L’agence de presse Reuters a sorti à l’occasion de la fin de l’année les clichés les plus marquants dans le monde. Une sélection non légendée de ces photos impressionnantes sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article, nous rappelant les différents faits et évènements de 2011.
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Voici cette sélection de clichés qui résume toute l’année 2011 selon Buzzfeed. Rappelant les différents évènements entre tsunamis, révolutions et l’anniversaire du 11 septembre, les photographies sont parfois durs à regarder mais sonnent plus forts que de simples mots.
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Paris Photo honors the lensmen and culturally rich continent for its 15th anniversary show
For its 15th anniversary Paris Photo will celebrate African photography with a unique anthology of emerging and established photographers at the Grand Palais. The sweeping four-day exhibition, dubbed “From Bamako to Capetown,” offers real insight into the continent’s diverse range of cultures, from fast-growing capitals in the northwest to post-apartheid South Africa.
Curator Okwui Enwezor culled some of Africa’s most iconic works from the private collection of Germany’s Artur Walther, spanning portraits by 1950s Bamakoise photographer Seydou Keita to the contemporary collages by Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji—whose cousin, the multimedia artist known simply as Baloji, was featured on Cool Hunting last year.
The watershed moment for African photography, the Bamako Encounters Biennial of African Photography in 1994 marked a major event in the gallery world, as the debut of many of the country’s now-famous photographers. A portion of the Paris Photo festival floor will be dedicated to continuing the tradition set by the biennial and the emergence of such artists.
It’s not difficult to illustrate the many different backgrounds and experiences of African photographers. One of the most famous was Keita, who came into play among the wealthy set in Bamako, Mali during the ’50s. Shooting people’s watches, televisions and even cars, Keita’s images could be sent back home as proof the person had become “modern.” Samuel Fosso, who opened a studio at 13 years old after a traumatic upbringing, would shoot himself dressed up as a musician or a boxer if he had not finished a roll of film on customers. Philip Kwame Apagya had clients post against colorful backdrops in his Ghana studio, depicting them boarding airplanes or sitting in the living room with home entertainment systems.
Other photographers in Africa have more traditional foundations in photojournalism or attended art school, including David Goldblatt and Pieter Hugo, whose works will also be on display, along with new book releases from Malick Sidibé and Pierrot Men.
Though some African photographers have become household names and more works are making it into collections around the world, few exhibitions will rival the great breadth of work at Paris Photo 2011. The show runs through 26 November and information about attending is available online in both French and English.
Extensive car porn from the most prestigious annual automotive weekend
Pebble Beach is to vintage automobiles what the Superbowl is to football and Art Basel is to art fairs. The group of events, anchored by the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, include shows, auctions and races each presenting the most celebrated works of automotive design and engineering. Drawing collectors, racers and enthusiasts from all over the world, we felt it was about time to see what this weekend is all about.
Thousands of cars and tens of thousands of fans provide an incredible opportunity to see some of the most beautiful and most innovative examples of automobile design. Driving around town is a sensory overload, with whiplash-inducing head turns to see everything from an Ariel Atom 3 to a pristine 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible. It’s also an increasingly important event for auto manufacturers, many of whom introduce new cars, offer test drives of new models, and premier concept cars. Many of the events differentiate the years by hosting specific makes, models or celebrating anniversaries, and this year was no exception. We covered many of the activities and captured more than 2,500 images. Here are some of our favorites.
The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering, celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type, Ferrari’s America and Superamerica models, Pre- and Post-War Racing Cars, Post-War Sports Cars, Super Cars, and Sports and Racing Motorcycles. The 1952 Glocker/Porsche Roadster was one of our favorites.
A highlight at The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was seeing so many Jaguars on the track celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the E Type.
Getting up close with the beautiful cars at the auctions—from barnyard finds to impeccably restored rarities of all types—provides unlimited fantasies of ownership. Favorites from The RM and Gooding & Company auctions included a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT and a 1956 Volkswagen Karman-Ghia.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, which takes place on the celebrated 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links, is arguably the world’s most prestigious vintage automobile show. Each year 200 cars are selected to participate. This year’s focus included Stutz, Jaguar E-Types, Ferrari GTO, early Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts and Italian Motorcycles. We were there as the cars were driven onto the fairway at sunrise—an opportunity to not only see these vintage beauties actually drive, but also a chance to see the incredible pride, passion and focus of their owners.
All photos by Josh Rubin. More after the jump.
Fund an app that will bring the Twin Towers back to life
The destruction of the World Trade Center towers was indisputably a massive loss for every American. For lifelong New Yorkers, however, something else was lost. The beauty that the twin towers added to the New York skyline is irreplaceable, and the sight of the buildings provided the background for many fond memories—not to mention a beacon for orientation upon emerging from a foreign subway stop. 110 Stories is an iPhone app concept by Brian August that will use augmented reality to place the Twin Towers back in to view.
The app, currently in the process of being funded through crowd-sourcing on Kickstarter, would consist of three steps: orient, augment, comment. The app will guide users to the appropriate direction to view the phantom towers, then superimpose a ghost image of the towers upon the real one, creating a conglomerate image. Users will then be able to include their personal story regarding the moment on multiple social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the app’s own site.
Brian August’s vision does not stop with the app, however. The lover of iconic imagery has a Phase Two of the project in mind: an installation that would consist of identical benches placed in prime viewing spots all over the city as a physical manifestation of the app, reminding all who visit there of the majesty that was the Twin Towers.
Photographer Skye Parrot’s path from political science to indie magazine publisher
As the daughter of an art photographer, it never occurred to Skye Parrott to take up
photography as a career herself. Though she grew up around cameras, Parrott thought she was going to major in political science. “I thought I was going to law school.”
Instead, Parrott went to Paris. After a few internships and a stint as managing editor at Self Service magazine, her
outlook changed and she began working as Nan Goldin’s Paris studio manager. The legendary
chronicler of New York subculture acted as both an artistic and a business mentor to
Parrott. After two years of running her studio in Paris, Parrott moved back to the United
States and managed Goldin’s New York studio while launching her own career.
“Having the chance to work with someone that influential was amazing,” Parrott says. “It changed my work a lot, and helped me find my own voice.” Following the advice of an ex who encouraged her to work through her own influences to get “what’s yours,” she explains that how she “really needed to just do
my version of Nan Goldin again and again until I got to the other side.”
The other side happens to be an astoundingly successful artistic and commercial career
back in Parrott’s hometown of New York—”the center of everything,” as she says. In addition to campaigns for the likes of A.P.C., Nike and Pamela Love, she’s shot editorial work for almost every edition of Vogue as well as for Lula and other European publications.
Her photo exhibition “First Love, Last Rites” opened last year to widespread acclaim. A documentation of the year that she spent struggling with two damaged love affairs—one with a boy, one with heroin—the wistful series deals with misplaced yearning and the subjectivity of memory.
Parrot reflects that one of the best aspects about First Love was that it mixed her personal and commercial work styles. “I like pictures that are found, rather than
made, and that have an emotion. Even if it’s a staged moment, it’s a true moment. Even though I work with digital cameras, I don’t like digital to look digital. There’s definitely a nostalgia to my aesthetic.”
One of Parrott’s most exciting ongoing projects is the bi-annual arts, fashion and
culture magazine Dossier, which she founded with a childhood friend. “We
thought we were going to a ‘zine. But once we started putting out the call for
contributions, we started getting this amazing content. There was no way we could put it
out in newsprint with 500 printed copies,” Parrott said.
Some of that content included Zac Posen’s first-ever styled story—Posen is an old schoolmate of Dossier’s co-founder and editor Katherine Krause—and an
unpublished portfolio by the photographer David Armstrong, whom Parrott met while she
was working for Goldin. “We grew up in New York, which helped,” she says. “We
reached out to anyone amazing that we knew for the first issue, because we didn’t know
if there would ever be a second one.” They funded the magazine with contributions from
friends and family, and set it loose. “A lot of people were very generous when we hadn’t
done anything. They had faith that whatever we were going to make would be cool.”
Now on its seventh issue, Dossier—which means “file” in French—gives its widely varied contributors a space in which to exercise absolute creative freedom. In
order to keep that freedom, the magazine’s small staff keeps their day jobs and work for
free out of Parrott’s house. And in the fall, they’ll work around the magazine’s newest,
and smallest, staff member. “I’m not as busy as I used to be. I was excited to finish
up ‘First Love, Last Rites’ and get to work on another creative project, but then I got
pregnant,” Parrott explains. “That’s totally the definition of a personal project.”
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Photography duo capture fashion’s poetic moments with animated GIFs
Whether showing how to drop your pants or adding creepy slow-lidded blinks, animated GIFs perhaps come the closest to capturing the true essence of a moment—what photographic technology has often struggled to achieve since the first recorded image. NYC-based innovators Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg poetically attempt just that with their forward-thinking fashion photography that they’ve dubbed “cinemagraphs.”
Teaming up with high-fashion names such as Tiffany’s and Christian Louboutin, Jamie and Kevin have created a whole new style of art for digital ads. The images sometimes lean towards the slightly fantastical—the shimmer on a pair of glitter-covered heels or the shadowy flicker of a film. Theirs is a perfect world that somehow collided with ours, creating sensations like the idealized ripple of a silk skirt that may not exist in reality but ought to.
The beauty of their vision lies in its simplicity. Movements are so subtle (a model’s hair blows in the wind, the gentle jostle of the subway, the flash of a passing car) as to not always be apparent at first glance, but closer scrutiny rewards you with these isolate moments of delight.
“There’s something magical about a still photograph,” Jamie explains, calling them “a captured moment in time—that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.” To see more cinemagraphs, check out Jamie’s Tumblr.
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