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By: a civilian-mass audience

a civilian-mass audience — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:53:19 +0000

oups…MASSSS is my middle name…my apologies.
Back to where…we BURN…simple English
Back to our regular program!

By: Kenneth Dickerman

Kenneth Dickerman — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:51:41 +0000

Paul

RE: Alberto Garcia-Alix. Thanks for mentioning him and his work. I was not aware. As I’m sifting through whatever I can find on the internet (which im finding is not all that much) I am discovering a very interesting person and body of work indeed. Any suggestions on where I could look for a really good overview?

By: a civilian-mass audience

a civilian-mass audience — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:51:05 +0000

FROSTFROGY…
no worries…you can drop in and out…I will be Here and There…waiting…
keep the lights on …Up there
I have the ouzo and the feta cheese ready…
don’t forget to bring the cat…hmmm…don’t ever make a promise to a civilian:)))
Viva!!!

Keep working my BURNIANS…I am busy too…preparing the house …more chickens,rabbits…cause
“… least one million migrants, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa, are believed to be in Libya, hoping to reach Europe.”
Love You ALLLLL…

P.S…don’t get me started …painter…is my middle name:))))))))))))

By: Thomas Bregulla

Thomas Bregulla — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:42:53 +0000

dpreview posted a review of the GF2:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1102/11022410panasonicdmcgf2review.asp

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:26:41 +0000

“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:26:15 +0000

Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón)was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo’s work is remembered for its “pain and passion”, and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition figure prominently in her work, which sometimes has been characterized as Naïve art or folk art. Her work also has been described as “surrealist”, and in 1938 one surrealist described Kahlo as a “ribbon around a bomb”
Kahlo had a stormy but passionate marriage with the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, many of which stemmed from a traffic accident in her teenage years. These issues are reflected in her works, more than half of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” She also stated,

“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.

By: Thodoris Tzalavras

Thodoris Tzalavras — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:34:38 +0000

http://publishyourphotographybook.com

By: michael kircher

michael kircher — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:26:44 +0000

Our illustrious host also fits that style, but I don’t want to come off sounding like a kiss ass! Ha!

By: michael kircher

michael kircher — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:12:30 +0000

Paul, cool question.

For me, Allard and Hemingway are a good fit. Clean, concise, no pretense.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:25:23 +0000

I´m off! Pizza time and a chance to sit down and read “The Crossing: Border Trilogy” on my Kindle…
Out of curiosity those of you are avid readers is it possible to compare writer´s styles with photographer´s styles? Who would be Cormac McCarthy or Hemingway in photography?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:18:58 +0000

In my humble and usually wrong opinion D´Agata is photographing an experiment and Garcia Alix is trying his best to express his way of life and at the same time survive it.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:10:04 +0000

ok with all this discussion going on about books, i think this is a good time for an overall post..yesterday had lunch with Eileen Gittens , CEO/Founder of Blurb, who had some very interesting thoughts for us…anyway, let me get to work on this one

By: Ross Nolly

Ross Nolly — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:56:36 +0000

Eva; I hadn’t heard of him either. Alec Soth recommended the book on his blog as one of the 10 best photo books of 2010. And; it is about teens; so I took a chance and had a splurge! Couldn’t really afford it as I’d just bought one of the Zoom 1H recorders, but what the hell…

By: jorge prat

jorge prat — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:54:28 +0000

Hi David, so nice to see you again. ALix told me he was selling well outside Spain. I think he photographed a time where Spain was in the transition to democracy, and every one wanted to experiment with hard drugs and so on. I think heroin took a lot of his friends. He was lucky or really afraid of death…

By: eva

eva — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:48:58 +0000

Ross.. yes, editing the ideas.. and time time time, and then with some more time, one picture after the other, it will build up its own story (with personal projects I think it is possible), by again, editing.. don’t know Tobias Zielony.. must look.. book budget is all dried up for the moment though..

Paul.. I didn’t know Graciela Iturbide til I bumped into her exhibit by chance.. when travelling I always look what is up, up and down the road and stop by when I can.. ‘El senor de los pajaros’ is one of her pictures I prefer..

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:36:19 +0000

JORGE PRAT

yes i think you are right..d’Agata life probably pales in comparison to Alix life…i have never met the man, but have certainly heard the rumors and you can just tell from the work as well…curious, but he really is not known much outside of Spain…very nice exhibition two summers ago in Arles however…

PAUL

i have not seen Cristina’s Cuba essay…i can only imagine….

By: Ross Nolly

Ross Nolly — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:14:12 +0000

I have just received a copy of Tobias Zielony’s – Story/No Story, an amazing book… Now I’ve got 4 books to get through and my book buying budget is severely screwed for a long time to come!

Miguel Rio Branco’s work is amazing, pity his books are so hard to find or priced through the roof.

I’ve spent the last 3-weeks working from my folks place, and have also been photographing them as much as possible (for the first time really). I was trying to shoot in colour; but there is just so much visual distraction of general household items. So I think it will have to be in B&W. So far I’m pretty pleased with some of the stuff I’ve shot, but time will tell…

It’s been a pretty muddly start to the year for me(for shooting), but I think I’ve got most of my ducks in a row for a big year of hard-out shooting. The hardest thing is having a ton of different ideas for what I would like to shoot and then whittling them down to what will work, and most of all what can be shot for the smallest financial cost. I suppose that is a type of editing too, editing down your ideas! :-)

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:56:31 +0000

Eva…
Five days a week every afternoon in the bloody baking summer sun I “walked” or hopped across the local town after finishing rehab on my foot and walked round Graciela Iturbide´s exhibition. And that daily pilgrimage lasted 2 months and I´m convinced I´ve seen Graciela´s prints more times than she has!!
I fell in love with her work and it wasn´t until I saw Cristinas Cuba work that I was blown off my feet again!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:45:38 +0000

Eva…
I know it´s ridiculous and the crutches aren´t of any use as excuse… nothing stops with them. Worse thing is the exhibition was on from October until January… 3 months and I never managed to see it!!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:41:26 +0000

Jorge…
I don´t know Garcia Alix personally…but my best friend taught photography to one of his assistants. As you quite rightly say D´Agata´s life pales compared to a couple of stories I´ve heard about Alix!!
I´ve also stopped using tripods since I´ve been on crutches I´m now using beer bottles and my wife and friends shoulders!!