viernes, junio 11, 2010

Helen Levitt, Juergen Teller & García Alix

What a great day for the rambling man as Hank Williams would say, in PhotoEspaña (Madrid). First I started at Helen Levitt's huge exhibition at ICO's Museum. New York, the people from NY, the streets, the vagabonds, the kids, the nannies... the graffiti, the cars, the dirt. Her Leica and East Harlem. Levitt's exhibition is one of those that PhotoEspaña has into its program so we do not forget the corner stones of photography. She is began taking photos in the mid-30s as, so the curator says, "a singular meeting point between the Surrealist poetics of everyday mysteries in the big city on th eone hand and the social documentary realism of lower and working-class American culture on the other".

... and then there was Juergen Teller. And his ass hole, his balls, his little kid, Vivien Westwood, Kate Moss, Eggleston, Marc Jacobs, YSL and Charlotte Rampling and... his scar. Very funny exhibition in which is hard to find the real deep nice job that Teller has made. Some of his best photos are not here but, al least we can take a look at some of them in the books showed inside the crystal tables.

And, to finish a little chat with great Spanish photographer Alberto García-Alix and some excellent project projections like Juan Manuel Castro Prieto's or the one by the above mentioned García-Alix.

jueves, junio 10, 2010

PhotoEspaña: Diane Arbus

Diane is one of those artist that really changed the way photography was understood. She is one of the most important photographers in the 20th century. Diane (born Diane Nemerov in New York, 14 March 1923, committed suicide there, 26 July 1971) turns our head with tender eyes over to the weirdos, creeps and beautiful freaks in the American landscape. The meaning of the mask in a wide sense (make up, clothes, personalities), the nudeness also in its widest sense (psychological nakedness, psychical), the individual surrounded by his landscape: close relatives, room, objects...

She is, in some way, an antrophologist looking in the outskirts of the society for its true and more peculiar individuals. People who is, at the same time, in the very centre of the main stream and out of it. People that has gone just a step further away from what we know as normal, a little bit more make up, a little bit more hair, a little bit more (or less) height and weight.

La Fábrica Gallery has prepared a selection of lesser known photographs by Diane Arbus (U.S.A., 1923-1971) for PhotoEspaña.

sábado, abril 25, 2009

Some masters






















Bernad Plossu. Marseille.
















Frank Paulin. Paris. 1992.






















Umbo by Umbo























Harlem news boy by Gordon Parks


















Ted Croner. NYC.



viernes, febrero 27, 2009

Beauty (photography)

Manhattan Out New
By Raymond Depardon (Magnum)

















"Raymond Depardon arrived in New York in the winter of 1980. He was visiting a friend who had just taken up a job in the city and to kill time he strolled around the streets with his Leica. He decided to take pictures without ever looking through the camera's viewfinder, working incognito in the nooks and crannies of New York."

You can get the book from the store of the International Centre for Photography.

lunes, febrero 16, 2009

Anni Leppälä


















From the series Possibility of Constancy, Last autumn, 2008
C-print on aluminium
31,5 x 42,5cm
Edition of 7

miércoles, enero 07, 2009

lunes, diciembre 22, 2008

Sun City - by peter granser (photo) & hans heijnen (doc)

jueves, diciembre 11, 2008

venus - antonio canov

Image by © Mimmo Jodice/CORBIS