Charlotte Krontiris
Articles by Charlotte Krontiris:
Clothes on Camera
in Issue 11 | Behind the Camera (Dec 2011)street style photographs - escapism and aestheticism - some bit of private business - a craftsman, disciplined and proud - to paint with a particular spirit
Good Morning Heartache
in Issue 8 | Hunger (Sep 2011)that miserable truck - her eyes half-closed and her face lifted up to the sky - « Why was I born to love you? » - a sad, starving heart - love a wretch, and be left wanting - two different sorts of cravings - Holiday's nightmarish journey - why make it such a mellow pleasure? - ruthless awareness of our ordinary lives
Genuine Society
in Issue 5 | Realism (Jun 2011)quoting her cleverest critic - « entirely, impeccably right » - « Silver That Shines Or None » - rule-making, a « cyborg art » - what is really ours - transparency of character - obsessive, prescriptive, and arbitrary - « You May Send Yourself A Telegram » - « sticky or filled with cream » - bridge impulse and action - the great, messy unknown
At Covey’s Farm: History in the Mind’s Eye
in Issue 4 | The Progress of Memory (May 2011)a girl-spy in the Resistance - intricately plotted daydreams - a New England landscape without trees - historical memories that verged on delusions - the Lost Cause of the Confederacy - something more ephemeral, what it was like - the past is unrelentingly unfamiliar - « an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships » - « O that I were free! » - I can almost imagine