hula.dancing...

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:38:45 GMT

valentín quiso llorar

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:39:21 GMT

Valentin de las Sierras (1968) - Bruce Baillie

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:31:24 GMT

Louise Bourgeois - Happy 95th Birthday

the beautiful art of hiding

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:45:03 GMT

Every now an then I rediscover a photographer. This is the case of Viviane Sassen. The first time I saw her work was in fashion magazines in the late 1990’s, and at the time she was clearly not part of the “point and shoot” generation that thrived in those same magazines. Apparently, she kept on doing fashion photography, but also started some personal projects.

What caught my eye recently was her Flamboya* series, and I have to say these portraits are extremely beautiful. Sassen spent her childhood with her family in Kenya, since her father was a doctor there. After some years in Africa, the family decided to return to The Netherlands. This work is her way to capture some of her childhood memories and sensations.

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Flamboya (2003 - 2006)

Viviane Sassen's Website

* Flamboya is a type of tree.

madrid - june 2007 - Centro Cultural de la Villa

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:41:40 GMT

agito imago

Sat, 19 May 2007 21:41:15 GMT

Starlings Roosting on West Pier (2006)

by Richard Billingham

el raval

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:54:14 GMT

I discovered the Barrio Chino in 1958, I understood that it was my world. I was fascinated by its diversity and its social richness…I literally got sucked in by the human quality of these characters…. - Joan Colom

Joan Colom was born in Barcelona in 1921. Following military service, he became an accountant in a firm where he stayed until his retirement in 1986. But at the age of 36 he also developed a passion for photography, joining the Photographic Association of Catalonia where he very quickly learnt the technical skills that helped him in his atypical career.

Lars Tunbjörk - "Office"

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:54:28 GMT

Title: Office / Kontor
Publisher: Journal, Sweden
Pages: Unpaged
Binding: Hardcover
Publication year: 2002

No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:06:32 GMT

"Joachim Schmid is a thief and a liar. For twenty years Schmid has been taking other peoples' photographs and using them for his own purposes. He has even gone so far as to falsely claim that some of these pictures are lost works by famous photographers.

Over the last two decades Schmid has systematically investigated the possibilities of the found photograph with a rare combination of rigour and humour. Schmid begs us not to take any more pictures; to stop flooding a planet already drowning in photographs with more images. Thankfully he has been ignored, as selections from the unceasing flow of photographs produced globally have formed the basis of Schmid's fascinating projects.

Joachim Schmid may steal photographs and lie about their authors, but his misdemeanours are all in a good cause. He has shown how the supposed masters of photography plunder from the world of snapshots and yet claim their work as unique and original. He has also pointed out time and time again that snapshots themselves, far from being innocent, are elaborately constructed deceits. Over the last twenty years, Schmid has exposed the ways in which photography itself steals and lies." - Stephen Bull

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photogenic drafts - 1991

Joachim Schmid's Website

favourite photography book : 2006

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:07:59 GMT

"The photographs in this book were taken in Hackney Wick and later buried there. The amount of time the images were left undergournd varied depending on the amount of rainfall. The depths that pictures were buried at also varied, as did their positioning. Sometimes they were facing each other, sometimes back to back or sometimes buried singly.

When burying my first batch of photographs, a passing man spotted me and asked what I was doing. Not only did I not want to give the location away of some of my buried pictures, but It just sounded a bit weird to say that I was burying photographs so replied that I was looking for newts. As soon as I'd said that I looked down and saw a newt at my feet.

Not knowing what an image would look like once it was dug up introduced an element of chance and surprise that I found appealing. This feeling of letting go and collaborating with place - allowing it also to work on putting the finishing touches to a picture - felt fair. Maybe the spirit of the place can also make its mark." - Stephen Gill

Buried book + Case + Bury your own print et envelope

Stephen Gill's Website

Title: Buried
Publisher: Nobody, London
Pages: 32
Binding: Hardcover
Publication year: 2006

long lense

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:43:40 GMT

"Temporary Discomfort documents Davos, Genoa, New York and Evian/Geneva in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during the global economic summits. It combines different photographical genres: landscape photography, photojournalism and police photography, though here with the camera lens turned back at the security forces.The series and videos aim to achieve a speculative reconstruction of the situations in those cities. The work is speculative not only in terms of these facts but also in regard to the use and expectations of documentary photography. Further, it raises questions about the conditions under which photography is and can be produced today." - Jules Spinatsch

kurpark

porta 221

bodyguard

stone

taped

zone b - sector 21/6

Jules Spinatsch's Website

Cruising the American Dream

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:56:17 GMT

"That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that's what Robert Frank has captured in the tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car (on Guggenhiem Fellowship) and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness, and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen before on film."

- Jack Kerouac, from his introduction to The Americans.

Title: Les Americains - The Americans
Publisher: Delpire (France) / Grove Press Inc (New York)
Pages: 180
Binding: Hardcover
Publication year: 1958 (France) - 1959 (USA)

Note: revised edition to be published in 2008 by Steidl Verlag

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:23:49 GMT

"Les Krims achieved instant recognition in 1969 with five exhibitions of his powerful satirical images, such as his Jewish mother naked on her living room couch, older Jewish men in a Coney Island sauna, and a naked woman wearing only a Minnie Mouse mask posing in front of an oversize cross made out of Mickey Mouse balloons. Over the years his work has been characterized as humorous, disturbing, misogynistic and revolutionary. A pioneer of contemporary tableau and fictional photography, his work has provoked impassioned dialogue about gender, photography's relationship to history, and the borders of promiscuity and taboo."

spitting out the word photography, buffalo, new york, 1970

sally krims, guns in her bra, posing with a cross-eyed woman, buffalo, new york, 1970

diane arbus lives in us # 1, new york, 1971

little person with ironing board (from, "the little people of america", 1971), niagara falls, new york, 1971

mrs. braverman, radical feminist, rochester, new york, 1968

Les Krims website

inochi

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:29:21 GMT

"From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, 'What's going on?' You feel something is going to happen." Rinko Kawauchi

Title: Aila
Publisher: Little More (Tokyo)
Pages: Unpaged
Binding: Hardcover
Publication year: 2004

RFK Funeral Train

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:35:58 GMT

In tribute to Robert Kennedy, hundreds of thousands of people stood patiently in the searing heat on that June day ( June 8, 1968) to watch his funeral train travel slowly from New York to Washington, D.C.

Paul Fusco photographed the silent, mourning crowds from the passing train.

Title: RFK Funeral Train
Publisher: Umbrage Edition (New York)
Pages: 128 pages
Binding: Paperback
Publication year: 2001

blur, motion, scratches, light leaks, dust, graininess, stains

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:38:33 GMT

"I wanted to go to the end of photography"

- daido moriyama

Title: Sashin yo Sayonara ( Bye Bye Photography)
Publisher: Shashin Hyoron-sha (Tokyo)
Pages: 308
Binding: Paperback
Publication year: 1972

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:21:48 GMT

"Photography has maintained a vital presence in African culture for over a century. But the recognition of African photographers and their unique visual language has come about only recently. When western photography engages Africa, it seems often to evoke pathological images of disease, corruption and poverty. The global media almost never depict contemporary Africans in "ordinary" situations; images of crisis frequently eclipse other representations.

In response to this partial view that overlooks the complexities of daily life across a vast continent of over fifty nations, Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising across Africa."

Okwui Enwezor

oladélé ajiboyé bamgboyé

nontsikelelo "lolo" veleko

lamia naji

hentje van der merwe

mikhael subotzky

uchechukwu james-iroha

"Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography"

Publisher : Steidl
Pages: 383
Binding: Hardbound
Publication year: 2006

summer days driftin' away

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:00:56 GMT

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:26:11 GMT

"In 1998, Alessandra Sanguinetti began working on a series of photographs which register the saga of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda, then nine and ten years old. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair over the past eight years, Sanguinetti collaborates with the girls to construct images fueled by the dreams, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood."

sans photoshop

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:41:20 GMT

Studio Portrait (1945) : Alban / Unknown title : Unknown Photographer

Mr. Skaff in four different positions (1922) / Unknown title : Unknown Photographer

Hadi Abdel Saheb el Diwani (1960) : self-portrait / Beating Himself (1945) : Mamdouh Muhamad Fathallah

yto barrada

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:36:32 GMT

"Even a life full of holes, a life of nothing but waiting, is better than no life at all". Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi, A Life Full of Holes (1964).

row1 : fille au tabouret / colline charf
row 2 : detroit de gibraltar / usine 4
row 3 : fille rousse du ferry / usine crevettes

The Strait is an ongoing photographic project initiated in 1998 by Yto Barrada (b. Paris, 1971). It examines the hope of migration and its influence on the Tangier cityscape. The title refers to the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow channel that divides Europe and Africa, but for Yto Barrada, Strait is another word for the temptation of departure, a commonplace that gives the streets of Tangier the form of an imaginary space into which all the obstinate dreams of leaving the country are engulfed. What she seeks to capture in her photographs are the temptations of leaving, rather than veritable attempts, in a reportage-like style.

shine like a star

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:56:24 GMT

Van Leo

"Van-Leo, born Leon Alexander Boyadjian in the village of Jihan Turkey, came to Egypt as a child in 1924. It was here that he would grow up, be schooled and, above all, discover and pursue his love of photography. It was a love that would eventually lead to more than fifty years of outstanding studio photography. Fifty years of portraiture—of the famous and of the not-so-famous, of pashas and generals, of film stars and dancers. Thousands of photographs, but each a unique portrait, due to Van-Leo's unparalleled ability to tailor each session to the personality and character of his subject. It was said that Van-Leo could make everyone look like a star."

Self-Portraits : 1942-1945

h

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:15:36 GMT

h/room [2006]

selfinkoozament

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:43:59 GMT

"robin rhode has invented a word and life philosophy that he believes should be consciously applied at least once a day: selfinkoozament adj. having a proper sense of one's own dignity and integrity; being selfinkoozaful, or selfinkoozaing ('kooza' derives from a venda word meaning support.) in his performance work, he blurs the usually clear-cut boundaries between illusion and reality by attempting to interact three dimensionally with a two-dimensional drawing, playing on the modernist notion of the artist as 'creative genius'. although they inherit all the conventional qualities of drawing (charcoal on white ground) these drawings are made to appear as 'fictitious' as possible, creating an intense awareness that no matter how great the genius, a representation remains just that. All his works thus far are a prequel of things to come - "like star wars" he says."

untitled/rings [2005]

untitled/landing [2005]

untitled/yo yo [2005]

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yo yo : flash animation

jug : flash animation

anchor : flash animation

alkantara

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:22:56 GMT

alkantara::flickr

alkantara::blog

alkantara festival::official site