Archive for January, 2012
Toledano’s toy
Phillip Toledano, Abu Ghraib Bobble-head figurine, 2008 This item is atrocious isn’t it? The worst possible taste – a toy figure celebrating a photograph of torture. Its creator, Phillip Toledano, made it as part of an installation on the disasters of the Bush presidency, now thankfully behind us: “AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP is an installation […]
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Tags: Abu Ghraib Bphoto, Abu Ghraib figurine, Abu Ghraib toy, AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP, Phillip Toledano, photo sculpture
Cinemagraph
Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg are two New York artists working in the field of fashion photography, she is a photographer, he is a digital media specialist. The combination of their talents has produced a series of startling images, fashion stills that move. They have branded this technique ‘Cinemagraph,’ cinema-photograph. […]
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Tags: animated .gif, animated photographs, cinema-photograph, Cinemagraph, fashion photos that move, from me to you blog, fromme-toyou blog, gif format, Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg, moving photos, photos that move
Lawrence and Freddie
When you see the film Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen you realize how great its Director of Photography Freddie Young was. He won an Oscar for it. But I’m not just talking about Young as a cinematographer, I’m referring to the composed shots that appear on the screen as beautiful still images, as […]
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Tags: David Lean and freddie Young, desert movies, Freddie Young BSC, Lawrence of Arabia, Oscars for Lawrence of Arabia, photographs of deserts, photographs of the desert
Secrets of a negative
John Loengard: “Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St Lazare, 1932. Paris Hands: Georges Févre, 5/11/87″ Magnum photographer John Loengard photographed the actual negative of Cartier-Bresson’s famous image, “Behind the Gare St Lazare, 1932″. It reveals some fascinating secrets about this picture. Inverting the image in Photoshop shows how it would look in a contact print. […]
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Behind the Gare St Lazare
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932 Cartier-Bresson’s famous photograph was shot behind the Gare St Lazare, the large railway station in the north of the city. He was shooting through an iron fence, across a flooded yard, with the rear of the station in the background. I’ve figured out the location of […]
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Tags: Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare Paris, Gare St Lazare Paris, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson Gare St Lazare, man jumping over puddle, Rue de Liége Paris, Rue de Londres Paris
The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, 1952. Cover, Henri Matisse I recently had the privilege of looking through Cartier-Bresson’s 1952 book, The Decisive Moment. It sells for $2000 these days. The Decisive Moment is a legendary book, a retrospective of his photographic work that established his prestige and inserted a new phrase into photographic terminology… “…if […]
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Tags: Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Henri Cartier-Bresson, man jumping across a puddle, man jumping puddle, The Decisive Moment