I laugh
I laugh
You laugh
We laugh
Nothing else matters
But this laughing we love
You just have to know how to be stupid and happy
– Blaise Cendrars
I laugh 
I laugh
You laugh
We laugh
Nothing else matters
But this laughing we love
You just have to know how to be stupid and happy 
andrew k peterson 
When my great aunt Edie passed away in Spring 2004, my father and I travelled from Phoenix to Bucks County, PA. to clean out her apartment. In her closet I found shoe boxes of slides from her many trips around the world & scenes in NYC where she’d lived for 50 years. These “Edie Sequences” are photos of her photos, shot by me as viewed through her AGFASCOP 20 Slide Viewer. The images here are blurrier than the originals, partly because of my crude documentaion, but seem appropriate in the sense that these images are coming to us through time, through the distance of memory. The black frames around the images seem true, as if viewing not only a movie screen’s image, but also the space around the screen. Her eye for both the common gesture and the beautiful, the grand landscape and the minute details of her subject are, to me, as hypnotizing as any moving image. -akp
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these edie sequences are alive!!! Andy, these are excellent examplesof Benjamin’s dialectics of seeing…these images carry within them the relational convergences of past/present, in all of their implications, by reaching back through film and re-presenting time in photos of photos, and because susan buck-morss said it so well when talking about benjamin in her book dialectics of seeing…i will quote her: A construction of history that looks backward, rather than forward, at the destruction of material nature as it has actually taken place, provides dialectical contrast to the futurist myth of historical progress (which can onlybe sustained by forgetting what has happened).much love and thanks for these wonderful images of people in the past AKP!
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thanx, jared. check out the new one, “to conversations”, for you!akp
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