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mercredi 31 mars 2010
mardi 30 mars 2010
Bodil Frendberg
"In my own work I combine fact and fiction to create a new reality. My pictorial content is staged photography and I find inspiration for it in everyday life. The objects I am using are either made props or objects that I have found in flea markets and secondhand shops. The people that I use as models in my staged photographic scenes are often people that I have found in everyday situations. Their body language and facial expressions trigger my imagination to combine the real with fiction. I deliberately stage a scene in front of the camera where a photographic fictional reality is being created. I am the director and costume designer. I create a "narrative tableaux" The human body in conjunction with the prop is placed in an open space. The space is often chosen with the light in mind and I am looking for large windows and openings for the light to travel through and within. The space is well researched before setting the scene and when I have found a space, I will visit the space several times to study the light and to prepare the scene. Props will be laid out and chosen with the space and the human body in mind. The light acts as another layer in the photographic narrative. Within the space I move the scene spontaneously along with the movement of the light. Without the light the scene won't come to life. The light gives the scene character. It's like a light play, where the light falls and shapes the space and the human body and the prop is transformed yet again into another layer of meaning. The light shapes the scene and the human body becomes the actor and with the prop and the light the photographic narrative takes on another dimension. I bring these elements together and try to instigate an interaction and choreograph the scene as it unfolds.
By de-contextualizing the object a transformation in the dialogue between the person, place and prop can happen and the scene briefly acquires another life, another meaning and an unpredictable and exciting other reality that I want to coax out from its hiding place behind our everyday expectations. In this world a bird wing, a fan and an ancient sieve can become hats. Black paper cones could appear as if they were sharp rose thorns in a dark fairy tale. Birds, chairs, balloons, hats, decaying plants, a fan, the ordinary take on a new identity as they deceive us for a short while.
Many of these photographs are lith printed, a photographic darkroom process I have worked with a great deal. The characteristics of the lith print is the pink/brown tone. "
La suite et d'autres photos ici
dimanche 28 mars 2010
Jeanlou Sieff
Atahualpa Yupanqui, Paris, 1983.
Te dejamos, Tatay,
Pa que la tierra te abrigue,
Con tu poncho, y tu perro,
Pa que te cuide,
Nosotros seguiremos... seguiremos...
¡Y al final del destino
Nos toparemos...!
Atahualpa Yupanqui, Cerro Bayo, Ed. Siglo XX, Buenos Aires, 1975.
D'autres portraits de Jeanlou Sieff ici
vendredi 26 mars 2010
Elena Ehrenwald
"My main source of inspiration is my own life, my memories of childhood…of a place and time left behind. I am constantly looking for desolate places and in general spaces that exude a melancholic mood.
At first, the images came flowing spontaneously, apparently without relation to one another. They were born from past experiences, fears, dreams and desires. Throughout time, the subject has always been the same: what’s left behind. This is how Nostalgia (once called The Prison of Memory) was compiled." D'autres photos ici
mercredi 24 mars 2010
dimanche 21 mars 2010
samedi 20 mars 2010
vendredi 19 mars 2010
The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty
© Wim Wenders"Once upon a time there was an enchanted hotel...
... built many, many years ago,
at the beginning of the last century
on the corner of 5th Street and Main,
in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
For a while it was the tallest and most splendid building
in the city.
And it carried the euphemistic name
The Rosslyn Million Dollar Hotel..." Lire la suite ici
jeudi 18 mars 2010
Jan Karski
« Je n’étais pas préparé à ce que j’ai vu, personne n’avait écrit sur une pareille réalité, je n’avais vu aucune pièce, aucun film [...] je savais que des gens mouraient, mais ce n’était pour moi, que des statistiques.
Ce n’était pas l’humanité, on me disait qu’ils étaient des êtres humains, mais ils ne ressemblaient pas à des être humains, ce n’était pas le monde, je n’appartenais pas à cela. C’était une sorte d’enfer, les rues étaient sales, crasseuses, et pleines de gens squelettiques, la puanteur vous suffoquait, il régnait de la tension, de la folie dans ce lieu. Des mères allaitaient leurs bébés dans la rue, alors qu’elles n’avaient pas de seins. Les dépouilles étaient déposées, nues, à même le sol, car les familles n’avaient pas les moyens pour leur payer une sépulture, chaque haillon comptait dans ce lieu, tout s’échangeait, tout se vendait pour survivre, et de ce fait, les dépouilles étaient laissées sur le trottoir, en attendant d’être ramassées par un service spécial. Et, marchant à côté du responsable du Bund, qui avait changé d’allure dans sa façon de se mouvoir, le dos courbé, pour se fondre dans la masse et ne pas se faire remarquer, il m’arrivait de lui demander ce qu’il arrivait à tel ou tel Juif, debout, immobile, les yeux hagards, il me répondait toujours, ils se meurent, souvenez-vous, ils se meurent, dites-leur là bas [...] » (Récit de Jan Karski de sa visite du ghetto de Varsovie, dans un entretien avec Claude Lanzmann)
dimanche 14 mars 2010
Yoshi Shimizu
Chasseurs-cueilleurs ogiek, Kenya.
"In the absence of a witness, nothing exists. Fact can be established only in the presence of a witness. As a photographer, I have the privilege of being an eyewitness to bear testimony of human dramas. Existence of the men, women, and children in these photographs will now become an undeniable fact to you as you are about to be a witness through the power of photography."
Le site de Yoshi ici.
vendredi 12 mars 2010
Russel Lee
Dimanche de Pâques, Chicago, avril 1941. Jeunes filles attendant la procession devant l'église épiscopale. (via shorpy)
jeudi 11 mars 2010
Julia Margaret Cameron
Danziger Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming participation in AIPAD at the Park Avenue Armory. From March 18 - 21, 2010, the gallery will be exhibiting works from a range of artists including: Christopher Bucklow, Julia Margaret Cameron, Adam Fuss, Seydou Keita, Jim Krantz, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Viviane Sassen, Mario Sorrenti, George Tice, and Edward Weston.
For a preview of the works we will be showing, please click here.
mardi 9 mars 2010
vendredi 5 mars 2010
Stephan Vanfleteren
Son site contient une série d'étonnants portraits et plusieurs reportages dont l'un en Colombie, d'où cette photo est tirée. A ne pas manquer.
jeudi 4 mars 2010
Snjezana Josipovic
"Snjezana’s photographs catch your eye within millions of others. They’re quiet and beautiful. You stare at them and don’t ask questions. You don’t want to know if it’s the light or the colors, the landscape or the geometry that does the magic." Lire la suite et une interview de Snjezana Josipovic, jeune et talentueuse photographe croate ici.
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