Встреча с легендой.

Miguel Garcia-Guzman (Exposure Compensation) —

New talent can be found at photography schools

Source Magazine is a magazine of contemporary photography from Ireland. I never had the opportunity to see the magazine, so I can't comment about it, but I recently learned that at their website they have started to host a gallery of photography from graduate schools United Kingdom and Ireland.

It seems to me that this is not only a great idea to expose the work of emerging photographers but most to serve as a catalyst for the students to perform at their best. There is nothing like getting broad public exposure to raise your self criticism and do your best work. I hope to see similar efforts across photography schools in the USA and other countries. Seeing fresh ideas for ways to share new photography is always very much welcome. Discovering talent like Ciaran Dolan is always a nice surprise.

http://exposurecompensation.com/2008/07 ... y-schools/

Ссылка на журнал:



http://www.source.ie/index.html

Ссылка на работы выпускников:


University of Brighton, Frederike de Jonge

(This is an autobiographical project in which I have taken the last twenty years or so of my life and tried to capture and work through pivotal moments. This project is about identity, misconception and judgement regarding one person.

http://www.source.ie/graduate/2008/index.html

Ссылка на Ciaran Dolan:
http://www.dolanphotography.com/

SEESAW MAGAZINE: Current Issue



Тексты, иллюстрации, увеличенные версии снимков:



http://www.seesawmagazine.com/current_issue.html

Пример еще вот такой. Город Лидс, конечно, занимает особую позицию… просто так на себя не примеряешь, но инициатива, кторой уже много лет, внимания стоит.

Pavilion invests in the talent of emerging photographers

Pavilion is a visual arts commissioning agency that collaborates with artists and audiences to make exceptional new works of art, using photography and digital media.

Pavilion invests in the talent of emerging photographers. It does this through; commissions, exhibitions and portfolio review sessions. Pavilion also supports emerging artists into the art market through its print sales initiative.

Pavilion's acclaimed Studio12 participatory project is an ongoing investment in the creative development of young people.

Through national exhibitions, publications, critical dialogue, a website including an online gallery, events and participation, Pavilion responds to and cultivates audience engagement.

We are a Leeds-based company, now approaching our 25th anniversary, with experience of engaging with people and making photography accessible and relevant to a wide audience.

…Pavilion collaborates with artists and other organisations to deliver commissions and exhibitions. We provide opportunities for artists’ to develop their practice and profile their work.

Pavilion aspires to developing a proactive photographic culture. We curate photographic and new media exhibitions and events in partnership with galleries and other UK organisations. We also sell limited edition photographic prints through our Special Edition Prints initiative, which directly supports emerging photographers.

Through commissions, exhibitions and Special Edition Prints we are supporting practitioners and professionals in the field, as well as making work accessible to a wide audience.

http://www.pavilion.org.uk/gallery_featured.php

Такая вот цитата из Адамса:

"For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions."

сопровождает, возможно, случайно, информацию о двух новых сервисах, особенностью которых является продуманная эргономика и/или специальные возможности.

A Photo Folio
…The key differentiating aspect of Rob's offering relies on his extensive background and expertise in the commercial market as a photo editor. This provides a service that has the main aim to showcase your work so it will be appealing to customers of commercial photography: photography becomes the center of attention, and it is displayed in websites that are extremely elegant and easy to navigate…

…As this is a new service they are still creating optional layouts and designs to choose from, but I am certain it will become a premier leading service very soon. What makes A Photo Folio even more unique is that Rob Haggart [former photo editor of Mens Magazine] and Heidi Volpe [Art Director of LA Times Magazine] offer personal consultation services to edit your portfolio for a reasonable price. This last is one of the most interesting opportunities as portfolio editing is the most difficult and critical aspect of a successful portfolio.

Dripbook
On the other side, a different new offering is Dripbook, a new service for photographers to promote their work online with very elegant online galleries and tools facilitate electronic marketing such as e-mail and widgets. What I find interesting of this service is that it offers the possibility to use Dripbook first and then transfer the portfolio into custom websites [example] or use other web based tools like widgets to showcase your work in multiple sites, including social sites if you like to do so.

Кроме всего прочего: Dripbook is (and has always been) invitation only in order to ensure a very high quality of work.

Ссылки:

A Photo Folio
http://aphotofolio.com/

10 причин полюбить Photo Folio:

http://aphotofolio.com/2008/08/10-reaso ... e-designs/

Пример:

Antonin Kratochvil
http://72.32.9.12/~antonin/

Dripbook, галереи:
http://www.dripbook.com/

What is Dripbook?
http://www.dripbook.com/top/aboutus/#na

http://exposurecompensation.com/2008/08 ... -dripbook/

Ellen Susan
PFC Robert Widenor
[Soldier Portraits]
2007

Ambrotype
6 x 6 in
Ellen Susan : Soldier Portrait

RECENT / CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
July 18-August 28, 2008
Opening Reception July 18th, 2008

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR
July 3-August 2, 2008
Opening Reception July 3, 6pm
Lecture July 5, 3pm

Ellen Susan's jewel-like photographs of contemporary American soldiers are at once intimate and revelatory. Utilizing the antique wet plate collodion process, she photographs soldiers primarily from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in her own community. Within each one of a kind glass plate negative Susan reaches beyond the uniforms and explores in stunningly minute detail the individuality of each soldier. "The anonymous visual presentation of multitudes of soldiers on television, newspapers and the internet became disconcerting, and I wanted to make pictures that focused on each soldier as a unique person who happened to be wearing a uniform," says Susan. By using the beautiful yet arduous wet plate collodion process she carries on a tradition that harkens back to the Civil War.

http://neworleansphotoalliance.blogspot ... raits.html

Галерея на luminous-lint
Ellen Susan : Soldier Portrait


Ellen Susan, WO1 Ignacio Becera, 2007
Ambrotype
10 x 8 in


Ellen Susan, SGT Karen Moses, 2007
Ambrotype
6 x 6 in


Ellen Susan, SGT Stanford Horne, 2007
Ambrotype
6 x 6 in

Ссылка на эту большую галерею давалась на «Пленке»:

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhib ... _01/2/0/0/

photo-eye : Gallery (распечатки)

Несколько отличный от указанного набор снимков, см. на photo-eye >


PFC Burnett (2)
Archival digital print from wet collodion positive
22x22" Image
Unmatted
3/15
$900

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1LT Jeffrey Des Jarlais

Collodion Soldiers
Using a 19th century photographic process, Ellen Susan takes a close look at our nation's modern warriors.

By Jack Crager
August 9, 2007



In her studio in Savannah, Georgia, Susan is shooting a series of portraits of soldiers for an exhibition and book project, as described at soldierportraits.com. "All soldiers who want to be photographed will be," she says in the site's casting call. "The only requirements are three and a half hours of your time at my studio in Savannah, and the ability to sit very still for up to 30 seconds. You'll receive a unique, one-of-a-kind photograph to take with you when you leave." Many hauntingly solemn portraits, with soldiers' written comments, appear on the site (see slideshow).

О проекте:



http://www.popphoto.com/photographynews ... diers.html

This article originally appeared on American Photo's State of the Art blog.

http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/ ... l-sol.html

Artist views soldiers through history's lens

Sean Harder | Sunday, June 3, 2007
photographs: John Carrington
Savannah Morning News

Ellen Susan captures soldiers' portraits using Civil War-era wet plate photography.


The glass or metal plate is then soaked in a bath of silver nitrate before being loaded into the camera.

http://www.soldierportraits.com/smnstory.html

См. еще отзыв здесь:

http://gonecity.blogspot.com/2008/08/el ... raits.html

Полные версии («тройки») на сайте проекта:







1LT Jeffrey Des Jarlais

http://www.soldierportraits.com/photographs.html





Soldier Portraits Exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery December1,
2007 - February 5, 2008

Between Love & Duty: Tierney Award Photographs by Rian Dundon



An exhibition of 17 black-and-white photographs, entitled Between Love and Duty: Chinese Youth Culture, by Rian Dundon, the 2007 Tierney Fellowship award recipient from the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, will go on view July 3 at the Tisch School of the Arts.

In this exhibition Dundon strives to document the human narratives of a generation of Chinese working to resolve their interest in their own country's history and that of the West. China's culture is struggling with poverty and punk rock, with mahjong and sexuality, with arranged marriages and a reborn academia. Illuminating these disparities, Dundon shows the emotional and cultural specificity of the "one-child" generation…

The annual Tierney Fellowship grant was established by the Tierney Family Foundation in 2005. It is awarded to a Photography & Imaging alumnus who has shown excellence in the field of photography and has graduated within the past seven years. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to find aspiring artists who will be tomorrow's leaders and to assist them in overcoming challenges that photographers face at the start of their careers.

Dundon '03 is an Irish-American freelance photographer and writer. He is represented by Atlas Press Photo and is a regular contributor at Pacific News Service. His work has been exhibited at the 2007 Angkor Photography Festival in Cambodia as well as the inaugural New York Photo Festival in 2008. Dundon's work has appeared in Stern, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post, Time, The Detroit Free Press, The Irish Times Magazine…

…The Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film and Television is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within a university, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts.

http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/Betwe ... 23726.html

См. еще отзыв здесь:

http://willsteacy.blogspot.com/2008/07/ ... -duty.html

Эта серия на сайте автора:
http://www.riandundon.com/b&w/china_edit/china_h_41.jpg
Kunming, China, 2008. Attempted suicide.

http://www.riandundon.com/b&w/china_edit/ktvcrew_2.jpg
Xiangxi, China, 2006. Karaoke.

http://www.riandundon.com/china.html

Идея любопытная вот какая клубная:

The Ones We Love

The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world.

Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting.

The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.



Фотографы:

http://www.theoneswelove.org/photographers.html

http://www.theoneswelove.org/home.html

Hotshoe

(HotShoe is Europe's leading contemporary photographic magazine showcasing the best of established and up-and-coming photographic talent across a wide range of photographic genres. Its informative and incisive comment is complemented by extensive information on what is happening and what is new in the international world of contemporary photography. HotShoe has established itself as the magazine for top professionals from all fields — documentary, advertising and the arts — and is read by those who commission their work).

В новом выпуске журнала в разделе ART —

Beneath the Roses: Andrew Bovell on Gregory Crewdson
The writer of the hit film Lantana delves into the world of Gregory Crewdson

Written in Light: Hannah Starkey
Miranda Gavin talks to Hannah Starkey about her debut book published by Steidl and covering the past ten years work.

Dutch Delights: The Dreamscapes of Ellen Kooi
Bill Kouwenhoven interviews this Dutch artist influenced by her country's rich tradition of landscape painting.

Crude Metaphors
The End of Music: Ten Memories of Movement and Rest. Images by Einar Hansen. Text by Angus Carlyle.

Сами материалы журнала недоступны за «просто так», но зато вполне доступны новости на входной странице:

Travel Photographer of the Year 2008
Final Call For Entries

Prix Pictet Shortlist Announced
£50,000 Photography Prize For Sustainability

Ian Parry Scholarship 2008
Winner Announced

The Liliane Bettencourt – Prix de la Photographie
Winner Announced

Young Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008
Call for Entries

The AOP Assistant Awards 2008
Winners Announced

The Lange- Taylor Prize 2008
Winner Announced

http://www.hotshoeinternational.com/home.do

Что касается указанных авторов, то имеем следующее:

Gregory Crewdson: Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.


Gregory Crewdson on location in Pittsfield, MA July 25, 2007

Hannah Starkey has said that she likes to explore "everyday experiences and observations of inner city life from a female perspective". She does so by using generally female actors to create large-scale tableaux, in which the protagonists act out carefully staged scenarios. Her images often portray moments of quiet drama, touching upon areas of experience which are familiar but which remain unspoken or below the surface. Starkey’s narratives suggest that we have caught her characters unawares for a moment, leaving us to imagine the build-up to the incident portrayed.

Кто ее вдохновляет: "Lots. If you look at Helmut Newton's work, or Garry Winogrand's, or Philip-Lorca diCorcia's, you can see it's all about a universal language — everything seems balanced and right."

Ellen Kooi: было уже много информации.

Einar Hansen:

Conscientious:
Einar Hansen's photography is very quiet and requires the viewer to remain with it for a while.

http://einarhansen.com/

Еще:

Einar Hansen
The Fog will clear, the Snow will melt
signed copy

Young norwegian photographer Hansen has selfpublished this very nice little book. He is someone who likes to walk, and likes to stop and stand and look at something and maybe then takes a picture. The images and the editing are well-balanced between joy and restraint. Tokyo at night mostly, interiors and some portrays make this a book full of atmosphere.

http://www.schaden.com/book/HanEinThe04848.html

JPG Magazine: Stories: Feature Story:

Gregory Crewdson $1 Million Photo Shoot



Photographer Gregory Crewdson shoots his still images as if he were Michelangelo Antonioni channeling Edward Hopper on a movie set. Since he shoots with a Hasselblad Sinar 8x10 camera, his field of composition includes people, sky, cars, streets and buildings. In essence, the scale of his compositions matches the possibilities inherent in the 8x10 camera format.

Gregory has a mini lighting crew that sets up before each shoot. Richard "Rico" Sands, whose background includes being a gaffer, crane operator, and director of photography, collaborates on the lighting setup of his shots. Rico controls the lighting on the set right down to calling out which circuit breaker to kill when shooting individual shots.

Gregory composites his images from a series of shots that are slightly modified between takes. It's similar to how French photographer Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884) composited his seascapes at the beginning of the 20th Century…

…I watched the shoot unfold from beginning to end (6 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.) and decided to capture key moments of the process. This image will end up selling for $80,000 to $100,000 per print, in editions of 10, so essentially it's a million dollar shoot every time he decides to compose an image.

Gregory wrote in an article entitled "Aesthetics of Alienation" for the Tate Modern Museum that "There are these very ordinary situations, and the light is being used as a narrative code to reveal the story. It also provides some possibility of transformation of the ordinary, which gives the images a certain theatricality." This is the key insight to understand how Gregory creates images that resonate beyond the mere representation of a bar on the corner with a woman sitting outside smoking a cigarette while a car disappears down the street…

Весь текст и снимки:

http://jpgmag.com/stories/1194

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Behind the scenes at Gregory Crewdson's Pittsfield photo shoot

Photographer Gregory Crewdson is celebrated for creating elaborate images with the eerie feel of movie stills, and he's taken to using gritty spots in the Berkshires as his settings. For the ongoing series called "Beneath the Roses," Crewdson and his team were in Adams, North Adams, Cheshire, and in Pittsfield last month, where Globe photographer Michele McDonald chronicled one day-long shoot.

Elaborate staging, with a crew of about 30 people, takes hours before a Gregory Crewdson shoot…

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/g ... wdsonline/

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Gregory Crewdson's Epic Effects

The photographer uses movie production techniques to create "in-between moments." But you'll have to supply the story line

* By Kenneth R. Fletcher
* Smithsonian magazine, June 2008

“I always see them as a world unto themselves,” says Crewdson of his photographs. “They exist in their own parameters.”



http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cult ... dson.html#

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Gregory Crewdson
By Robert Ayers
Published: March 21, 2006

NEW YORK—Gregory Crewdson occupies a unique position in contemporary photography. His pictures are at once immediately recognizable and utterly perplexing. He specializes in obsessively detailed images of small-town America, lit in highly characteristic ways: His exteriors are repeatedly caught at moments of changing light (his hugely successful 2002 Abrams book was called Twilight) and his interiors are often patterned with complex pools of illumination.

…Crewdson’s last show of new work was a simultaneous three-gallery exhibition of his Beneath the Roses series last spring at Gagosian in Los Angeles, Luhring Augustine in New York and White Cube in London. His full-scale retrospective, Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005, is currently touring Hanover, Krefeld, Winthethur and Linz.


"Untitled (North by Northwest)" from the series "Beneath the Roses" (2004)


Gregory Crewdson, "Untitled (Nude Woman in Trailer)" (2004)


Интервью:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/13525 ... -crewdson/

Еще:

http://www.aperture.org/crewdson/

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Галереи:

White Cube — Gregory Crewdson

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/crewdson/

Luhring Augustine Gallery: Gregory Crewdson's U.S. Representative



http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.p ... ject_id=66

См. другие ссылки здесь:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson

скорбная новость...

25 июля в возрасте 36 лет в Польше скончался фотограф и главный редактор ежеквартального журнала Fotografia Ирэнеуш Зьежьджялка. Fotografia — однин из самых интересных и авторитетных фотографических журналов в Восточной Европе...

мы так и не дождались его приезда в Минск с персональной выставкой... хотя попытка такая предпринималась два года назад, но что-то там не склеилось у Польского института... увы...

http://www.photographer.ru/events/news/ ... pic=1#show
http://www.fotografia.net.pl/
http://zjezdzalka.blogspot.com/

VL: несколько дополнений…

Работы:

Września, czyli “Mały portret mojego miasta”





"Mały atlas mojego miasta" to rodzaj subiektywnej dokumentacji rodzinnej Wrześni, wykonanej na przełomie XX i XXI wieku przedwojennym aparatem Voigtlander Bessa na klisze formatu 6 x 9 cm, a następnie pokazywanej w formie odbitek stykowych (Fotoplastikon, Poznań 2001; Rathaus, Garbsen, D, 2004). W 2003 projekt został opublikowany w formie miniaturowego zbioru uzupełnionego poezją haiku Marcina Myszkiewicza.



http://www.tamtamagency.com.pl/stary/in ... &id=41&t=i

Portrety dzieci z cyklu “Bez Atelier”



http://www.tamtamagency.com.pl/stary/in ... &id=40&t=i

Sedymentacja
http://www.zderzak.pl/zjezdzalka_2004/z ... a_2004.htm

"Do światła..." Ireneusza Zjeżdżałki
http://www.fotopolis.pl/index.php?g=157

"Proces naturalny" Ireneusza Zjeżdżałki
http://www.fotopolis.pl/index.php?n=3921

"Strefa buforowa" Ireneusza Zjeżdżałki w Green Gallery
http://www.fotopolis.pl/index.php?n=6593

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Najnowszy numer włoskiego czasopisma Private w całości jest poświęcony polskiej fotografii po 2000 r.…

O Private pisałem już kiedyś. Kiedy taki magazyn będzie wydawany w Polsce? Poniżej wstęp do opisywanego wydania autorstwa Ireneusza Zjeżdżałki.

Текст:

From Poland
Fotografia w Polsce stała się po roku 2000 jednym z najbardziej popularnych mediów. Bez wątpienia przyczyn takiego stanu można upatrywać w błyskawicznym rozwoju prywatnego szkolnictwa fotograficznego oraz w licznych festiwalach fotografii, z których niektóre po kilku latach istnienia mogą imponować organizacyjnym rozmachem i międzynarodowym charakterem (Kraków, Łódź, Poznań, Bielsko-Biała). Gdy do tego dodamy kilka wydawanych magazynów to dla przeciętnego odbiorcy pojawia się całkiem pozytywny obraz sytuacji fotografii w Polsce. Niestety, ilość zazwyczaj nie przekłada się na jakość…
Jaka jest zatem fotografia polska po roku 2000? …

http://bwworld.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/private-n-41/

http://www.privatephotoreview.com/en/index.php

http://www.privatephotoreview.com/en/re ... /63/page/1

http://bwworld.wordpress.com/2007/02/28 ... jezdzalka/

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Urodzony w 1972 we Wrześni, zmarł 25 lipca 2008 roku. Fotograf, od roku 2002 członek Związku Polskich Artystów Fotografików, krytyk i redaktor naczelny (od 2003) "Kwartalnika Fotografia". Absolwent poznańskiej Akademii Rolniczej. Początkowo zajmował się fotografią przyrodniczą. Debiutował w końcu lat 90. na 8. Krajowym salonie fotografii artystycznej "Żary" '98" (Żary) i X Biennale fotografii górskiej w Jeleniej Górze.

W latach 1998-2003 pracował jako kurator w galerii "pf" w Poznaniu. W latach 1999-2001 zrealizował cykl Mały atlas mojego miasta (składający się z kilkudziesięciu czarno-białych fotografii kontaktowych 6x9 cm, wykonanych przedwojenną kamerą) pokazany w Poznaniu (Fotoplastykon, 2001) i w Garbsen (Rathaus, 2004). To rodzaj dokumentu odwołujący się do doświadczeń Andrzeja L. Lecha i Bogdana Konopki, ale poszukujący innych, bardziej melancholijnych obrazów rzeczywistości, często o rytmicznej i zgeometryzowanej kompozycji zdjęć. Artysta głęboko wnika w nastrój polskiej prowincji analizując jej nową atmosferę duchową. Druga wystawa, jaką pokazał Zjeżdżałka to zestaw portretów Bez atelier inspirowany setną rocznicą strajku dzieci z Wrześni, a zaprezentowany w Muzeum Dzieci Wrzesińskich (Września, 2001).

Весь текст:

http://www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artyku ... a_ireneusz

SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL:
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann: Conditions

Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann wrote me a while back to let me know about a new project on his website entitled Conditions. As Andrés puts it, “the work raises questions about mutual acceptance and our perception of one another.”

http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2 ... onditions/

Conscientious:

Andres Marroquin Winkelmann's "Conditions" very successfully mixes portraits (some very staged) with still lifes to convey its message.

Andres Marroquin Winkelmann:

http://www.andresmarroquin.com/

C O N D I T I O N S

84 Pages, Published: July 12, 2008

http://www.blurb.com/user/store/andresmw

Имена нового выпуска «Апертуры»:

Sophie Calle: A Lover’s Monologue by Giuseppe Merlino
The films of Robert Frank by Luc Sante
The surveillance photographs of Trevor Paglen (cover artist) by Thomas Keenan
Gilles Peress and John Berger respond to Picasso’s Guerinaca
Amei Wallach examines Jane Hammond’s photo-collages
Vince Aletti looks back at the heyday of Town & Country
The campy photographs of James Bidgood by Philip Gefter
Recent photography and video from Japan
Mary Panzer’s unflinching look at Iraq War Veterans

Town and Country: Reading for the Leisure Class
by Vince Aletti



Aletti looks back at the heyday of this publication conceived to entertain the affluent elite.

Picturing the
Iraq War Veterans
by Mary Panzer



A look at how photographers address a grim legacy of the war: wounded veterans.

http://www.aperture.org/store/magazine- ... #spreadone

Архив (Archive for the ‘Magazine’ Category):

http://exposures.aperture.org/?cat=3

Aperture magazine is honored to present one of the last interviews with notable Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths:

http://www.aperture.org/jonesgriffiths/

В Archive for the ‘Magazine’ Category, http://exposures.aperture.org/?cat=3 , имеется знакомое имя и вот такая информация:

Mary Ellen Mark featured in The Washington Post.

http://exposures.aperture.org/wp-conten ... m_prom.jpg

Read a profile of Mary Ellen Mark, one of the most influential women photographers of all time, and her ongoing Prom series in The Washington Post here. Mark uses a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera for this project.

CULTURE — ART FEATURE —

The rite stuff: Mark's captivating prom dates
by LAURA PARSONS



A teenage prostitute wearing a veiled Jackie O. pillbox hat. A young Indian circus performer gazing out from between her own feet. Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's most celebrated images offer riveting portraits of people living on the fringes of society.

But what's this? Her McGuffey Art Center exhibition features portraits of prom dates? Could anything be more mainstream than a posed prom picture?

No-- and that's Mark's point. "It's so American," she said, discussing her fascination with the high school ritual during her Festival of the Photograph appearance at the Paramount. "I kind of want the pictures to seem mundane."

But viewed through the lens of Mark's camera, the ordinary always reveals itself as extraordinary. The 20" x 24" black-and-white Polaroid portraits that make up "Prom" effervesce with the energy of youth, its beauty, its vulnerability, its quicksilver vacillation between confidence and insecurity.

For this series, Mark traveled to 12 different proms, including Charlottesville High School's, selecting attendees who seemed to reflect, in that microcosmic moment, something about our country as a diverse macrocosm— the prom as "melting pot," where for one night everyone participates in the American dream, looking good and living large.

Although Mark's forthcoming book about the project will include the couples' personal stories, the portraits at McGuffey stand on their own, free from concrete details. This lack of backstory prods viewers to project their own ideas onto the subtle drama Mark conveys in her posed yet evocative images.

http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008 ... -0726.aspx

PROM
A recently completed long-term project of portraits made with the 20x24 Polaroid camera as seen in People Magazine:



Jania Sims & Khalif White, Malcolm X Shabazz Prom, May 18, 2006
Julianna McHugh & Griffin Wright, Cheltenham Prom, June 6, 2006

http://www.maryellenmark.com/

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These Aren't Your Everyday Prom Polaroids
Famed Photographer Captures American Vibe In High School Images

By Rachel Beckman
Washington Post Staff Writer



Mark's portrait of Shane Kammauff and Jenna Zschaebitz.
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark talks to prom couple Rickelya Johnson and Paul Hedrick, left;
Mark's unusual Polaroid camera weighs 600 pounds.

On April 26, Mary Ellen Mark and her entourage of assistants set up a makeshift photo studio in a small room next to the school's gymnasium. Mark is working on a three-year project called "Prom." Charlottesville High was the seventh of 12 schools she is photographing.

Next weekend, Mark will speak at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph here, where her Charlottesville photos will be on display.

"Prom is a slice of Americana for me," Mark said. "You learn about a culture and how different racial groups bring their own style to prom."

…The lights flashed and the photo technicians rushed to grab the enormous 20-by-24-inch black-and-white Polaroid print from the 600-pound oversize camera. After 90 seconds, a buzzer announced that the photo was finished. In the image, Johnson and Hedrick's intertwined fingers stand out as a mesmerizing contrast in skin colors, like a segment of piano keys.

"It's almost ghostly," Mark said. "They're great, aren't they?"

Mark, 68, has made a career of photographing the famous and the un-famous. Her pictures of celebrities (Johnny Depp, Maya Angelou and Sarah Jessica Parker to name a few) appear in publications such as the New Yorker, the New York Times and Rolling Stone. But her social-documentary photographs are the heart of her work, including mental patients in Oregon, circus performers in India and refugees in Ethiopia. One of her most famous images, taken in 1983, is of a 13-year-old Seattle prostitute named Tiny.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 04166.html

Johnson Museum to present Mary Ellen Mark's ‘Prom Series'



"Jameelia Ricks and Marielle Evangelista, Ithaca High School" (2008) is one of more than 20 20x24 Polaroids of American prom couples that will be on view at the Johnson Museum beginning Saturday, August 9.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pb ... /808070314

Большой материал с подробностями о проекте и подборка других работ: C-Ville: Features — Candid camera.

Issue #20.23 :: 06/03/2008 - 06/09/2008
Candid camera

Photo giant Mary Ellen Mark turns her lens to the Charlottesville High School prom

BY ERIKA HOWSARE



Here’s another couple. They’re dressed to the absolute nines. The dress is exactly the same shade of yellow as the four handkerchief points in the jacket pocket, the vest and the tie. The collared shirt is black, the shoes are mirror-shiny. A row of tiny rhinestones circles the girl’s waist; she has a tiara on her head, and the hem of her long skirt makes a delicate satin pile on the floor.

I keep looking at her date. The two of them both have rather angelic faces, but this kid in the tux is just devastating, with perfectly clear skin, dark, lovely eyes and a long shaggy haircut. Is he a she? I start to wonder.

He/she is cool as a cucumber, standing with the satisfied air of someone escorting a pretty girl, looking down at her upturned face and then out toward the world, speaking for both of them. They’ve had one shot taken and now, while Mark and her crew are off examining the print, they’re left alone together in the momentarily private world of the set, bathed in light, talking softly.

Mark returns, says “It’s beautiful,” and adjusts their hands slightly. “Martin, look at the hands,” she says. “Yeah, that’s better,” he calls.

After a couple of shots are tacked up, I go to the wall. It’s stunningly clear: Of course these are two girls. How could I have thought the taller girl was a boy? In the prints, she’s lost all that subtle bravado, all the protective confidence that she projects in the room. She’s so young, and so fragile. She looks right into the camera, and the girl in the yellow dress looks up at her…



http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=12 ... 6083534430

Yancey Richardson Gallery > Artists > Mary Ellen Mark


"Tiny" in Her Halloween Costume, Seattle, Washington, 1983, 16 x 20 and 20 x 24 inch, Signed on verso

SELECTED PRESS
http://i1.exhibit-e.com/yanceyrichardson/dd18e27a.pdf

http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists ... index.html

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Интервью: Mark of distinction, By JACKIE MCGLONE

http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.as ... id=2628581

Indepth Arts News:

"Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs"
2000-05-13 until 2000-08-06
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA, USA United States of America

Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs is the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on the acclaimed photographer's extensive American work. The exhibition will feature some 141 black-and-white photographs, many of which have never been exhibited. Included are powerful photographs from several of Mark's well-known projects, including 'Streetwise,' 'Beauty Pageants,' 'Rural Poverty,' 'Texas Rodeos,' 'The Damm Family,' and 'Christian Bikers.'

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/20 ... 26984.html

Hasselblad.com › Masters 2004 ›

January — Mary Ellen Mark







Вся подборка:

http://www.hasselblad.com/masters-2004/ ... -mark.aspx

René De Carufel
Mary Ellen Mark
[The Photographer's Eye]
2004, Aug

Портрет
http://www.luminous-lint.com/imagevault ... 82_std.jpg

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photog ... n__Mark/A/

MARY ELLEN MARK
February 1 - March 10, 2007 at Fahey/Klein Gallery, West Hollywood
by Ray Zone

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Arc ... MarkA.html

Mary Ellen Mark: Some Thoughts
by Marianne Fulton

…Photography is an interpretation — a personal description of the world. Understanding this, great photographers find their own way of rendering a scene, a truth.

Mark works intensely to find her subject and the right moment. Her passion for the meaningful single image, whether part of a longer project or not, is revealed quickly by putting photographs from different essays side by side. Her core of concern and strength of vision creates a broader context. One sees that her subjects are people, no matter where. Both the respect and the edginess persist: the ultimate story is much more profound.

RealAudio: Mary Ellen Mark talks about how she began as a photographer.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9 ... mark19.ram

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9903/mark01.htm

См. специально большую раннюю публикацию:

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000 ... index.html

Еще:

http://www.aperture.org/store/books-detail.aspx?ID=254

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_W ... /mark.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Mark

Большое раннее интервью (1989), крупные иллюстрации:

BOMB Magazine: Mary Ellen Mark by Allen Frame:

http://www.bombsite.com/images/attachme ... 2_body.jpg

http://www.bombsite.com/issues/28/articles/1213

Am Not A Fashion Photographer, Zoo daily, Jul 2008 [ZOOZOOM]

http://zoozoom.com/#type=story&id=988

Интервью (видео):
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/0 ... ellen-mark

Здесь еще интересная информация, DETOUR, видео:
http://detour.moleskinecity.com/index.p ... llen-mark/

Marianne Boesky Gallery — Mary Ellen Mark — Works:
http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/ar ... llen-mark/

Книга
EXPOSURE. Mary Ellen Mark
Дмитрий Киян

«Сто тридцать четыре фотографии — много это или мало? Сто тридцать четыре из десятков тысяч, снятых в течение нескольких десятилетий. В книге Мэри Эллен Марк опубликовано именно такое количество изображений. Это ее авторский отбор, заниматься которым она начала в 2003 году. Если знать, что фотография Федерико Феллини на съемочной площадке фильма «Сатирикон» в Риме (она опубликована в книге первой) — это лишь одна и более четырех тысяч, отснятых ею по заданию журнала Look в 1969 году, то уразуметь, сколько было создано в последующие десятилетия, не представляется возможным.

…Авторский текст Мэри Эллен Марк опубликован на последних восемнадцати страницах. Часто ли в последнее время нам доводится читать размышления фотографов? Запоминается из сказанного ею многое — верное и точное, с чем нельзя не согласиться. Как то, что «основной интерес сейчас, кажется, лежит в плоскости поверхностного; содержание и реальность наблюдаются все реже. Новая сфера фотографии, „фотоиллюстрация“, заменила собой документальную фотографию в журналах». Или — касательно того, что делает фотографию значимой: «На этот вопрос ответит практически невозможно. Иногда значимым изображение делает очевидность. Иногда фотография работает в силу своей тонкости или того, что вышло за границы кадра. Для меня под значимым изображением понимается сочетание сильного содержания и великолепного замысла». И конечно, совершеннейшим подарком следует считать довольно объемные повествования-объяснения Мэри Элен Марк о 35-ти из опубликованных в книге изображений».

http://www.photographer.ru/events/review/737.htm

Пару ссылок, чтобы не потерять:

Is Photography Dead?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/73349/page/2

http://www.chasebrowder.com/Teaching/Newsweek.pdf

Сюда же — отзывы и комментарии:

State of the Art: Photography is Dead Again, Says Newsweek.
http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/ ... -issu.html

National Geographic Magazine — Is Photography Dead?
http://ngm.typepad.com/digital_photogra ... raphy.html

Art To Go: Is Photography Dead? Of course not.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/art/ ... 127941.asp

John Nack on Adobe: Would photography please "die" already??
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/12/wo ... ograp.html

Photography Does Not Exist Any More
Thesis and evidence.
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.co ... y-doe.html

Photography is Dead, Long Live the Happy Snap
http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/1 ... Happy_Snap

NOW Magazine // Art // Is analog photography dead?
http://www.nowtoronto.com/art/story.cfm?content=162859

Black Cat Bone is pleased to present this online exhibition of photographs from: “Photography is Dead; Long Live Photography”
Sandy Spring Museum
http://blackcatbone.blogspot.com/2005/1 ... -live.html

Yes, photography is dead. | Gallery Hopper
http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=511

“Is Photography Dead?”
http://judithdenhollander.wordpress.com ... aphy-dead/

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The camera today? You can't trust it. Hockney sparks a debate
Artist says ease of manipulation has made photography a dying art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/ma ... shing.arts

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Online Photographic Thinking
JASON EVANS
http://www.wordswithoutpictures.org/main.html?id=112

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If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the Original?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/arts/ ... ref=slogin

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The Treacherous Medium
Why photography critics hate photographs
Susie Linfield

http://bostonreview.net/BR31.5/linfield.php

Alec Soth:

A couple of people have asked me to respond to Susie Linfield’s essay, The Treacherous Medium, Why Photography Critics Hate Photographs. While the title is provocative and the essay is well written, I’ve had a hard time mustering up much of a reaction. Linfield’s essay is talking about (and for) the world of academic critics: Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Victor Burgin, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, John Tagg, Martha Rosler. While I brushed up against this world in college, it is pretty remote from the material I read now. (I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, not October).

Where Linfield’s essay falls short is in her comparison to critics of other media. After a paragraph describing Victor Burgin’s condemnation of the activity of looking (ah, postmoderism), Linfield writes, “Compare all this – this obsession with victimization and predetermination, this utter refusal of freedom, this insistent moroseness - to the opening pages of Pauline Kael’s essay “Trash, Art, and the Movies.”

But it seems to me that Linfield has an apple/orange problem. Kael wrote for the New Yorker, not for the Yale Journal of Criticism. Linfield doesn’t mention the New Yorker’s current photography writer, Vince Aletti. Nobody loves the ‘trash’ art of fashion photography more than Aletti. And where are the other non-academic photography critics in Linfield’s essay: A.D. Coleman, Jean Dykstra, Vicki Goldberg, Andy Grundberg, Bill Jay, Max Kozloff, Richard B. Woodward. Certainly these writers don’t hate photography (a couple of them are even practicing photographers). Perhaps Linfield should explore another topic: Why Academic Photography Critics Ignore Popular Photography Critics.

Несколько добавлений к теме POD:

Comparison of POD printers: Lulu vs Blurb vs MyPublisher
By C B Newham, December 2007

Анализ с примерами качества печати:

http://www.daepublishing.com/pod/PODExposed.html

Print-on-Demand: Exciting but Bumpy New Road

Following are some of the POD market leaders:

* Blurb — http://www.blurb.com/ — proprietary software (currently buggy!), accepts full-page JPEG's from other software (works well), good value, good quality books
* Lulu — http://www.lulu.com/ — accepts PDF's only, good value, average quality books, offers rush service for softcover books
* MyPublisher — http://www.mypublisher.com/ — proprietary software, more expensive for larger books, average quality books
* Picaboo — http://www.picaboo.com/ — proprietary software, very expensive especially for larger books, high quality books

My Experience with Blurb.com

I developed a 160-page book with a mix of text and color photos on every page. I chose Blurb.com as my POD publisher because Blurb sells a good-quality hardcover book of that size for a very reasonable $40 per book (shipping extra). The price also includes a printed dustcover, full-bleed printing (meaning that pictures can print right up to the edge of the page with no white border), and 80-pound heavy archival-quality paper. From what I could tell, most Blurb customers were happy with their results. There were a few printing and binding problems reported, especially in Europe, but usually Blurb would redo any bad books…

Далее — плюсы, минусы, рекомендации:

http://www.devtopics.com/print-on-deman ... -new-road/

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Вопросы и ответы:

http://www.fonerbooks.com/q_demand.htm

Примеры:
http://www.bobbooks.co.uk/examples.php

Печать журналов

Интервью: The wisdom of clouds

http://www.losowsky.com/magtastic/2008/ ... of-clouds/

An Interview with the Dudes Behind MagCloud
Is print-on-demand really the ‘future of magazine publishing’?

http://www.foliomag.com/2008/interview- ... d-magcloud

http://www.magcloud.com/