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colour
© Anne Turyn, 12-17-1960, from ‘Flashbulb Memories’ (1986) “Colour expands a photograph’s palette and adds a new level of descriptive information and transparency to the image. It is more transparent because one is stopped less by the surface – colour … Continue reading
Rolling (the gaze)
kevin_connoly_rolling.jpg The Rolling Exhibition began as a simple photograph taken while Kevin Connolly was skating down a backstreet in Vienna some time ago. Kevin kept travelling balancing his torso on a skateboard, and now, after rolling through the streets of … Continue reading
Sensibility
cartier_bresson_bonnard_488px2© Henri Cartier-Bresson (Pierre Bonnard, assis ‘Deville’ 1944) Bonnard used to say “what are you after?.. why this instant?.. why press the shutter just then?” I just answered “why did you just put this stub of yellow?” He laughed. We … Continue reading
think different: the new american
The night when Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the new U.S. president, adding new meanings to the American identity, I prefer to look at some photographs from the past. And then accompany them with few comments of scepticism. friedlander_paul_tate_486Lee Friedlander … Continue reading
fast & changing world (part I)
Keith Loutit employed and combined ’tilt-shifting’ and time-lapse photography in order to create the video below. The method of tilting the lens of the camera helped him to control the orientation of the plane of focus, and select an area of focus … Continue reading
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Unleash your potential
There is a time when not knowing what day it is feels very wrong, particularly when you end up buying the stale bread from the shelf. But most other times, it seems just fine. christos_stavrou_0838x1_488px© Christos Stavrou (untitled, 2008) There … Continue reading
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You-knee-tea Day
…as some of my friends call it, or ‘Unity Day’ if you prefer its official name, is an annual event taking place in Hyde Park, Leeds. According to the organisers’ website, it is “a day of celebration for the local … Continue reading
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The terror of mundane theatricality
The entrance hall of the Museum of the Revolution © Philippe Chancel We know all about terror in the West. It is imprinted well deep in our bones and histories. We have inflicted it to all the ‘new’ lands, to … Continue reading
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‘Candidate with a cane’
A news photograph of F.D. Roosevelt, circulated in 1928, four years before he was first elected as a president, shows a well-dressed man in a confident posture. It is visually demonstrating his ‘good standing’ to the electorate. But otherwise, it … Continue reading
Fundamentalisms
There is one video – linked in my last post – that keeps coming back in my mind. I am talking about that tv clip showing how the sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro got attacked by a representative of a religious group, who … Continue reading