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Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008,
live slower
As at the moment, I really have a thing for light/shadow black/white street photos (long term...), I just bought a photo magazine called "schwarzweiss" - "black/white" with a similar topic. There, I found a more than interesting article about Stanko Abadzic. Because that would be illegal (and I'm lazy), I won't scan the article but only post some photos. But if you wish to read the article and don't want to buy the magazine (it's quite expensive), write me a mail and I'll scan the article and send it to you, okay? :)
"The mass media bombard us with images of blood and tears. It's high time we show interest in beauty and aesthetics, not just in wars and catastrophes. I still believe photography can touch people emotionally. I believe a photograph can be a testimony and a document of its time, and that it can inspire us to talk to each other and make a better world."
"The faster we live, the less emotion is left in the world. The slower we live, the deeper we feel the world around us."
"Globalization turns us into passive consumers. It is not interested in our creativity or our individuality. We lose our happiness when we lose our sense of identity."
Stanko Abadzic Photography
Ariane
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Freitag, 26. Dezember 2008,
Robert Frank ...
Well, I haven't posted for a while as I haven't found anything I thought was worthy of posting here, but i'm back now :)
Some of you, being street photography fans, have probably heard of Robert Frank, but if not, I thought i'd post some of his pictures ...
His most famous photography book is "The Americans", which was recently re-released because he got the original prints and re-scanned them to make them better quality ... the book also has a foreword by beat poet Jack Kerouac ... Also, some of his photography is on the front cover of 'Exile on Main St.' by the Rolling Stones ...
I like his photographs ("The Americans" in particular) because there's nothing contrived or 'posed' about them, they're quick-fire shots ... a good example is the one i've put just above, which is called 'Elevator, Miami Beach'.
Well, if you haven't heard of him I suggest you dig out "The Americans", and try not to be inspired!
Joe.
"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice" - Robert Frank
"Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention" - Elliott Erwitt
Labels: robert frank the americans jack kerouac
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Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2008,
my 2008 part 2
sorry people for the lack of my posts. I was very busy the last few weeks with work, school and Kafe Kunst Fest. But I'm glad to have everything behind me now, and enjoying my holidays. As well as I hope you're enjoying yours.
Just like Ariane's interest in street photography grew this year; mine did either.
But as not only the last few weeks have been busy I didn't manage to take a lot of photos. And to be honest there's only one mentionable photo.
Taken at Munich Central Station.
It was taken with my Canon Eos 400D. I also got a Nikon F80, lent by the photographer I'm doing an internship at. I did more analogue shots this year, but unfortunately I don't have the money to develop them, neither my own dark room, neither the time on internship. still searching for a cheap possibility. oh well. as soon as I get them developed, I'll upload and of course show you.
kk,
wish you all a merry christmas
Ricarda
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Montag, 22. Dezember 2008,
my 2008
Watch out, shameless self-promotion in here!
My photographic 2008:
My interest in street photography begins and I take my first street shots in Prague.
May 2008
My 'séjour' in France is the first time I visit a not-German-speaking country for more than a day, and it's great. Many many photos at the beach because I felt like a tourist and had no fear at all.
June 2008
End of June is the time of the wonderful Midsummer Festivals and its big fires... to you as a street photographer: Take yourself and your camera to every midsummer fire you can get to, it's wonderful. All the people staring at the flames, and the flames' colours in their faces...
July 2008
I'm so proud of this photo I had to post it here. Yees, this is street. Nothing is acted.
October 2008
I buy my own darkroom stuff and start developing my own analog photos. From there on, my street photos are all analog pictures. I collect them in folders and Moleskine notebooks.
Ariane
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Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008,
nonfiction
Nonfiction is a series of photos by the US photographer Christopher Anderson. Used to reflex cameras, for a change, he used his plastic Holga camera for about 8 months.
"What began as a simple diversion became a sort of therapy and exercise in seeing. Because of the limitations of the camera, I was unable to precisely control composition and exposure. The camera leaked light causing color shifts and quite unexpected results. Photography with this camera became more about the act of making a picture rather then the picture it self, and I experimented with making only one picture of any given situation. Instinct and reflex were the only guiding principles in making the pictures. The result was pictures that were not "about" anything at all but were still, in their way, "true". Thus the title, Nonfiction."
Nonfiction
Christopher Anderson
Ariane
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vip - very inspiring photos
by Petri Uutela
by StamatisGR
by 1Durden1
Ariane
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