincenzo Galdi, qui m'a dit: "Tu as tout ton temps"... &lt;i&gt;Carpe diem&lt;/i&gt;... Il faut cueillir maintenant les fleurs du jardin et savourer l'instant présent... "&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il est entre deux mondes, ce garçon mélancolique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Qui franchira le seuil le premier ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Je remercie le collectionneur qui m'a autorisé à poster cette photographie sur ce blog.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6747572418010142745?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6747572418010142745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6747572418010142745&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6747572418010142745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6747572418010142745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/lenvol-dune-pensee.html' title='L&apos;envol d&apos;une pensée'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uCi7iiZu9yQ/TbxG8cnoOaI/AAAAAAAAA8M/Nj71M8SORT4/s72-c/Galdi+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8446040113114783690</id><published>2011-04-28T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T13:51:13.231-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>La photographie brisée / The broken photograph</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mfFDAx89geA/Tbm8gTPmvFI/AAAAAAAAA8E/RnobRk7JNoo/s1600/Gloeden+NS+detail+9.+legend.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="209" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mfFDAx89geA/Tbm8gTPmvFI/AAAAAAAAA8E/RnobRk7JNoo/s320/Gloeden+NS+detail+9.+legend.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Studies in art from Sicily" "Etudes artistiques, provenance: Sicile". Je ne sais pas qui a écrit ces mots au crayon sur le verso. Sans doute est-celui qui a acheté la photographie à Wilhelm von Gloeden à Taormina. "Etudes", "artistiques", "Sicile", chacun de ces mots est lourd de sens... Oui, la photographie est un art... Peut-être faut-il dissimuler le désir sous l'alibi de l'étude. La Sicile est l'alibi d'un certain désir, en ce début du XXe siècle..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Studies in art from Sicily". I don't know who wrote these few words with a pencil on the reverse side of this photograph. Most probably, the writer is the person who bought this photograph from Wilhelm von Gloeden in Taormina. "Studies", "art", "Sicily": every word is meaningful.... Indeed, photography is an art... Perhaps desire should be hidden under the alibi of study. Sicily is the alibi of a special desire, in these first years of XXth century..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-AEpEHHo50/Tbm8XuRim5I/AAAAAAAAA7k/0OtkCz6jfuk/s1600/Gloeden+NS+detail++9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-AEpEHHo50/Tbm8XuRim5I/AAAAAAAAA7k/0OtkCz6jfuk/s320/Gloeden+NS+detail++9.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"162". Chaque photographie a son numéro. Toujours écrit avec un crayon bleu. Entre la plaque originale et l'impression, entre l'unique et le multiple, un chiffre crée le lien. Gloeden est l'archiviste, le bibliothécaire de son oeuvre photographique. Le tampon atteste l'authenticité de la photographie. Il la date. 5 Janvier... 1905.. 1906 ? 1906, je crois... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"162". Each photograph is numbered. The number is always written through a blue pencil. Between the original photographic plate and this print, between the unique archetype and the multiple copies, a number is the link. Gloeden is the archivist, the librarian of his photographic production. A stamp testifies the authenticity of the photographic print. It provides it with a date. January 5... 1905... 1906 ? 1906, I think...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i8znzHnuYU/Tbm8bAnxz0I/AAAAAAAAA70/DxwmSFVVb-E/s1600/Gloeden+NS+Detail+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i8znzHnuYU/Tbm8bAnxz0I/AAAAAAAAA70/DxwmSFVVb-E/s640/Gloeden+NS+Detail+5.jpg" width="336" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i8znzHnuYU/Tbm8bAnxz0I/AAAAAAAAA70/DxwmSFVVb-E/s1600/Gloeden+NS+Detail+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;C'est toi que je regarde d'abord dans cette photographie.... Car tu me regardes, droit dans les yeux, tu me regardes et me demandes qui je suis... C'était il y a plus d'un siècle...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tout me parle dans ta pose, dans ton expression, tu es dans l'attente, dans un temps entre deux, c'est le 5 janvier 1906, je te regarde plus d'un siècle après... &amp;nbsp;Es-tu mon Pasqualino ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You are the first one I am looking at in this photograph... Because you are looking at me, straight into my eyes, you look an me and you ask me... "Who are you ?..." It was a century ago...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Everything talks to me, in your pose, in your face expression... You look as someone expecting something, someone, it is a time in between, it is January the 5th, current year is 1906... I am looking at you since a centruy... Are you my Pasqualino ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3EQnJ-wBwZc/Tbm8dWokBzI/AAAAAAAAA74/BL3bWt3ZSZc/s1600/Gloeden+NS+detail+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3EQnJ-wBwZc/Tbm8dWokBzI/AAAAAAAAA74/BL3bWt3ZSZc/s640/Gloeden+NS+detail+6.jpg" width="268" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ton ami est nu... figé dans sa pose... Il est nu, comme toi... La lumière et l'ombre sculptent son corps. Ce n'est pas un garçon, c'est un poème, une élégie, une musique à écouter, un parfum auquel on est sensible ou non...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Your friend is naked... he was caught by the camera while holding the pose... Light and shade are the sculptors of his body.... This is not a boy, this is a poem, an elegy, just a music to listen to, or just a perfume one can smell or not...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uMZ4nICpul8/Tbm8ek9YV9I/AAAAAAAAA78/jzzwi-ZITVU/s1600/Gloeden+NS+detail+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uMZ4nICpul8/Tbm8ek9YV9I/AAAAAAAAA78/jzzwi-ZITVU/s400/Gloeden+NS+detail+7.jpg" width="338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il me faut apprendre la langue des gestes, de la main et des regards... Il me faut apprendre ce qui se dit et se comprend, quand les mots n'ont pas leur part... Il me faut comprendre la langue du désir, du désir entre garçons, dans la Sicile de Théocrite ou de Virgile, sur la photographie de von Gloeden...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I should learn the language of gestures, of hands and eyes... I should learn what is told and understood, when no words are spoken out... I should understand the language of desire, of this desire boys could feel one for the other one, in Theocritus and Vergil Sicily, on a von Gloeden's photograph...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i1AH1VuIMqw/Tbm8YHK2hkI/AAAAAAAAA7o/oQBhOop6UGU/s1600/Gloeden+NS+Detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i1AH1VuIMqw/Tbm8YHK2hkI/AAAAAAAAA7o/oQBhOop6UGU/s640/Gloeden+NS+Detail+1.jpg" width="544" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Les yeux et la main... Des yeux fermés pour mieux sentir la main qui caresse... Des yeux fermés sur une photographie à regarder... Des yeux fermés pour une ceinture à délier, dans les prolégomènes du désir, dans les gestes immémoriaux d'une tendresse qui ne sait pas dire son nom... J'aime la tendresse indicible de ces gestes, que seul un poème saurait nommer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Eyes and a hand... Closed eyes, just to feel better a caressing hand... Closed eyes, while a photograph is shot, for future viewers... Closed eyes, against a belt to be untied, these are the prolegomena of desire, the immemorial gestures of a tenderness that could not be named as such... I love the tenderness of these gestures, they are beyond any words, nothing else than a poem could describe them...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7W983eKlzig/Tbm8YhPCTmI/AAAAAAAAA7s/1350eUgbRFM/s1600/Gloeden+NS+Detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7W983eKlzig/Tbm8YhPCTmI/AAAAAAAAA7s/1350eUgbRFM/s640/Gloeden+NS+Detail+2.jpg" width="361" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Qu'est-ce qui se joue entre toi et moi ? Qu'est-ce qui se dit, qu'est-ce qui se rêve... Où finit le souvenir, où commence l'imaginaire ? Vous, les garçons Siciliens de Gloeden, vous êtes les acteurs d'un théâtre intemporel... Hier ou aujourd'hui, chez Théocrite ou Virgile ou au XXe siècle, vous racontez des histoires de désir, des désirs entre garçons, il n'est pas besoin de mots quand toi seul répond à l'image de mon désir, quand je suis le seul à entendre la musique de ta beauté...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;What is at play, between you and me... ? What is said, what is dreamt... Where does a memory end, where does imagination start from ? You, you, the Sicilian boys of von Gloeden, you are like the actors of an intemporal theater... Yesterday or today, in Theocritus or Vergil or in the XXth century, your are telling stories of desire, desires between boys, words are useless when you are the only one to mirror my desire, when I am the only one listening to the music of your beauty...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zMCwaFWSISQ/Tbm8W-CyBhI/AAAAAAAAA7g/OoRzYhNQDjU/s1600/Gloeden+NS+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zMCwaFWSISQ/Tbm8W-CyBhI/AAAAAAAAA7g/OoRzYhNQDjU/s640/Gloeden+NS+1.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Trois garçons... dans le cloître du monastère San Domenico à Taormina... Il y a comme un arc de désir entre ces trois garçons, et toi, Wilhelm von Gloeden, qui a figé cette photographie, et moi, qui la regarde, en cette fin avril 2011. Qu'est-ce qu'un désir entre garçons, où est le désir, qui est la garçon ? Qu'est-ce que le désir, qui charge le regard sur la photographie d'une mémoire, d'un espoir, d'un rêve, d'un désespoir... ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Three boys... in the cloister of the San Domenico Monastery in Taormina... There is like a link of desire between these three boys and you, Wilhelm von Gloeden, you who shot this photograph, and me who is looking at it, in this end of april 2011. What is desire between boys, where is the desire, who is the boy ? What is this desire, that provides the viewer with a memory, with an hope, with a dream, with a despair...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J0VvRQzVNeA/Tbm8fh0QkdI/AAAAAAAAA8A/QYy5jvp4tJs/s1600/Gloeden+NS+detail+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="90" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J0VvRQzVNeA/Tbm8fh0QkdI/AAAAAAAAA8A/QYy5jvp4tJs/s640/Gloeden+NS+detail+8.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;La plaque photographique a été cassée... Cassée en deux.... La cassure délimite un avant et un après... Elle est irréparable... Il n'y aura plus de tirage de cette photographie sans cette ligne de fracture... J'aime cette photographie pour sa fragilité... La vision parfaite n'est plus, il reste cette image traversée par la diagonale d'une fracture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;L'image chante à mes yeux, j'entends sa musique sepia, je ressens le jeu des poses et des regards, je sais que le désir peut traverser le siècles, passer d'un poème à une photographie, oublier une cassure, ouvrir un rêve naviguant sur les vagues de l'éternité...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The photographic plate was broken... Broken in two parts... The break defines a times before and a times after... It could not be undone... It will be impossible to get prints of this photograph without this breaking line... I love this photograph because it is so fragile... Full vision is out of reach, the only option is this print, crossed by a breaking line...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This photograph is like a song for my eyes....and I can listen to its sepia music, I feel so much the play of poses and gazes, I know that desire can cross centuries and go through a poem until a photograph, forget a breaking line, expand a dream, brought on the waves of eternity...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8446040113114783690?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8446040113114783690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8446040113114783690&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8446040113114783690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8446040113114783690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-photographie-brisee-broken.html' title='La photographie brisée / The broken photograph'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mfFDAx89geA/Tbm8gTPmvFI/AAAAAAAAA8E/RnobRk7JNoo/s72-c/Gloeden+NS+detail+9.+legend.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-5965131178000787994</id><published>2011-04-25T12:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-28T11:46:51.278-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tunis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lehnert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Renaud Icard'/><title type='text'>Rudolf Lehnert - L'album des nus masculins (1905-1934)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aO9GGp5LdII/TbXHg5mlYlI/AAAAAAAAA7M/X3s2ofJ40GQ/s1600/418VZsOyt6L._SS500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aO9GGp5LdII/TbXHg5mlYlI/AAAAAAAAA7M/X3s2ofJ40GQ/s400/418VZsOyt6L._SS500_.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Des nombreux livres édités par Nicole Canet et la Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour, cet album des nus masculins du grand photographe orientaliste Rudolf Lehnert est sans doute l'un des plus rares et des plus étonnants. La découverte de trois lettres inédites de Lehnert à l'écrivain Renaud Icard éclaire en effet le projet de réaliser et de publier dans les années 30 un album de nus masculins: des photographies furent prises et envoyées à Icard, Nicole Canet a pu retrouver un certain nombre d'entre elles. C'est donc un corpus unique de documents rarissimes qui est réuni ici, révélant un aspect méconnu de l'art de Lehnert: un univers sensuel et poétique, où la beauté des jeunes hommes est sublimée par les décors et les jardins orientaux. Ces photographies racontent l'histoire d'un certain regard sur des corps lumineux de soleil et de chaleur. Renaud Icard, André Gide et d'autres ne furent pas insensibles à leur force de séduction...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Among the many books published by Nicole Canet and the Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour, this album of nude male photographs by the Orientalist artist Rudolf Lehnert is one of the most amazing and unexpected. The discovery of three unpublished letters from Lehnert to the French writer and artist Renaud Icard shed a new light on the project of putting together and publishing an album of nude male photographs, in the 1930's: photographs were actually made and sent to Icard. Nicole Canet was lucky enough to find some of them. This unique set of rare photographs reveals an unknown side of Lehnert's art and activity: a sensual and poetical universe, where the beauty of young men is magnified by the architectural set up and oriental gardens. These photographs tell the story of a special gaze upon male bodies, exposed to the light and to the heat of the Tunisian sun. Renaud Icard, André Gide and many others were not insensitive to their power of seduction...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjz-QWLYzxc/TbXIAgLmTpI/AAAAAAAAA7U/3-oe6ZAq68M/s1600/Lehnert.edit+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjz-QWLYzxc/TbXIAgLmTpI/AAAAAAAAA7U/3-oe6ZAq68M/s640/Lehnert.edit+1.jpg" width="467" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-fr.amazon.fr/e/cm?t=siciliandr21-21&amp;amp;o=8&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=2952332282&amp;amp;ref=tf_til&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-5965131178000787994?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5965131178000787994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=5965131178000787994&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5965131178000787994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5965131178000787994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/rudolf-lehnert-lalbum-des-nus-masculins.html' title='Rudolf Lehnert - L&apos;album des nus masculins (1905-1934)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aO9GGp5LdII/TbXHg5mlYlI/AAAAAAAAA7M/X3s2ofJ40GQ/s72-c/418VZsOyt6L._SS500_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7497324754690038016</id><published>2011-04-12T12:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T12:42:39.538-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Memory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r0tsnS8iQ1o/TaSj1_hDeEI/AAAAAAAAA7A/mJt_fOYZPz0/s1600/Gloeden+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r0tsnS8iQ1o/TaSj1_hDeEI/AAAAAAAAA7A/mJt_fOYZPz0/s640/Gloeden+house.jpg" width="470" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Philip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;As promised, I am sending you a little "souvenir" of your last visit in Taormina... As you remember, Pascualino was behind the camera, he made this photograph, so I should create a stamp: "Pascualino fecit, Taormina".?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You looked so great with your white suit... You wanted so much me to be on the photograph... I am standing up against the pillar of the entrance gate of my garden...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"A souvenir, Wilhelm, my friend..." You told me... "I would like so much to have you on this photograph..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Usually, I don't like that much to be shot on a photograph beside my visitors and my customers... But for you, Philip, I broke the rule. Because I know you understood what really matters, and you are looking, among my photographs, to the atemporal part...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You told me what you are dreaming and thinking about, we spoke so much about Vergil and Plato, Strato and Theocritus, well, the both of us love the music of Latin language, and mainly of Greek language, this is such an horizon of beauty, perfection, humanity and intelligence...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Who else better than you, Philip, who else could understand the idea or the intent, the poem or the concept, the dream or the music buried deep within each of my photograph ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Through the years, your letters make me think that, among all the visitors coming to my place, Piazza San Domenico, there is one, at least, who understood everything, who is sharing my gaze and my feeling, my heart and my memory...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You understood that each one of my photographs is a story, a love story, involving the photographer and his models, the photographs and those who chose to buy it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Some of my customers are concerned only with the surface of my photographs... Others are going beyond the surface, towards the heart of the photograph... Yes, all my photographs, all my models have a heart..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Each one of my photographs, either a landscape, a portrait, nude boys or boys with veils, is telling a story, is singing a song, is just a music.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You are among &amp;nbsp;those who know how to listen to a music while looking at a photograph...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;We understand each other so well, beyond any words...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino asked me to tell you... He loves you very much... He will not forget you... He knows you love him too...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino's life is here, in Taormina... He loves this country, its light, its perfumes, its music...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;But Pascualino will never forget you... He will not forget Philip...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I will not forget you either, Philip... Please, come back to Taormina as soon as you can.... We will dream aloud about the horizons we share...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Your friend&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm v. G."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Letter from Wilhelm von Gloeden to Philip X, Von Gloeden Archive, call number, 1906/08/20/01.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7497324754690038016?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7497324754690038016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7497324754690038016&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7497324754690038016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7497324754690038016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/memory.html' title='Memory'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r0tsnS8iQ1o/TaSj1_hDeEI/AAAAAAAAA7A/mJt_fOYZPz0/s72-c/Gloeden+house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4465218752681618106</id><published>2011-04-12T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T12:10:39.220-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Souvenir</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9UfTvHvAYA/TaSaaAUCeGI/AAAAAAAAA68/0tMOKxO-slQ/s1600/Gloeden+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9UfTvHvAYA/TaSaaAUCeGI/AAAAAAAAA68/0tMOKxO-slQ/s640/Gloeden+house.jpg" width="470" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Cher Philip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Comme promis, je t'envoie un petit souvenir de ta dernière visite à Taormina... Tu te rappelles que Pascualino était derrière l'appareil photographique, il est l'auteur de cette photographie, je devrais créer un tampon "Pascualino fecit, Taormina"...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu étais si élégant, avec ton costume blanc... Tu as insisté pour que je sois aussi sur la photographie... Je me tiens droit contre le pilier de la porte d'entrée de mon jardin...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Un souvenir, Wilhelm, mon ami...", m'as-tu dit, "j'aimerais tant que tu sois sur cette photographie..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je n'aime guère être photographié à côté de mes visiteurs et de mes clients... Mais j'ai fait une exception pour toi, Philip. Car je sais que tu as compris l'essentiel, et que tu viens chercher, parmi mes photographies, ce qui touche à l'intemporel...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu m'as dit tes rêves et tes pensées, nous avons parlé de Virgile et de Platon, de Straton et de Théocrite, nous aimons tous les deux la musique du latin et surtout du grec, un horizon de beauté et de perfection, d'humanité et d'intelligence...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Qui mieux que toi, Philip, pourrait comprendre l'idée, l'intention, le poème, le concept, le rêve, la musique, qui se cachent derrière chacune de mes photographies ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tes lettres, d'année en année, me laissent penser que parmi les multiples visiteurs que je reçois Piazza San Domenico, il en est un, au moins, qui a tout compris, qui partage mon regard et mon désir, mon coeur et ma mémoire...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu as compris que chacune de mes photographies est une histoire, une histoire d'amour, entre le photographe et ses modèles, entre la photographie et ceux qui choisissent de l'acheter...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Certains de mes clients ne s'attachent qu'à la surface des images... D'autres vont au-delà de la surface, vers le coeur. Car toutes mes images, tous mes modèles ont un coeur...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Chacune de mes photographies, qu'il s'agisse d'un paysage, d'un portrait, de garçons nus ou voilés, raconte une histoire, chante une chanson, est une musique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es l'un de ceux qui savent écouter la musique en regardant la photographie...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Nous nous comprenons si bien, au-delà des mots...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino me charge de te dire... Il t'aime beaucoup... Il ne t'oubliera pas... Il sait que tu l'aimes aussi...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;La vie de Pascualino est ici, à Taormina... Il aime cette terre, il aime sa lumière, ses parfums, sa musique...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Mais Pascualino ne t'oubliera pas... Il n'oubliera pas Philip...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je ne t'oublierai pas non plus, Philip... Reviens vite à Taormina, nous rêverons à haute voix des horizons que nous partageons...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ton ami,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm v. G."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Lettre de Wilhelm von Gloeden à Philip X, Von Gloeden Archive, call number, 1906/08/20/01.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4465218752681618106?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4465218752681618106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4465218752681618106&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4465218752681618106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4465218752681618106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/souvenir-memory.html' title='Souvenir'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9UfTvHvAYA/TaSaaAUCeGI/AAAAAAAAA68/0tMOKxO-slQ/s72-c/Gloeden+house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4360027225196961481</id><published>2011-04-10T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T13:02:44.334-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Adorable (Roland Barthes)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1D57mA7Vm0/TaIGJkYKy6I/AAAAAAAAA6w/D5b_XKvvGsY/s1600/portraitB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1D57mA7Vm0/TaIGJkYKy6I/AAAAAAAAA6w/D5b_XKvvGsY/s640/portraitB.jpg" width="474" /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Je rencontre dans ma vie des millions de corps; de ces millions je puis en désirer des centaines; mais, de ces centaines, je n'en aime qu'un. L'autre dont je suis amoureux me désigne la spécialité de mon désir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...) Il a fallu beaucoup de hasards, beaucoup de coïncidences surprenantes (et peut-être beaucoup de recherches), pour que je trouve l'Image qui, entre mille, convient à mon désir. C'est là une grande énigme dont je ne saurai jamais la clef: pourquoi est-ce que je désire Tel ?&amp;nbsp;Pourquoi est-ce que je le désire durablement, langoureusement ? Est-ce tout lui qui je désire (une silhouette, une forme, un air) ? Ou n'est-ce seulement qu'un morceau de ce corps ? Et, dans ce cas, qu'est-ce qui dans ce corps aimé, a vocation de fétiche pour moi ? Quelle portion, peut-être incroyablement ténue, quel accident ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cesp1lk2qMM/TaIMk7-DYoI/AAAAAAAAA60/yrN15-YpQ7w/s1600/Portrait+detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cesp1lk2qMM/TaIMk7-DYoI/AAAAAAAAA60/yrN15-YpQ7w/s640/Portrait+detail+1.jpg" width="419" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...) De tous ces &lt;i&gt;plis&lt;/i&gt; du corps, j'ai envie de dire qu'ils sont &lt;i&gt;adorables&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Adorables&lt;/i&gt; veut dire: ceci est mon désir, en tant qu'il est unique: "C'est ça ! C'est exactement ça (que j'aime) !" Cependant, plus j'éprouve la spécialité de mon désir, moins je peux la nommer; à la précision de la cible correspond un tremblement du nom; le propre du désir ne peut produire qu'un impropre de l'énoncé. De cet échec langagier, il ne reste qu'une trace: le mot "adorable" (la bonne traduction de "adorable" serait l'&lt;i&gt;ipse&lt;/i&gt; latin: c'est lui, c'est bien lui en personne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xw9PTwL0aow/TaIMn3s2pyI/AAAAAAAAA64/2wPoW5WubSA/s1600/Portrait+detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xw9PTwL0aow/TaIMn3s2pyI/AAAAAAAAA64/2wPoW5WubSA/s400/Portrait+detail+2.jpg" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adorable&lt;/i&gt; est la trace futile d'une fatigue, qui est la fatigue du langage. De mot en mot, je m'épuise à dire autrement le même de mon Image, improprement le propre de mon désir: voyage au terme duquel ma dernière philosophie ne peut être que de reconnaître — et de pratiquer — la tautologie. &lt;i&gt;Est adorable ce qui est adorable&lt;/i&gt;. Ou encore: je t'adore, parce que tu es adorable, je t'aime parce que je t'aime. Ce qui clôt ainsi le langage amoureux, c'est cela même, c'est cela même qui l'a institué: la fascination. Car décrire la fascination, cela ne peut jamais,&lt;i&gt; en fin de compte&lt;/i&gt;, excéder cet énoncé: "je suis fasciné". Ayant atteint le bout du langage, là où il ne peut que répéter &lt;i&gt;son dernier mot&lt;/i&gt;, à la façon d'un disque enrayé, je me soûle de son affirmation: la tautologie n'est-elle pas cet état inouï, où se retrouvent, toutes valeurs mêlées, la fin glorieuse de l'opération logique, l'obscène de la bêtise et l'explosion du &lt;i&gt;oui&lt;/i&gt; nietzschéen ?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;Fragments d'un discours amoureux&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1977, p. 26-28.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4360027225196961481?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4360027225196961481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4360027225196961481&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4360027225196961481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4360027225196961481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/adorable-roland-barthes.html' title='Adorable (Roland Barthes)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1D57mA7Vm0/TaIGJkYKy6I/AAAAAAAAA6w/D5b_XKvvGsY/s72-c/portraitB.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8521056908645743226</id><published>2011-04-10T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T12:22:06.987-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><title type='text'>Fragments d'un discours amoureux</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezbi1O2N7XY/TaIDBWRwfoI/AAAAAAAAA6k/PjtkdBKlKTs/s1600/Barthes+recto+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezbi1O2N7XY/TaIDBWRwfoI/AAAAAAAAA6k/PjtkdBKlKTs/s640/Barthes+recto+2.jpg" width="435" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRDBUuZVd2c/TaIDGdCz27I/AAAAAAAAA6o/j89qet4rM6g/s1600/Barthes.verso.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRDBUuZVd2c/TaIDGdCz27I/AAAAAAAAA6o/j89qet4rM6g/s640/Barthes.verso.jpg" width="432" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8521056908645743226?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8521056908645743226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8521056908645743226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8521056908645743226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8521056908645743226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/fragments-dun-discours-amoureux.html' title='Fragments d&apos;un discours amoureux'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ezbi1O2N7XY/TaIDBWRwfoI/AAAAAAAAA6k/PjtkdBKlKTs/s72-c/Barthes+recto+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8434142237841773534</id><published>2011-04-08T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T12:33:47.929-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Garçon en fleurs / A Blossoming Boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-axw1SDobp5U/TZ9i_oSghFI/AAAAAAAAA6c/2uLd1g01lE8/s1600/Pascualino+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-axw1SDobp5U/TZ9i_oSghFI/AAAAAAAAA6c/2uLd1g01lE8/s640/Pascualino+detail.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-ncA_3-uT4/TZ9SOXe6OEI/AAAAAAAAA6U/Kos2IGMKTQY/s1600/Pascualino%253Adate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-ncA_3-uT4/TZ9SOXe6OEI/AAAAAAAAA6U/Kos2IGMKTQY/s400/Pascualino%253Adate.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Mon cher Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment pourrais-je oublier ce 14 septembre ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu as été assez gentil pour m'inviter à déjeûner chez toi, Piazza San Domenico. Nous sommes de vieux amis, il est vrai... Nous avons longuement parlé, de Virgile et de Théocrite, de Platon et d'Ovide... Tu es comme moi un grand lecteur de ces textes d'autrefois, de ces voix grecques et latines qui nous ont transmis tant de savoir, tant de sagesse, tant de beauté...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment pourrais-je oublier la douce ivresse de ce vin sicilien, les reflets du soleil sur la mer, et tes albums de photographies...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment pourrais-je oublier Pascualino, mon ami, mon aimé, Pascualino le Napolitain, comme tu l'appelles, que j'ai tant aimé, que j'aime tant...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dear Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could I ever forget this September 14.. ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You were kind enough to invite me for a lunch at your place, Piazza San Domenico. We are such old friends, as a matter of fact... We had so long talks about Vergil and Theocritus, Plato and Ovid... You are like me such a skill reader of these texts from Antiquity, from these Greek and Latin voices who transmitted to us so much knowledge, wisdom and beauty...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could I ever forget the sweet drunkness caused by your Sicilian wine, the sun's reflections on the sea, and your photographs albums... ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could I ever forget Pascualino, my friend, my beloved one, Pascualino from Naples, as you call him... I loved him so much, I still love him so much...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncpqWIS3wUQ/TZ9SWHzDdrI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/IK-F9F8Ou4E/s1600/Pascualino+Blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ncpqWIS3wUQ/TZ9SWHzDdrI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/IK-F9F8Ou4E/s640/Pascualino+Blog.jpg" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, mon ami,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tout me fait rêver dans cette photographie, les fleurs, le garçon, Pascualino, il est une fleur, un garçon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Comme les fleurs, les beaux garçons de ton jardin doivent être cueillis à temps...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino rêve, pensif, seul dans ton jardin, une fleur en main. Il me fait rêver, il est un horizon de désirs, de pensée, il est un poème visuel que mes mots ne sauraient égaler.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino, petit berger de Taormina, tu as raison de faire confiance à l'oeil de Wilhelm...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Nul autre que lui ne saurait capturer ta beauté en fleur, la faire partager et désirer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino, tout en toi est courbes et douceur, grâce adolescente du corps d'un jeune adulte...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aimerais tant partager avec toi... Un moment de silence, un instant de grâce, un rêve, un désir qui passe...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sais-tu combien tu es aimé, Pascualino, de l'autre côté du miroir, par qui regarde cette photographie ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es un parfum, une musique, tu es une promesse de bonheur, tu es celui à qui dire des mots d'amour, quand on aime Ovide et Théocrite, Virgile et Platon...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Attends moi, mon Pascualino, attends moi, mon ami, mon amant, je voudrais tant cueillir ta beauté en fleurs, les fleurs de ta beauté... Une caresse, un baiser ? Un regard me comblerait...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, my friend,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This photograph makes me dream so much, either the flowers of your garden or the boys, Pascualino, he is at the same time a flower and a boy... As flowers, the cute boys in your garden should be picked at the right time...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino is dreaming, he seems so pensive, so lonely in your garden, with a flower in his hand. He makes me dream, he is such an horizon for so many desires and thoughts, he is such a visual poem that my words could not equal with.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino, my little shepherd from Taormina, &amp;nbsp;you are so right when you trust Wilhelm's eye...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Nobody else could catch so well your blossoming beauty, to share it and to make it so desirable...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Pascualino, you are just curves and sweetness, just a teen age boy grace with a young adult body...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I would love so much to share with you... Just an instant of silence, an instent for grace, a dream, a desire &amp;nbsp;passing away...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Do you know how loved you are, Pascualino, on the other side of the mirror, by who is looking atyour photograph ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You are a perfume and a music, you are a promiss of happiness, you are the one I should say loving words, when Ovid and Theocritus, when Vergil and Plato are so loved...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wait for me, my Pascualino, my friend, my loved one, I would love so much to catch your blossoming beauty, to pick the flowers of your beauty... A caress, a kiss ? Just a gaze would be enough...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, &lt;i&gt;Letter from Philip to W. von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, October 1st 1899. Call number: 1899/10/01/06.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8434142237841773534?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8434142237841773534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8434142237841773534&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8434142237841773534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8434142237841773534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/garcon-en-fleurs-blossoming-boy.html' title='Garçon en fleurs / A Blossoming Boy'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-axw1SDobp5U/TZ9i_oSghFI/AAAAAAAAA6c/2uLd1g01lE8/s72-c/Pascualino+detail.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-760837909288576799</id><published>2011-04-04T12:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T12:35:51.736-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Rêverie d'après Roland Barthes / Dreaming with Roland Barthes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOq8LFheA4g/TZoTL7Q07QI/AAAAAAAAA6M/AO7WfpFfv84/s1600/Gloed+detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOq8LFheA4g/TZoTL7Q07QI/AAAAAAAAA6M/AO7WfpFfv84/s640/Gloed+detail+3.jpg" width="484" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Si j'aime une photo, si elle me trouble, je m'y attarde. Qu'est-ce que je fais, pendant tout le temps que je reste devant elle ? Je la regarde, je la scrute, comme si je voulais en savoir plus sur la chose ou la personne qu'elle représente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I love a photograph, if I am troubled by it, I will spend some time with it. What am I doing, while I stay in front of this photograph ? I look at it, I am examining it, just as if I wanted to know more about the thing or the person represented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai envie de cerner par la pensée le visage aimé, d'en faire l'unique champ d'une observation intense; j'ai envie d'agrandir ce visage pour mieux le voir, mieux le comprendre, connaître sa vérité.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am willing to focus and to figure out the loved face, to make it the object of an intense observation; I want to enlarge this face so I could better see it, better understand it, and even know its truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z42wgK22qMA/TZoTJevAg-I/AAAAAAAAA6E/2aOXD-poxYU/s1600/Gloed+detail+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="377" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z42wgK22qMA/TZoTJevAg-I/AAAAAAAAA6E/2aOXD-poxYU/s400/Gloed+detail+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce que Marey et Muybridge ont fait, comme &lt;i&gt;operatores&lt;/i&gt;, je veux le faire, moi, comme &lt;i&gt;spectator&lt;/i&gt;: je décompose, j'agrandis, et, si l'on peut dire: je &lt;i&gt;ralentis&lt;/i&gt;, pour avoir le temps de &lt;i&gt;savoir&lt;/i&gt; enfin. La Photographie justifie ce désir, même si elle ne le comble pas: je ne puis avoir l'espoir fou de découvrir la vérité, que parce que le noème de la Photo, c'est précisément que &lt;i&gt;cela a été&lt;/i&gt;, et que je vis dans l'illusion qu'il suffit de nettoyer la surface de l'image, pour accéder à &lt;i&gt;ce qu'il y a derrière&lt;/i&gt;: scruter veut dire retourner la photo, entrer dans la profondeur du papier, atteindre sa face inverse (ce qui est caché est pour nous, Occidentaux, plus "vrai" que ce qui est visible).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Marey and Muybridge did, as &lt;i&gt;operatores&lt;/i&gt;, I would like to do it myself, as a &lt;i&gt;spectator&lt;/i&gt;: I am spliting up, I am enlarging, and so to say, I am &lt;i&gt;slowing it down&lt;/i&gt;, in order to be on time to &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt;, at least. Photography just justifies such a desire, even if it can't fulfill it: I can have the crazy hope to discover the truth only because the &lt;i&gt;noeme&lt;/i&gt; of a photograph is precisely: "&lt;i&gt;It has been&lt;/i&gt;", and I am living with this illusion one should just clean up the surface of the picture in order to reach &lt;i&gt;what is behind it: &lt;/i&gt;scrutinizing means looking at the back of the photograph, going deep into the depth of the paper, reaching its&lt;br /&gt;other side, (what is hidden to the Western viewers we are, what is more authentic than what is just visible).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RC2U2Wb72mg/TZoTKPbJ9EI/AAAAAAAAA6I/GoixIs5kGsE/s1600/Gloed+detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RC2U2Wb72mg/TZoTKPbJ9EI/AAAAAAAAA6I/GoixIs5kGsE/s640/Gloed+detail+2.jpg" width="339" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hélas, j'ai beau scruter, je ne découvre rien: si j'agrandis, ce n'est rien d'autre que le grain du papier: je défais l'image au profit de sa matière; et si je n'agrandis pas, si je me contente de scruter, je n'obtiens que ce seul savoir, possédé depuis longtemps, dès mon premier coup d'oeil: que cela a été: le tour d'écrou n'a rien donné.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BiWnbCjmG50/TZodK5fuT3I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/VuiaxYfl2MA/s1600/Gloeden+materiality.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BiWnbCjmG50/TZodK5fuT3I/AAAAAAAAA6Q/VuiaxYfl2MA/s400/Gloeden+materiality.jpg" width="346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, despite the long time I scrutinized this photograph, I did not discover anything: if I am enlarging it, I just find the grain if this photograph; I loose what is shown, I just get the photograph's materiality; if I do not enlarge it, if I am just scrutinizing it, I just get what I knew since my first glance: it was. Nothing resulted from the turn of the screw."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;La chambre claire. Note sur la photographie&lt;/i&gt;, Cahiers du Cinéma-Gallimard- Seuil, 1980, p. 154-156.&lt;br /&gt;(English translation by me...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-760837909288576799?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/760837909288576799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=760837909288576799&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/760837909288576799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/760837909288576799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/04/reverie-dapres-roland-barthes-dreaming.html' title='Rêverie d&apos;après Roland Barthes / Dreaming with Roland Barthes'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOq8LFheA4g/TZoTL7Q07QI/AAAAAAAAA6M/AO7WfpFfv84/s72-c/Gloed+detail+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3838577807176132670</id><published>2011-03-31T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T12:17:29.568-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>A song for the fall</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cqoO6ekxXPI/TZTM0u_mZII/AAAAAAAAA54/VvHs7kUaa88/s1600/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cqoO6ekxXPI/TZTM0u_mZII/AAAAAAAAA54/VvHs7kUaa88/s640/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(Private collection)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Wilhelm,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;During my last stay in Taormina, in april 1925, I brought back home this souvenir, this photograph I bought from you, in your office, piazza San Domenico.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You displayed all your treasures, these most precious photographs you collected since thirty, forty years... I decided to buy this one...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;You had so clear memories of this photographic session... It was at the very beginning of the XXth century, on your favorite terrace... Your models were Marco and Pietro, they founded families and have many children now, &lt;i&gt;tempus fugit&lt;/i&gt;, so fast, it is impossible to come back...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I agree, it is not the most beautiful, the most famous of all your photographs... "Baaaah, this photographic print is fading away... There is like a fog inside my photograph...", you told me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, my dear old friend, I love this photograph precisely because of the fog... Mountains are vanishing, at the threshold of vision...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Everything is so peaceful, in this evening during the fall... All is so quiet... Even cicadas keep quiet, they are listening to Alkinoos while he plays his flute... He plays a forgotten tune, a tune coming from such an old time, a song coming from the heart of Sicily, from the Greek Sicily... Alkinoos is a young shepherd, he just forgets goats and sheeps, as long as his song lasts, for Meleager, his friend, his lover...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Meleager is a lad from the village, he masters the skills of reading and writing, he writes poems, he knows Homer's poems by heart. At the tip of his fingers, he is caressing a bunch of grapes: "I love you a little, very much, with passion, with madness, I love you a little, very much, with passion. Alkinoos, my sweet music, my little shepherd, very much, with passion;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Your photograph is like an epigram by Strato, Wilhelm, my old friend, one of these poems ancient Greeks wrote in &amp;nbsp;order to celebrate the beauty of boys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Loves are like a bunch of grapes: one should catch them at the right time, when they are mature, at the top of their taste and of their perfume.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;For ever I will dream about the love story of Alkinoos and Meleager... Loving, being loved, knowing one is loved, waiting until one will say "I love you". Hoping, dreaming, loosing hope, loving anyway and waiting, still waiting...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, my old friend, your photographs are the best commentaries to the Epigrams about boys in the Palatine Anthology. Everything is said, no need for a translation...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tomorrow, I will read again Strato and I will say to Alkinoos: "My friend, my loved one, I wish the sound of your flute could last forever, I don't know who I love the most, Meleager or you".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Your friend&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, Letter from Philip to W. von Gloeden, 20 Octobre 1925, Call number: 1925/10/20/2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3838577807176132670?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3838577807176132670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3838577807176132670&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3838577807176132670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3838577807176132670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/song-for-fall.html' title='A song for the fall'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cqoO6ekxXPI/TZTM0u_mZII/AAAAAAAAA54/VvHs7kUaa88/s72-c/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3777072159119266854</id><published>2011-03-31T11:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T11:48:55.093-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Chant d'automne</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RU6hzSV4c7g/TZTDnfmvG8I/AAAAAAAAA50/sIAwNQNdCaY/s1600/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RU6hzSV4c7g/TZTDnfmvG8I/AAAAAAAAA50/sIAwNQNdCaY/s640/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" width="475" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Collection privée)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Cher Wilhelm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De mon dernier séjour à Taormina, en avril 1925, j'ai emporté ce souvenir, cette photographie achetée à ton studio, piazza San Domenico.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu m'avais montré tous tes trésors, ces photographies amassées depuis trente, quarante ans, et c'est celle-là que j'ai choisie...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu te souvenais bien de cette prise de vues, c'était au début du siècle, sur ta terrasse préférée... Tes modèles étaient Marco et Pietro, ils sont pères de famille maintenant, &lt;i&gt;tempus fugit&lt;/i&gt;, si vite, sans retour possible...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ce n'est sans doute pas la plus belle, la plus célèbre de tes photographies, "Baaaah, ce tirage s'estompe... La brume envahit ma photographie", m'as-tu dit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, c'est la brume, précisément, qui me fait aimer cette photographie... La brume qui estompe les montagnes aux confins de la vision...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tout est si paisible, en cette soirée d'automne, tout est si calme... Même les cigales sont silencieuses, elles écoutent Alkinoos jouer de la flûte... Un air oublié, venu du fond des âges, du coeur de la Sicile, de la Sicile des Grecs... Alkinoos est un petit berger, il oublie chèvres et moutons, le temps d'une chanson, pour Méléagre, son ami, son amant...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Méléagre est un garçon du village, il sait lire et écrire, il écrit des poèmes, il connaît son Homère par coeur. Du bout des doigts il caresse la grappe de raisin: "Je t'aime un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, je t'aime, un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, Alkinoos, ma petite musique, mon petit berger, beaucoup, passionnément..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ta photographie est une épigramme de Straton, Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, un de ces poèmes que les Grecs écrivaient pour célébrer la beauté des garçons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Les amours sont comme le raisin, il faut les saisir à point, quand ils sont mûrs, au summum de la saveur et de leur parfum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pour toujours je rêverai aux amours d'Alkinoos et de Méléagre... Aimer, être aimé, savoir que l'on est aimé, attendre avant de dire "je t'aime". Espérer, rêver, désespérer, aimer cependant et attendre encore... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, tes photographies sont les meilleurs commentaires aux Epigrammes garçonniers de l'&lt;i&gt;Anthologie palatine&lt;/i&gt;. Tout est dit, point n'est besoin de traduction...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Demain, je relirai Straton et je dirai à Alkinoos: "Mon ami, mon amant, puisse le son de ta flûte durer pour toujours, je ne sais qui j'aime le plus, Méléagre ou toi".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ton ami,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive, Lettre de Philip à W. von Gloeden, 20 Octobre 1925, Call number: 1925/10/20/2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3777072159119266854?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3777072159119266854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3777072159119266854&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3777072159119266854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3777072159119266854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/chant-dautomne.html' title='Chant d&apos;automne'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RU6hzSV4c7g/TZTDnfmvG8I/AAAAAAAAA50/sIAwNQNdCaY/s72-c/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-2348125153388072946</id><published>2011-03-24T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T12:34:01.183-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Coquin de Printemps...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K0NztwVO3BI/TYuWZ2dR5TI/AAAAAAAAA5w/HhWYANOG7uE/s1600/Printemps+Gloeden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K0NztwVO3BI/TYuWZ2dR5TI/AAAAAAAAA5w/HhWYANOG7uE/s640/Printemps+Gloeden.jpg" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Collection privée / Private collection)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pour Nicole C.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To Nicole C.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"C'est le printemps, coquin de printemps...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est le temps des fleurs et de tous les bourgeons,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fille ou garçon, tout est en fleurs, c'est le temps des amours,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est le printemps, coquin de printemps...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un regard, un sourire, une fleur aux lèvres,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fille ou garçon, je suis en fleurs, c'est le temps des amours,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fille ou garçon, qui m'aime me reconnaîtra,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Une fleur aux lèvres, suivez mon regard,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Je suis la vie, je suis la jeunesse, je suis un sourire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est le printemps, le temps des jeunes filles en fleurs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un désir peut en cacher un autre,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cherchez la fleur, trouvez un garçon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fille et garçon, je suis une fleur, c'est le temps des amours,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cherchez l'amour, trouvez une fleur,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coquin de printemps, une fleur peut en cacher une autre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Je suis un jeu, je suis un rire, je suis le désir,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Qui m'aime me suive... Je suis un regard coquin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coquin de printemps, je suis un garçon en fleurs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A l'ombre de qui, jeunes filles ou garçons, à l'ombre de qui,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vais-je chercher la fleur, le regard et le sourire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coquin de printemps, vais-je trouver l'amour ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es une fleur, un garçon, un amour,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es le sourire des bourgeons qui annoncent les fleurs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es une fleur, une fille, un regard, coquin de printemps...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Je n'en finis pas d'aimer ce printemps de Taormina,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Où se rêvent mille désirs pour une beauté en fleurs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aimerais être une fleur pour caresser tes lèvres...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est le printemps, coquin de printemps...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est le temps des bourgeons et de toutes les fleurs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un sourire, un regard, fille ou garçon, c'est le temps de tous les amours."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-2348125153388072946?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2348125153388072946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=2348125153388072946&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2348125153388072946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2348125153388072946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/coquin-de-printemps.html' title='Coquin de Printemps...'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K0NztwVO3BI/TYuWZ2dR5TI/AAAAAAAAA5w/HhWYANOG7uE/s72-c/Printemps+Gloeden.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-5423014890345782458</id><published>2011-03-18T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T13:51:35.064-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Jardin / Garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a---v427wm0/TYO-Edqk6aI/AAAAAAAAA5s/gBph7_1x9VU/s1600/Gloed+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a---v427wm0/TYO-Edqk6aI/AAAAAAAAA5s/gBph7_1x9VU/s640/Gloed+2.jpg" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(Collection privée / Private collection)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Cher Philip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Je vous envoie une photographie de mon jardin, Piazza San Domenico, que j'ai prise en ce printemps 1898.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;J'espère qu'elle vous permettra de deviner les couleurs et la fraîcheur, les parfums et le bruissement des feuilles... J'essaie d'utiliser mon appareil photographique comme une palette de peintre, pour saisir la beauté du monde et les impressions d'un instant. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aime mon jardin, il est une oeuvre d'art vivante, qui évolue au fil des saisons. Je parle aux fleurs et je caresse les branches, c'est toute la Méditerranée qui est renfermée entre les murs de mon jardin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Au plus fort de l'été, j'aime m'asseoir à l'ombre de ces feuillages, à écouter le chant des cigales, ici, à Taormina, au coeur de la Sicile, entre la Grèce et l'Afrique...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aimerais tant, cher Philip, partager mon jardin avec vous, en ce beau printemps, j'aimerais tant, mon vieil ami, partager mes rêves et mes souvenirs avec vous...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Votre affectionné,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Dear Philip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I send you this photograph of my garden, Piazza San Domenico. I shot it during this spring, in 1898.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I hope you will be able to grasp from my photograph the colors and the coolness, the perfumes and the rustling of tree leaves... I am doing my best to use my camera as a painter's palette, in order to catch the beauty of the world and feelings that do not last.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I love my garden: it is a living art work, evolving through the year's seasons. I am talking to the flowers, I am caressing the branches, the whole Mediterranean world is enclosed within the walls of my garden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At the peak of the heat wave, I love to be sitting under the shade of this leafiness and to listen to the cicadas song, here, in Taormina, the heart of Sicily, between Greece and Africa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I would love so much, dear Philip, to share my garden with you, during this so magnificent spring, I would love so much, my dear old friends, to share my dreams and my memories with you...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yours, as always,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm von Gloeden, &lt;i&gt;Letter to Philip&lt;/i&gt;, 10 May 1898 (&lt;i&gt;Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, call number 1898/05/10/01)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-5423014890345782458?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5423014890345782458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=5423014890345782458&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5423014890345782458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5423014890345782458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/03/jardin-garden.html' title='Jardin / Garden'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a---v427wm0/TYO-Edqk6aI/AAAAAAAAA5s/gBph7_1x9VU/s72-c/Gloed+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8571627308499728454</id><published>2011-02-27T13:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T13:13:45.058-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Variation on a Gloedenian Theme</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qtk_cNvB4qU/TWq-awpkVZI/AAAAAAAAA5o/bTt0Lh1SYLs/s1600/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qtk_cNvB4qU/TWq-awpkVZI/AAAAAAAAA5o/bTt0Lh1SYLs/s640/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg" width="464" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8571627308499728454?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8571627308499728454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8571627308499728454&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8571627308499728454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8571627308499728454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/variation-on-gloedenian-theme.html' title='Variation on a Gloedenian Theme'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qtk_cNvB4qU/TWq-awpkVZI/AAAAAAAAA5o/bTt0Lh1SYLs/s72-c/Gloeden+Dream+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1036798855964049692</id><published>2011-02-27T12:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T12:37:37.364-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roland Barthes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><title type='text'>Rêveries photographiques</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CA-oVJdd4sA/TWqzooKDzKI/AAAAAAAAA5g/JupxyPjL9w4/s1600/4200_1_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CA-oVJdd4sA/TWqzooKDzKI/AAAAAAAAA5g/JupxyPjL9w4/s400/4200_1_lg.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;W. von Gloeden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"On dit souvent que ce sont les peintres qui ont inventé la Photographie (en lui transmettant le cadrage, la perspective albertienne et l'optique de la &lt;i&gt;camera obscura&lt;/i&gt;). Je dis: non, ce sont les chimistes. Car le noème "Ca a été" n'a été possible que du jour où une circonstance scientifique (la découverte de la sensibilité à la lumière des halogénures d'argent) a permis de capter et d'imprimer directement les rayons lumineux émis par un objet diversement éclairé. La photo est littéralement une émanation du référent. D'un corps réel, qui était là, sont parties des radiations qui viennent me toucher, moi qui suis ici; peu importe la durée de la transmission; la photo de l'être disparu vient me toucher comme les rayons différés d'une étoile. Une sorte de lien ombilical relie le corps de la chose photographiée à mon regard: la lumière, quoique impalpable, est bien ici un milieu charnel, une peau que je partage avec celui ou celle qui a été photographié."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roland Barthes, &lt;i&gt;La chambre claire. Note sur la photographie&lt;/i&gt;, Cahiers du Cinéma, Gallimard, Seuil, Paris, 1980, p. 126-127.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1036798855964049692?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1036798855964049692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1036798855964049692&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1036798855964049692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1036798855964049692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/reveries-photographiques.html' title='Rêveries photographiques'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CA-oVJdd4sA/TWqzooKDzKI/AAAAAAAAA5g/JupxyPjL9w4/s72-c/4200_1_lg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7532155645152374149</id><published>2011-02-27T12:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T12:38:50.923-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>Vient de paraître: Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, Messes Noires. Lord Lyllian</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ygo_mWEkHig/TWqydwdvkYI/AAAAAAAAA5c/Tz0T5i6Tg4A/s1600/41o%252BpVtdUTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ygo_mWEkHig/TWqydwdvkYI/AAAAAAAAA5c/Tz0T5i6Tg4A/s400/41o%252BpVtdUTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Nous avons déjà rencontré Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen à plusieurs reprises dans ce blog, notamment à travers ses beaux poèmes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est avec plaisir que nous signalons la réédition de son roman &lt;i&gt;Messes Noires.&amp;nbsp;Lord Lyllian&lt;/i&gt; aux éditions GayKitschCamp.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gaykitschcamp.com/"&gt;www.gaykitschcamp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Le succès de Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen (1880-1923) ne se dément pas. Les éditions originales ou anciennes de ses livres se vendent aujourd’hui à des prix remarquables. Je lui ai consacré en 1991 un dossier, enrichi en 1993, qui permet de com prendre dans quel contexte polémique son œuvre s’est développée. On doit à Mirande Lucien d’avoir donné une image assez exacte d’Akademos, revue que Fersen a fondée en 1909 et soutenue toute l’année et qui peut à juste titre être considérée comme la première revue homosexuelle française. Jean-Claude Féray a attiré notre attention sur son œuvre littéraire aux éditions Quintes-feuilles. Alors qu’il vient de publier&amp;nbsp;Jeunesse&amp;nbsp;(1907), je suis heureux d’avoir enfin pu mettre la dernière main à cette réédition de&amp;nbsp;Lord Lyllian&amp;nbsp;(1905).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 47.0px;"&gt;Lord Lyllian&amp;nbsp;est un roman à clefs où se rencontrent les sommités homosexuelles de la fin du&amp;nbsp;XIXe : Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, John Gray, Jean Lorrain, Joséphin Péladan, Achille Essebac, Robert de Montesquiou, Friedrich Krupp — et Fersen lui-même — ainsi que leurs égéries les actrices Ellen Terry et Sarah Bernhard. Les amateurs de ces personnages devenus de véritables icônes se réjouiront de la manière dont Adelswärd-Fersen les met en scène avec des dialogues très&amp;nbsp;camp&amp;nbsp;que Wilde n’aurait pas reniés et dans des poses mélodramatiques à souhait. J’espère que, comme moi, vous tomberez amoureux de&amp;nbsp;Lord Lyllian, dans une nouvelle édition portée par d’éminents spécialistes respectivement de la littérature homosexuelle et de la littérature décadente, Jean-Claude Féray et Jean de Palacio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 47.0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Patrick Cardon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;17 € &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;ISBN&amp;nbsp;978-2-908050-68-4&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 24.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Disponible à partir du 1er mars aux librairies Les Mots à la Bouche, 75004 et Comme un roman 75003 Paris&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #123cee; font: 24.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7532155645152374149?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7532155645152374149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7532155645152374149&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7532155645152374149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7532155645152374149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/vient-de-paraitre-jacques-dadelsward.html' title='Vient de paraître: Jacques d&apos;Adelswärd-Fersen, Messes Noires. Lord Lyllian'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ygo_mWEkHig/TWqydwdvkYI/AAAAAAAAA5c/Tz0T5i6Tg4A/s72-c/41o%252BpVtdUTL._SL500_AA300_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-6326599686900347176</id><published>2011-01-14T13:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T13:14:06.209-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Le songe d'un jour d'été / A Midsummer Day's Dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnkNAyfmI/AAAAAAAAA4s/d3fsfJNqsCA/s1600/Summerdre0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="193" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnkNAyfmI/AAAAAAAAA4s/d3fsfJNqsCA/s320/Summerdre0.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cher Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Te souviens-tu de ma dernière visite chez toi, à Taormina, dans ta maison de la rue San Domenico ? J'étais resté longtemps pensif devant le panneau où tu affichais tes plus belles photographies, ton catalogue, en quelque sorte... Quelle photographie choisir et ramener avec moi, pour prolonger mes rêves siciliens, mes rêves de Taormina.. ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Wilhelm,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you remember the last time I visited you, in Taormina, at your place, San Domenico street ? I stayed quite a long time dreaming in front of the wood pannel where you displayed your most beautiful photographs... It was so to say your catalogue... Which photograph should I choose and bring back home, to extend my Sicilian dreams, my dreams of Taormina ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnjmBpgYI/AAAAAAAAA4o/f9USrnfZ0xk/s1600/Summerdre01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnjmBpgYI/AAAAAAAAA4o/f9USrnfZ0xk/s1600/Summerdre01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'avais eu l'attention attirée par une photographie au format inhabituel, allongé, où trois garçons se trouvaient entre le ciel et la terre...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I noticed a special photograph, with an unusual size, an onlong photograph, where three boys were featured, between sky and earth...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnn8vzkrI/AAAAAAAAA5I/yLyD2zMlvY0/s1600/Summerdet1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnn8vzkrI/AAAAAAAAA5I/yLyD2zMlvY0/s400/Summerdet1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Cette photographie m'avait fait rêver par son atmosphère, par les montagnes au loin, se dessinant sur le ciel, par les bras de l'olivier, tendus vers le feu solaire...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;This photograph made me dream, through its atmosphere, through the mountains in the background, whose outline was drawn on the sky, through the olive tree branchs, raised against the fire of the sun...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnnaWhGOI/AAAAAAAAA5E/BPhE6TeV-Bo/s1600/Summerdet2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnnaWhGOI/AAAAAAAAA5E/BPhE6TeV-Bo/s400/Summerdet2.jpg" width="188" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;C'était un jour de canicule, au coeur de l'été, où l'air tremblait de chaleur, où les montagnes s'évanouissaient dans une brume de chaleur...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;It was a day at the peak of a heat wave, during summer, where air itself was shivering with heat, where mountains were fading away, in the shades of heat...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnlgzw7bI/AAAAAAAAA44/fci3inEVxoQ/s1600/Summerdet5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnlgzw7bI/AAAAAAAAA44/fci3inEVxoQ/s400/Summerdet5.jpg" width="141" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Même le blé était brûlé, brûlé de chaleur, cuit comme le pain, tant il faisait chaud, à Taormina, durant cet été...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Even &amp;nbsp;wheat was burnt out, burnt by heat, burnt like bread... It was such a hot summer in Taormina...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnm_fyv3I/AAAAAAAAA5A/x01YJYxoHIE/s1600/Summerdet3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnm_fyv3I/AAAAAAAAA5A/x01YJYxoHIE/s400/Summerdet3.jpg" width="108" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Les jeunes bergers dans cette campagne sans ombre écoutaient le chant obsédant des cigales, leurs yeux se fermaient de sommeil, tant il faisait chaud, dans l'été de Taormina....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Young shepherds in this shadeless countryside were listening to the obsessing cicadas song, and their sleepy eyes were about to close...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnmbUP6YI/AAAAAAAAA48/Oy2D9IYT-Ho/s1600/Sumemrdet4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnmbUP6YI/AAAAAAAAA48/Oy2D9IYT-Ho/s400/Sumemrdet4.jpg" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il fallait pourtant veiller au troupeau, rassembler les chèvres avant la nuit, et revenir au village pour trouver la fraîcheur des maisons aux murs épais...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;But they had to take care of the flock of their goats before the night fall, they had to come back to the village, where they would enjoy the cool of their houses with so thick walls...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnlBTYr4I/AAAAAAAAA40/baUmKUlnyUI/s1600/Summerdet6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnlBTYr4I/AAAAAAAAA40/baUmKUlnyUI/s400/Summerdet6.jpg" width="147" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Ne vous endormez pas !", disait la flûte de Peppino, "allons, les gars, ne vous endormez pas ! Il est temps, il est temps de partir, le jour va tomber bientôt, même le soleil va dormir... allons, les gars, pas encore, ne vous endormez pas !"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"Don't fall asleep !" was singing Peppino's flute, "come on, guys, don't fall asleep ! It is time, time to go, this day with end soon, even the sun will go to sleep... come on guys, not now, please, don't fall asleep now !"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnksdD7uI/AAAAAAAAA4w/kxFzPDbgJnk/s1600/Summerdet7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnksdD7uI/AAAAAAAAA4w/kxFzPDbgJnk/s400/Summerdet7.jpg" width="235" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Les jeunes bergers étaient bercés par la flûte de Peppino, par le chant des cigales, il faisait si chaud, en cet été de canicule, dans la campagne de Taormina... Il faisait si chaud, tout invitait au repos, au rêve, à la mélancolie, tout invitait à ne plus bouger, face à ton appareil magique, Wilhelm, mon ami, ton appareil qui attrape l'air et les montagnes, les bergers et la chaleur, le blé qui brûle et la mélodie d'une flûte...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peppino's flute was rocking the young shepherds, the cicadas song was rocking them too, it was such a hot day, it was the peak of a hot wave in the land of Taormina... It was so hot, everything was a call for a rest, for a dream, for melancholy, everything was a call for staying motionless in front of your magical camera, Wilhelm, my friend, your camera able to catch air and mountains, shepherds and the heat, burning wheat and a flute's melody...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnoSl0nPI/AAAAAAAAA5M/F2QS4pNgdv8/s1600/Summer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnoSl0nPI/AAAAAAAAA5M/F2QS4pNgdv8/s640/Summer.jpg" width="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, c'est cette photographie que j'ai choisie, c'est un instant d'éternité, le temps est suspendu, tout est si calme, tout est si paisible... C'est un instant d'éternité, mais aussi un instant qui s'efface, tempus fugit, tout s'enfuit, mais la jeunesse reste à jamais, penchée au bord d'un instant d'éternité, au coeur de l'été...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tout invite à rêver, entre la veille et le sommeil, tout invite à penser, qu'est-ce que le temps, qu'est-ce que le temps qu'il fait, qu'est-ce que le moment qui passe, qu'est-ce que l'éternité... ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je ne me lasserai jamais d'interroger la mélancolie de cette photographie, Wilhelm, mon vieil ami, la mélancolie de ce qui fut et de ce qui n'est plus, mais que je peux encore voir aujourd'hui, et même entendre, car, oui, en penchant bien l'oreille, j'entends encore la flûte de Peppino...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Avec mon immense amitié, Wilhelm, mon ami, mon vieil ami, avec toute mon admiration, ton art nous survivra, et fera rêver, encore et encore, le songe d'un jour d'été...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Wilhelm, my dear old friend, I chose this photograph, because it is a moment of eternity, time seems to be stopped, everything is so quiet, so peaceful... It is a moment of eternity, but also a moment fading away, tempus fugit, everything will fade away, but youths stays forever, on the edge of a moment of eternity, at the peak of summer..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Everything invites the viewer to dream, between the waking state and sleep, everything invites to meditate, what is time, what is weather, what is a moment fading away, what is eternity.. ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I will never grow tired of questioning this photograph's melancholy, Wilhelm, my old friend, the melancholy of what was once and is no more, of what I can still see today, and even listen to... Yes, if I am pricking up my ears, I can still hear Peppino's flute...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;With my infinite friendship, Wilhelm, my friend, my old friend, with all my admiration, your art will outlive us and will inspire forever a midsummer's day dream...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Philip, &lt;i&gt;Lettre à Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, 12 Octobre 1898 (&lt;i&gt;Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, call number 1898/10/12/05)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-6326599686900347176?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6326599686900347176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=6326599686900347176&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6326599686900347176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/6326599686900347176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2011/01/le-songe-dun-jour-dete-midsummer-days.html' title='Le songe d&apos;un jour d&apos;été / A Midsummer Day&apos;s Dream'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TTCnkNAyfmI/AAAAAAAAA4s/d3fsfJNqsCA/s72-c/Summerdre0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3867704492360541225</id><published>2010-12-30T13:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T08:16:51.746-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Critios'/><title type='text'>Perfection (English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzp7rlgQMI/AAAAAAAAA4k/CSyZzrEX4SQ/s1600/Critios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzp7rlgQMI/AAAAAAAAA4k/CSyZzrEX4SQ/s640/Critios.jpg" width="432" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You are said to be the work of the sculptor Critios and you are known as "The Critios Boy". You are a boy made in white marble, you are a gift of the gods, a gift to the gods, and a long time ago, you were set up on the Athens acropolis, under the Attic sun light... It was in 480 BC, Xerxes and his Persian army just entered Athens, they looted and destroyed the acropolis itself. You felt down on the ground, you lost your head under the shock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1865, the archaeologist Sam Rumpf found you in the acropolis ground. Your head was found in 1898.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About Critios, we know only the part he played in the blossoming of Classical Greek sculpture: he was among the very first to give life to the rigid bodies of traditional kouroi, to give life to the contours of marble body, in its harmony as well as in its subtle dissymetry, in the light swaying of the hips that make the sublime dynamics of a standing up young man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About you, the boy who modelled for Critios, we know nothing, despite the fact your youth and your beauty are so present under our eyes today. I love to imagine you, while you were posing nude in the sculptor's workshop, while the sun light was caressing the relief of your body. "Stay still", Critios was telling you, "don't move, my boy, kalos, kalos ho paîs...". There is so much love in this marble statue... Such a sensitivity, such a way to look at what makes blossoming teen boys so close to Greek boys, so close to Apollo and Eros. The marble stone is still celebrating today the contours and the shape, the shades and relief, the life and youth emanating from your body, from the stone your body are made of. Most certainly, you were loved by Critios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met you again among the "Ragazzi" of the German photographer Konrad Helbig, a lover of ancient Mediterranean landscapes, of Crete, Attica and Sicily. He dreamt about you too and the result is a sublime photograph, where shade and light, black and white are transforming your body into a pure outline, into the quintessence of beauty, into a visual melody with so many sensual curvatures...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I share the way Critios looked at you, I share the way Konrad Helbig looked at the Critios sculpture, and everything in your white marble body is singing to my eyes, your body so close, so far away...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some special boys offer an horizon for so many dreams, and even marble is living, when it is caressed by a gaze...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip X, &lt;i&gt;Dreams of a Lonely Lover&lt;/i&gt; (unpublished manuscript).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3867704492360541225?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3867704492360541225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3867704492360541225&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3867704492360541225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3867704492360541225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfection-english.html' title='Perfection (English)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzp7rlgQMI/AAAAAAAAA4k/CSyZzrEX4SQ/s72-c/Critios.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8752688182910873358</id><published>2010-12-30T12:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T13:18:18.677-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Critios'/><title type='text'>Perfection</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzfwFVVzFI/AAAAAAAAA4g/qtiVeCpgRKc/s1600/Critios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzfwFVVzFI/AAAAAAAAA4g/qtiVeCpgRKc/s640/Critios.jpg" width="432" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"On dit que tu es l'oeuvre du sculpteur Critios, et on t'appelle "Le garçon de Critios". Tu es un garçon de marbre blanc, un don des dieux, une offrande aux dieux, et tu fus placé sur l'Acropole d'Athènes, sous la lumière du soleil attique. C'était en 480 avant J.-C., Xerxès et l'armée des Perses venaient de s'emparer d'Athènes, ils mirent la ville à sac, ils montèrent sur la colline sacrée et dévastèrent tout... C'est alors que tu fus renversé sur le sol, tu fus décapité sous le choc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est en 1865 que l'archéologue Sam Rumpf te découvrit. Ta tête ne fut retrouvée qu'en 1898.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On ne connaît de Critios que son rôle, dans l'épanouissement de la sculpture grecque classique: il fut l'un des premiers à donner vie au corps rigide des kouroi d'antan, à faire vivre le modelé d'un corps, dans son harmonie comme dans ses subtiles dissymétries, dans le léger déhanchement qui sublime les dynamiques d'un jeune homme se tenant debout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De toi, le modèle de Critios, nous ne savons rien, même si ta jeunesse, ta beauté vivent encore sous nos yeux. Il me plait de t'imaginer, posant nu dans l'atelier du sculpteur, alors que la lumière du soleil caressait les formes de ton corps. "Tiens la pose", te disait peut-être Critios, "ne bouge pas, mon garçon, kalos, kalos ho paîs...". Il y a tant d'amour, dans cette statue de marbre... Une telle sensibilité, un tel regard sur ce qui rapproche les adolescents dans la fleur de l'âge des dieux grecs, d'Apollon et d'Eros. Le marbre chante encore les courbes et les formes, les ombres et les reliefs, la vie et la jeunesse qui émanent de ton corps de pierre. Sans doute étais-tu l'aimé de Critios...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je te retrouve, en noir et blanc, parmi les "Ragazzi" du photographe allemand Konrad Helbig, un amoureux des Méditerranées antiques, entre la Crète, l'Attique et la Sicile. Il t'a rêvé dans cette sublime photographie, où l'ombre et la lumière, le noir et le blanc, réduisent ton corps à une épure, à la quintessence de la beauté, à une mélodie visuelle tout en inflexions sensuelles...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je partage le regard de Critios, je m'identifie à la vision de Konrad Helbig, et tout chante à mes yeux dans ton corps de marbre blanc, si proche, si lointain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certains garçons sont l'horizon d'un rêve, et même le marbre prend vie sous la caresse d'un regard."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip X, &lt;i&gt;Rêveries d'un amant solitaire&lt;/i&gt; (manuscrit inédit).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8752688182910873358?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8752688182910873358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8752688182910873358&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8752688182910873358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8752688182910873358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfection.html' title='Perfection'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRzfwFVVzFI/AAAAAAAAA4g/qtiVeCpgRKc/s72-c/Critios.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8496066511218915673</id><published>2010-12-26T12:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T12:03:31.347-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Rêveries</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TReW9rfPdbI/AAAAAAAAA4c/5jeMrp0U1Dk/s1600/Gloed5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="301" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TReW9rfPdbI/AAAAAAAAA4c/5jeMrp0U1Dk/s400/Gloed5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mon cher Wilhelm, mon vieil ami,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne me lasse pas de rêver de Taormina, des temps heureux que j'ai passés dans le village, de mes promenades dans ses paysages sublimes, des moments de rêverie partagés avec vous, sur une terrasse, sur un chemin, dans le théâtre grec, dans votre jardin...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment oublier Pasquale et Peppino, Giovanni et Pietro, et tant d'autres qui sont les acteurs de votre merveilleux théâtre d'ombres et de lumières... Comment oublier les rires et les chants, les regards et les silences, et les étonnantes métamorphoses de von Gloeden, bien dignes de celles d'Ovide, qui transforment bergers, pêcheurs et paysans en éphèbes arcadiens, en jeunes dieux Olympiens...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vos photographies, mon vieil ami, me réchauffent le coeur dans l'hiver de ma vie, elles m'invitent au théâtre de l'imaginaire, où l'on oublie le temps, la réalité, pour vivre mille autres vies, ailleurs, autrefois, autrement...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La photographie de vos garçons est l'art le plus platonicien qui soit... Art platonicien, car comme le disaient les philosophes anciens, la beauté des garçons ne pouvait échapper qu'aux aveugles — il leur restait cependant le son de la voix, les rires, la douceur d'un visage lu au bout des doigts, la caresse d'une main...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des garçons de Taormina, vos photographies nous donnent de capter et de posséder l'essence, la quintessence, un reflet déposé sur une feuille de papier, au terme d'un processus digne des plus grands alchimistes... Nous passons des corps à l'image, qui immortalise leur beauté et pérennise leur jeunesse... Mais l'image, les images, celles que l'on collectionne patiemment au fil de sa vie, au fil des voyages à Taormina, vos photographies, mon vieil ami, conduisent à se détacher des beaux garçons pour atteindre à la beauté des garçons, à son concept, à son idée, à son essence intemporelle...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chacune de vos photographies, Wilhelm, est un soleil resplendissant d'évidence, et je me sens comme un nouvel Icare, attiré par la lumière au risque de me brûler les yeux, de me brûler le coeur...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certains rêves sont de tels moments de plénitude, il n'est de vrai de désir que pour les horizons que l'on ne pourra atteindre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Votre ami&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philip,&lt;i&gt; Lettre à Wilhelm von Gloeden&lt;/i&gt;, 26 décembre 1897 (&lt;i&gt;Von Gloeden Archive&lt;/i&gt;, call number 1897/12/26/1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TReW5obPnOI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/jOoY5vZMDNE/s1600/Gloed4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TReW5obPnOI/AAAAAAAAA4Y/jOoY5vZMDNE/s400/Gloed4.jpg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8496066511218915673?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8496066511218915673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8496066511218915673&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8496066511218915673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8496066511218915673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/reveries.html' title='Rêveries'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TReW9rfPdbI/AAAAAAAAA4c/5jeMrp0U1Dk/s72-c/Gloed5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-4172880308521374464</id><published>2010-12-25T11:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T11:36:59.683-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Portrait</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRZHv4APchI/AAAAAAAAA4U/eAoa59Hs07A/s1600/Portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRZHv4APchI/AAAAAAAAA4U/eAoa59Hs07A/s640/Portrait.jpg" width="411" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-4172880308521374464?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4172880308521374464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=4172880308521374464&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4172880308521374464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/4172880308521374464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/portrait.html' title='Portrait'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRZHv4APchI/AAAAAAAAA4U/eAoa59Hs07A/s72-c/Portrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3188767304852221671</id><published>2010-12-25T10:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T10:14:43.132-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Dialogue socratique / Socratic dialogue</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRYtVqAXwDI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/PCzeSDNAVC4/s1600/Detail+VG+Philo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRYtVqAXwDI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/PCzeSDNAVC4/s640/Detail+VG+Philo.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3188767304852221671?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3188767304852221671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3188767304852221671&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3188767304852221671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3188767304852221671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/dialogue-socratique-socratic-dialogue.html' title='Dialogue socratique / Socratic dialogue'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRYtVqAXwDI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/PCzeSDNAVC4/s72-c/Detail+VG+Philo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-8848220090788447244</id><published>2010-12-22T12:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-22T12:55:17.052-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fersen'/><title type='text'>Un poème pour Pasquale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRJh_moO-aI/AAAAAAAAA4I/rSBLxIJy_cE/s1600/VGa1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRJh_moO-aI/AAAAAAAAA4I/rSBLxIJy_cE/s400/VGa1.jpg" width="293" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Viens bercer mes regrets:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nos pensers, en secret,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Etouffent de présages...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dans tes yeux j'ai revu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Les vaisseaux disparus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Vers de bleus paysages !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sur les lacs de ton corps&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Leurs lents sillages d'or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Avaient l'air de poursuivre&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Un tendre oiseau marin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Que mon rêve orphelin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Escortait d'un vol ivre...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nous irons, si tu veux,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Plus tristes et plus vieux&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jusqu'à des Birmanies&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Où tout fait tant souffrir&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De beauté, de désir&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Et d'ardente jeunesse,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Qu'on hume sur la peau&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;L'opium des sanglots&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Aux inertes sagesses ! "&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, "Nostalgiques", dans: &lt;i&gt;Ainsi chantait Marsyas&lt;/i&gt;, Poèmes, Florence et Paris, Librairie Léon Vanier, Editeur, 1907, p. 33-34&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-8848220090788447244?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8848220090788447244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=8848220090788447244&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8848220090788447244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/8848220090788447244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-poeme-pour-pasquale.html' title='Un poème pour Pasquale'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TRJh_moO-aI/AAAAAAAAA4I/rSBLxIJy_cE/s72-c/VGa1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-2133699662236362192</id><published>2010-12-20T12:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T12:53:31.187-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Pasqualino</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s1600/glo22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s400/glo22.jpg" width="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a encore à Taormina aujourd'hui un vieil homme qui se souvient de toi, mon Pasqualino. Il a connu Wilhelm von Gloeden à la fin de sa vie, il a bien connu aussi Pancrazio Bucini, son fidèle ami et assistant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce vieil homme t'a reconnu et identifié, car tu étais l'un des modèles favoris de von Gloeden, et de photographie en photographie, on peut suivre les étapes de ta jeunesse, l'épanouissement de ta beauté, de l'adolescence vers la maturité.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pasquale Stracuzzi. Tu t'appelles Pasquale Stracuzzi... Puis-je t'appeler Pasqualino ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3j8IfQ-I/AAAAAAAAA34/NhdjgEXQl8I/s1600/455295133_6009f1fec4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3j8IfQ-I/AAAAAAAAA34/NhdjgEXQl8I/s320/455295133_6009f1fec4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Tu es enterré au cimetière de Taormina, m'a dit ce vieil homme. Tu es là, parmi les tiens, aux côtés d'une épouse peut-être, ou de parents...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'irai fleurir ta tombe, Pasqualino... J'irai fleurir ta tombe avec les fleurs des amandiers de Taormina, au printemps, lorsque la lumière est si douce et que les dernières neiges de l'Etna s'estompent, comme des souvenirs, comme des regrets...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Je te parlerai doucement, comme à un ami de toujours, toujours aimé, jamais rencontré. &amp;nbsp;Je te parlerai de moi, Pasqualino, je te parlerai de mon amour de la photographie ancienne, je te parlerai de toi, que je connais si bien sans t'avoir jamais rencontré.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ--cxbrZ5I/AAAAAAAAA4A/nUObO5PzbMA/s1600/Gloeden+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ--cxbrZ5I/AAAAAAAAA4A/nUObO5PzbMA/s400/Gloeden+1.jpg" width="303" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;J'ai appris à lire dans ton regard, Pasqualino mio, j'y lis les travaux et les jours de ta vie à Taormina, au seuil du XXe siècle. J'y lis tes bonheurs, tes espoirs et tes craintes, ta fatigue parfois, tes rêves aussi, quand tu regardes l'avenir droit dans les yeux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il me semble presque entendre ta voix, ton accent chantant et tes rires, la musique chantante de ton accent sicilien...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pasqualino mio, on dit que les héros aimés des dieux meurent jeunes, dans la fleur de l'âge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'art photographique de von Gloeden t'a immortalisé dans ta jeunesse, tu es jeune à jamais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais oui, un jour, bientôt,&amp;nbsp;j'irai fleurir ta tombe, Pasqualino... J'irai fleurir ta tombe avec les fleurs des amandiers de Taormina, au printemps, lorsque la lumière est si douce et que les dernières neiges de l'Etna s'estompent, comme des souvenirs, comme des regrets...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dors en paix, mon ami, mon Pasqualino de Taormina, mon bel éphèbe grec qui me fait tant rêver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dors en paix, Pasqualino Stracuzzi, je viendrai te voir au printemps, lorsque tous les amandiers de Taormina chantent ton éternelle jeunesse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ_BcnGNASI/AAAAAAAAA4E/_85BqCnxj8A/s1600/amandiers-ginestas-france-1222835211-1182803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ_BcnGNASI/AAAAAAAAA4E/_85BqCnxj8A/s320/amandiers-ginestas-france-1222835211-1182803.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-2133699662236362192?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2133699662236362192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=2133699662236362192&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2133699662236362192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2133699662236362192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/pasqualino.html' title='Pasqualino'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s72-c/glo22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-7828533687236287171</id><published>2010-12-20T12:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T13:29:39.410-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Pasqualino (English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s1600/glo22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s400/glo22.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;In Taormina today, there is still a very old man who remembers about you, my Pasqualino. He knew quite well Wilhelm von Gloeden in the last years of his life, he was acquainted too to Pancrazio Bucini, his long time friend and assistant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;This old man recognized you, he identified you, because you were one of von Gloeden's favorite models, and from one photograph to another one, the viewer can follow the steps of your youth, the blossoming of your beauty, from our teen years to your manhood...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Pasquale Stracuzzi. It is your name, Pasquale Stracuzzi... May I call you Pasqualino ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3j8IfQ-I/AAAAAAAAA34/NhdjgEXQl8I/s1600/455295133_6009f1fec4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3j8IfQ-I/AAAAAAAAA34/NhdjgEXQl8I/s320/455295133_6009f1fec4.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;According to this old man, you are buried in the cemetery of Taormina... You are resting in peace, among your loved ones, perhaps your wife, your parents...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;I will put flowers on your grave, Pasqualino... I will put flowers on your grave, flowers of Taormina's almond trees, at spring, while sun light is so sweet, while snow on Mont Etna's slopes is fading away, like memories, like sorrows...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;I will gently talk to you, as one talks to a long time friend, to someone I always loved, but I never met. I will tell you about me, Pasqualino, I will tell you about my love of vintage photography, I will tell you about your, I know you so well, although we never met...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ--cxbrZ5I/AAAAAAAAA4A/nUObO5PzbMA/s1600/Gloeden+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ--cxbrZ5I/AAAAAAAAA4A/nUObO5PzbMA/s400/Gloeden+1.jpg" width="303" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I learnt to read your gaze, Pasqualino mio, I can read in your eyes your hard life in Taormina, at the threshold of the XXth century. I can read what made you happy, your hopes, your fears, your fatigue, your dreams too, when you are looking straight into the eyes of the future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I could almost hear your voice, your singing accent and your laughs, the melody of your Sicilian accent...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Pasqualino mio, ancient heroes loved by gods, according to the legend, were dying young, in their blossoming youth...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Von Gloeden's photographic art made you immortal in your blossoming youth, you are young forever...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Soon, quite soon, I will put flowers on your grave, Pasqualino...&amp;nbsp;I will put flowers on your grave, flowers of Taormina's almond trees, at spring, while sun light is so sweet, while snow on Mont Etna's slopes is fading away, like memories, like sorrows...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Dors en paix, mon ami, mon Pasqualino de Taormina, mon bel éphèbe grec qui me fait tant rêver.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Rest in peace, Pasqualino Stracuzzi, I will visit you next spring, when all the Taormina's almond trees will sing your eternal youth...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ_BcnGNASI/AAAAAAAAA4E/_85BqCnxj8A/s1600/amandiers-ginestas-france-1222835211-1182803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ_BcnGNASI/AAAAAAAAA4E/_85BqCnxj8A/s320/amandiers-ginestas-france-1222835211-1182803.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-7828533687236287171?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7828533687236287171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=7828533687236287171&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7828533687236287171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/7828533687236287171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/pasqualino-english.html' title='Pasqualino (English)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ-3gXOn-KI/AAAAAAAAA30/3KXCKuDqP9o/s72-c/glo22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-5323135360936633315</id><published>2010-12-19T12:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T12:58:04.914-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Dans le jardin de von Gloeden / In von Gloeden's garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5mgz9_mZI/AAAAAAAAA3k/GDKqIyzSLnk/s1600/IMG_0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5mgz9_mZI/AAAAAAAAA3k/GDKqIyzSLnk/s400/IMG_0002.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mon jardin est un coin de paradis, un jardin de paradis, un &lt;i&gt;paradeisos&lt;/i&gt; comme celui des rois Perses que décrivent Hérodote, Ctésias ou Xénophon. Mon paradis à moi est à Taormina, son soleil parfois africain, sa végétation et ses fleurs, sa terre et sa lumière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ici, tout est couleurs et parfums, c'est un jardin d'Eden, le jardin d'Adonis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vYr5fKXI/AAAAAAAAA3o/D_Vf6FJg-fk/s1600/detail+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vYr5fKXI/AAAAAAAAA3o/D_Vf6FJg-fk/s320/detail+2.jpg" width="132" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mes bergers et mes paysans ne sont jamais nus, ils sont habillés d'ombre et de lumière, ils sont beauté et innocence, dans les jardins d'une longue histoire, dans les jardins de ma mémoire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Carpe diem&lt;/i&gt;. Cueille le moment présent, le bonheur d'un jour, la jeunesse qui s'enfuit, la beauté qui s'oublie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon appareil photographique saisit la vérité d'un jour, la vérité de toujours, l'être derrière les apparences, la beauté d'un corps, la beauté en soi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mes photographies sont le reflet de ce qui n'est plus, de ce qui est toujours: une beauté, une innocence, un instant, une éternité".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Private notebook page,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;call number 1902/06/03.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vZQAD1pI/AAAAAAAAA3w/SCElZv_ATlg/s1600/detail1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vZQAD1pI/AAAAAAAAA3w/SCElZv_ATlg/s400/detail1.jpg" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;"My garden is like a place in paradise, a garden in paradise, a &lt;i&gt;paradeisos&lt;/i&gt;, like the gardens of Persian kings described by Herodotus, Ctesias or Xenophon. My own, my private paradise is Taormina, with its sun, sometimes an African sun, with its vegetation and its flowers, with its soil and its light.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Here, colors and perfumes are everywhere, it is the garden of Eden, the garden of Adonis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;My shepherds and my peasants are never nude, always shade and light are their clothes. They are mere beauty and innocence, in the gardens of a long story, in the gardens of my memory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vY_EvkZI/AAAAAAAAA3s/XwF2-flwLwY/s1600/detail+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5vY_EvkZI/AAAAAAAAA3s/XwF2-flwLwY/s320/detail+3.jpg" width="151" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Carpe diem&lt;/i&gt;. Just try to catch the present time, today happiness, youth flying away, beauty before it is forgotten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;My camera catches the truth of a day, an eternal truth, being beyond mere appearances, a body's beauty, beauty by itself.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;My photographs mirror what is no more, what stays for ever: beauty, innocence, an instant, eternity".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Von Gloeden Archive,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Private notebook page,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;call number 1902/06/03.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-5323135360936633315?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5323135360936633315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=5323135360936633315&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5323135360936633315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/5323135360936633315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/dans-le-jardin-de-von-gloeden-in-von.html' title='Dans le jardin de von Gloeden / In von Gloeden&apos;s garden'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ5mgz9_mZI/AAAAAAAAA3k/GDKqIyzSLnk/s72-c/IMG_0002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-1103140859418756830</id><published>2010-12-19T02:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T03:15:08.468-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><title type='text'>Le Saint-Sébastien de Jean-Xavier de Combeloup</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ3dr-MyV0I/AAAAAAAAA3c/1msGHzXBLXA/s1600/St+Sebastien2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ3dr-MyV0I/AAAAAAAAA3c/1msGHzXBLXA/s400/St+Sebastien2.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;J'aime la simplicité de ce dessin de Jean-Xavier de Combeloup. Cette esquisse de Saint-Sébastien, tout en grâce alanguie et douloureuse, oscille entre la représentation classique du supplicié et la table d'anatomie. Les flèches pointent différents lieux du corps, et les désignent d'une lettre: anagramme de la mort et de l'érôs, invitation au regard pensif, aimanté par le beau visage résigné, par les courbes d'un corps juvénile, par la mélancolie sensuelle d'un archétype mythique qui irradie l'imaginaire européen des mille harmoniques d'un certain désir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Merci à Nicole Canet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sur Jean-Xavier de Combeloup: voir le Catalogue d'exposition&lt;i&gt; Du Vésuve à l'Atlas. Dessins, pastels, peintures&lt;/i&gt; :&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.aubonheurdujour.net/les-catalogues/11-form-les-catalogues-jean-xavier-de-combeloup.htm"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I love the simplicity of this drawing by Jean-Xavier de Combeloup. This sketch of Saint-Sebastien, in a graceful, languished and suffering pose, is somewhere in between the classical depiction of the martyr and an anatomical plates. Arrows are pinpointing various places of the body and naming them with a letter: these letters compose like an anagram of death and eros, they call for a meditative gaze, a gaze magnetized by this beautiful and resigned face, by the curves of a juvenile body, by the sensual melancholy of a myth deeply rooted into the European cultural imagination and irradiating it with the harmonics of a subtle desire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Thanks to Nicole Canet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Re. Jean-Xavier de Combeloup, you could buy the Exhibition catalogue &lt;i&gt;From Vesuvius to Atlas. Drawings, pastels, paintings&lt;/i&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.aubonheurdujour.net/les-catalogues/11-form-les-catalogues-jean-xavier-de-combeloup.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ3ovY732oI/AAAAAAAAA3g/CylGAc764bo/s1600/couverture-combeloup-catalogue-394x504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ3ovY732oI/AAAAAAAAA3g/CylGAc764bo/s400/couverture-combeloup-catalogue-394x504.JPG" width="312" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-1103140859418756830?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1103140859418756830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=1103140859418756830&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1103140859418756830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/1103140859418756830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/le-saint-sebastien-de-jean-xavier-de.html' title='Le Saint-Sébastien de Jean-Xavier de Combeloup'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQ3dr-MyV0I/AAAAAAAAA3c/1msGHzXBLXA/s72-c/St+Sebastien2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-2412957695472574075</id><published>2010-12-17T12:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T12:12:27.340-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taormina'/><title type='text'>Poésie sicilienne</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQu8e9_X89I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/HmC2c8O3UO8/s1600/IMG_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQu8e9_X89I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/HmC2c8O3UO8/s400/IMG_0001.jpg" width="261" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Au loin, la silhouette de l'Etna perdue dans la brume, &amp;nbsp;entre la terre et le ciel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Le rivage découpe la terre et caresse la mer d'une frange blanche: ce sont les bâtiments et les constructions de la modernité sicilienne, ils suivent le tracé de la route et du chemin de fer, au seuil du XXe siècle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Des branches d'amandier griffent le ciel de leurs bourgeons en fleurs. Ils rappellent les fulgurances des calligraphies chinoises, où mille signes naissent au passage d'un pinceau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Au premier plan, une scène bucolique et intemporelle, rêvée par Virgile ou peut-être Théocrite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Deux bergers adolescents font face à l'éternité. L'un joue sur une flûte de roseau une très ancienne mélodie, le chant du vent et de la terre, des rochers et des arbres en fleur. L'autre est allongé, pensif, il écoute le chant du vent et de la terre, le souffle du roseau plaintif comme une voix.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Beauté des corps, modelés par l'ombre et la lumière, tendresse des bustes, fuselé des jambes lisses, visages bruns.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Devant eux, hors champ, le photographe, derrière son appareil bien stable sur son trépied.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;D'une voix douce, avec un geste de la main qui semble flotter sur la musique et dans la lumière, Wilhelm von Gloeden murmure:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris auena;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;nos patriae finis et dulcia linquimus arua.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;nos patriam fugimus; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;formosum resonare doces Meliboeum silvas.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Couché sous le vaste feuillage de ce hêtre, tu essayes, ô Tityre, un air champêtre sur tes légers pipeaux. Et nous, chassés du pays de nos pères, nous quittons les douces campagnes, nous fuyons notre patrie. Toi, Tityre, étendu sous de frais ombrages, tu apprends aux échos de ces bois à redire le nom du beau Mélibée."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-2412957695472574075?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2412957695472574075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=2412957695472574075&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2412957695472574075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/2412957695472574075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/poesie-sicilienne.html' title='Poésie sicilienne'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TQu8e9_X89I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/HmC2c8O3UO8/s72-c/IMG_0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-3438323847130514564</id><published>2010-12-04T12:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T12:39:14.158-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exhibition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memmingen'/><title type='text'>Memmingen Exhibition (2008)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqe66jkLAI/AAAAAAAAA3M/3dOeMJe14nM/s1600/Gloeden_Plakat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqe66jkLAI/AAAAAAAAA3M/3dOeMJe14nM/s400/Gloeden_Plakat.jpg" width="398" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqe_9tILUI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/LCpyoKeUYlk/s1600/Censored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqe_9tILUI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/LCpyoKeUYlk/s400/Censored.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Censored&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqfCynVtLI/AAAAAAAAA3U/6RCi84nXi38/s1600/Uncensored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqfCynVtLI/AAAAAAAAA3U/6RCi84nXi38/s400/Uncensored.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Without censorship&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where is immorality ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is pornography ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why such a scandal ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3723464804787246686-3438323847130514564?l=siciliandreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3438323847130514564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3723464804787246686&amp;postID=3438323847130514564&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3438323847130514564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3723464804787246686/posts/default/3438323847130514564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://siciliandreams.blogspot.com/2010/12/memmingen-exhibition-2008.html' title='Memmingen Exhibition (2008)'/><author><name>Butterfly</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U9Lwv_itveQ/TPqe66jkLAI/AAAAAAAAA3M/3dOeMJe14nM/s72-c/Gloeden_Plakat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723464804787246686.post-9174874401286360124</id><published>2010-12-04T11:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T12:11:45.578-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exhibition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Von Gloeden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memmingen'/><title type='text'>The Gloeden Scandal (Memmingen, 2008)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;En 2008, le Kunsthalle de Memmingen (Bahnhofstrasse 1) organisa une magnifique exposition sur l'oeuvre du baron von Gloeden: 400 photographies environ furent présentées, dont une grande partie provenait de la collection de Heinz-Peter Barandun. Un historien de la photographie, le Dr. Fritz Franz Vogel, et un professeur de littérature, le Dr. Joseph Kiermeier-Debre, étaient les concepteurs de l'exposition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Cette exposition fit scandale et l'Office de la jeunesse de la ville de Memmingen tenta de la faire interdire. L'objet du scandale ? Les photographies de garçons nus, intolérables, immorales, faisant la propagande de la pédérastie, sinon de la pédophilie. Les journaux locaux furent inondés de lettres de protestation, des citoyens bien-pensants firent venir la police à l'exposition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;L'exposition de Memmingen ne fut pas fermée: il n'y avait rien d'immoral, rien de pédophile, rien de pornographique. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Le "politiquement correct" et le nouvel ordre moral devraient conduire à fermer tous les musées, à censurer les statues grecques et romaines comme les nus académiques. Cachez-moi tous ces corps que la morale ne saurait regarder de face... Corps féminins et surtout masculins, ces derniers suscitant tous les fantasmes homophobes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;-------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;In 2008, the Kunsthalle of the Memmingen city in Germany (Bahnofstrasse 1) organized a magnificent exhibition devoted to von Gloeden's photographic work: around 400 photographs were on display, most of them from the collection of Heinz-Peter Barandun. The two curators of the exhibition were Dr. Fritz Franz Vogel, an historian of photography and a University profess
