Форум фотографов.
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Валерий Лобко [ 29 май, 08 9:45 ]

BLACK & WHITE MAGAZINE | Contest

2009 Single Image Award

http://www.bandwmag.com/contest/index.html

Валерий Лобко [ 29 май, 08 10:44 ]

Такая вот подборка ссылок, чтобы поближе искать, если что:

CameraArts

Для загрузки:

4/7/2008
Extended PDF gallery:
Palm Springs Photo Festival 2008
Click here to see all photographs from Tim's trip!

4/3/2008
Exclusive web portfolio:
Palm Springs Photo Festival 2008!
Click here

3/18/2008
Exclusive web portfolio of
Susan Burnstine

(крупные версии снимков, в самом начале — ее самодельно доведенная камера)

http://www.cameraarts.com/

LensWork

Объемный пример портфолио:

http://www.lenswork.com/enhanced/lxtenhanced2.pdf

Как делается (одна страница) и печатается журнал (много страниц):

http://www.lenswork.com/enhanced/lwqenhanced3.pdf

Различные весомые ресурсы для загрузки:

http://enhanced.lenswork.com/#LWQ1

(фрагменты журнала, демо видео…)

http://www.lenswork.com/

Photo District News

www.pdnonline.com

View Camera
The Journal of Large-Format Photography

www.viewcamera.com

Scheinbaum and Russek LTD — Fine Art Photography Dealers

Есть раздел портфолио.

http://www.photographydealers.com/siteindex.html

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 11:52 ]

Сергей Михаленко спрашивает на соседней ветке:

«смс-ка пришла от Виталика Хоружко из Вильнюса:
Видел фотки Валеры Лобко в ЕГУ, огрмная аудитория устлана ими. Выставка будет тут в июне, в Вильнюсе. Виталик».

«два вопроса...
когда и где будет выставка? /возможно буду в Вильнюсе в июне, хотелось бы посмотреть…
а доедет ли выставка до Минска? /думаю, не мне одному хочется увидеть.../»

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Это кураторский проект наших студентов; отбор и формирование концепции на ходу — их. Я помогаю, предоставляя работы, я бы по-другому выбирал, но тут интересен как раз этот взгляд свежий и самостоятельные действия.

Т.е. выставка — такое значимое учебное упражнение, но побочная выгода разная уже ощущается. Скажем, по той уже причине, что ранние работы едва ли кто видел даже из студийцев старой школы, а их не только рано списывать в архив, но в определенном смысле даже рано еще извлекать… Чуть ниже об этом.

Сам проект — возможная серия интервью и выставок, реальных и экранных, как начальный этап культурно-визуальных исследований в области тех прецедентных, преобразовавших культурный ландшафт и просто заметных вещей.

Тем было довольно много; остановились на фотографии — главным образом по той причине, что под руками была публикация в «Монологе», часть текстов доступна в Сети, да и я довольно часто под руками для справок и уточнений. Поэтому в условиях дефицита времени с учетом прогнозируемой сложностью подбора работ — самое то.

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Собственные ощущения по поводу набравшихся для этого случая фотографий — если небольшую часть снимков отбросить из студенческих еще работ, т.е. самого начала 70-х, а потом еще кое-что почистить, то очень даже прилично.

Я попробую сам потом подборку сделать, поскольку тут как раз очень интересно наблюдать феномен, когда имеются работы, которые запросто переживают время… а были в какой-то момент не очень выигрышными по отношению к какой-то собственной и чужой попсе.

И это как раз те работы, с которыми я пришел в фотографию, вот что важно… Т.е., к счастью, те вещи, которые спокойно можно опускать, мало что меняют, а снимки, которые были дороги тогда, действуют и теперь. И это не та журналистская фотография из того же примерно периода, которая поднимается благодаря флеру времени, и не те картинки, которые жили в любительском пространстве, вот что самодостаточно интересно.

Поскольку проблема в том, что добытые тяжким трудом в те годы за несколько лет снимки часто теперь можно получить за одну «сессию»… что тогда остается от автора, который был известен в тот период, выступая в качестве «середнячка»?

Или автора, который успешно проявился в любительской фотографии на конкурсах-салонах? Или от автора, монтажи которого смотрелись ранее как откровение и невиданный взлет технического умения, а теперь от них осталось только то, что как раз и может быть отнесено к фотографической составляющей?

Виталик видел в 129-ой то, что мне не удалось посмотреть — когда, видимо, все снимки, которые я привез, были разложены полностью. Я захватил большую, но уже отобранную часть этих работ.

Но в целом я примерно представляю, что можно теперь восстановить из комллектов, как примерно это выглядит в подборках.

Практически нет деревенской, более поздней серии (буквально выборочно; с другой стороны, из тех репортажей печатались только выборочные работы, а часть небольших, видимо, потеряна… подозреваю, где и когда.

Нет серии «Люди в транспорте» (одна черновая работа), и «Портретов», т.е. в целом серии и работы середина 70-х, конец 70-х и начало 80-х просто выпали.

Какая-то часть ранних работ, видимо, имеется в фотоклубе, мне Е. Козюля как-то говорил — но это студенческие вещи, жалкие потуги в графике и несколько работ середины 70-х, что погоды, в общем, не делает. Но из оставшегося, к счастью, формируется достаточно значимый комплект, что, в общем, не ожидалось.

Я попробую сделать подборку на диске. Возможно, удастся это до начала показа сделать, а нет — то потом еще неделя остается.

… — была как-то версия тонированных слайдов, но я сейчас их тоже не вижу, хотя, кажется, в коробке одной могли сохраниться…

Uladzimir Parfianok [ 30 май, 08 14:44 ]

Валерий Лобко писал(а):
...

… — была как-то версия тонированных слайдов, но я сейчас их тоже не вижу, хотя, кажется, в коробке одной могли сохраниться…


разгребая как-то свои авгиевые фотоконюшни, нашел демо-материалы, возвращенные когда-то после выставки в берлинской IFA-галерее - как раз маленький кляссерчик с вашим коричневыми слайдами...

готов великодушно вернуть их на родину героя! :D

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 15:25 ]

Ага, интересно.

Я думаю, будет очень интересно сравнить выборку сегодняшнюю наших кураторов, мой собственный свежий взгляд с тем, что тогда выделялось…

Но дело в том, что из того набора, если я его правильно помню, мало что и останется…

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 16:31 ]

Вот как хорошо после вечера и ночи на Бернардинской не напрягаться, ничего не искать…

Заботами Кольберга:

The master of 'blatant artifice' speaks
Vancouver native Jeff Wall gives Marsha Lederman his personal take on five seminal photographs from a body of work that this week earned him the $30,000 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts

MARSHA LEDERMAN
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
May 24, 2008 at 11:49 AM EDT

Разговор о работах:

THE DESTROYED ROOM, 1978

MIMIC, 1982

DEAD TROOPS TALK (A VISION AFTER AN AMBUSH OF A RED ARMY PATROL, NEAR MOQOR, AFGHANISTAN, WINTER 1986), 1992

FOREST, 2001

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IN FRONT OF A NIGHTCLUB, 2006

IN FRONT OF A NIGHTCLUB, 2006

After spending several evenings documenting the activities outside a Vancouver nightclub, Wall meticulously reconstructed the scene using performers. The final image was constructed from negatives shot in a studio over several days.

"What this began with... was the older person who's selling red roses on the sidewalk. You see these people - they can be younger or older, all different kinds of people - who go around the clubs and restaurants and bars, and they're selling red roses to people who are on a date or something. ... I was fascinated by these people sort of wafting through the crowd, almost unseen, trying to make a sale here and there.

And that's where it began. I wanted to make a picture about that person in the crowd. But as I worked on the picture, I realized that I couldn't just focus on that person and hint at a crowd.

It wasn't working. And the thing just got bigger and bigger until I realized I had to lose him in this big broad swath of the sidewalk.

When you look at the picture, you don't even notice him at the beginning, because he's lost in there. But he's there. So the picture is about him and it's really not about him.

So there's more than one thing happening there. In fact, there are many things - and in a way there's nothing happening. So it's sort of about nothing. About everyday life. Which suits me just fine."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... nment/home

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 16:49 ]

We Can’t Paint Blog

http://wecantpaint.com/

Несколько страниц имеет смысл пролистать свежих…

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© Semâ Bekirovicl

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© Rob Ball

Снимки высокого разрешения, есть и Джеф Уолл:

http://wecantpaint.com/log/?p=1115

Еще:

Deadline extended!

After a couple dozen emails and some wise advice, I’ve decided to extend the deadline for submitting to the magazine and gallery. Effective immediately the deadline to submit for the We Can’t Paint Gallery and Magazine is now:

August 1, 2008

http://wecantpaint.com/log/?p=1114

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 17:06 ]

The Exposure Project напоминает:

The Polaroid Portrait Challenge

JPG Magazine has teamed up with Flak Photo and File Magazine to celebrate the wonders of Polaroid with the Polaroid Portrait Challenge. The website states:

"Polaroid photos are almost magical. The whir of the camera gears moving, the slow process of the image appearing, and the beautiful softness and color palette of the final image all make the process distinct. Even though the days of Polaroid film may be numbered, let's celebrate in style."

All interested photographers have until June 7th to submit polaroids. The chosen images will run as a feature in JPG issue 17.

http://jpgmag.com/themes/100/all/page5

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Dragonflies In Flight, Thelma Blizzard

http://theexposureproject.blogspot.com/ ... lenge.html

http://theexposureproject.blogspot.com/

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 17:27 ]

К дискуссии о любителях и профессионалах на соседней ветке… предварим все той же цитатой:

Anyone can take a picture … but

"Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible"- John Szarkowski

The idea that anyone with a "digital" camera can take a photograph is quite true, but making a good photograph is as difficult today as it was 50 years ago. This reminds me of the pointless idea that the current large volume of digital images has changed in any way what makes a good photograph. Of course it hasn't. Only thing is that digital tools have enabled more people to explore photography as a way to express and discover, and this has led to better chances to create great images by anyone with an artistic "spirit".

What remains as difficult as it has always been, or even more difficult now, is to repeat one great image after another, to create a cohesive and compelling body of work, to create projects that are unique and have impact ... to create photographic projects that are both "complex and vigorous". This remains a skill limited to few.

Miguel Garcia-Guzman

http://exposurecompensation.com/2008/05 ... cture-but/

От успешной коммерческой карьеры, одной из самых заметных в Китае:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sp ... lt_00.html

— в художники:

Ma Liang – The Magic Photographer
By Maggie Ma

…Laying down the painting brush he had kept for 11 years, Ma resolutely bade farewell to his loft artist ideals cherished in adolescent years and strode farther and farther into the field of commercial ad industry.

At the end of 1995, Ma left Ogilvy & Mather Advertisement Company where he had worked for one and a half years, for though the company paid him good salaries, he felt depressed working there. After that, this man of idealistic and romantic nature tried to find another outlet for his exuberant passion for creation.

…Ma had spent only three years accomplishing every step many professional photographers had ever dreamed of: from his self-entertaining creation with a camera to his contracting with Yi’an gallery; from his participation in Diaphorama Photography Festival in France, his participation in “The Virtual Salon” of Moca Museum in New York, and his solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and other places, to his works’ successful access to auction market and being sold at a high price of 150,000 RMB, or about $20,000 dollars, at Sotheby’s auction for a single piece.

“Ultimately I can be called an artist,” said Ma in comfort and relief, “I would create everything I like, and I feel quite happy to live on my art.”

http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid557_en.html

http://chngyaohong.com/blog/

http://www.artnet.com/artist/424675519/ma-liang.html

Валерий Лобко [ 30 май, 08 18:23 ]

И еще одно имя поучительное, как представляется, по этому же поводу, это в связи с рассуждением Сергея Плыткевича о фотографии, галереях, книгах, любителях, профессионалах…

Aranea
Guido Mocafico

Hamiltons
GB. London, 29 May-07 Jul 2008

HAMILTONS proudly announces their forthcoming exhibition, ARANEA by Guido Mocafico. 29 May-20 June 2008. The show comprises eight large format, colour photographs never seen in exhibition before, from Mocafico's acclaimed book ARANEA published by Steidl.

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Guido Mocafico, Aranea, Acanthoscurria Geniculata
Guido Mocafico, Aranea, Citharischius Crawshayi


http://www.hamiltonsgallery.com/

(загляните там на Exhibition archive…)

Guido Mocafico выставляется в Hamiltons Gallery в Лондоне не первый раз:

…exhibition of French photographer Guido Mocafico at the Hamiltons Gallery in London. His latest works are large prints of complicated mechanical watch movements including the Chopard Quantieme Perpetuel Phase de Lune above. All 105 cm x 105cm (41+"inches) each.

Guido Mocafico: Movement
1 May-2 June 2007

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Паучков смотрим здесь:

http://www.mocafico.com/mygales.html

On contextual meaning — здесь:

http://www.mocafico.com/selfservice.html

Man Woman — здесь:

http://www.mocafico.com/wo_man.html

Guido Mocafico

Of Italian descent, Guido Mocafico was born in Switzerland in 1962. A specialist in still life, he works regularly for international magazines such as Numèro, Paris Vogue, Big, The Face, Self-Service, and Wallpaper. He has also undertaken numerous advertising campaigns for Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Clinique, Shiseido, and Hermës. Over the past four years, Mocafico has been at work on a personal project related to architecture, and he continues to explore aesthetic and scientific themes in nature. He lives in Paris.

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http://singularity.bohoe.com/513/guido-mocafico

http://www.steidlville.com/books/508-Serpens.html

http://dpnow.com/4750.html

http://thingstolookat.blogspot.com/2006 ... afico.html

http://kreatif.com.ua/index.php?newsid=137

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 15:55 ]

Шанс для британских выпускников:

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21 June-6 July 2008

This show marks the launch of this annual exhibition, presenting the most dynamic new work by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK.

Applications for this year are now closed.

This year our panel of judges are: Melanie Manchot, artist; Sarah Kent, writer and critic; Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers' Gallery and Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs, V&A.

http://www.photonet.org.uk/freshfacedandwildeyed08/

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 16:00 ]

Martin Parr's favourite photography books of 2007 :

* Hackney Flowers by Stephen Gill
* The Genius of Photography by Gerry Badger
* I’m a Real Photographer by Keith Arnatt
* The Mother of All Journeys by Dinu Li
* Welcome to Pyongyang by Charlie Crane
* A China Chronicle by Zeng Li
* A Shimmer of Possibility by Paul Graham
* In England by Don McCullin
* An American Index of The Hidden and Unfamiliar by Taryn Simon
* Nein, Onkel (No, Uncle) edited by Timothy Prus and Ed Jones
* Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth
* Magnum, Magnum by all Magnum Photo photographers

Отсюда, где и ссылки:

Reviews of photography books and photo book news Photobook Guide:

http://www.photobookguide.com/

http://www.photobookguide.com/review/ph ... s-of-2007/

* The Genius of Photography by Gerry Badger

Synopsis
Accompanying the first major television history of this ever more influential art form, this landmark book explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. At the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph. What is it that makes a photograph by Nan Goldin or Henri Cartier-Bresson stand out among the millions of others taken by all of us every single day? Why are some photographs elevated to the status of art - even after the event? "The Story of Photography" examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic. It brings a critical perspective and a strong aesthetic sense to the subject, but above all it is primarily a narrative history. Beginning with the earliest days of the photograph in the 1840s and ending with an examination of the state of photography today and the effect that the 'digital revolution' will have, changing not only how we look at a photograph, but what it is in a physical sense. The book examines all the different genres of photography from art, news and reportage, landscape and portrait photography.

It also tells the great stories behind many of the world's most iconic photographs and reveals the extraordinary characters - from Margaret Bourke-White to Cindy Sherman and from Louis Daguerre to Robert Capa who have made and defined this art form. And it explores the forces and contemporary resonances that have given these images their meaning and power.

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 16:51 ]

Roy Arden

MONTE CLARK GALLERY — VANCOUVER

THE WORLD ETC...
January 31 to March 1, 2008

Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 31st, 8-10 pm

The Monte Clark Gallery Vancouver is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Roy Arden.

Following his mid-career survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Roy Arden’s exhibition will feature new graphic works and collages.

The World etc… presents Arden’s latest graphic works (archival pigment prints) that are essentially digital collages, as well as recent small paper collages made from printed matter.

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Fearsome Symmetry, 2007
archival pigment print, 37.5 x 32 inches

http://www.monteclarkgallery.com/Exhibi ... ARDEN.html

Roy Arden

Поляроиды (давний выпуск Doppelganger magazine):

(Слайд-шоу на Flash)

http://www.doppelgangermagazine.com/roy_arden.html

http://www.monteclarkgallery.com/Artist ... raphy.html

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 17:57 ]

Такая вот фотографичная нефотографическая ссылка, 2007:

Nancy Chan is an artist whose work I first saw in the pages of Hot and Cold, a zine put out by Oakland artists Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland. Then I got to see those images in person at Eleanor Harwood gallery and realized Nancy was doing something truly unique with figures. They were simple and airy and had this great sense of discovery in them. She recently showed at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco back in September.

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http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?o ... &Itemid=92

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Все интервью (это, как кажется, для наших дизайнеров полезный ресурс):

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?o ... &Itemid=92

См. специально:

Blek Le Rat Interview
Written by Manuel Bello
Wednesday, 02 April 2008

This legendary street artist who influenced artists like Banksy has a show opening at Subliminal Projects in LA April 5th. Our NYC correspondent, Manuel Bello interviews…

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?o ... &Itemid=92

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Фото (журналистика):

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// El Gato recovers from a gunshot wound to the head, hospital Escuintla.

Vic Blue Interview
Written by Jesse Pollock
Monday, 22 January 2007

Victor J. Blue is a San Francisco based freelance photojournalist. He has worked extensively in Central America since 2001, concentrating on the post-conflict situation in Guatemala, as well as covering issues of national importance in California and across the country.

His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Le Monde, the San Francisco Chronicle, and various newspapers and magazines internationally. He has shown photographs in solo exhibitions and been included in group shows at Juice Design, 111 Minna Gallery, and Yerbe Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?o ... &Itemid=92

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php

Еще:

How to Print B&W Photos
Written by Ray Potes
Wednesday, 05 December 2007

By Ray Potes. Photos by Jesse Pollock.

This is a real basic starting point for printing black and white photographs. You can see how to get your film to this point by checking out the last photo 'how-to' regarding processing your film.

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http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?o ... &Itemid=92

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 19:13 ]

Female Trouble
Pinakothek der Moderne
D. München, 18 Jul-26 Oct 2008

Diane Arbus, Katharina Sieverding, Madame Yevonde, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gertrud Arndt, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Monica Bonvicini, Claude Cahun, Sophie Calle, Julia Margaret Cameron, Contessa di Castiglione, Man Ray , Valie Export, Nan Goldin, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Florence Henri, Hannah Höch, Birigt Jürgenssen, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Germaine Krull, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Urs Lüthi, Bjørn Melhus, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffatt, Pierre Molinier, Ringl + Pit (Grete Stern + Ellen Auerbach), Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Tomoko Sawada, Mathilde ter Heijne, Wanda Wulz, Francesca Woodman, ...

Seit der Erfindung der Fotografie vor nahezu 170 Jahren haben vor allem Frauen das technische Medium genutzt, um sich oder andere in Rollenspielen und Maskeraden zu inszenieren. Neben der experimentellen Lust, das Ich immer wieder neu zu erschaffen, diente die Kamera auch als Möglichkeit, Klischees und Stereotypen weiblicher Repräsentation in Frage zu stellen. Das Spiel mit dem »Ewig« Weiblichen war und ist immer auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit geschlechtlicher Identität, ihrer gesellschaftlichen und politischen Definition sowie deren Überschreitung.

Im Fokus der Ausstellung stehen zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen wie Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Pipilotti Rist oder Monica Bonvicini, die mit Hilfe von Fotografie und Videokunst das Bild des Weiblichen untersuchen. Die Künstlerinnen gehen dabei der Frage nach, welche Bildmuster das mediale Zeitalter für Weiblichkeit bereit hält und wie diese Bilder die Wahrnehmung von Frauen bestimmen…

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Birgit Jürgenssen | Ohne Titel (Olga), 1978 | Sammlung Verbund Wien | © Nachlass Birgit Jürgenssen, VG Bild-Kunst

Весь текст:

http://www.photography-now.com/popup_au ... gen=T57893

Валерий Лобко [ 31 май, 08 20:10 ]

m97 Gallery:

"Scenery & Still Life"

Liang Weizhou
Solo Exhibition Photography Works
March 29, 2008-May 8, 2008

http://www.m97gallery.com/

…Shanghainese painter Liang Weizhou is a well known artist who’s been around on the art scene since the early 1980s. However not many know that he is also a talented photographer. After his recent exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum, his photography series ‘Scenery’ is now moving to 1918 ArtSPACE, where it can be seen from Feb 26-Mar 14.

…SH: Why do your photos look so nostalgic?
LW: When my mom was young, people didn’t have color pictures. In order to get this wonderful colorful effect, photographers added colors on black and white photos in the dark room. These old ‘color’ pictures made a big impression on me. That’s why I did the same thing to my digital photos in photoshop.

SH: What else influences you in your photographs?
LW: A lot is the traditional Chinese idea of Zen. While my paintings are influenced by western Expressionism, I also want my photographs look more Chinese.

SH: What’s your attitude toward lomography, or people snapping pictures everywhere they go?
LW: With the existence of digital cameras, people can take pictures very often. It’s convenient. But they are just shooting pictures, nothing more. I definitely doubt that lomography is a type of art.

http://www.shmag.cn/feature/liang_weizhou

Photographer
Liang Weizhou

http://www.798photogallery.cn/EN/photog ... er_42.html

Illusionary Scenes -- Photographic Series of Liang Weizhou’s “Scenery

By Jiang Mei

(текст и много работ)

http://www.artzinechina.com/display.php?a=296

Смотреть лучше все же здесь:

Галерея 1:

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Галерея 2:

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Галерея 3:

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Галерея 4:

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Галерея 5:

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http://www.liangweizhouart.net/

Валерий Лобко [ 01 июн, 08 11:14 ]

Интересная заметка на Photography Collection:

Primitive photography – Revisiting old negatives

The market for 19th century photography rallies on each new sale of a private collection offering the opportunity to bid for major negatives which have been carefully preserved for the past 100 or 150 years. Other than how well these delicate prints have been preserved, the wide range in prices depends on the subject’s interest and the beauty of the negative. Daguerreotypes, negatives in all genres and old prints tell us as much about the 19th century as they do about the history of the photographic medium.
19th century photography first came to the fore in 1999 when Sotheby's achieved unexpectedly strong results at its sale of the André Jammes collection…

…2008 is confirming this trend. On 7 April, the Sotheby’s New York auction of the Quillian collection recorded five and six-figure results for Édouard Denis Baldus, Charles Lewis Dodgson and Eugène Atget. Baldus achieved USD 49,000 (EUR 31,000) for a view of the west portal of Amiens Cathedral (1855). He had not done better since the Jammes sale in 1999 when his Rochers en Auvergne tripled the pre-sale estimate, the hammer coming down at USD 68,000. Some other noteworthy results from the 7 April sale: USD 105,000 (EUR 66,700) for the albumen print, Alexandra Kitchin, by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). The artist had not exceeded the symbolic USD 100,000 mark for 7 years! These results, while creditable, are shy of those recorded on the same day for the modern prints from the Quillian collection. Unlike 19th century negatives, those of the 20th century set new records, notably for Edward Weston (Nude, 1,285 million de dollars), Paul Strand (Rebecca, 515 000 dollars), August Sander (Werkstudenten, 395 000 dollars), Richard Avedon (Marilyn Monroe, New York City, 365 000 dollars)and Hans Bellmer (La Poupée, 260 000 dollars).

http://www.photography-collection.com/2 ... html#links

Там же, о скандальном запрете выставки:

Teenage Nudity closes Bill Henson Photography Show

http://www.photography-collection.com/u ... 703434.jpg

(This photograph of a 13-year-old girl by australien photographer Bill Henson is one of the pictures that provoked to close an exhibition in Sydney).

Alarm about images of naked teenagers by acclaimed photographer Bill Henson has forced a Sydney gallery to cancel its exhibition opening. Police said they were investigating the legality of some of the photographs in the exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in inner-city Paddington. The opening of the show was cancelled amid complaints about the show's explicit content. Printed invitations to the private viewing featured a single image from the exhibition, depicting a naked 13-year-old girl. Police said they wanted to speak to one of the models before deciding whether the show would go ahead …

http://www.photography-collection.com/2 ... html#links

Валерий Лобко [ 01 июн, 08 11:23 ]

О фотографии:

…Untill his death thirty years later he worked quietly at his calling. To a casual observer he might have seemed a typical commercial photographer of the day. He was not progressive, but worked patiently with techniques that were obsolescent when he adopted them, and very nearly anachronistic by the time of his death. He was little given to experiment in the conventional sense, and less to theorizing. He founded no movement and attracted no circle. He did however make photographs which for purity and intensity of vision have not been bettered.

…He was in addition a photographer of such authority and originality that his work remains a bench mark against which much of the most sophisticated contemporary photography measures itself. Other photographers had been concerned with describing specific facts (documentation), or with exploiting their indivisual sensibilities (self-expression). Atget enconpassed and transcended both approaches when he set himself the task of understanding and interpreting in visual terms a complex, ancient, and living tradition.

The pictures that he made in the service of this concept are seductively and deceptively simple, wholly poised, reticent, dense with experience, mysterious, and true.

Eugene Atget
French, 1857-1927

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Eugene Atget / Biography & Images — Atget Photography.com:

http://www.atgetphotography.com/Photogr ... Atget.html

Там же:

Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
Brassai (1899-1984)
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Robert Frank (1924- )
Andre Kertesz (1894-1985)
Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
Lee Friedlander (1934- )
Helen Levitt (1913- )
Josef Koudelka (1939- )
Bellocq (1873-1949)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

http://www.atgetphotography.com/

Валерий Лобко [ 01 июн, 08 18:25 ]

Novak :

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Contemporary Works

Contemporary Works is a by-appointment contemporary dealer, which specializes in contemporary art photography, including mixed-media pieces, large-scale color photographs, black and white contemporary photography, and contemporary daguerreotypes and other alternative processes.

Novak has 30 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. The company is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). Novak's photographic background includes two stints as a commercial photographer. He was a long-time member of the Daguerreian Society and the American Photographic Historical Society.

…Novak has published numerous photography articles and columns in several newspapers, the Photograph Collector, Focus magazine, and the Daguerreian Society Newsletter. He has been interviewed extensively for profiles on his companies by Photographie Internationale, Photo District News (PDN), Black & White magazine and Photography New York (now Photography)…

Достаточно крупные собрания следующих авторов:

Stanko Abadžic
Vladimir Birgus
Mitch Dobrowner
Lisa Holden
Ted Jones
Claudia Kunin
Joel D. Levinson
Michael Philip Manheim
Samer Mohdad
Christophe (Krzysztof) Pruszkowski
Charlie Schreiner
Jerry Spagnoli
Arthur Tress

http://www.contemporaryworks.net/about/about.php

Валерий Лобко [ 01 июн, 08 18:40 ]

Прогулки по галерее, в продолжение разговора о любителях и профессионалах, образовании, карьере, галереях, арт-рынке…

Contemporary Works

Christophe (Krzysztof) Pruszkowski

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22 Chairs de la Cathedrale de Bourges
1985/1992
Silver print, unmounted
12-5/8 x 8-5/16 in. (321 x 211 mm)
A photosynthesis of 22 chairs, which is one of Pruszkowski's signature images. Signed and titled in ink on recto of print in lower margin. Signed and dated in pencil on verso.
Price: $3,000 (ref. 8568)


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Laurence a Kazimierz (Fotosinteza)
1992/1993
Silver print, unmounted
17-5/8 x 12 in. (448 x 305 mm)
Signed, titled and dated in ink on recto in lower margin of print. See: Dieuzaide, Krzysztof Pruszkowski (Galerie Municipale du Chateau d'Eau, 1997), n.p.
Price: $3,500 (ref. 7949)


В галерее — 28 работ:

http://www.contemporaryworks.net/artist ... p/1/4217/0

Krzysztof (or Christophe) Pruszkowski,
By Alex Novak

Krzysztof (or Christophe) Pruszkowski was born in Kazimierz nad Wisla, Poland during WWII in 1943. After studying architecture and town planning at the Warsaw Polytechnic University, he decided to move to Paris, where he initially stayed until 1988. He continued his studies in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts (Art Academy) and at the Institut de l"Urbanisme (Town Planning Institute).

In 1970 Pruszkowski started to shoot fashion, publicity and press photography. At the same time, he began to look for his own "visual language" for his personal work, and he published a book called "Barriers" which dealt with human mass manipulation within urban space. This work published in the book was later shown at the Centre George Pompidou in 1978 in Paris, which was Pruszkowski's first major exhibition.

From 1975 on Pruszkowski worked on developing a new method of photography that he calls "Photosynthesis". He says that the approach results in "post-conceptual art." His technique of photosynthesis lays images of subjects of a similar type on top of one another to draw attention to the relativity of generalizations and typology. He refuses to use digital techniques in his photosyntheses, claiming that a manual composition of the pictures is more transparent and intellectually more meaningful.

…Therefore, when Krzysztof Pruszkowski addresses one of today's most difficult artistic concepts, which is the portrait, he does not provide a cohesive picture of the model, but rather the search and formulation of an individuality composed by superimposing different faces. For example Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (1984), or sometimes more generic, as if he was slowly building up a photofit (portrait-robot), like "Miss Europe" or as with "The President"(1984), with the merged portraits of six American presidents…

См. весь текст делее:

http://www.contemporaryworks.net/artist ... php/1/4217


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