mercredi 17 février 2010
mardi 16 février 2010
dimanche 14 février 2010
Susan Burnstine
"As a child, I suffered vivid nightmares that stayed with me for days. Often, I would walk around not sure if I was dreaming or awake, as the lines between the two remained blurred. Existing within the shadows of the unconscious made life a curious synthesis of magic and reality. Portals to the unknown emerged, offering me pathways that seemed to bridge the gap between real and unreal, life and death. Though the intensity of my dreams did not lessen as an adult, my response transformed. Initially, I was lost within the haze of my dreams. But now, it is through my dreams that I truly see."
Son site ici (via Lenscratch)
samedi 13 février 2010
Voices from the Day of Slavery
Esclaves du général F. Dryton, mai 1862. Photo Henry P. Moore.
"The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond."
Lire la suite et écouter les interviews : Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio interviews, American Memory from the Library of Congress
Don McCullin
Marine US, Hue, Vietnam, février 1968. © Don McCullin.
"Shaped by War", une exposition de 50 ans d'images de McCullin à l'Imperial War Museum, Manchester, Royaume Uni, jusqu'au 13 juin. Lire l'article du Guardian sur cet homme remarquable qui, à propos de ses reportages de guerre disait : "Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed."
Via l'excellent blog Politics, Theory & Photography
jeudi 11 février 2010
lundi 8 février 2010
L'album d'Auschwitz
Cet album de photos sur l'arrivée de juifs hongrois à Auschwitz en mai 1944 a été découvert après la guerre par Lily Jacob, une survivante du camp. C'est le seul document de ce type. L'album d'Auschwitz
dimanche 31 janvier 2010
samedi 30 janvier 2010
Jerome David Salinger
"Dès les années 1950, et surtout depuis la décennie suivante, Jerome David Salinger a fait l'objet d'un culte à sens unique tout à fait particulier : une relation faite de tendresse, de confiance, d'émotion de la part de ses lecteurs. Les personnages que cet écrivain américain a créés ont été pour des générations des êtres réels, amis, confidents, âmes jumelles. Salinger, de son côté, a constamment refusé toute communication tant avec la presse qu'avec ses lecteurs, allant jusqu'à interdire à son agent et à sa famille de lui faire suivre son courrier que de toute façon il ne lirait pas. Retour à l'envoyeur. Inconnu à cette adresse. Ne pas faire suivre. Et pourtant, ses lecteurs continuaient à penser qu'il comprendrait, qu'il saurait, qu'il était là, rien que pour eux. Lire la suite de l'article de Martine Silber sur lemonde.fr
Lire l'article de Charles McGrath dans le New York Times. Lire celui de son amie Lillian Ross dans le New Yorker. Lire toutes ses nouvelles parues dans le New Yorker ici.
lundi 18 janvier 2010
Rodney Smith
"Early on in my years of doing assignment work, I was asked to work for Coach, the manufacturer of leather goods. The campaign was entitled Descendants of Famous People. I think I did three or four of these ads, but the one I would like to discuss is one I did with a young woman who was a descendant of Babe Ruth. It felt natural, and obviously appropriate, to shoot this picture at Yankee Stadium in New York. I remember that this 20 year old woman lived in another state, so she did not arrive until the morning of the shoot. On that morning, we (the talent, myself, the stylist, the hair and makeup person, assistants, etc.) all met at the location van. The woman appeared quite sad, forlorn, and uncomfortable. She obviously was not used to the attention. Her true life had no relation to the glory of Babe Ruth. She only had his genes. She was raised in a very humble manner, and carried herself with her head down, and with an extreme, uncomfortable self-consciousness." La suite à The End Starts Here.
Bruce Davidson
Time of Change, 1961. Voir sa conférence "Time of Change" (2003) et écouter "Seeing Myself (1978) sur l'excellente Lecture Series Online de l'International Center of Photography.
dimanche 17 janvier 2010
samedi 16 janvier 2010
mardi 12 janvier 2010
Boris Klapwald
Grand Central Terminal, New York, 1953. Voir 4 autres photos. Lire l'article de David Margolick dans le New York Times
dimanche 10 janvier 2010
lundi 4 janvier 2010
vendredi 18 décembre 2009
Charis Wilson (1914-2009)
"She was everything you could dream of as a muse and companion and she had quite a life. She was the all-American dream girl - beautiful, natural, smart, and unselfconscious." via The Year in Pictures
Milton Rogovin
A l'occasion de ses 100 ans, exposition de Milton Rogovin à la galerie
Danziger Projects
534 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
du 17 décembre 2009 au 16 janvier 2010
mercredi 16 décembre 2009
Cig Harvey
Eyes Like Disappointed Lemons
'I am drawn to moments of fragility. I use photography to legitimize these in between times of struggle, uncertainty and doubt.'
mardi 15 décembre 2009
Bruce Davidson
Si vous êtes à New York, ne manquez pas la fabuleuse exposition "Five Decades" de Bruce Davidson à la Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, jusqu'au 19 décembre.
dimanche 13 décembre 2009
jeudi 10 décembre 2009
Peter Martensen
The Lesson, 2009
"Aujourd’hui, je suis plutôt préoccupé par la question de savoir si mes peintures fonctionnent en tant qu’image. Même si je me sers depuis quelques années davantage de photos de journaux ou de prises de vue de télévision comme point de départ pour les peintures, j’ai toujours utilisé seulement des images reflétant mon propre sentiment intérieur et il ne m’a jamais intéressé de reproduire exactement ce que je voyais. Je perçois les photos des journaux comme une sorte d’esquisse brute à partir de laquelle je modifie et recrée. Vers le point où la peinture est à la fois peinture et image."
On peut voir d'autres peintures sublimes de Peter Martensen à la Galerie Maria Lund, 48 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris (Exposition collective du 10 décembre 2009 au 9 janvier 2010)
mercredi 9 décembre 2009
Dick Sanders : Faces On the Street
"All of these portraits were made in the downtown sections of Los Angeles and San Diego between 2006 and 2008. My method is to set up on a busy sidewalk and then ask passersby if they will stand for a portrait. Very few agree to participate. Those who do usually allow me just a minute or two. And there's the challenge. What can I draw out? What will they reveal? Always I am looking for emotional complexity and the suggestion of time beyond this one moment."
Rita Bernstein
"I began to photograph in earnest in 1990, a point in my life when I had recently left my career as a civil rights lawyer and had two young children to whom I was tethered. Initially I intended to make the kinds of pictures any doting mother would, but, in fact, the transition from office to home was difficult for me, and that truth quickly showed up in my photographs. I explored the sorrows as well as the sweetness of family life and, more generally, the ambivalence that shadows intimate relationships. In watching my own children, I was reminded of the conflicts and restlessness that had pervaded my own girlhood. My eye was more that of the child than of the parent, and the domestic landscape pictures strike me now as deeply autobiographical." D'autres photos sur Photo Eye Gallery
dimanche 6 décembre 2009
vendredi 4 décembre 2009
Alec Guiness by Cornell Capa, 1952
“Versatile and self-effacing actor who turned anonymity into an art form and himself into an international star,” wrote the Times in Guinness obituary. If there was one image that defined Guinness’s acting, this Capa image would be that one.
Robert Capa, Trotsky à Copenhague
In November 1932, the great Robert Capa was just a beginner photojournalist. That month, he received his first significant assignment as a photojournalist when his superiors at Dephot (a famous photoagency that the time) sent to him Copenhagen, Denmark to cover a speech being given there by the exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky was lecturing Danish students on the history of the Russian revolution on November 27, 1932. Capa smuggled his inconspicuous Leica into the stadium and position himself near to where Trotsky was speaking and clandestinely snapped a series of photographs that superbly captured the energy of the impassioned Russian orator and the drama of the moment, so much so that Berlin’s Der Welt Spiegel devoted a full page to Capa’s photographs. It was Capa’s first published story. Via Iconic Photos
Winston Churchill by Yousef Karsh
It was one of the most famous portraits ever made. Some say it is the most reproduced image in history. It was on the cover of LIFE magazine when WWII ended. The photo was taken by one of the most famous portrait photographers, Yousef Karsh–known as Karsh of Ottawa–on 30 December, 1941, after Churchill gave a speech to Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. D'autres portraits de Karsh ici
via Iconic Photos
jeudi 3 décembre 2009
mercredi 2 décembre 2009
Julius Schulman
The New Frontier. May 9, 1960. A landmark image in the history of modern architecture: Julius Shulman's nighttime shot of Ann Lightbody and Cynthia Murfee in Case Study House No. 22, the Stahl residence in the Hollywood Hills, overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Architect: Pierre Koenig. The photo, taken with a Swiss-made Sinar 4x5 view camera, is a double exposure: Seven minutes for the background, then a flash shot for the interior, the house lights having been replaced with flashbulbs. (via Shorpy)
Inscription à :
Articles (Atom)