One Second to Live: Photography, Film, and the Corporeal in an Age of Extremes
by George Porcari
George Porcari's ONE SECOND TO LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, AND THE CORPOREAL IN AN AGE OF EXTREMES is set for release September 2022. The is a collection of essays, from the last 22 years that have been published in small magazines that deal with photography and film as they relate to the human body.
The book covers the 20th chronologically, starting with the essay ON THE ROAD IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY MEXICO WITH EDWARD WESTON AND TINA MODOTTI - a story that begins in 1919 in Los Angeles. The book covers various photographers and filmmakers that are a part of the fabric of the "century of extremes."
Introduction: An Age of Extremes
1. On the Road in Post-Revolutionary Mexico With Edward Weston and Tina Modotti
2. The Arc of a Dive: The Photography of Leni Riefenstahl and Alexander Rodchenko
3. One Second to Live: A Short History of the Photography of Concern
4. Fuck History, Let’s Dance! Richard Avedon, Paris, 1956
5. Who Shot Marilyn? Photography, Film, and Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Marilyn Monroe
6. Our Man In Vietnam: The Color Photography of Larry Burrows
7. Fellini Goes to the Beach
8. The Delight of the Particular: The Photography of Ronald Traeger
9. A Bridge in Blythe, A Panorama In Waterloo and a Vortex in Time: Photography in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
10. The Book of Phantoms: Valerie Jouve and the Crisis of the Contemporary Portrait
11. Con Jobs, or Even Real Tears: Gerhard Richter’s Painting as Photography as Painting…
12. Zero for Conduct: A Basic Guide to Corporeal Cinema, From Childhood to the End of Life, in Sixteen Films
George Porcari is an artist and photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Lima Peru, George emigrated to LA in the 60’s and begun his lifelong vocation in observing, documenting and greeting his cities and his surroundings. Porcari attended Pratt Institute in Manhattan and Art Center of Design in Pasadena where he has also taught film history classes and worked as an acquisition librarian for many years. Porcari has exhibited widely and internationally since his very first solo show in New York back in 1988; and among them most recent solo exhibition at as is gallery. His numerous critical essays and other writings have appeared in such places as CINEAction, NY arts, Inflatable Magazine and many others.
