“Not a formless sublime exceeding and annihilating the beautiful, but an endless display of beauty, surpassing the beautiful as the ever more beautiful.” – David Bentley Hart
Sola Scriptura permeates the portion of protestant faith I have grown up within. It is a term which tends toward an epistemology that raises the written word above everything else, after all John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” It is powerful, the word—both the spoken word that made everything that was made and the Word through whom life and light was given to “all mankind [as] the light [that] shines in the darkness” that cannot be overcome. But within that same tradition, the word is often eviscerated.
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Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on October 20, 2011 10:59 am.
Filed under: Aesthetics, Culinary Arts, Found Art, Meditations, Music, Photography, Poetry, Theology Tags: Art as Icon, C. S. Lewis, Christ, Christian Art, Daniel Siedell, David Bentley Hart, Jacques Maritain, Makoto Fujimura, Sola Scriptura
Yes, what’s happening in Memphis is truly exciting in regards to its investment in the arts. I don’t know if it is related to a change in guard at the mayor’s office or something more elemental, but over the past 2-3 months I’ve heard word about 3 significant projects on the horizon: 1) The William Eggleston Museum, 2) The William Christenberry Center for the Arts and 3) an Artspace live/work project.
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Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on February 17, 2011 2:05 pm.
Filed under: Local, Photography, Plastic Arts Tags: Artspace, William Christenberry, William Eggleston
Many people believe portraits are an extravagance, and that the needs of the poor are so great that a portrait isn’t worth giving; why not give them something practical? These same people though might call it a tragedy when someone loses all their family photos in a fire or flood. It is a tragedy to be bereft of memories, to never have an image that captures the transience of childhood and when finally as all families must at some point be pulled asunder lack those precious memories caught together.
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Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on December 14, 2009 12:06 pm.
Filed under: Photography, Purpose Tags: Help-Portrait, Jeremy Cowart
If you live in Memphis and you are interested in participating, join the discussion on ning.
Additional links:
- Help-Portrait
- Help-Portrait on Twitter
- Help-Portrait on Facebook
- Jeremy Cowart
The people over at Help-Portrait have given us another promotional video to consider as well as a look at the trial run in Nashville:
Written/Posted by: Jim Allman
Published on October 28, 2009 11:10 am.
Filed under: Photography Tags: Help-Portrait, Jeremy Cowart
Written/Posted by: Gardner Mounce
Published on October 26, 2009 10:39 am.
Filed under: Gardner Mounce, Photography
