Faces of Ten Men
“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”
-Daniel J Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
Faces of Ten Man
Tag: faces of man
Hermann Hesse: “A Flowing River of Faces. . .Which All Came and Disappeared”
Photographers Unknown, The Faces of Man: Photo Set Four
“He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha, instead he saw other faces, many, a long sequence, a flowing river of faces, of hundreds, of thousands, which all came and disappeared, and yet all seemed to be there simultaneously, which all constantly changed and renewed themselves, and which were still all Siddhartha.”
-Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Tom Robbins: “Flesh is Water. Stones are like Bones. Satisfied. Patient.”
Photographers Unknown, Faces of Man : Flesh and Stone
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones?”
–Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Nicholas Christopher: “It Was a Riveting Face”
The Faces of Man: Photo Set Three
“After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins near Verona, The frieze, which depicted a band of musicians, had once been shadowed beneath a cornice high on the temple of Mercury, god of magic. Belonging to one of the musicians, it was a riveting face – like a puzzle that could not be solved.”
― Nicholas Christopher
Charles McKay: “The Opinions That Governed Ages That Fled”
The Faces of Man: Photo Set Two
“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.”
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Faces of Man: Ornamentation
Faces of Man: Ornamentation
Carson McCullers: “People Felt Themselves Watching Him”
A Collection: Faces of Man: Photo Set One
“People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.”
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