Focus sur la photographe polonaise Joanna Jaskolska qui nous propose de superbes clichés mélangeant à la fois break-dance et technique light-painting. Permettant de dynamiser et de magnifier les mouvements des danseurs, une sélection d’images est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Beth Galton, photographe spécialisé dans les clichés alimentaires, a réalisé avec l’aide du styliste culinaire Charlotte Omnes, cette série d’images appelée « Cut Food ». Pour composer ces clichés, Beth Galton a eu l’idée de remplacer les liquides par de la gélatine pour donner cette impression de découpe parfaite des objets.
Après les séries Air Drive et Attractions, voici la nouvelle série du photographe français Renaud Marion. Intitulée « Duck Fleas », cette série composée de 17 clichés représentent des scènes de vie capturées cet été au bord du Lac Léman en Suisse. Des images très réussies à découvrir dans la suite.
Coup de cœur pour les travaux du photographe allemand Mattias Heiderich qui aime composer des clichés très épurés. En résulte cette récente série appelée « Kali ». Des clichés de roches et de sable à la limite du surréaliste, avec un rendu impressionnant, comme si le temps s’était arrêté. A découvrir dans la suite.
From left, Walker Evans, “Saint Martin, West Indies” (1974) and a 2007 photo from John Divola’s Abandoned Paintings series.
“What interested me about Walker Evans is probably not what interests other people about Walker Evans. What interests me is that he had a way of looking at things that people made and built, and then appropriating the subjectivity of whoever constructed it. Late in his life he actually collected handpainted signs…he’s photographing buildings that small-scale contractors are making, where they have to make certain kinds of judgments, and he photographs other things as well but there are an awful lot of handpainted signs. That’s something in the work that I’m really interested in—this identifying and appropriating and contextualizing the aesthetic or the literal choices that people make. And in terms of my own work, I’m doing that, except that I’m one of the subjective actors, in a certain sense. I’m taking something that has an inherent set of attributes to it—somebody has either kicked a hole in the wall or chosen to build a kitchen that looks that way or put that kind of wallpaper up. And then my own activity, in relationship to it and in the photograph, simply contextualizes these kinds of actions and choices that are made prior to the capturing of the photograph.”
–John Divola last Friday at Paris Photo Los Angeles, in an on-stage conversation with Richard Misrach and curator Douglas Fogle.
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Voici la série Kite Aerial Photography, basé sur la technique de photo cervolisme appelée aussi kapisme qui consiste à suspendre un appareil photo à un cerf-volant pour obtenir des clichés sous un nouvel angle. Des images splendides dont une selection de différents photographes est à découvrir dans la suite.
« One Second out of an Hour » est le nom de cette vidéo réalisée lors d’un shooting pour un magazine appelé Humbug par Sebastien Linda. La vidéo nous rappelle que pour un cliché d’Erik Gross effectuant un trick réussi, il faut bien une heure de préparation, de moments d’échanges ou d’échecs. A découvrir dans la suite.
More than a year after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Kodak has made a deal to sell the camera film business on which it was founded, among other assets. As part of a $2.8 billion settlement agreement with its largest creditor, the U.K. Kodak Pension Plan (KPP), the company’s personalized imaging and document imaging businesses will be spun off under new ownership to KPP. The deal, announced today and subject to the approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, will also give Kodak $650 million to help it emerge from bankruptcy.
So what is actually set to be spun off? You may recall that Kodak recently sold its digital imaging patents for $525 million and then pulled a Polaroid by licensing the Kodak brand name to Los Angeles-based JK Imaging for consumer products such as digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and portable projectors (having shuttered the Kodak digital cameras business last year), as it moves to focus on B2B commercial imaging. The business units involved in the KPP deal are personalized imaging, which includes retail photo kiosks and dry lab systems, photographic paper and workflow solutions, still-camera film products, and “event imaging solutions,” which allows theme parks to sell garishly framed souvenir photos to queasy, fresh-off-the-rollercoaster types. The deal will also divest Kodak of its document imaging business, a line of scanners, software, and professional services.
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Richard Misrach, “November 20, 2011, 3:36 PM” (2011). Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery.
“I grew up in L.A. and went to Berkeley from ’67 to ‘71. I started out as a math major and ended up in psychology, but that was also when Berkeley was just going insane. I didn’t take formal classes in photography at all. I started taking photographs of tear gassings on the Berkeley campus with my uncle’s camera….I was being exposed to Berkeley street riots and the politics of the time, which was very important to me, but I was also being exposed to the f/64 school of photography—Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange—and I was just falling in love with photography, so I found that that combination of social, political engagement along with my passion for the aesthetics of the medium of photography were coming together very fast and hard. For the last forty years I think my work has reflected those two polarities, and it’s been sort of interesting the way they have been pushed. They’ve never really reconciled—art and politics.”
–Richard Misrach today at Paris Photo Los Angeles, in an on-stage conversation with John Divola and curator Douglas Fogle. Misrach’s work is on view through June 16 at the Cantor Center at Stanford University. A exhibition of his new largescale photos opens next Saturday at Pace/McGill Gallery in New York.
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Rappelant le très beau projet Mila’s Daydreams, voici ce concept imaginé par le photographe Matej Peljhan mettant en scène cet enfant de 12 ans souffrant d’une maladie de dystrophie musculaire. Une série « Le Petit Prince » très imaginative de photographies illustrant le garçon en faisant des actions et du sport.
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