<?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:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550621553358854779</id><updated>2010-09-07T17:45:37.805-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Photographer's Point of View</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.loghound.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.phpfeeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http:///jean-christian.net/Blog/files/blogRSS.php'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php'/><link rel='hub' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php'/><author><name>clic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15389994091042476081</uri><email>clic@jean-christian.net</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550621553358854779.post-523153506660280747</id><published>2010-01-20T18:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T19:14:37.293-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Health Care Divide</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt; &lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGhihaters_2299-21.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='HiHaters_2299-21'&gt;&lt;img  alt='HiHaters_2299-21' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/hihaters_2299-21.jpg" width="1010" height="656"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hi Haters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salut Mauvais Bougre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 66%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;LA REFORME DU SYSTEME DE SANTE, OU COMMENT LES AMERICAINS NE PARVIENNENT PAS A SE DEBARRASSER DE LEURS DEMONS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Il y aurait tant &amp;agrave; dire sur ce sujet, que je n'ai pas le temps d'&amp;eacute;crire en ce moment, mais au lendemain de la perte du si&amp;egrave;ge de Ted Kennedy, il est grand temps de montrer quelques photos qui en disent long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#A59085;"&gt;(Cliquez pour agrandir les images)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#A59085;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGde0301file0301_2301-3.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='Défilé_2301-3'&gt;&lt;img  alt='Défilé_2301-3' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/de0301file0301_2301-3.jpg" width="810" height="502"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGbillionaires1_2297-9.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='Billionaires1_2297-9'&gt;&lt;img  alt='Billionaires1_2297-9' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/billionaires1_2297-9.jpg" width="1010" height="636"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGsmallbusiness_2299-12.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='SmallBusiness_2299-12'&gt;&lt;img  alt='SmallBusiness_2299-12' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/smallbusiness_2299-12.jpg" width="810" height="560"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGlittleact_2302-24.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='littleAct_2302-24'&gt;&lt;img  alt='littleAct_2302-24' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/littleact_2302-24.jpg" width="810" height="545"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGindianphilantrop_2302-32.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='IndianPhilantrop_2302-32'&gt;&lt;img  alt='IndianPhilantrop_2302-32' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/indianphilantrop_2302-32.jpg" width="810" height="537"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGmamahiphop_2305-1.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='MamaHipHop_2305-1'&gt;&lt;img  alt='MamaHipHop_2305-1' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/mamahiphop_2305-1.jpg" width="540" height="810"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 72%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;HEALTHCARE REFORM, OR HOW AMERICANS CAN'T ESCAPE THEIR DEMONS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;There would be much to write about on this.  Unfortunately I do not have the time right now, but on the day after Ted Kennedy's seat was lost to a Republican, one espousing whole heatedly the Republican destructive agenda, and running against the President's Health care reform attempts, it is time for me to at least let a few photographs loose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; color:#A59085;"&gt;(Click on Photographs to see them larger)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;			&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' &gt; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.easing.1.3.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link rel='stylesheet' href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox.css' type='text/css' media='screen'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	$(document).ready(function() {                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;		$('a[rel=zoom]').fancybox({                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;							zoomSpeedIn: 500,                                                         &lt;br /&gt;                            zoomSpeedOut: 300,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							zoomOpacity : 0,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							overlayShow: 1,&lt;br /&gt;							overlayOpacity: 0.3,&lt;br /&gt;							padding: 10,&lt;br /&gt;							imageScale: 1                                                          &lt;br /&gt;			                                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;		});                                                                                            &lt;br /&gt;	});                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8550621553358854779-523153506660280747?l=aphotographerspointofview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=523153506660280747' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8550621553358854779&amp;postID=523153506660280747&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=523153506660280747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=523153506660280747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=523153506660280747' title='The Health Care Divide'/><author><name>clic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15389994091042476081</uri><email>clic@jean-christian.net</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.loghound.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09542707728495051601'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550621553358854779.post-5070616837656145761</id><published>2009-10-10T18:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T19:14:35.842-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Durham'/><title type='text'>Old West Block Party October 10, 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGchalkloveyourneighbor.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='ChalkLoveYourNeighbor'&gt;&lt;img  alt='ChalkLoveYourNeighbor' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/chalkloveyourneighbor.jpg" width="1210" height="910"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;love your neighbor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aime ton Voisin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="width: 47%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:20px; color:#000000;"&gt;Love Your Neighbor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;There was a block party in Old West Durham tonight.  The neighborhood association organizes two of those events a year, one in the spring, one in the fall.  The location tours the various blocks on this part of Durham, the coolest, as it is famous for.  Everybody brings something to share, reflecting of her/his taste for food.  Two bands, grace us with music (Ben Palmer and Mark Cool with their various accomplices) and children may run wild and decorate the asphalt with chalk as seen above.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight among the many discussions that took place was one between some teachers who live in this area, and the local arm of the Revolutionary Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGrevolution-school_2.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='Revolution School_2'&gt;&lt;img  alt='Revolution School_2' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/revolution-school_2.jpg" width="1008" height="649"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;, we don't have many Republicans around here, just enough to remind us that the world out there is still very imperfect.  We do have a problem though with Durham Public Schools lately, hence the discussion mentioned above, and since the schools administration seems to inspire itself from North Korea in its methods, I feel safer preserving the participants anonymity.  I can nevertheless reveal though that Zorro, a resident of Old West Durham, is somewhere in the photograph above, unmasked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="margin-left: 53%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:20px; color:#000000;"&gt;Aime Ton Voisin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Il y avait une r&amp;eacute;union de quartier ce soir ici dans Old West Durham.  L'association du quartier organise deux r&amp;eacute;unions comme celle-ci par an, une &amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;automne et une au printemps, et &amp;agrave;  chaque fois elles se tiennent dans un endroit diff&amp;eacute;rent.  Chacun am&amp;egrave;ne une contribution, pas toujours gastronomique, mais souvent originale afin que tous soient rassasi&amp;eacute;s.  Deux orchestres, celui de Ben Palmer et celui de Mark Cool nous prodiguent leurs musique, et nous refaisons le monde ou parcourons des banalit&amp;eacute;s au rythme de leurs tempos, tandis que les enfants peuvent s&amp;rsquo;en donner &amp;agrave; coeur joie, libres de courir o&amp;ugrave; bon leur semble et de d&amp;eacute;corer le pav&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; la craie. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce soir parmi les discussions les plus ferventes, je me dois de mentionner celle qui fut tenue entre quelques enseignants vivant dans le quartier et la branche locale du parti r&amp;eacute;volutionnaire.  Nous n&amp;rsquo;avons gu&amp;egrave;re de R&amp;eacute;publicains aux alentours, juste assez pour nous rappeler que le monde du dehors, au del&amp;agrave; de Main Street,  est encore imparfait.  Nous avons par contre un probl&amp;egrave;me avec le district scolaire, contre lequel beaucoup se d&amp;eacute;m&amp;egrave;nent, d&amp;rsquo;o&amp;ugrave; la discussion en question.  Comme l&amp;rsquo;administration des &amp;eacute;coles semble s&amp;rsquo;inspirer des m&amp;eacute;thodes Nord Cor&amp;eacute;ennes, je pr&amp;eacute;f&amp;egrave;re pr&amp;eacute;server l'anonymat des participants.  Je puis toutefois r&amp;eacute;v&amp;eacute;ler que Zorro, un voisin, peut &amp;ecirc;tre aper&amp;ccedil;u dans la photo ci-dessus, sans masque.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;			&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' &gt; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.easing.1.3.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link rel='stylesheet' href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox.css' type='text/css' media='screen'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	$(document).ready(function() {                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;		$('a[rel=zoom]').fancybox({                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;							zoomSpeedIn: 500,                                                         &lt;br /&gt; 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"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les Rencontres d'Arles, Willy Ronis R&amp;eacute;trospective, 17 Juillet 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willy Ronis Retrospective at the Rencontres d'Arles, July 17, 2009&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 70%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; color:#1C1C1C;font-weight:bold; "&gt;WILLY RONIS EST MORT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Ceci est d&amp;eacute;di&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; mes &amp;eacute;tudiants de l&amp;rdquo;I.A.U. de l'&amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; 2009, comme un ultime exemple que ce que nous avons abord&amp;eacute;, y compris dans l&amp;rsquo;histoire de la photographie, se retrouve dans a pratique:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willy Ronis est mort.  99 ans.  Il &amp;eacute;tait le quasi &amp;eacute;ternel survivant, le dernier des Mohicans de cette tribu de l&amp;rsquo;&amp;acirc;ge d&amp;rsquo;or de la photographie, celle des ann&amp;eacute;es 50-60, quand Cartier-Bresson menait le bal, et que la photo humaniste dont l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;picentre semblait &amp;ecirc;tre Paris offrait au monde une alternative &amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;cole Am&amp;eacute;ricaine.  Un style que Lartigue avait sans doutes inspir&amp;eacute;, cette photo humaniste qui semble &amp;ecirc;tre tellement ce pour quoi la photographie fut invent&amp;eacute;e.  Une photographie empreinte de r&amp;eacute;alisme mais aussi de po&amp;eacute;sie et d'esth&amp;eacute;tique, tendant sans cesse vers la d&amp;eacute;finition que Cartier-Bresson en avait donn&amp;eacute;e :  &amp;ldquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;pour moi la photographie c&amp;rsquo;est l&amp;rsquo;alliage de la g&amp;eacute;om&amp;eacute;trie et de l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;motion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="jean"&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGautoportraitronis_l1030843.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='AutoPortraitRonis_L1030843'&gt;&lt;img  alt='AutoPortraitRonis_L1030843' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/autoportraitronis_l1030843.jpg" width="1010" height="1243"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;     &lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Je ne sais qui inspira l&amp;rsquo;autre, ou s&amp;rsquo;il s&amp;rsquo;agit d&amp;rsquo;un synchronisme in&amp;eacute;vitable de penseurs voisins, mais Ronis avait offert sa propre variation &amp;agrave; la d&amp;eacute;finition de Carier-Bresson: &amp;ldquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;La belle image, c&amp;rsquo;est une g&amp;eacute;om&amp;eacute;trie modul&amp;eacute;e par le coeur&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;.&amp;rdquo;   Il est souvent difficile de diff&amp;eacute;rencier certaines photos de Ronis de celles de Cartier-Bresson, si ce n&amp;rsquo;est que ce dernier en a fait davantage au sommet, et s&amp;rsquo;est aussi cantonn&amp;eacute; dans un style plus monolithique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;  Pour un aper&amp;ccedil;u de l'oeuvre de Willy Ronis, cliquer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=willy+Ronis&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=GmiuSqyIKdHulAf7-fzMBg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=5" rel="external"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les Rencontres d&amp;rsquo;Arles, qui se complaisent le plus souvent dans les errances communes &amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;art moderne du moment, avaient donn&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; Ronis une r&amp;eacute;trospective cette ann&amp;eacute;e, une bouff&amp;eacute;e d&amp;rsquo;air frais encore que r&amp;eacute;chauff&amp;eacute;, pour nous autres les spectateurs.  Il est mort le 12 Septembre, un jour avant la fin de l&amp;rsquo;exposition.  Avec sa disparition s&amp;rsquo;en est fini, ils sont tous &amp;agrave; se taper le portrait entre eux, dans un paradis improbable pour virtuoses de la g&amp;acirc;chette photographique: Doisneau, Carter-Bresson, Boubat, Ronis etc...  Ils nous laissent &amp;agrave; un monde o&amp;ugrave; l&amp;rsquo;establishment d&amp;eacute;sormais privil&amp;eacute;gie les Richard Prince de tous acabits &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;(voir &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jean-christian.net/page0/page50/page62/page62.html" rel="self"&gt;Carambouille au Guggenheim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;  )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ma part, alors que mon travail &amp;eacute;volue souvent vers une s&amp;eacute;mantique plus radicalement moderne, je suis content de conserver, lorsque pertinent, une filiation avec ces grands messieurs de la photographie.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGrobert_doisneau01.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='robert_doisneau01'&gt;&lt;img  alt='robert_doisneau01' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/robert_doisneau01.jpg" width="1030" height="774"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Par exemple, Doisneau et son "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baiser de l&amp;rsquo;H&amp;ocirc;tel de Ville"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;es&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;t &amp;eacute;videmment &amp;agrave; la source de la photographie sur le m&amp;ecirc;me th&amp;egrave;me qui me fut offerte &amp;agrave; la Palette, rue de Seine, en Mars 1991, et que j'appelle "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Des Amants dans mon Caf&amp;eacute;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGdesamant.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='DesAmant'&gt;&lt;img  alt='DesAmant' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/desamant.jpg" width="486" height="338"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Des Amants dans mon Caf&amp;eacute;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; "&gt;  Paris, Mars 1991&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGartwork_images_3276168_467675_willy-ronis.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='artwork_images_3276168_467675_willy-ronis'&gt;&lt;img  alt='artwork_images_3276168_467675_willy-ronis' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/artwork_images_3276168_467675_willy-ronis.jpg" width="646" height="438"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;De la m&amp;ecirc;me fa&amp;ccedil;on, les fameux &amp;ldquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amoureux de la Colonne bastille&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&amp;rdquo; de Ronis, sont bien sur r&amp;eacute;incarn&amp;eacute;s ici dans &amp;ldquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le D&amp;eacute;mon sur la Baie des Anges.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&amp;rdquo;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font:15px Verdana, serif; "&gt;L&amp;rsquo;art consiste souvent &amp;agrave; faire du neuf avec du vieux, une adaptation en quelques sorte de la loi de Lavoisier: &amp;ldquo;Rien ne se perd, rien ne se cr&amp;eacute;e, tout se transforme&amp;rdquo; et peut-&amp;ecirc;tre les quatre photos mentionn&amp;eacute;es ici participent-elles de cette &amp;eacute;volution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGbaieanges.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='BaieAnges'&gt;&lt;img  alt='BaieAnges' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/baieanges.jpg" width="906" height="1006"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le D&amp;eacute;mon sur la Baie des Anges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:15px; color:#000000;"&gt;.  Nice, Juin 2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;C&amp;rsquo;est comme dans la chanson de Tr&amp;eacute;net: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Longtemps longtemps longtemps,&lt;br /&gt;apr&amp;egrave;s que les po&amp;egrave;tes ont disparu, &lt;br /&gt;leurs chansons, courent encore dans les rues..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 75%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; color:#1C1C1C;font-weight:bold; "&gt;WILLY RONIS DIED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;This is dedicated to my students at I.A.U in Aix en Provence of summer 2009.  Maybe it will help them see how what we have touched on, even in History of Photography, is related to actual real life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willy Ronis is dead, he was 99.  He was the quintessential survivor, seemingly eternal, the last of the mohicans of that tribe from the 50's and 60's when Henri Cartier-Bresson was leading the crew.   This is when the "humanist style," as it came to be called, and whose epicenter seemed to be in Paris, offered the world an alternative to the American school of photography.  Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the early 20th Century photographer, probably inspired this style which appeared so much to be what photography had been invented for-a photography rooted in realism, but also loaded with poetry and aestheticism, endlessly aiming at Cartier-Bresson's definition of photography as: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;the alloy of geometry and emotion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not know who inspired whom, or if this is a case of great spirits meeting each other as should have been expected, but Ronis offered his own beautiful definition: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;A fine image is geometry shaped by the heart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;."  It is often difficult to tell who of Ronis or Cartier-Bresson did this or that photograph.  They often photographed alike, except that Cartier-Bresson was more consistently at the top, and more monolithic as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;  You may have an overlook at Willy Ronis' work &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=willy+Ronis&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=GmiuSqyIKdHulAf7-fzMBg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=5" rel="external"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#000000;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rencontres d'Arles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;, which usually likes to comply with the seemingly necessary wanders of today's modern art lack of wonders, gave Ronis a retrospective.  For us mortals normally presented with a plethora of pseudo destined to oblivion, this was a healthy breath of timelessness.  Ronis died on September 12, one day before the end of the show.  With his passing we reach the end.  They are all dead: Doisneau, Boubat, Cartier-Bresson, Ronis.  They now can shoot each other all day in the improbable paradise for virtuosos of the shutter release.   They left us in a world where the art establishment now favors the likes of Richard Prince (see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jean-christian.net/page0/page50/page62/page62.html" rel="self"&gt;Carambouille au Guggenheim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt; ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While my work evolves following a semantic path reflective of modernity, I am proud to keep as well, when relevant, a connection with the aforementioned lords of photography.  For instance, Doisneau and his "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baiser de l'H&amp;ocirc;tel de Ville&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;" is obviously at the source of my "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Des Amants dans mon Caf&amp;eacute;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;."   And the famous Ronis "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amoureux de la Colonne Bastille&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;" was clearly in my mind when shooting "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le D&amp;eacute;mon sur la Baie des Anges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;."  Lavoisier once claimed "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;nothing gets lost, nothing gets created, all is a product of transformation."  Indeed &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;Art is a continuum in constant evolution, and maybe these four photographs participate in that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Charles Trenet sings:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;A long time, a long time, a long time,&lt;br /&gt;after poets have disappeared, &lt;br /&gt;their songs still run in the streets..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;			&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' &gt; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.easing.1.3.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link rel='stylesheet' href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox.css' type='text/css' media='screen'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	$(document).ready(function() {                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;		$('a[rel=zoom]').fancybox({                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;							zoomSpeedIn: 500,                                                         &lt;br /&gt;                            zoomSpeedOut: 300,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							zoomOpacity : 0,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							overlayShow: 1,&lt;br /&gt;							overlayOpacity: 0.3,&lt;br /&gt;							padding: 10,&lt;br /&gt;							imageScale: 1                                                          &lt;br /&gt;			                                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;		});                                                                                            &lt;br /&gt;	});                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8550621553358854779-6596699208568440666?l=aphotographerspointofview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6596699208568440666' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8550621553358854779&amp;postID=6596699208568440666&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6596699208568440666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6596699208568440666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6596699208568440666' title='Willy Ronis est Mort'/><author><name>clic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15389994091042476081</uri><email>clic@jean-christian.net</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.loghound.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09542707728495051601'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550621553358854779.post-6242057269831941862</id><published>2009-04-08T19:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T19:14:30.662-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political U.S.'/><title type='text'>Le Rouge et le Noir</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGrather-dead-than-red.--raleigh-news-0026-observer.--april-7002c-2009.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='RATHER DEAD THAN RED.  Raleigh News &amp; Observer.  April 7, 2009'&gt;&lt;img  alt='RATHER DEAD THAN RED.  Raleigh News &amp; Observer.  April 7, 2009' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/rather-dead-than-red.--raleigh-news-0026-observer.--april-7002c-2009.jpg" width="1210" height="932"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13px; "&gt;RATHER DEAD THAN RED,  Raleigh News &amp; Observer, April 7, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 54%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; color:#1C1C1C;font-weight:bold; "&gt;THE RED AND THE BLACK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13px; "&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;n 1831, Stendhal published "The Red and the Black," a classic of French literature where clergy and revolutionary aspirations  confront each others.  Clearly the present circumstances in America oppose reactionary forces to the ones of change, whatever the latter entails.  Some today in the U.S. are just as entrenched as was the 19th century French clergy, to keep the social order as they have always known it.  In order to sway public opinion, the fundamentalists of the status quo imply that Barack Obama is a modern Julien Sorel, the hero of Stendhal's novel, a calculating fellow working on seduction, a socialist in disguise, a black man that will turn us all red.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It started during the fall campaign, when the soon to become &amp;ldquo;Joe the Plummer&amp;rdquo; asked Obama if he was going to raise his taxes.  Obama answered that he was advocating for some redistribution of wealth.  REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?  For some time the pundits thought that Obama had made a major strategic error.  He became accused of being a Socialist who wanted to take Joe's dough.  Sarah Palin was not completely discredited yet, and she and Mc Cain grabbed that appearance of an opportunity and ran on it to the end.  Few at the time voiced that "redistribution of wealth" did not equate to socialism, that the U.S. was already "redistributing wealth" to the great sorrow of most Republicans, and that nevertheless absolutely nobody would call the U.S. a socialist nation.  Even fewer, if any, murmured that Socialism after all was not such a bad word, that most of Europe, at least by comparison to the U.S. is perceived as being "somewhat" socialist, and is shown as an example of progress, a desirable place to visit if not to live, by many educated Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGjoe0027s-do.--sarah-palin0027s-rally002c-raleigh-nc.--nov-1002c-2008.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='JOE&amp;apos;S DO.  Sarah Palin&amp;apos;s Rally, Raleigh NC.  Nov 1, 2008'&gt;&lt;img  alt='JOE&amp;apos;S DO.  Sarah Palin&amp;apos;s Rally, Raleigh NC.  Nov 1, 2008' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/joe0027s-do.--sarah-palin0027s-rally002c-raleigh-nc.--nov-1002c-2008.jpg" width="604" height="629"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;It is inspiring to note that in their desperation to find an angle against Obama, the Republicans chose to use "socialist" as an epithet, rather than the more classic "communist," the mother of all bad words.  Communist would probably have been perceived as too much for what is after all a very mild mannered man, nobody's idea of a rabid Bolshevik.  Yet calling him socialist, a rare sign of sophistication from folks who generally promote primary thinking,  begs the question: what does that mean? Everybody knows more or less what communism means,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGall-is-lost.--news-0026-observer002c-raleigh-nc.--april-7002c-2009.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='ALL IS LOST.  News &amp; Observer, Raleigh NC.  April 7, 2009'&gt;&lt;img  alt='ALL IS LOST.  News &amp; Observer, Raleigh NC.  April 7, 2009' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/all-is-lost.--news-0026-observer002c-raleigh-nc.--april-7002c-2009.jpg" width="504" height="721"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt; but socialism is fuzzier, as it has evolved in time.  Socialism was never defined very precisely, but clearly started as a somewhat collectivist vision of social organization.  In today's practice, socialism is merely a humanitarian approach to capitalism, one that understands that  society, its economy, has to provide a balance in wealth distribution and that a super concentration of wealth at the top does not bring peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:21px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several months of political quietness followed Obama's victory, but by now his opposition has re-organized, and is back on the socialist refrain, playing on the libertarian cord to promote an antiquated discredited conservative agenda.  It is stunning to this observer that fifty plus years after Mc Carthy, and in the midst of an economic crisis that many claim, sounds the end of capitalism, being associated with socialism in America, is still like having the plague.  When capitalism has failed health care in America, has brought so many Americans lately into bankruptcy, has proven ineffective at providing a sorely needed high speed train network and other essential infrastructure to America, wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be wise to have an open mind and recognize that whether one calls it socialism or a bigger place for government intervention, something needs to be done to keep the fox out of the hen house?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="margin-left: 60%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:22px; color:#1C1C1C;font-weight:bold; "&gt;LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:17px; "&gt;Lorsque Stendhal publie Le Rouge et le Noir en 1831, il cache dans un drame romantique une remise en question des valeurs du Clerg&amp;eacute; sous lesquelles s'arc-boute la bourgeoisie.  Parall&amp;egrave;lement, dans l&amp;rsquo;&amp;egrave;re Obama, l&amp;rsquo;Am&amp;eacute;rique est le th&amp;eacute;&amp;acirc;tre d&amp;rsquo;un conflit entre les forces r&amp;eacute;actionnaires et celles de progr&amp;egrave;s, quelle que soit la d&amp;eacute;finition de celui-ci par ceux qui ont gagn&amp;eacute; l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;lection pr&amp;eacute;sidentielle.  Nombre de conservateurs Am&amp;eacute;ricains d&amp;rsquo;aujourd&amp;rsquo;hui sont aussi fervents d&amp;eacute;fenseurs de l&amp;rsquo;ordre social &amp;eacute;tabli, que l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tait le clerg&amp;eacute; Fran&amp;ccedil;ais du 19e si&amp;egrave;cle.  Afin de gagner l&amp;rsquo;opinion publique &amp;agrave; eux, ils insinuent que Barack Obama est le Julien Sorel contemporain, un s&amp;eacute;ducteur calculateur qui dissimule une &amp;acirc;me socialiste, un noir qui si l&amp;rsquo;on n&amp;rsquo;y prend garde nous tournera tous rouges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout commen&amp;ccedil;a pendant la campagne de l&amp;rsquo;automne 2008, lorsque celui qui allait devenir &amp;ldquo;Joe Le Plombier&amp;rdquo; demanda &amp;agrave; Obama si celui-ci avait l&amp;rsquo;intention d&amp;rsquo;augmenter ses imp&amp;ocirc;ts.  Le futur Pr&amp;eacute;sident r&amp;eacute;pondit qu&amp;rsquo;il &amp;eacute;tait favorable &amp;agrave; une certaine redistribution des richesses.  Patatras!  Pendant quelque temps les commentateurs politiques crurent qu&amp;rsquo;il avait commis une bourde aux cons&amp;eacute;quences strat&amp;eacute;giques incurables.  Obama fut accus&amp;eacute; d&amp;rsquo;&amp;ecirc;tre un socialiste qui voulait prendre l&amp;rsquo;argent de Joe.  Sarah Palin faisait encore illusion, et en compagnie de Mc Cain elle pressa l&amp;rsquo;argument jusqu&amp;rsquo;&amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;coeurement du patient.  Peu &amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;poque murmur&amp;egrave;rent que &amp;ldquo;redistribution des richesses&amp;rdquo; n&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;quivalait pas &amp;agrave; socialisme, que les Etats Unis redistribuaient d&amp;eacute;j&amp;agrave; une certaine partie des richesses, trop aux yeux de beaucoup de R&amp;eacute;publicains, mais que quoi qu&amp;rsquo;il en soit, personne ne sugg&amp;eacute;rerait que l&amp;rsquo;Am&amp;eacute;rique fut socialiste.  Encore moins, si aucuns, n&amp;rsquo;os&amp;egrave;rent qu'apr&amp;egrave;s tout socialisme n&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tait ni un gros mot ni un grand maux, qu&amp;rsquo;une bonne partie de l&amp;rsquo;Europe, en tous cas par comparaison avec l'Am&amp;eacute;rique &amp;eacute;tait plus ou moins socialiste et n&amp;eacute;anmoins per&amp;ccedil;ue par nombre d'Am&amp;eacute;ricains &amp;eacute;duqu&amp;eacute;s comme exemplaire, comme un lieu de vill&amp;eacute;giature si ce n&amp;rsquo;est de r&amp;eacute;sidence particuli&amp;egrave;rement tentant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il est remarquable que dans leur d&amp;eacute;sespoir &amp;agrave; trouver un angle d'attaque sur Obama, les R&amp;eacute;publicains pr&amp;eacute;f&amp;eacute;r&amp;egrave;rent l'&amp;eacute;pith&amp;egrave;te &amp;ldquo;socialiste&amp;rdquo; &amp;agrave; &amp;ldquo;communiste,&amp;rdquo; le p&amp;egrave;re de tous les vilains mots.  Communiste aurait sans doute &amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; per&amp;ccedil;u comme excessif &amp;agrave; propos d&amp;rsquo;un homme qui se complait dans la mesure, et n&amp;rsquo;est ni de pr&amp;egrave;s ni de loin, l&amp;rsquo;id&amp;eacute;e que quiconque puisse avoir d&amp;rsquo;un Bolsh&amp;eacute;vique.  N&amp;eacute;anmoins le qualifier de socialiste, un rare signe de sophistication de la part de ses opposants de droite g&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;ralement coutumiers de la pens&amp;eacute;e reptilienne, force &amp;agrave; s&amp;rsquo;interroger sur le sens v&amp;eacute;ritable du mot?  Chacun sait plus ou moins la signification de &amp;ldquo;communisme,&amp;rdquo; mais celle du socialisme est plus diffuse, semble &amp;eacute;voluer avec le temps et la g&amp;eacute;ographie.  Si le socialisme ne fut jamais d&amp;eacute;fini formellement, il est certain qu&amp;rsquo;Il vint au monde pour y apporter une solution collectiviste aux probl&amp;egrave;mes que le capitalisme naissant du 19e si&amp;egrave;cle rendait &amp;eacute;vidents.  Aujourd&amp;rsquo;hui, le socialisme que Marx concevait comme une &amp;eacute;tape vers le communisme, est devenu une &amp;eacute;volution humaniste du capitalisme, une vision soci&amp;eacute;tale qui comprend l&amp;rsquo;int&amp;eacute;r&amp;ecirc;t de l&amp;rsquo;existence d&amp;rsquo;un partage plus ou moins &amp;eacute;quitable des richesses pour qu&amp;rsquo;une relative harmonie et paix sociale puissent engendrer la prosp&amp;eacute;rit&amp;eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plusieurs mois de calme suivirent la victoire d&amp;rsquo;Obama, mais l'opposition maintenant rass&amp;eacute;r&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;e reprend le couplet socialiste, jouant avec la sensibilit&amp;eacute; libertaire afin de pousser ses th&amp;egrave;ses conservatrices.  Je trouve stup&amp;eacute;fiant que plus de cinquante ans apr&amp;egrave;s le Mc Carthysm, et au milieu d&amp;rsquo;une crise &amp;eacute;conomique qui selon beaucoup, sonne la fin du capitalisme, &amp;ecirc;tre associ&amp;eacute; avec le socialisme aux Etats Unis, serait toujours comme avoir la peste.  Lorsque le capitalisme ruine le syst&amp;egrave;me de sant&amp;eacute; en Am&amp;eacute;rique, a mis bon nombre d&amp;rsquo;Am&amp;eacute;ricains en banqueroute, c&amp;rsquo;est prouv&amp;eacute; incapable de g&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;rer ou maintenir un r&amp;eacute;seau ferroviaire et d&amp;rsquo;autres infrastructures qui manquent cruellement aux Am&amp;eacute;ricains, il est vraisemblablement temps pour ceux-ci de faire preuve d&amp;rsquo;ouverture d&amp;rsquo;esprit et de reconna&amp;icirc;tre que quel que soit le nom qu&amp;rsquo;on lui donne, &amp;ldquo;socialisme&amp;rdquo; ou &amp;ldquo;plus grande intervention de l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tat,&amp;rdquo; un nouvel ordre de bataille est n&amp;eacute;cessaire afin de garder le renard &amp;agrave; l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;cart du poulailler.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; color:#1C1C1C;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;			&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' &gt; &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.easing.1.3.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link rel='stylesheet' href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/jquery.fancybox.css' type='text/css' media='screen'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	$(document).ready(function() {                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;		$('a[rel=zoom]').fancybox({                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;							zoomSpeedIn: 500,                                                         &lt;br /&gt;                            zoomSpeedOut: 300,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							zoomOpacity : 0,                                                        &lt;br /&gt;							overlayShow: 1,&lt;br /&gt;							overlayOpacity: 0.3,&lt;br /&gt;							padding: 10,&lt;br /&gt;							imageScale: 1                                                          &lt;br /&gt;			                                                                                           &lt;br /&gt;		});                                                                                            &lt;br /&gt;	});                                                                                                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8550621553358854779-6242057269831941862?l=aphotographerspointofview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6242057269831941862' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8550621553358854779&amp;postID=6242057269831941862&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6242057269831941862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6242057269831941862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jean-christian.net/Blog/Blog.php?id=6242057269831941862' title='Le Rouge et le Noir'/><author><name>clic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15389994091042476081</uri><email>clic@jean-christian.net</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.loghound.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09542707728495051601'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550621553358854779.post-2407077681097252823</id><published>2008-11-26T16:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T19:14:27.788-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Culture U.S.'/><title type='text'>The Flag</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="width: 46%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGgrand-central-terminal.--december-2007.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL.  December 2007'&gt;&lt;img  alt='GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL.  December 2007' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/grand-central-terminal.--december-2007.jpg" width="654" height="681"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 51%;"&gt;&lt;div style="width: 45%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:27px; "&gt;The Flag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;November 25, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Since the election of Barack Obama, this November 4, we are told that some liberals, or should I probably say, &amp;ldquo;some progressive minded folks,&amp;rdquo; have started to fly the flag on their house. That's news. An article in the paper explained that these guys are proud of their country again, hence the display. This prompted the "nationalist guard" to write to the editor that these shameless Americans (these occasional flag wavers) should be proud of their country regardless of who is in the White house. Naturally this prompts one to wonder whether the pride for one's nation should be unconditional?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 53%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:25px; "&gt;Le Drapeau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Le 25 Novembre 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:27px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Depuis l&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;lection de Barack Obama ce 4 Novembre, l'on nous dit que certains &amp;ldquo;gauchistes&amp;rdquo; ou encore &amp;ldquo;progressistes,&amp;rdquo; se sont mis &amp;agrave; d&amp;eacute;ployer le drapeau Am&amp;eacute;ricain sur leur maison, ce qui est nouveau. Le journal explique que ces derniers adeptes du drapeau &amp;agrave; tous vents, sont redevenus fiers de leur pays, et veulent le faire savoir. Cela a rendu furieux les habituels agiteurs du dit drapeau, et certain &amp;eacute;crirent au journal, clamant que ces mauvais Am&amp;eacute;ricains devraient &amp;ecirc;tre fiers de leur pays quel que soit son pr&amp;eacute;sident. Naturellement l'on se demande alors si la fiert&amp;eacute; que chacun peut avoir pour sa patrie doit &amp;ecirc;tre inconditionelle?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGamerica-in-denial.--mc-donald-drugstore002c-durham002c-nc.--september-2001.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='AMERICA IN DENIAL.  Mc Donald Drugstore, Durham, NC.  September 2001'&gt;&lt;img  alt='AMERICA IN DENIAL.  Mc Donald Drugstore, Durham, NC.  September 2001' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/america-in-denial.--mc-donald-drugstore002c-durham002c-nc.--september-2001.jpg" width="1404" height="954"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:23px; font-weight:bold; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13px; "&gt;AMERICA IN DENIAL. Mc Donald Drugstore, Durham, NC, September 2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 50%; float: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;I have been living in this country for 15 plus years, and I am still not sure where that flag business comes from. I have always seen way more flags everywhere in this suburb of the world than anywhere I have been before, including banana republics. The only place where I have seen flags in approaching amounts is Switzerland, and yet, not to the U.S. extent. I am not sure whether it is a coincidence or not that Switzerland is a federal State as well.  Clearly there was a resurgence of flags after 9/11, that can still be felt today, as one can always count on the nationalist crowd to be vocal. One of the laws of social genetics appearing to be that hawks always crow louder than doves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGpatriot0027s-warehouse.--durham002c-nc.--2002.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='PATRIOT&amp;apos;S WAREHOUSE.  Durham, NC.  2002'&gt;&lt;img  alt='PATRIOT&amp;apos;S WAREHOUSE.  Durham, NC.  2002' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/patriot0027s-warehouse.--durham002c-nc.--2002.jpg" width="854" height="943"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As has been admitted by now, the U.S. in the aftermath of 9-11 missed a chance to build on the worldwide sympathy it then enjoyed. Instead, the Bush rulers opted for a reptilian type response with slogans like "you are either with us, or against us", telling Americans and the world, that terrorists were after their freedom, thereby building on the persistent myth that Americans are the freest people on earth. The sprouting of flags after 9-11 seems by and large to be a symptom of people responding favorably to those theories, hence my title for the photograph above, "America in Denial," which is also the title of my series on this subject: the omnipresence of the flag in today's America and its function as a tool to own Americans by the guts.  See the Art series &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://jean-christian.net/page3/../page0/page52/page52.html" rel="external" title="America in Denial"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt; and a longer stock version on the American Flag &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://jean-christian.net/page3/../page46/page54/page54.html" rel="external" title="The American Flag"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;The photograph "Patriots' Warehouse" is especially rich. Of course the subject is rare. Only in America, and not every day, would one see in the western world such a full scale example of nationalism and military pride. This is a subject one would rather expect to find in U.S.S.R., North Korea, or the like. I was lucky to be allowed to take this photograph, and lucky to be able to find such an harmony of colors, lots of red and blue, the store and the flag colors blending, and that cart passing by on the foreground which brings life to the stripes of the flag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="image-right"&gt;&lt;a href='http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/BIGerror-in-the-war-on-terror.--lexington-ave002c-nyc.--july-2008.jpg.jpg' rel='zoom' title='ERROR IN THE WAR ON TERROR.  Lexington Ave, NYC.  July 2008'&gt;&lt;img  alt='ERROR IN THE WAR ON TERROR.  Lexington Ave, NYC.  July 2008' class='imageStyle' src="http://jean-christian.net/page3/files/error-in-the-war-on-terror.--lexington-ave002c-nyc.--july-2008.jpg" width="854" height="871"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Six years have passed. It is a different America, and here, in the photograph "Error in the War on Terror," it is a different crowd, a New York one, Bohemian, the current hippy, yet I find it symbolic of a different state of mind, one certainly less conservative than the rest of the nation, but not as divorced from it as it once was. Still a full crop of stripes, but "Why are we fighting?" says the barmaid's shirt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Isn't it stupefying how fast reality has imposed itself to America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Denial has certainly not vanished for good from American politics, but it has been severely defeated, and now the victors are claiming the flag too, which they say had been hijacked for too long by the nationalists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It sure is a beautiful flag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div style="margin-left: 60%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;Cela fait plus de 15 ans que j'habite dans cette banlieue du monde, et je ne suis toujours pas certain de l'origine de cet engouement que beaucoup d' Am&amp;eacute;ricains ont, pour leur drapeau. J'ai toujours vu davantage de drapeaux ici que n'importe o&amp;ugrave; j'ai pu aller dans le monde, y compris les r&amp;eacute;publiques banani&amp;egrave;res. Le seul endroit que je connaisse o&amp;ugrave; l'on puisse trouver l'&amp;eacute;tendard national dans une densit&amp;eacute; approchante, est la Suisse, mais tout de m&amp;ecirc;me pas dans une telle proportion. Le fait que la Suisse soit aussi un &amp;eacute;tat f&amp;eacute;d&amp;eacute;ral n'est peut-&amp;ecirc;tre qu'une coincidence .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a clairement eu une &amp;eacute;ruption de drapeaux apr&amp;egrave;s le 11 Septembre. On en voit toujours les signes, quoique amoindris, cons&amp;eacute;quence naturelle de la force vocale des nationalistes. Une des lois de la g&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;tique sociale n'est-elle pas que les va-t-en guerre crient toujours plus forts que les pacifistes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il est d&amp;eacute;sormais admis que apr&amp;egrave;s le 11 Septembre, les Etats Unis ont g&amp;acirc;ch&amp;eacute; l'&amp;eacute;lan de sympathie que les attentats leur avaient amen&amp;eacute;. Le r&amp;eacute;gime Bush a opt&amp;eacute; pour une r&amp;eacute;action de caract&amp;egrave;re reptilien avec des slogans comme "soit vous &amp;ecirc;tes avec nous, soit vous &amp;ecirc;tes contre nous," pr&amp;eacute;tendant que les terroristes en avaient &amp;agrave; la libert&amp;eacute; des Am&amp;eacute;ricains, perp&amp;eacute;tuant par cela le mythe de la sup&amp;eacute;riorit&amp;eacute; am&amp;eacute;ricaine en mati&amp;egrave;re de libert&amp;eacute;s individuelles. Il semble que dans l'ensemble, le d&amp;eacute;ferlement de drapeaux apr&amp;egrave;s le 11 Septembre soit un sympt&amp;ocirc;me de l'adh&amp;eacute;sion populaire aux th&amp;egrave;ses de Bush, d'o&amp;ugrave; le titre de la photographie ci-dessus. "America in Denial," ("L'Am&amp;eacute;rique en d&amp;eacute;nie") qui est aussi le titre de ma s&amp;eacute;rie sur le sujet de l'omnipr&amp;eacute;sence du drapeau dans l'Am&amp;eacute;rique d'aujourd'hui, et de sa fonction comme outil permettant de prendre les foules par les tripes.  Vous pouvez visioner Americal In Denial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://jean-christian.net/page3/../page0/page52/page52.html" rel="external" title="America in Denial"&gt;ICI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;, et une version stock sur le drapeau Am&amp;eacute;ricain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://jean-christian.net/page3/../page46/page54/page54.html" rel="external" title="The American Flag"&gt;ICI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px; "&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La photographie "Patriots' Warehouse" est particuli&amp;egrave;rement riche. Le sujet est hors du commun: o&amp;ugrave; dans le monde industrialis&amp;eacute;, si ce n'est aux Etats Unis , pourrait-on voir un tel exemple, grandeur nature, de nationalisme exacerb&amp;eacute; et de fiert&amp;eacute; militaire? Ne s'attendrait-on pas &amp;agrave; trouver cela en U.R.S.S, en Cor&amp;eacute;e du Nord o&amp;ugrave; l'&amp;eacute;quivalent? J'ai eu la chance d'&amp;ecirc;tre autoris&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; prendre cette photo et d'y composer une telle harmonie de couleurs o&amp;ugrave; celles du magasin se fondent avec celles du drapeau. L'image b&amp;eacute;n&amp;eacute;ficie d'une pr&amp;eacute;dominance du rouge et du bleu, avec un chariot qui passe au premier plan et anime les rayures du drapeau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six ans ont pass&amp;eacute; et l'Am&amp;eacute;rique a chang&amp;eacute;. Ici sur la photo "Error in the War on Terror," l'ambiance est toute diff&amp;eacute;rente. Bien s&amp;ucirc;r l'on est &amp;agrave; New York, l'ambiance est toujours moins conservatrice &amp;agrave; New York, mais celle-ci n'est plus aussi &amp;eacute;trang&amp;egrave;re &amp;agrave; celle du reste de la nation. Toujours un foisonnement de rayures, mais le polo de la serveuse dit "Why are we fighting?" (pourquoi nos battons nous?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N'est-il pas &amp;eacute;poustouflant de constater la vitesse &amp;agrave; laquelle la r&amp;eacute;alit&amp;eacute; s'est impos&amp;eacute;e &amp;agrave; l'Am&amp;eacute;rique?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'incapacit&amp;eacute; a adresser tels qu'ils sont, les probl&amp;egrave;mes qui remettent en cause une vision du monde aussi imp&amp;eacute;rialiste que forte &amp;agrave; servir l'auto-satisfaction, n'a certainement pas disparue pour toujours de la politique am&amp;eacute;ricaine. 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