Встреча с легендой.

На сайте фестиваля имеется важный раздел о наградах для новых талантов:

The Rencontres d'Arles Awards

Discovery Award

Since their inauguration in 2002 the Rencontres d’Arles Awards have brought the revelation of all sorts of new talents.

Five professionals from different countries and different photographic fields – Elisabeth Biondi, Caroline Issa and Masoud Golsorkhi, Nathalie Ours, Carla Sozzani, Luis Venegas – have each been invited by Christian Lacroix to designate three photographers to exhibit at the Rencontres as candidates for the Discovery Award.

The Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has been recently discovered internationally or deserves to be. The winner is chosen by a vote of photography professionals present in Arles during opening week and receives 25,000 €.

The Contemporary Book Award goes to the best photographer’s project book published between 1st June 2007 and 31st May 2008. The grant award is 8,000 €.The Historical Book Award goes to the best thematic or monographic publication published between 1st June 2007 and 31st May 2008. The grant award is 8,000 €.

The Book Award winners are picked by the five nominators, the Ren­contres’ president François Barré and the Fondation Luma's founder Maja Hoffmann.

The three awards will be presented at the ceremony to close the opening week of the festival.

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP203

Далее по разделам (обратите внимание, как сделаны фото экспертов):

Photographers nominated by Elisabeth Biondi
Born in Germany. Lives and works in New York City.

Debbie Fleming Caffery
Pieter Hugo
Ethan Levitas

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP166

Photographers nominated by Caroline Issa & Masoud Golsorkhi
Caroline Issa was born in Montreal.
Masoud Golsorkhi in Tehran. They live and work in London.

Jamie Isaia
Danilo Giuliani
Cameron Smith

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP170

Photographers nominated by Nathalie Ours
Born in 1964 in Limoges, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Jerry Schatzberg
Stefanie Schneider
Nigel Shafran

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP171

Photographers nominated by Carla Sozzani
Born in 1947 in Mantua, Italy. Lives and works in Milan.

Marla Rutherford
Martina Sauter
Angela Strassheim

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP172

Photographers nominated by Luis Venegas
Born in 1976 in Vitoria. Lives and works in Madrid.

Leila Mendez
Daniel Riera
David Urbano

http://www.rencontres-arles.com/ARL/C.a ... ID=ARLP173

Jamie Isaia

Автор, которое представляет агентство, обязательное у нас на дистанционном курсе:

http://www.artandcommerce.com

Любопытная реплика на блоге anti-corporation:

the artist and his model: Jamie Isaia

Somethings photographs hasn't to be too perfect with perfect settings, perfect sceneries, perfect models and they can be beautiful in some other ways too.









Еще:

Jamie Isaia evokes mood and atmosphere in a color-saturated, expressive photographic style that suggests dream-like, otherworldly scenarios. Though her images are thoughtfully scripted, they also reveal the unexpected and the spontaneous, resulting in a rich blend of performative elements rendered in a painterly photographic style. In this exhibition, her talent for bringing together landscape, portraiture and fashion is also apparent.

Isaia’s first ventures into fashion and portrait photography have demonstrated how successfully her unique and subtle vision translates to the page. Her work for iD, Italian Vogue, and W Magazine reveals a talent in ascendance within the sphere of fashion photography. She is also a regular contributor to Muse magazine and has ongoing collaborations with fashion designer Zac Posen.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/09/ja ... tos-a.html

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Новый

EYEMAZING

Можно посмотреть на Михайлова… да.

Несколько очень известных, несколько новых очень интересных авторов, два автора их России (в настоящем и прошлом).

Тексты интервью здесь:

http://www.eyemazing.com/

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Возможно, что-то прозевалось из серии выставок на Luminous-Lint, крайне рекомендую посмотреть:

Back view
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhib ... _01/1/0/0/

Portraits: Parts of body: Hands
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhib ... _01/1/0/0/

Portraits: Parts of body: Feet
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhib ... _01/1/0/0/

Portraits: Parts of body: Legs
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhib ... _01/1/0/0/

На всякий случай, в связи со свежим выпуском EYEMAZING:

Katerina Belkina, It's not a man's world.

Op de Realismebeurs 2008 presenteert Galerie Lilja Zakirova een nieuw gezicht binnen de galerie: de Russische fotografe Katerina Belkina.
Lees verder.

http://www.zakirova.com/

Наверное, имеет смысл упомянуть, что в музее фотографии в Оденсе (Дания) фотография из Минска представлена достаточно обильно, использовалась в постоянной экспозиции и публикациях в высоколобом «Каталоге».

Фин Тране, когда-то запавший сильно на Игоря Савченко (с Фином Тране не было встречи во время того приезда в музей, когда Якоб, наш гид, сотрудник музея и компьютерный гуру, фотографировал Владимира Парфенка, Игоря и меня стенопом. Снимок этот найду, сейчас не вижу под руками).

Музей замечательный, часть крупного выставочного комплекса, с дивной активностью, которая включает упомянутое важное периодическое издание. На основе снимков, которые там имеются, можно довольно большую выставку минской фотографии сделать.

Вот интерьер помещения, где экспонируется постоянная часть из коллекции:


Philip Halsman’s famous portrait of Einstein in the “Main Works” section of the Permanent Collection III, in 1996. Photo by Finn Thrane.

Если посмотреть, какими авторами гордится музей, то найдем следующее:

Museets samling

Museet for Fotokunst har en samling på hen ved 9.000 fotografiske værker. …

Der er ca. 800 fotografer repræsenteret i samlingen og der til knytter sig et kunstnerarkiv, værkarkiv, enkelte større særsamlinger samt landets betydeligste håndbogsbibliotek over de sidste 50 års internationale fotografi.

I samlingen findes bl.a. værker af følgende kunstnere:

Dag Alveng, Diane Arbus, Krass Clement, Harold Edgerton, William Eggleston, Mark de Fraeye, Keld Helmer-Petersen, Nicolai Howalt, Timo Kelaranta, Kirsten Klein, Tove Kurtzweil, Igor Savhenko, Christer Strömholm, Shomei Tomatsu, Pekka Turunen, Jytte Rex, Viggo Rivad.

http://www.brandts.dk/wm139617

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Фин Тране пишет в большой статье, в частности, о проекте «Новая советская фотография», нашей первой выставки волны советской фотографии на Западе:

Museet for Fotokunst – the long perspective
By Finn Thrane
Curator, Museet for Fotokunst

…The third exhibition did not get included in the official programme for 1988, but more than 300 pictures were delivered just before Christmas and displayed in a compact arrangement on the ground floor.

This was the Ny Sovjetisk Fotografi (New Soviet Photography) exhibition, selected and compiled by two Finnish teachers at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. During frequent trips to their Russian neighbours, they had established connections with the photographic underworld and were now smuggling into the West the results of the budding glasnost.

This was a powerful exhibition, and the curator was Henning Hansen, editor of the recently started journal KATALOG (Catalogue). He chose an artistic – rather than a political – interpretation of the comprehensive material provided.

Following this premiere in Odense, the exhibition continued to the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, before doing the circuit of Sweden right up until a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Для меня, правда, загадкой остается, каким это образом Хеннинг забрал одну мою работу из коллекции этой выставки (из этой серии — http://forum.znyata.com/files/thumbs/t_dsc_0197_831.jpg ) — я ее нашел во время стажировки там, благо время позволяло копаться в фотографическом собрании музея.

И вот такая интересная информация:

Contemporary photographers have also made large and – fortunately – permanent donations to the museum.

One example is Igor Savchenko from Belarus, who agreed to meet me at a sidewalk café in Berlin in summer 1997 because he had something he wanted to show me. After five hours of intense perusal of a stack of meticulously hand-copied and hand-coloured prints, he gave me all 500 pictures – “if MFF would be my museum in the West”.

Indeed we would, and I have subsequently both presented him in a special exhibition in 2000, curated by Mette Sandbye, and used him recurrently in thematic contexts, where his suggestive reminiscent art, with a hint of political repression, has been able to play a role.

Еще вот сдуру я как-то принес в студию в Академии искусств перевод введения «Инаковидящих» (TOISINNAKIJAT, Sn-Kirjat, Helsinki 1988) — некто В. Т. выкинул, как вещь ничтожную и лишнюю.

В храме науки оно могло еще десятки лет храниться для возможных далеких благодарных потомков, но в храме искусства ценится только-то что-то свое, глубоко личное.

Геростратовские повадки, как видите, не только тугодумов местной фотографической сцены отличают, но и вполне академическую профессуру. Меня больше, правда, волнует пачка копий страниц из книги к проекту «Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine». Foundation «CIRC», Аmsterdam, Netherlands (K), Галина Москалева давала ее на время, едва ли у кого еще есть. Это все тоже под раздачу попало.

К Академии вообще такой счет еще имеется — крупные отпечатки Владимира Парфенка… где они?

Застрявшие у меня в Академии наук работы обнаружились при переезде в Академию. Итог этого переселения был большей частью нерадостным; боюсь, что угадывать нужно из трех вариантов, едва ли большего числа…

Первый — попали к В.В., сданы на макулатуру, как представляющие ценность для будущего В.В.

Второй — попали к В.Т., выброшены, как отнимающие ценное жизненное пространство для фонов, текстур и ряда других непрерывных попутных приобретений, включая подаренную мне книгу «Портрет».

Третий — попали к В.Т., члену творческих союзов, ценителю драгоценных фактов славного фотографического прошлого страны, бережно хранились, уехали в новое место, так как, по словам В.В. наезд некой комиссии в Академии вынудил В.Т. к переселению добра на четырех грузовичках в иные места…

Ссылки попутно:

«Искусство современной фотографии. Россия, Украина, Белоруссия». ЦДХ, Москва (K), 1994

Отсюда:

http://www.moukhin.ru/BIO.html

Нда, похоже только в нашей академии так относятся к искусству, особенно если они не способны его понять....

Коллаж

У Кольберга на Conscientious:

John Stezaker's collages often are just two uncut images on top of each other, but they do work surprisingly well.


Marriage I, 2006
Collage, 23.5x28.5cm


Love XI, 2006
Collage, 24x18cm


Film Portrait (Incision) V, 2005
Collage, 19.5x14cm

Другие его вещи, другие подходы:

http://theapproach.co.uk/artists/stezaker/

Предыдущая ссылка Кольберга на автора, работающего с коллажами:

http://ruthvanbeek.com/

Место в Сети, где ищутся таланты:

http://www.flakphoto.com/

См. важный обзор на [EV +/-] Exposure Compensation:

Flak Photo and The Reviews at Santa Fe

http://exposurecompensation.com/2008/06 ... -santa-fe/

Вот тут на странице можно чуть пристальнее проникнуться, по ссылке загрузится множество preview, галереи TODAY'S FLAK PHOTO:

http://www.flakphoto.com/galleries/6333 ... 0288/37778



О проекте:

ABOUT FLAK PHOTO

Flak Photo is a photography blogzine featuring distinctive work from an international community of contributors that promotes interesting visual approaches to seeing the world and celebrates the art of exhibiting quality photography online. The blog is produced by Andy Adams and features work from new photo essays, book projects and gallery exhibitions from established and emerging photographers. Flak Photo is updated frequently, attentively edited and open to submissions from the general public.

SUBMISSIONS

To submit your work for consideration, email your photograph (sRGB JPG format, minimum 1000px on the longest dimension) with title and place of capture including city, state/province, country and year to photo@flakmag.com. Contributors are encouraged to include their website URL with their submission. Although we are unable to offer monetary compensation, your work will be seen by Flak Photo's growing readership of photographers, galleries, publishers and photo editors.

очень жалко... с финским языком у нас мало кто дружит...


да, очень редкий, поди, каталог. впрочем, как и Эррозия. Концептуальная фотография из СССР... у меня, кажется где-то ксероксные странички последнего должны сохраниться...


блиннн!!! ну и дела! а я о них ничегошеньки не помню!!!! требую вернуть награду герою!!!


каталог этого замечательного проекта с работами 70 фотографов трех стран имеется в наличии, но статьи в нем, по-правде говоря, носят уж слишком официальный характер...

Да, имеет смысл разыскание устроить — снимок там был большой с головой поднятой, это помню точно, напульсник, похоже, тоже был.

В идеальном состоянии, лежали, похоже, со времен журнального проекта — для публикации приготовленные, я их обнаружил в сейфе, когда начались всякие проблемы в АН и изгнания.

Срочно был устроен переезд в Академию искусств, а то сказано было, что все выкинут. Опыт уже был — работы ряда авторов, включая наклеенные на стекло работы Ирины Сухий, которые тогда Хану показывали в Москве, хранились в той комнате узкой на Козлова… и где они? Одна надежда, что тогда, когда все выкидывалось, снимки все же кто-то забрал в клубную коллекцию. И там не только Ирины были работы…

В Академии добро двух грузовичков попало в разные помещения, к которым доступа не было никакого, а, потом, когда надежда появилась, что там можно будет серьезный центр организовать учебный, зачем и звались все под давние знамена, то просто механически все отложилось.

Я, если тут не заморюсь вовсе от учебных и прочих проблем (начал уже охотиться за хлебом для бедных в IKI на последние литы), то расследование устрою, там все же не мелкая упаковка была, заметный конверт картонный квадратный такой.

Из свежих выставочных проектов:

Polaroid
Daido Moriyama
Galerie Alex Daniels — Reflex Amsterdam
NL. Amsterdam, 20 Jun-14 Aug 2008





The Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama - Osaka 1938 - shot his first picture when he was thirteen years old. Since then he hasn't stopped his frantic investigation and recording of the world through the lens of his 35-mm camera. He did this without any preliminary plan. Smart and the more baffling when one delves into his randomly shot pictures that often have crooked perspectives and images out of focus. Everything matches: the composition, the idea 'behind the photograph' and the way he handles his material in the darkroom in order to give the 'final picture' its perfect but at the same time rough finishing touch. Recognizable by the coarse grain, the heavy black and white contrast and images that are often blurred. They emphasize the story Moriyama wants to tell: contemporary man, caught up in his environment, trying to find a way (out). Moriyama elucidates as it were the different steps of this quest. All perfectly registered in his four 'telephone directories', that have become illustrious in the meantime.

Though primarily focused on his own Japanese universe, Moriyama starts to explore the world in the sixties - he visits New York and Parisand becomes influenced by Andy Warhol and Jack Kerouac, but most of all by William Klein. Klein's photo book New York spells a new starting point for Moriyama in whom he manages to develop new heights.

Далее:

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61671

ATA & EVA
Ata Kandó, Eva Besnyö
HUP gallery
NL. Amsterdam, 13 Jun-30 Aug 2008



HUP gallery Amsterdam is very proud of its' retrospective of the best works from the oeuvre of photographers Ata Kandó and Eva Besnyö.

Hungary was the country where both Ata Kandó (1913) and Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) have their roots. They first met in 1952 and from that moment the two became best friends. Ata and Eva always hoped to do an exhibit together. We are very pleased that we now can make that a reality. Both women have had a great influence on photography and the fact they were best friends strengthened the influence of Hungarian photography in Holland.

The works exhibited in the exposition 'Ata & Eva' are about 50 mostly vintage silver prints. HUP Gallery will show a selection of works from Kandó's whole career, many well known through the publications 'Dromen in het woud', 'Kalypso en Nausikaa', and 'Slaaf of Dood', but also various lesser known works from her oeuvre.

HUP gallery Amsterdam is very proud of its' retrospective of the best works from the oeuvre of photographers Ata Kandó and Eva Besnyö.

Hungary was the country where both Ata Kandó (1913) and Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) have their roots. They first met in 1952 and from that moment the two became best friends. Ata and Eva always hoped to do an exhibit together. We are very pleased that we now can make that a reality. Both women have had a great influence on photography and the fact they were best friends strengthened the influence of Hungarian photography in Holland.

The works exhibited in the exposition 'Ata & Eva' are about 50 mostly vintage silver prints. HUP Gallery will show a selection of works from Kandó's whole career, many well known through the publications 'Dromen in het woud', 'Kalypso en Nausikaa', and 'Slaaf of Dood', but also various lesser known works from her oeuvre.

Весь текст и «Об авторах»:

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61661

La vie nouvelle
Lise Sarfati
CNA Centre National de l'Audiovisuel
L. Dudelange, 28 Jun-31 Aug 2008



La Vie Nouvelle] features a series of [...] photographs by French photographer Lise Sarfati. The photographs were taken in cities like Austin (Texas), Asheville (North Carolina), Portland (Oregon), Berkeley, Oakland and Los Angeles (California), New Orleans (Louisiana) and some small towns in Georgia. In each of these portraits, Lise Sarfati dramatizes the complexity of adolescent identity; within unfamiliar territory - both emotionally and physically - where the simplest of feelings become exalted and everything is lived with an intensity that adults will never again be able to feel. We are talking here of a kind of parallel reality, an interstitial territory which doesn't understand geographical spaces or political systems, which no longer belongs either to a completely real reality or to a consciously conceived fiction, but rather finds itself fed by its own rituals and codes of behaviour, where the dividing line between good and bad, happiness and sadness, innocence and perversity or reality and fantasy is extensively blurred.
F. Javier Panera

Book : The New Life : La Vie Nouvelle, 120 pages, Editor : Twin Palms Publishers (2005),
Language : English, ISBN-10 : 1931885451 / ISBN-13 : 978-1931885454.

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61843

From the series

Reine Vernunft
Anna & Bernhard Blume
Buchmann Galerie
D. Berlin, 28 Jun-26 Jul 2008


De-Konstruktiv, 2006/08
18-part, image no. 1
Photograph
260 x 160 cm

…Die 1937 geborenen Künstler Anna und Bernhard Blume haben das Genre der inszenierten Fotografie wesentlich erweitert und zählen international zu deren renommierten Vertretern. In ihren häufig vielteiligen, großformatigen und schwarz-weißen Fotoserien erzählt das Künstlerpaar inszenierte Zeitabläufe, deren Protagonisten sie selbst sind. Die Szenen sind oft reduziert, verfremdet und vor allem komisch: Ordnung und Chaos scheinen sich gegenseitig zu bedingen, Rollenbilder und Konventionen stecken in jedem Ding, konditionieren Verhaltensweisen und fordern zum Widerstand heraus. Dabei sind Performance, Malerei und Fotografie in den zeitdiagnostischen Werken von Anna und Bernhard Blume stets eng miteinander verwoben. Deformation und Metaphorik, subjektive Wahrnehmung und kollektive Regelwerke werden thematisiert und berühren damit auch die Frage, ob die Grenzen des Sichtbaren auch die Grenzen der Erfahrung setzen.

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61780

Вот любопытно очень:

Original Books
Cohen Amador Gallery
USA. New York, 16 Jul-06 Sep 2008


Keizo Kitajima
5. July 1983 West Berlin
12" X 8 1/2"
gelatin silver print Ed of 7


Morten Andersen
Untitled ("Days of Night) #40
Gelatin Silver Print
20" X 24 " Edition of 5



Gabriele Basilico
Le Touquet , 1984, from DATAR
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
10 3/4" x 13 1/2"

Morten Andersen, Gabriele Basilico, John Gossage, Keizo Kitajima, Jens Liebchen

The Cohen Amador Gallery is pleased to announce its summer g roup exhibition, "Original Books," a selection of black and white photographs from Morten Andersen, Jens Liebchen, Keizo Kitajima, Gabriele Basilico, and John Gossage, five prominent, contemporary photographers from five different countries. Culled from unique photo-book projects, the styles and subject matter of each series varies dramatically; however by using the format of the photo-book as an art tool each photographer has come to fully articulate their ideas visually.

Norwegian photographer Morten Andersen and German photographer Jens Liebchen have taken a conceptual approach in their projects. In photographs from Days of Night, Andersen assembles a furtive, noirish series, which constructs a tense and emotionally heightened, fictional cityscape.

…The stunning street photography in A.D. 1991 by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima compliments the conceptual projects of Morten and Liebchen by focusing on the individual in urban society at the end of the 1980s. Renown for his energized technique in documenting the sub-culture of 1980s New York and Tok yo, Kitajima refashions his sexy, nonchalant style to the purpose of portraying the anguish of a globalizing society at the end of the Cold War. Exhibited are the portraits from this series, whose graininess underscores the strong visual characteristics of the photographed subjects.

Остальное:

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61877

BUNNY
Polly Borland
Michael Hoppen Gallery
GB. London, 25 Jun-02 Aug 2008


Untitled (2004-2005) © Polly Borland, Michael Hoppen Contemporary


Untitled (2004-2005) © Polly Borland, Michael Hoppen Contemporary

Sometimes it is the masks and guise one wears that reveal the naked truths about someone. Gwen is a truly fascinating person and when I first laid eyes on her I fell in love with her. She looked like a blonde fifties starlet or a pinup girl but she was different - she was very, very tall - a circus performer perhaps, or reminiscent of a character out of a fairytale.....
Polly Borland

Bunny is a series of images by Polly Borland that create a portrait of an extremely tall girl called Gwen. Combining surrealism with a forensic - like study of the subject's femininity, Borland has successfully burrowed into the surrealist ideas of Claude Cahun, Hans Bellmer and Man Ray to produce an intimate, yet haunting photographic narrative. Borland manipulates and changes her subject's presence through a dynamic use of perspective and costume to produce an uncanny and raw sense of beauty.

http://photography-now.com/popup_ausst_ ... gen=T61694

Contemporary Photography and Vintage Masterworks

Robert Polidori
CAMERA WORK
D Berlin, 02 Aug-13 Sep 2008


© Robert Polidori · Sala Alejo Carpentier, Gran Teatro de la Habana · Havana, 2000

http://photography-now.com/

Robert Polidori's Chernobyl



This extraordinary book — shot in only 3 days — presents an unexpected look at what remains of Chernobyl and the town of Pripyat, Russia.

In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant.

Declared unfit for human habitation, the "Zones of Exclusion" includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) — and Chernobyl.

In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4 — where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster — to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of all those people who once called Pripyat home.

Nearby, trucks and tanks used in the clean up efforts rest in a car graveyard. Some are covered in lead shrouds — and others have been robbed of parts. Houseboats and barges rust in the contaminated waters of the Pripyat River. Foliage grows over the sidewalks — and hides the modest homes of Chernobyl.

In his large-scale photographs, Mr. Polidori captures the faded colors and desolate atmosphere of these two towns. He produces haunting documents that present the reader with a rare view of not just a disastrous event — but a place and the people who lived there.

Книга:
Zones of Exclusion:
Pripyat and Chernobyl
By Robert Polidori

Published by
Steidl & Pace/MacGill

112 pages
190 color photographs
Dimensions (in inches): 15x11.75

$50.0

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Stairwell in school #5, Pripyat © Robert Polidori, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York


Chernobyl. Classroom in Kindergarten #7, "Golden Key," Pripyat, 2001
© Robert Polidori, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

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