you will yet again be automatically redirected,
4 Comments Published by Tomé Duarte on Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 2:18 AM.
right after you click THE LINK.
It's the last time you are automatically redirected. I think.
This blog will self-destruct in 5...4...3...
You will now automatically be redirected,
0 Comments Published by Tomé Duarte on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:37 AM.
as soon as you click THE LINK.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the relatively reclusive master of 20th century photography and the grandfather of photojournalism, personally involves himself for the first time in a film project about himself in HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE IMPASSIONED EYE.The intense vitality and presence of Cartier-Bresson’s recollections bear eloquent testimony to his “impassioned eye.” An incomparable visual journey traces half a century of photographic assimilation of the world, exploring entire continents and introducing us to people, whose often delightfully humorous portraits by Cartier-Bresson, are frequently as famous as the sitters themselves.Actress Isabelle Huppert, playwright Arthur Miller, publisher Robert Delpire and the photographers Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka and Ferdinando Scianna present their own very personal views on Cartier-Bresson as friend and photographer. [Palm-Pictures]The more I learn about photography the more I reject this popular notion of HCB as the "father" of PJ... What PJ?? Calling him the grandfather of PJ sounds more like an annoying joke, and I'd reserve the "reclusive" league to folks like Gauguin, Kertész and alike...
He's certainly the most popular and charismatic, not necessarily the "only one" or the "best" - I'm sure he himself would agree with this.
People need myths. Agencies and publishers need them even more.
Last Sunday 100.000 teachers on strike invaded Lisbon down-town and I found myself amidst them with a Leica M2 around my neck and a Ricoh GR on my pocket by mere coincidence.
A known Portuguese newspaper made public its will to publish amateur photographer/videographer stuff, something very common worldwide these days which many academics and high beings like to digress about but which in the end I think changes very little in the fate of the universe. Knowing about this I started with the idea to photograph these amateur journalists that end up being exploited by the mass-media instead of the demo itself.
I was however thinking this would be as linear as the line of thought of those who love to ramble about the said media phenomenon and soon also confirmed it isn't visually representative enough, hah.
... Thus this one ending up to be my favourite frame of the evening:
The demonstration was very peaceful and despite its size also very ordinary so I didn't find blood or misery or violence enough to apply to Magnum, VII or perhaps WPP. The more I got away from the cattle the more I liked the scenes I found.
Actually this was shot earlier in the week after I came along for the first time with the work of the fantastic Siskind, not even knowing what was scheduled for later.
disclaimer. these pictograms were made with my photometer aka Ricoh GR, the REAL photographs await undeveloped in some superia and trix rolls in my fridge ;)
PDN's 30 2008
IMHO, for such an important "new and emerging photographers to watch" list it could easily be cut to 10.
IMHO, it's ironic to see so much commercial stuff mixed with photojournalism... Not that I'm "anti-commercial"... Or even "anti-PJ"... I just find it ironic.
IMHO, this is one of the few I really enjoyed. Christiana Paige:
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IMHO, for such an important "new and emerging photographers to watch" list it could easily be cut to 10.
IMHO, it's ironic to see so much commercial stuff mixed with photojournalism... Not that I'm "anti-commercial"... Or even "anti-PJ"... I just find it ironic.
IMHO, this is one of the few I really enjoyed. Christiana Paige:
via ape
