One Second to Live: Photography, Film, and the Corporeal in an Age of Extremes
George Porcari's ONE SECOND TO LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, AND THE CORPOREAL IN AN AGE OF EXTREMES is set for release fall 2022. The is a collection of essays, from the last 22 years that have been published in small magazines that deal with photography and film as they relate to the human body.
The book covers the 20th chronologically, starting with the essay ON THE ROAD IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY MEXICO WITH EDWARD WESTON AND TINA MODOTTI - a story that begins in 1919 in Los Angeles. The book covers various photographers and filmmakers that are a part of the fabric of the "century of extremes."
Introduction: An Age of Extremes
1. On the Road in Post-Revolutionary Mexico With Edward Weston and Tina Modotti
2. The Arc of a Dive: The Photography of Leni Riefenstahl and Alexander Rodchenko
3. One Second to Live: A Short History of the Photography of Concern
4. Fuck History, Let’s Dance! Richard Avedon, Paris, 1956
5. Who Shot Marilyn? Photography, Film, and Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Marilyn Monroe
6. Our Man In Vietnam: The Color Photography of Larry Burrows
7. Fellini Goes to the Beach
8. The Delight of the Particular: The Photography of Ronald Traeger
9. A Bridge in Blythe, A Panorama In Waterloo and a Vortex in Time: Photography in the Novels of W.G. Sebald
10. The Book of Phantoms: Valerie Jouve and the Crisis of the Contemporary Portrait
11. Con Jobs, or Even Real Tears: Gerhard Richter’s Painting as Photography as Painting…
12. Zero for Conduct: A Basic Guide to Corporeal Cinema, From Childhood to the End of Life, in Sixteen Films
