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the fork
Andre Kertesz, Fork, 1928 A photograph of a fork by Andre Kertesz (Paris, 1928). A fork and a plate are transformed, from two simple and overlooked items of everyday life into a new reality – a mysterious experience, a formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Photography, Photography & Society, Sociology, the story of a photograph
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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
chocolate Jesus
nude02_by_christos_stavrou_crpx1_535.jpg Untitled photograph (nude 2) by Christos Stavrou © 2008 I wish I could send you a chocolate Jesus, maybe that abandoned one which they failed to exhibit last year in New York… But in the end, I guess you’ll be … Continue reading
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Tagged music, my pictures, Photography, Photography & Society
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About a kiss and a bullet (authenticity & social relations)
the kiss doisneau_hotelkiss_498.jpg How does it feel to know that one of the most romantic images ever made was staged? The famous ‘Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville’ by Robert Doisneau, captured in Paris in 1950, was no other but a … Continue reading
At twelve
Sally_Man_attwelve_p38_500.jpg “In the early fall, I drank coffee with several generations of the Conner family, the close air of their kitchen settling across my shoulders like a shawl. I explained what I was doing and, as so often happened, their … Continue reading
Robert Frank’s spectators
I opened a classic book tonight, The Americans by Robert Frank (1958). A friend left it here with couple other books before Christmas. I went downstairs to search for it. I was left with Robert Frank’s spectators. robert_frank_americans_p37_500p In page … Continue reading
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appearance
Untitled photograph by Christos Stavrou © 2007 All rights reserved “In the modern way of seeing, reality is first of all appearance – which is always changing. A photograph records appearance. The record of photography is the record of change, … Continue reading
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