Posts Tagged With: History

TOUCH THE PAST

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,

man is an invention of recent date.

And one perhaps nearing its end.”

~ Michel Foucault ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Exposure, Find Material, Future, History, Illustration, Life, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Scraper, Shovel, Surveying, Time, Touch, Trowel, Years | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time | 1 Comment

THE END OF AN EMPIRE

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“An intelligence that is not humane

is the most dangerous thing in the world .”

~ Ashley Montagu ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Avarice, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Empire, Future, History, Life, Machiavellianism, Opportunistic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rubble, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

WAG THE DOG

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Any man can make mistakes,

but only an idiot persists in his error.”

~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Neolithic dog burial taken in February 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Awareness, Bimbo, Bitch, Compassion, Comprehension, Consequences, Corruption, Cult, Death, Depravity, Digital Imagery, Distraction, Empathy, Fascist Pig, Filth, Future, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Immorality, Intelligence, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Sense, Silicone, Teeny Weenie, Tiny Hands, Understanding, Worshipers | 1 Comment

REVOLUTION NOW!

Posted on 05/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“How can I rise if you don’t fall?”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anarchy, Capitalism, Capitalist Pigs, Cheek, Conviction, Cooperation, Corruption, Crimes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Extreme Measures, Fascist Pigs, Firing Squad, Future, Govern, Guillotine, History, Institutions, Interests, Justice, Life, Morality, Past, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Punishment, Radical Action, Re-education, Revolution, Rope, Self Interest, Selfishness, Serve, Street Art, Trial | 1 Comment

THE LAST OF MY KIND

Posted on 02/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish;

selfishness makes people selfish.”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancestors, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, End Of The Line, Existence, Extinguished, Failures, Future, History, Joys, Last Of My Kind, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Procreation, Progeny, Successes, Time, Torch, Tragedies | 1 Comment

LAYERS LAID DOWN

Posted on 29/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life is like an onion.

You peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of geological and archaeological layers taken in August 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Book, Digital Imagery, Disturbances, Existence, Experiences, Formation, Future, History, Layers, Life, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Surface, Time, Veneer, Years | 1 Comment

COLOURFUL WORLD

Posted on 19/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”

~ Mark Twain ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in August 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adaptation, Beauty, Black, Colour, Death, Differences, Digital Imagery, Diversity, Evolution, History, Homo Sapiens, Life, Love, Masks, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Population, Race, Skin Colour, Time, Volcanic Event, White | 1 Comment

VENUS EXPOSED

Posted on 18/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scanned 35mm slide taken in late 1998. From the author’s private archives.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Beauty, Breasts, Buried, Centuries, Clay, Darkness, Deities, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Goddesses, Gods, Grave, Hips, History, Imagination, Kiln, Life, Love, Misfired, Past, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Roman Empire, Shoulders, Statue, Temperature, Time, Venus | 1 Comment

SHEEP

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

~ Moliere ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aristocrat, Bigots, Bleat, Bollocks, Capitalism, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flock, Future, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, History, Ignorance, Intelligence, Lambs, Life, Mask, Misdeeds, Misnomers, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Past, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Revolution, Rich, Sheep, Shepherd, Slaughter, Snore, Street Art, Stupidity, Time | 1 Comment