Entries from January 2007
January 30, 2007
from "A System of Edges" © Mark Power/Magnum Photos
"Now that everyone in the developed world seems to own some form of camera, a different space has opened for documentary photographers. It's a space free from specific events, where there are different expectations, where it is first and foremost about ideas. Now we can all take pictures, with varying degrees of consistency, more than ever before it's about what we do with photography."-Mark Power/Magnum Photos
In this new personal work, "A System of Edges", Power explores the edges of London using the inspiration of the London A to Z, the most popular atlas in the UK. A System of Edges looks at those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the map and which could be said to define the boundaries of the capital. Places where, as the map suggests, the city falls away into nothingness, into non-space; indistinct, without identity.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 28, 2007
from the series "Approaching Nowhere" by Jeff Brouws
Following the style set by his previous series "American Typologies", "Highways", "Inside the Live Reptile Tent" - all published in books - photographer Jeff Brouws latest series "Approaching Nowhere" is a fabulous book with 98 images printed in large format and high quality. Jeff Brouws has been photographing desolated and abandoned places for many years and I continue to be amazed about his ability to create art out of ordinary places that most of us would ignore. You can lern more about the book here or here.
Approaching Nowhere is a moving meditation on the loss of place and texture in the contemporary American landscape. Brouws' luminous images elegantly capture the complex, surprising beauty and desolation of visual life in our time, as seen from the American road. The work reflects both Brouws' perceptive vision of the country's changing face and his concern for the shifting shape of its soul.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 26, 2007
"Luna-Sea" by Tyler Nixon
Browsing the net I found the photography of Tyler Nixon, a communications designer and photographer that is creating an outstanding body of work as shown in his [exquisitely designed] photoblog “wink”. His images are charming and creative but what it caught my attention is the consistency of the style of his images. You can enjoy his excellent work at “wink”, VFXY and his Flickr gallery.
My interest in photography is rooted in applications both inherent and environmental. Inherently I've been drawn to the visual realm, at an early age I developed a passion for painting which led to more structured forms of expression in graphic design, art direction and eventually photography. I believe my environment (specifically my relationship with my partner, a professional photographer) has enabled me to evolve my technical abilities which has resulted in a competence and confidence in my picture-making.
I started my photo-journal as a forum to share and learn from others, but mostly as a means of motivation in the pursuit of creating art and executing my ideas. I'm inspired by the authentic and absurd, by interesting juxtapositions of subjects, the stillness in a moment and by the vast beauty all around us. Furthermore I am interested in capturing these moments and finding meaning in the small details. The titles I use expand on my initial intentions, drawing an emotional thread to the viewer.- Tyler Nixon
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January 24, 2007
#1 Rolling Stone (January 22, 1981)
Rolling Stone’s cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965. The image was photographed by renowned celebrity portraitist Annie Leibovitz mere hours before Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980. The photo was eventually used on the cover of Rolling Stone’s tribute issue to Lennon on January 22, 1981.
See the rest here (1-20) and here (21-40).
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 22, 2007
The most personal work of Anne Leibovitz, A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 (book here), mixing assignment portraits of celebrities with images of her personal life, including images of her family and her partner Susan Sontag, will be exhibited in the “San Diego Museum of Art” in Balboa Park, from February 10th to April 22nd, 2007.
"This show came out of a moment of grief ... discovering these images was like going on an archaeological dig. The family pictures meant so much more to me than the assignment work in that moment."
"I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."
“With Susan it was a love story. With my parents it was the relationship of a lifetime. And with my children it’s the future. I just tried to create an honest work that had all those things in it.”- Annie Leibovitz
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I can’t wait to see the images. The show just closed today at the Brooklyn Museum in New York and will be moving to San Diego in the coming week. You can hear a recording of the introduction of the show at the Brooklyn Museum with Annie here and an NPR audio interview by Michele Norris here. The New York Times published an assay about the exhibit and there you can see few images.
Somewhere at the back of our closets, in shoe boxes or plastic bins, we all have stacks of these snapshots: pale thighs and juice boxes and striped umbrellas on a sandy beach; a rumpled bed and a view from an anonymous window; poses by the lake at a cousin's wedding, candids out of focus or ill-framed. Even as we shoot them, most are forgotten -- and as anyone who's suffered through someone else's endless slide show knows, that's usually for the best. Photographs are great hyperbolists, capable of convincing us that, with the simple push of a button, a mundane moment is something worth memorializing. Still, even the most obsessive shutterbugs usually know that the only people who care about these images are those who lived the captured moments or loved the people who did.- Sarah Karnasiewicz from salon.com
It is not easy to find many galleries of Annie's work online but I found some images of the series Women, and American Music. I also found a couple on candid interviews with the artist: fotoTAPETA and Powells.com.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 21, 2007
by David Levinthal, from the series Hitler Moves East and XXX.
“Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed”
“I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.”-David Levinthal
His initial success came early with his series Hitler Moves East. The collection depicts the German invasion of Russia in 1941. Levinthal grew grass seed in potting soil on a plywood table to represent the Russian Steppes. He had to trim it every week with scissors. After that other amazing series followed, including a series of Barbie (the doll) and a erotica series entitled XXX (one image from the series is shown above). See more images here and at the artist website.
Read the interesting biography of this amazing photographer here. The beginning, the emergence of an idea that changed his life (continue reading below)
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 19, 2007
by lets_explore, as seen in polaroid.net
Who cares about megapixels, sharp lenses and in focus pictures? If you don’t and you love defocused images, unsharp pictures, unrealistic colors, but like "character" and uniqueness you will love polarpoid.net. Get lost in the world of Polaroid images, look at all kinds of Polaroid film types, a broad range of photographic subjects and imagine. And if you get inspired, learn about the tools of the trade (select the country and then click "Creative" on the top menu).
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 18, 2007
by Steve Vaccariello, from the series nudes.
Mastering the art and emotion of the portrait. Following the tradition and style of Penn and Avedon, commercial photographer Steve Vaccariello produces images with strong emotions. He puts his hear and soul into the image. Portraits, beauty and fashion photography mixed with fine art nudes and experimentation with toy cameras (see images here).
Photography isn’t what I do, it is what I am. The most important thing is the picture, not the technique or trend. I want people to look at my photos and see beauty in simplicity. My work draws upon – but transcends- my experiences, but I am a purist at heart, camera, light and composition, striving for that look of unique, but timeless beauty. – Steve Vaccariello
Steve promotes the work he wants to make, the work that inspires him. This approach, marketing his style, had led him to interesting way to get assignments as described in Shutterbug magazine. The business has changed for Steve. These days he creates and produces the jobs, then sends them out to see if they sell.
I can be creative and take some amazing pictures and do some things that will better my skills and the skills of my team. The ideas would be mine, I’d be the art director, and there’d be no client limitations on the models, wardrobe, makeup, sets or props. – Steve Vaccariello
Steve is a Nikon behind the lens legend. You can see his images at his website. See additional images with a recorded interview at these Nikon world report and Nikon pro site.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 15, 2007
by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Philipp Scholz Rittermann, a photographer located in San Diego (California), will be giving a talk entitled “A Personal Perspective of Landscape” on Saturday, March 17, 9a - 10:45a in the San Diego Natural History Museum. I had the pleasure to attend one of his classes in the past so I am certain that his talk will be very informative and interesting.
Philipp Scholz Rittermann has produced outstanding photography in both B&W and color. I specially love his series of so called “Dioramas” where is uses selective focus to give the impression of scale model for a landscape.
To achieve the selective focus he employs special adapter lenses from Zoerk in his dSLR. You can see more images of his work here.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 13, 2007
by Pierre Gonnord
Beautiful portraits by Pierre Gonnord, a french photographer living in Madrid, Spain.
"I started on my project in 1999. For me, photography was a kind of lifeline, an opportunity to reach out to others, to approach them. I never once asked myself what I should be doing; I began with a portrait. It was an excuse to experience something different, to explore human lives that are as different as it is possible to be. I looked among my contemporaries; those I encountered in the anonymity of large cities, things I felt around and inside myself. I also decided to allow my subconscious to express itself freely."-Pierre Gonnord
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