Archive for the 'Photography' category
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Tatiana Plotnikova, Christian Klinger and Oleg Videnin, Krasnodar, Russia, 2011. Photo by Sohei Yasui.
Photovisa is a ambitous fotofestival in Krasnodar, Russia, which was held the 4th time this year. By the shown photographers there were also some of my loved russian photographers like Oleg Videnin and also the unknown and mysterious russian photographer Georgy Kolosov. Georgy Kolosov is a very special class, because his photography is for foreigners a huge miracle. I never understand his work, which is always a good sign. In Krasnodar I had the possibiliy to view some of his photographs as orginal print. It was a touching pleasure.
The head of the festival is Irina Tchmyreva and a bunch of enthustiastic people organize this outstanding event. It is really a professional and hearty fotofestival. Dear reader, if you are interested to get in touch with russian photography, you should visit photovisa.
At October 22, 2011 our new film “THE RUSSIANS A Film about Oleg Videnin” was shown in Kuban cinema in Krasnodar as a Russian premiere. It was a great and marvellous experience, that the audience acknowledged our film with a long and (more…)
Fine Art, Photography, Politics, Review |
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Can we rescue great photojournalism?
David Drebin, Dallas, 2010
Photojournalists are yesterday’s heroes. True, there are still some big names out there, among them Gilles Peress and Sabastiao Salgado. But the significance of their work is unclear. Do they shape political or social opinion through their images? Or are they mostly regarded as imaginative artists who just happen to be drawn to tough, newsworthy subjects? Few photographers are any longer seen as providing definitive information about some national or international trouble spot, at least very few who are what used to be called professionals. The news magazines, which turned certain photojournalists into superstars, have been fading for decades, and the newspapers are in dire health. The proliferation of amateur photographs and videos on the internet has swamped whatever sense there was of photojournalists and their editors as gatekeepers, providing some judgment and oversight. The whole idea that photography has some particular purchase on the truth has been called into question in places high and low, from the writings of Susan Sontag to the rants on cable TV. Definitive is itself nearly a defunct concept. (more…)
Photography, Politics |
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
The Photographer Elinor Carucci
An open toilet. A woman’s menstruation blood inside. Tweezers tug at a female chest hair. Red, painted lips close-up. Fingernail imprints on the palm of a hand. A small child with a running nose. The scars of a caesarean-section on a scarred stomach…concentrated intimacy.
Art must touch something. Spirit or heart or something. At best both.
Photograph by Elinor Carucci.
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Fine Art, Interview: Art, Interview: Photographer, Interviews, Photography |
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
We are pleased to announce that our film FRAGILE has been selected and will be included in EAST SILVER FILMFESTIVAL 2010.
You are welcome, see you there!
Photograph by Evgeny Mokhorev.
Here is the filmwebsite: FRAGILE * The Russian Photographer Evgeny Mokhorev
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Fine Art, Interview: Photographer, Photography, Review |
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
EYEMAZING * FRAGILE * Evgeny Mokhorev
Official Filmwebsite: FRAGILE * The Russian Photographer Evgeny Mokhorev
EYEMAZING
Artists featured in EYEMAZING summer issue 2010:
Bettina Rheims, Joel-Peter Witkin, Frederic Fontenoy, Evgeny Mokhorev, Kajsa Gullberg, Henry Horenstein, David Trullo, James Whitlow Delano, Philippe Assalit, Anton Solomoukha, Christy Rogers, Paul Jasmin, Jock Sturges, (more…)
Fine Art, Photography, Review |
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Photograph by Walker Evans. Truck and Sign. New York. 1930.
Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence
By Tod Papageorge
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MONOGRAPH IS TO
describe the influence of Walker Evans’
American Photographs (1938) on The Americans
(1959) of Robert Frank. To do this, the
photographs in the two books have been edited
and yoked together in a series of comparisons.
What follows, then, is an exercise in speculation,
one born of love and respect. It is offered as a
working idea rather than an assured truth, a
reasoned pretext for returning to the two great
books it examines. (more…)
Fine Art, Photography |
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Photograph by Ernest J. Bellocq. New Orleans.
Is photography over? I don’t think so. It’s a human creation that has turned out to be quite useful, like plumbing or language. Like all useful things, it keeps changing. And like all things touched by digital technology, it is changing a lot right now. But no matter how many new gizmos and apps come along, I doubt that photographs are more likely than pipes and words to become obsolete.
But we’re really talking about photography in the art world, aren’t we? One of the progressive myths of today’s art world is that what really matters is some core quality, idea, or experience of art — independent of the materials and techniques that brought a particular work into being. I call this outlook progressive because it has challenged hierarchies and eroded assumptions that tended to stifle rather than inspire curiosity and creativity. (more…)
Fine Art, Photography |
Monday, November 30th, 2009
EYEMAZING: Leading Photo Magazine
Official Film Website: PEOPLE * LOVE * PHOTOS (Trailer, Gallery and more …)
Website from EYEMAZING
Excerpt from the article at EYEMAZING:
Photographer and director Christian E. Klinger has made an intimate portrait of several young American photographers. Tanyth Berkeley photographs people in the streets of New York whom she calls “Survivors”; Ashley MacLean and Traci Matlock (a.k.a. Rose and Olive) explore sexuality; and Elinor Carucci photographs herself and her family. In making this film, the filmmaker sought and experienced a touching sense of truth, which he shares with us in this interview.
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Photograph by Elinor Carucci.
Sarah Baxter: Being a photographer, what led you to make films on photographers?
Christian Klinger: As a photographer, I’ve worked for agencies, magazines and Internet platforms such as Cicero, Merian and HQ. I specialised in people-oriented editorials.
Filmmaking was always a dream. But in the past, you always needed a lot of people to make a film. In 2006, the advancement in digital filmmaking technology made everything much simpler. And this opened new doors, representing a new opportunity to get into the film world, because things (more…)
Fine Art, Photography, Review |
