Nadar. Terror. 1830.
We are happy to announce our next project: A fine art gallery with: Edward Steichen, Weegee, Frank Eugene, Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Nadar, Gerhard Riebicke, Jock Sturges, Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Lewis Carroll, Aenne Biermann, (more…)
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These interview scenes are unused scenes from the documentary about Jock Sturges (not included in the DVD)
Interview with Jock Sturges (Quicktime-Video)
Official Filmwebsite (Trailer, Gallery, DVD, 99 minutes)
Jock Sturges and beauty
In the summer of 2007, we travelled to the French Atlantic Coast to meet an artist whose images stand out from the diverse pool of contemporary photography. His subject matter is the human being. His tool is a large format camera. His goal is the depiction of nothing less than beauty.
He demands the truth from his photographs. For over 30 years, the American photographer Jock Sturges has dealt with beauty and truth, an idea of art, unfortunately, which is often scorned today. In order to recognize and appreciate that, which distinguishes his work, we must focus on the definition of beauty.
Jock Sturges. Nikki. Montalivet. France. 1996.
Beauty is first and foremost an abstract definition, a concept, difficult to determine. It has always been governed by history and culture. However, there is a certain degree of global consensus concerning to the notion of beauty. Not only do we define physical matter, such as humans, animals, plants or objects as beautiful, but also abstractions, such as ideas or the notion of the soul. Even Schiller in his essay (more…)
Friedrich Nietzsches typewriter. Malling Hansen.
This song is done,–the sweet sad cry of rue
Sang out its end;
A wizard wrought it, he the timely friend,
The midday-friend,–no, do not ask me who;
At midday ’twas, when one became as two.Friedrich Nietzsche. From the heights.
This typewriter is as nearly famous as his owner. His friend Paul Reé brought in Februray 1882 this at this times very innovative typewriter to his wintering grounds in Genua. Nietzsche suffers on a seldom eye disease and was at this time nearly blind. With this new typewriter, he wrote free and without the necessity to hold his nose two centimeters above the written paper. This invention prepares the ground for some of the giant thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Interview with Hellen van Meene (Quicktime-Video)
Deutsche Version (Interview Sender in deutscher Sprache)
Hellen van Meene, a global photographer.
Not everyone finds access to poetry. Sensual beauty appears useless to some of us. In times of controllers man is reduced to his function.
As man is a creature that reaches beyond his plain function in the society, he has – among other things – created art. Art is one of the highest achievements of mankind and describes ever again the core which represents humanity.
Photo by Hellen van Meene.
In the images of the dutch photographer Hellen van Meene fragility, beauty (more…)
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