McCullin travels around the world to scenes of war, famine, murder, torture, poverty, and disease (places like Biafra, Cyprus, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and Bangladesh) with the object of taking photographs that "show how bad it is," and some of his pictures show it only too well.
"Well, I suppose it would be the common sense of the common man – a campaigning organisation with the object of taking us into direct democracy like they have in Switzerland [where] there's referendums on everything to do with public spending".
Time and again, he would enact the song as well as sing it, taking one knee in gratitude to the object of affection, taking both knees to emphasize his devotion, to the audience, to the musicians, to the song.
In Sheboygan, at least, it is also an object of veneration, taken as seriously as a lock of some medieval saint's hair.
Mr. Cardillo's use of his virtuoso prints, rather than the found and collected objects of Fluxus, takes this in a different direction — and, of course, connects with the local environment and Uruguay's insect world.
The basic principle behind this technique is to calculate the displacements on the surface of an object by taking images of a random speckle pattern in undeformed and deformed state.
The involvement of objects takes care of the representational element he likes to incorporate, without breaking the vow of the palette.
Respect for some categories of objects is not just a matter of taking the object's value into consideration but of valuing the object, and valuing it intrinsically.
The concept "object" is a means of taking into account the persistence in time or the continuity, respectively, of certain groups of experience-complexes.
A guitar set on a guéridon, or tripod table, with a faint suggestion of a human figure through the arrangement of objects, takes fantasy to its utmost within the Cubist framework.
