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Gravity.

Pradip Malde — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:23:10 +0000

Kiran. Luca. Gravity.
St. George Island, FL. November, 2011

Kiran. Star.

Pradip Malde — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:15:32 +0000

Kiran. Star.
Sewanee, TN. February 2011

fifteen years ago

Pradip Malde — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:22 +0000

Mehrangir Fort, Jodhpur, India
November 14, 1995

I slept in this room for a week, fifteen years ago
overlooking the town of Jodhpur

bjorn’s packet

Pradip Malde — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:47:06 +0000

i received a packet
from bjorn sterri
it contained a negative

Night

Pradip Malde — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:47:28 +0000

Night

relocating invention

Pradip Malde — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:34:19 +0000

an intriguing new project crests horizon layered orkney aristotle would have loved its intrinsic teleology:

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thanks Alistair!

luca draws a faceNice

Pradip Malde — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:44:46 +0000

Luca Malde, Nice Monster, October 25 2008
ink on paper

happy 91st birthday Ron!

Pradip Malde — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:01:10 +0000

Passion Flower, Berkeley, CA.
1986
platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in.

My friend Ron Partridge turned 91 a few days ago. He celebrated by attending a reception / exhibition of his work at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. I wish I could have been there to hear him talk. This image was made in his living room, while he kept running in and out gathering food and flowers from his garden, and challenging me to make a good photograph with the bounty. Ron, you and Elizabeth SR have given me so many gifts. Thank you. [Thanks for the link, Elizabeth!]

brassai eye

Pradip Malde — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:53:17 +0000

Luca, Brassai-eye.
August, 2008
Polaroid Type 779

It is the mid-anniversary of photographer Brassai’s death and birth (real name Gyula Halász, Sept. 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984). This Polaroid, in honor and memory of him.

John Loengard: Brassai’s Eye, Paris, 1981
Gelatin Silver print

moonrise, lake baikal

Pradip Malde — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:40:02 +0000

moonrise, Lake Baikal, Siberia.

from series, ‘Prayer and Despair‘

1995.

platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in.

My friend Chris Bucklow, in a discussion (What’s in the Dwat) of Phillip Guston’s work, considers the use of rising suns as a symbolization of polarization and dichotomy. Multiple suns, moons, selves; multiplicity. Even Salman Rushdie, in his new book, The Enchantress of Florence, puts the reader into Akbar The Great’s mind as he struggles with these multiple selves. I wonder at the frequency with which multiplicity appears in any handling of the larger (existential, dare I say it) questions about our being. Is it possible that through this ‘prismatizing’, of separating out into a multitude of channels of a conjoined experience, we are perhaps giving ourselves an indication that ‘mind’ itself is a formulation, a meta-symbol of symbols? Borges’ Library of Babel is another indication of this.