Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Interview with Carla van de Puttelaar (Quicktime-Video)
A new star on the sky: we have met the photographer Carla van de Puttelaar in Amsterdam. Her passion are women and beauty; or rather the beauty of women. Her models are not for the cover of the high gloss magazines for they are not perfect. Their “stain” is what Carla van de Puttelaar defines as beauty: a very human beauty. A beauty with dignity.
Carla van de Puttelaar. Untitled. 2006. C-print. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Interview with Will McBride (Quicktime-Video)
Will McBride is one of the big painting photographers, or better photographing painters. Frankly, he donates his life to art, and create grand pictures.
In 2004 his photographic lifework was honored with the famous price “Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Preis” of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).
“Show me”
Cover of “Show me”. German edition. 1973.
The church spoked of his sex-educational book “Show me” as “work of the devil” and tried to ban it from getting published. It tells a story of sexuality which detecs nakedness as a taboo in our so called tolerant society. It tries to find a new approach to a sex education book for children. The punchline of the book Will McBride tells us in our interview.
Because of changed moral views his book “Show me” - similar to Jock Sturges and Sally Mann - is being fight against. Meanwhile the book is banned in the US, in Germany all attempts of conservative groups failed to censor or ban it from publishing. The Bundesprüfstelle (German Agency for the Examination of Media for Young People) has so far rejected the ban.
Will McBride works with a mission: He wants to free man from his sexual immaturity. In restraint sexuality of man he assumes the basic evil of our society.
The end of the world. Will McBride. 1970.
Romy Schneider by Will McBride. (more…)
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Interview with Damien Diaz (Quicktime-Video)
Damien Diaz is one of the most headstrong dancer and choreographer who are working today. At the Leipzig Opera in good old europe, he was the Principal Dancer under the leadership of Uwe Scholz. His sources of inspiration were the previous named Uwe Scholz, the dancers Marina Otto, Nurejew and some others.
Damien Diaz by Christian E. Klinger. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Jock Sturges. Montalivet. France.
Official Filmwebsite: LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE * A documentary about Jock Sturges
A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges
All my life I’ve taken photographs of people who (more…)
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