Esta é a capa do novo disco dos Queen. A imagem é de Edgar Martins. Dirão os amantes de "The Accidental Theorist" que é inconfundível. E é.
Maria
Ontem pela manhã.- Pai... estou monita?
- Filha... tu és uma princesa. O pai pode tirar uma fotografia?
- Xim Pai..
- Filha... tu és uma princesa. O pai pode tirar uma fotografia?
- Xim Pai..
Estirpe
da série "Tauro" de Paulo S. Carvalho - Moita 18 Set 2008Aviso quem me lê que há uma certa possibilidade de eu ser parvo. Sou daqueles tipos que marcha contente e chora nos casamentos.
A mim parece que esta estirpe de homens que acumula sangue na jaqueta e volta de sorriso na cara para enfrentar o touro, é extraordinária.
A mim parece que esta estirpe de homens que acumula sangue na jaqueta e volta de sorriso na cara para enfrentar o touro, é extraordinária.
Florian Bohm: Wait for Walk
Exhibition: "Florian Bohm: Wait for Walk" September 10 - October 18, 2008"The Cohen Amador Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "Wait for Walk", color photographs by internationally renowned German photographer Florian Bohm from his book of the same title. Born into the tradition of post-war German photography, Bohm tenaciously grasps the objective formalizing methodologies of his predecessors and reworks their techniques through the socially engaged photographic styles of the conceptual, American, post-modern epoch. In the series, Bohm's temerity manifests itself in photographs of New Yorkers literally waiting for the walk signal to cross the street. A process of such banality, it casually escapes the attention of those waiting.
Bohm's technique underscores the repetition involved in waiting for the walk signal. Using a medium format 6 x 7 or 6 x 17 camera, Bohm positions himself across the street from his waiting subjects. Going largely unobserved, he shoots at the same level as his subjects, in well-lit conditions, at busy intersections thereby establishing a photographic paradigm that illuminates similarities and differences between his photos and the subjects. Though certainly influenced by American street-photography, Bohm's methods recall Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose style highlighted the individuality of things through strict, repetitive photographic tactics. Bohm's focus on people in the schizophrenic network of New York City, however, highlights the commercial urbanism of the 21st century in a conceptual manner reminiscent of Philip Lorca Di Corcia. The shared experience of waiting becomes a sociological platform upon which, as German sociologist Georg Stimmel puts it, Bohm investigates "the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society".
With regard to these "sovereign powers of society", the prevalence of shopping bags in Bohm's work serves as the most obvious signifier. A group of Asian tourists giggle and grasp their identical Coach bags, all caught up in the casual whimsy of spending the day shopping. Lord and Taylor, GAP, red plastic bags from Chinatown corner markets, businessmen and women on their lunch break with bags from Mangia, Subway, Hale and Hearty: it all bespeaks the dominating power of 21st century consumerism. Store signs loom enticingly in the background marking their territory and appropriating the urban environment. It is as though Baudelaire’s flaneur, out for a pleasant stroll in 19th century Paris, has become a hyper-consumer, chugging caffeine while on his or her cell phone on the way to Saks. Yet, it is here, amidst the depersonalizing powers of the city, that the subject’s individuality displays itself most clearly. Gestures, posture, body language all come into relief. By focusing on this momentary cessation of action, Bohm simultaneously elucidates the individual in the subliminally daunting metropolis, while highlighting a moment of social, economic and racial transcendence: everybody has to wait as the cars speed by: individuality, through the mannerisms exhibited during the simple act of waiting, flourishes.
Florian Bohm has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the US including Kunstwerke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Store Front Art and Architecture in New York, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti in Rome and Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. He is the author of several books and was co-founder of the project EndCommercial / Reading the City, a visual record of modern urban life lauded in journals and papers such as the New York Times and Art Forum. " in http://www.cohenamador.com/Bohm_pressrelease.html
Canon EOS 5D MkII
Imagem DpreviewCerto é que a Canon irá ter resultados extraordinários este ano após este lançamento e eu um Natal MkII.
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Tradição
Paulo S. Carvalho - Monsaraz 2008
Paulo S. Carvalho - Monsaraz 2008A tradição impôs-se hoje em Monsaraz. O novilho do festejo taurino foi morto na arena.
Best of
Breaunna on Red Sheet, The Algiers, Las Vegas, 2000 © Albert WatsonAlbert Watson - Best of
21 September - 18 January 2009
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
www.nrw-forum.de
Albert Watson may be blind in one eye (a fact hinted at in the title of his legendary book, Cyclops), but this does not diminish his ability to see in any way. Whatever he captures on camera - whether it be Mick Jagger, the hand of a chimpanzee, Kate Moss in Morocco, or a domina in Las Vegas - he creates an iconic image.
From September 2008, a collection of his work will be on display at the NRW-Forum. This retrospective will cover a wide range of photos from early icons to brand new studio photos.
Over the course of the past few decades, Albert Watson has not only become one of the world's most successful fashion and advertising photographers, he has also developed his very own art form. Down through the years, his incredible photos have graced the cover of Vogue over 250 times and have been published in countless other publications including Rolling Stone, Time, and Vibe. Many of his photos are classic portraits of famous people.
Albert Watson has also spent a lot of time fine-tuning his art, creating impressive records of his travels around the world, from Marrakech to Las Vegas and the Orkneys. Although the vast scope of his photos are effortless in their variety, they are all clearly identifiable as Albert Watson photographs by virtue of their power and his virtuosity of technique. Whatever he points his lens at, be it a domina in Las Vegas or Tutankhamun's socks, Albert Watson turns out breath-taking photographs. It is this uncompromising quest for perfection that makes Albert Watson one of the most popular photographers in the world. Born and raised in Scotland, Albert Watson studied at the Royal College of Art in London before moving to the United States in 1970. He lives and works in New York.
From September 2008, a collection of his work will be on display at the NRW-Forum. This retrospective will cover a wide range of photos from early icons to brand new studio photos.
Over the course of the past few decades, Albert Watson has not only become one of the world's most successful fashion and advertising photographers, he has also developed his very own art form. Down through the years, his incredible photos have graced the cover of Vogue over 250 times and have been published in countless other publications including Rolling Stone, Time, and Vibe. Many of his photos are classic portraits of famous people.
Albert Watson has also spent a lot of time fine-tuning his art, creating impressive records of his travels around the world, from Marrakech to Las Vegas and the Orkneys. Although the vast scope of his photos are effortless in their variety, they are all clearly identifiable as Albert Watson photographs by virtue of their power and his virtuosity of technique. Whatever he points his lens at, be it a domina in Las Vegas or Tutankhamun's socks, Albert Watson turns out breath-taking photographs. It is this uncompromising quest for perfection that makes Albert Watson one of the most popular photographers in the world. Born and raised in Scotland, Albert Watson studied at the Royal College of Art in London before moving to the United States in 1970. He lives and works in New York.
O banco que chora
da série "Le temps qui passe" de Paulo S. Carvalho - Santarém 2005Choro e não quero...
Tenho saudades dos Domingos soalheiros e dos namorados a falar baixinho.
Das crianças que correm agitadas, que espreitam nervosas.
Do chamar entusiasmado dos seus pais.
Das mãos sorrateiras dos amantes a deslizar sobre mim.
Ai, saudade! onde está a alegria agora?
Espera.! Os que eram meninos hoje voltaram.
Não... não trazem a alegria de outrora...
Mas... foram pais, foram avós...!
Não o entendo mas vêm agora sós.
Sentam-se...tristes!
Não porque o querem, não porque o possam evitar.
No chilrear dum pequeno pássaro contrariam a angústia da vida, rindo, mas por um instante. A solidão que torna com a fatalidade de uma maré, preenche-lhes com tristeza o espírito que esta já tão fraco tornou.
Chove!
Este é o pior dos dias. Este maldito tempo que me faz pensar...
Tenho saudades dos Domingos soalheiros e dos namorados a falar baixinho.
Das crianças que correm agitadas, que espreitam nervosas.
Do chamar entusiasmado dos seus pais.
Das mãos sorrateiras dos amantes a deslizar sobre mim.
Ai, saudade! onde está a alegria agora?
Espera.! Os que eram meninos hoje voltaram.
Não... não trazem a alegria de outrora...
Mas... foram pais, foram avós...!
Não o entendo mas vêm agora sós.
Sentam-se...tristes!
Não porque o querem, não porque o possam evitar.
No chilrear dum pequeno pássaro contrariam a angústia da vida, rindo, mas por um instante. A solidão que torna com a fatalidade de uma maré, preenche-lhes com tristeza o espírito que esta já tão fraco tornou.
Chove!
Este é o pior dos dias. Este maldito tempo que me faz pensar...
Phelps Fever: Portrait of Michael Phelps at NPG
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . .It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Michael Phelps! Olympic superhero Michael Phelps accomplished what he came to Beijing to do: he became the first athlete to win eight gold medals in a single Olympiad.
His dominance was unprecedented, and even otherworldly—perhaps he was born on the planet Krypton? Well, Baltimore, actually, in 1985. Five of Phelps’s wins were in individual events, and he broke seven world records overall. Counting the six gold and two bronze he won at Athens in 2004, Phelps has now collected a total of sixteen Olympic medals.
To help celebrate this historic athletic achievement, a large chromogenic print of Phelps, taken by photographer Ryan McGinley, has been installed on the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery’s north wing. McGinley photographed the members of the 2004 United States Olympic swim team for a special edition of the New York Times Magazine; this photograph of Phelps was featured prominently. It will be on view at NPG through January 2009.
Physically, the 6’4” Phelps is unique: he has an incredibly long arm span of 6’7” that boosts propulsion, an elongated torso that eliminates drag, and size-fourteen feet-flippers that allow him to undulate through the water like a wave.
For the moment, Phelps says that “every day it seems like I’m in sort of a dream world,” but his longer goal is to continue “to raise the bar a bit more in the world of swimming.”
Michael Phelps/Ryan McGinley, 2004/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian InstitutionLe temps qui passe
da série "Le temps qui passe" de Paulo S. Carvalho - Santarém, 2005 Para onde vou?
Porque passa o tempo tão devagar?
Para onde vou e não quero ir?
Vou. Mas sem razão.
Para casa talvez... Talvez ainda não!
Ó horas que passam, dias que não terminam, sofrimento que não acaba, angústia que não vai embora...
Porque fiquei sozinho, porque fiquei eu?
Porque passa o tempo tão devagar?
Para onde vou e não quero ir?
Vou. Mas sem razão.
Para casa talvez... Talvez ainda não!
Ó horas que passam, dias que não terminam, sofrimento que não acaba, angústia que não vai embora...
Porque fiquei sozinho, porque fiquei eu?
Daniel Blaufuks @ Steidl
© Daniel Blaufuks"Terezin" de Daniel Blaufucks será publicado pela Steidl em Dezembro de 2008. O trabalho de video “Theresienstadt” será incluído na edição. Blaufuks junta-se a Nozolino no grupo de portugueses editados pela melhor editora de livros de fotografia do mundo.
"Theresienstadt or Terezín in the Czech Republic is a fortified town sixty kilometres to the north of Prague. At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the Germans chose Theresienstadt as a “Model Ghetto” for Jews over 65 years old, Jewish veterans from the First World War, and known personalities. The Nazis declared the camp a “ghetto under Jewish authority”, appointing a council of elders with a chairman, but under the authority of the SS. In reality the camp was just another staging post on the way to Auschwitz or Birkenau. Due to the presence of numerous interned professors, artists and writers, there were school and cultural activities, such as lectures and concerts. During the life of the ghetto, over two thousand four hundred lectures took place on such varied topics as the Jews of Babylon, the theory of relativity, Alexander the Great and German humour. There was a functioning library with 49,000 books that had been brought from various collections and homes in Germany and different groups performed theatre. There was even a police force, a fire brigade and several other civic services. One prisoner wrote, “Life could seem almost normal here”. Terezín is Daniel Blaufuks’ personal travel and research book on the history of the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt." in http://www.steidlville.com/books/793-Terez-n.html
"Theresienstadt or Terezín in the Czech Republic is a fortified town sixty kilometres to the north of Prague. At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the Germans chose Theresienstadt as a “Model Ghetto” for Jews over 65 years old, Jewish veterans from the First World War, and known personalities. The Nazis declared the camp a “ghetto under Jewish authority”, appointing a council of elders with a chairman, but under the authority of the SS. In reality the camp was just another staging post on the way to Auschwitz or Birkenau. Due to the presence of numerous interned professors, artists and writers, there were school and cultural activities, such as lectures and concerts. During the life of the ghetto, over two thousand four hundred lectures took place on such varied topics as the Jews of Babylon, the theory of relativity, Alexander the Great and German humour. There was a functioning library with 49,000 books that had been brought from various collections and homes in Germany and different groups performed theatre. There was even a police force, a fire brigade and several other civic services. One prisoner wrote, “Life could seem almost normal here”. Terezín is Daniel Blaufuks’ personal travel and research book on the history of the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt." in http://www.steidlville.com/books/793-Terez-n.html
Darkside @ Steidl
© Christer StrömholmDarkSide, Vol. 1: Photographic Desire and Photographed Sexuality
Photography is present in all the pubic and private areas of our lives. It is also found in seclusion, where it is “dark”, where we shut ourselves off from society or where an act excludes society. Sexuality – as eroticism, desire, fantasy and fetish – is one of the central drives of man’s thoughts, actions and feelings. Frequently though, sexuality is minimized, considered to be nothing more than lustful entertainment or dismal deviation. Darkside shows photography as an important medium in the presentation of sexuality. Photography stylizes lust and passion, power, violence and voyeurism. Wish and desire enter into a pact with sexuality: sexual fantasies push to be presented, seek exposure – and photography, with its own voyeuristic pull, uses the power of (photo) eroticism for its own purposes. Darksidepresents this photography and discusses it in numerous essays.
Volume 2 will be published in 2009. It is devoted to the photography of violence and disesase, those other central powers that can influence body and soul.
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