Entries from November 2006
November 26, 2006
"Etnic group in Sosa" by Brent Stirton. World Press Photo Award, 2nd, Portraits.
“Photography does a lot to transcend boundaries. A great picture transcends literary boundaries, language boundaries, and cultural boundaries. There are certain things that are common to the human experience: we love our children, we hope for a good life, we understand that life is a struggle. A great picture sums those things up absolutely”
“We live in an age where there is a certain celebrity cult with regards to photojournalism and journalists working in war zones. It’s romanticised. There are a lot of people running around war zones because it’s a rush, because it’s the quickest way of making a name for themselves. The fact is that there are a lot of people out there doing good work who aren’t making a big noise about it; they’re just getting on with the job. Those are the people that I admire.”- Brent Stirton
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 25, 2006
by James Nachtwey
"Even in the age of television, still photography maintains a unique ability to grasp a moment out of the chaos of history and to preserve it and hold it up to the light. It puts a human face on events that might otherwise become clouded in political abstractions and statistics. It gives a voice to people who otherwise would not have one. If journalism is the first draft of history, then photography is all the more difficult, because in capturing a moment you don't get a second chance."
"Hundreds of years from now, when our descendents are trying to understand the time in which we are living, photography will be a crucial part of the record. In the present tense, photography is critical in helping create an atmosphere in which change is possible, not only possible but inevitable. It does this by making an appeal to people's best instincts: generosity, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable. In the long run, photography enters our collective consciousness, and more important, our collective conscience. It becomes an archive of visual memory, so that we learn from the past and apply its lessons to the future."- James Nachtwey
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 23, 2006
by Gerad Rancinan (Polaris)
"My photographs are mere details, fragments of humanity. My work has no other goal but to recount the world I hazard upon, to accompany my contemporaries on a journey, to fix memory in place, to fight incessantly against forgetting"-Gerard Rancinan
Kinuyo Watanabe, age 82, was 23 at the time and 2 km away from the Hypocenter. He is a hibakusha, a survivor of a day when the world went dark. In 1957, the Japanese government recognized certain people as hibakusha:
- Those who had been within 4km of the epicenter the day of the explosion (August 6, 1945)
- Those who had been within 2km of the epicenter within two weeks of the explosion.
- Those caught in the Black Rain.
- Those who treated the victims in the city suburbs.
- Those who were in the wombs of their hibakusha mothers.
Two witnesses were required to validate hibakusha status.
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November 19, 2006
by Douglas Kirkland
“It's interesting how I got started photographing celebrities. It was almost an accident. I was on a fashion shoot for Look magazine in California, and the editors asked me to see Elizabeth Taylor with a writer who was interviewing her in Las Vegas. They had said, "No pictures." I went along and at the end of the interview, I looked her in the eye and said, "Elizabeth, I'm just beginning at Look. Can you imagine what it would mean to me and my career if you would give me an opportunity to photograph you?" She thought for a moment and said, "Come tomorrow night at 8:30." Those pictures ran all over the world. She hadn't been photographed in that way for years and the world couldn't get enough of Elizabeth Taylor in those early 60s days. That catapulted my career, and before I knew it I was next photographing Marilyn and Judy Garland and Dietrich and on. And I was a celebrity photographer.”- Douglas Kirkland
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 18, 2006
by Juliane Eirich
Juliane Eirich is a German photographer working a freelancer in Munich. Her work is simple, bold and beautiful. I particularly like her nice (but short) series of Trees and Night in Bavaria (Landscapes) and schools (Architecture).
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November 11, 2006
by Art Wolfe
"I prefer to be stylistic when shooting an animal. It is almost like a shot in a studio and similar to a commercial photographer's work, with clean lines."- Art Wolfe
Art Wolfe is one of the most recognized travel and environmental photographers. His recent work, Edge of the Earth-Corner of the Sky, is an effort to protect the environment. Art is a member of the elite group of Canon Explorer of Light and a Microsoft Icons of Imaging.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 9, 2006
by Joel Meyerowitz
"I have always been a photographer less interested in the academic and formal side of photography than for the feeling full side. I always opt for feeling. I think my pictures have feel in them, at the risk of sentimentality, which I try to avoid."
"In the moments after the collapse of the Twin Towers I was overcome by a deep impulse to help, to save, to soothe, but, being far away, there was nothing I could do. When I made my way home to New York several days later the first thing I did was go downtown. Standing in the crowds at the perimeter five blocks north of the zone, I raised my camera simply to see what could be seen and was reminded by a police officer that I was standing in a crime scene and no photographs were allowed, so I left. Yet, within a few blocks the echo of that reminder turned into consciousness and I saw what I had to do. To me, no photographs meant no history. I decided at that moment that I would find my way in and make an archive for the City of New York."- Joel Meyerowitz
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 8, 2006
The second annual Photo Expo in San Diego (Del Mar fairgrounds, November 18-29th) will have several known photographers on site giving seminars. I don't want to miss fine art photographer Vincent Versace and the iconic celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland. Others also of interest include Eddie Tapp, photographer and Photoshop guru -Eddie was inducted to the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2006- and well known photo educator Monte Zuker.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 6, 2006
"Truck farmers: the last harvest"- Perry Dilbeck
"During a recent visit to my hometown of McDonough, Georgia, I noticed an alarming trend. Much of the farmland around my home is vanishing rapidly due to a sharp growth in population, not only in my immediate neighborhood but also in the surrounding areas and for many miles away. Replacing the fertile landscape, numerous subdivisions are being constructed in order to accommodate this swirl of people moving into the area. Twenty years ago, there were only sixteen houses on my rural road of three miles. However, today more than one thousand houses exist, and many more are currently being constructed. Most of this change is due to the commercial farming industry destroying the business of the small independent farmer and forcing him to make money the only way he can -by selling his farmland."- Perry Dilbeck (The Blue Alliance Project).
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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November 6, 2006
"Blackboard"
"I happened to walk past the door to this room at the right time with a camera."- Sean Kernan
"So is here my big insight: Making your art is making your life. It is identical to the process through which you continually become yourself. When your Art emerges from your consciousness, its bigger than your consciousness. It’s smarter and deeper than you. And after you make it, you are smarter and deeper than you were. It’s not going too far to say that this process is nothing less than your taproot. And if you cut off this taproot, something in you will dry up”- Sean Kernan
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