Bingo!

"Bingo." Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida.
photo: Marion Post Wolcott
Created/published 1941 Jan.
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Sörmans - the movie

Living above Sörman's Herrmode, I have turned my camera
towards it many times. I put together a small retrospective
slideshow at YouTube, take a look. (Sörman - the movie)

-C

Guest: Karin Bengtsson

Stairs by Karin Bengtsson, 2005
Holga

See more magic from Karin here
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When At seven

Photo: Per-Arne Andersson

A rather stiff audience

This guy sat alone in a room at Västgöta Nation in Uppsala and played his cello.

photo: markus andersson

Polaroids

Photo: Jeanette Hägglund Polaroidlift-1996

Anxiety

Frail and fragile, we are.
False alarm.
(I knew it the whole time anyway.)
Phew.

Photo and post-processing: Christian Wettergren

Farm Security Administration

Many of the photographers of this huge project aiming at documenting American life during the Great Depression became famous. Today you can find a treasure of more than 160 000 photographs at the Library of Congress American Memory

The picture above is "The Arnold children and mother on their newly fenced and newly cleared land. Note strawberry plants. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill"

Photographer: Dorothea Lange, created/published aug 1939

sheepspotting x2

They are not only sweet and fluffy...they sometimes attack from the behind too...

Photo in the run by: Christofer Grandin

Only the sky is the limit

Photo: Mats Äleklint

the essence of

I found this symbol on a wall in Lisbon a few years ago.

photo: markus

Guest: Branko Jeric

A great shot about man and geometry.

Photo: Branko Jeric
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Sad girl by the chocolate fountain

I noticed this girl at a cafe in Dublin. She looked so sad.

photo: Markus Andersson

Chess

Photo: Per-Arne Andersson
This morning it was like a game of chess!

Crossroad

Photo: Mats Äleklint

Most of the time he's the lord of the jungle
Everyone grins while he gripes,
Usually he's found just loungin around
In his Stripes.

His tiger lady's a super fine feline
Just What his Highness deserves,
Sweet purring pussycat
Proud of her pussycat curves.

He's a Tiger in the Rain,
It's the thunder and Lightning he can't explain
The tiger in the Rain, that's frightened.

Caught in the storm,
He came searching for shelter,
Right up to me and my spouse
We both stroked his chin and invited him
in to our house.

(Mikael Franks, Tiger in the Rain)
Photo: Christian Wettergren

Guest: Örjan Fredriksson

This is a picture by Örjan Fredriksson called "Diana and me".
I love it.
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More by Örjan

To be a father

To be a father.
How it has changed in the last two generations.
My father was born in the generation of the space ship.
Or was it the moon landing?
In the distance.

Things do improve.
Although I'm not a father so far,
I can see it in my friends' affection for their children.
It must be so much better to
be a man and father today.

My father has also improved.

-C

Photo: Me and my father, (unknown, Östermalm 1969)
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Stiffed-Betrayal-American-Susan-Faludi/dp/0380720450

homemade everything!

photo: Jeanne Wells

Here's some fun. This is a print made on liquid emulsion
I made myself, developed in two developers I made myself.
I did not make the paper myself though! I like the funky
quality, and since I am not comfortable with photographing
things bigger than my head, it's nice to print them in a
way that makes them feel more like they are my own
than, say, Ansel Adams'.

Jeanne


note: I'm trying to comment on Tom's photo below
(How to be a woodpecker), but cannot. Does anyone have
any idea why? At any rate, Tom, it's a wonderful photograph

regarding minimalism

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

Winnie the Pooh

Photo by Christofer Grandin

Guest: GC

Photo: GC

a world enveloped
in valium haze
tictoc businessmen
stale coffeebreath cellphone chatter
small deals
are cut here
amidst the rustle of newspapers
the zen of waiting
interupted
a distant whistle
the flap of disturbed blackbirds
the bell the bell
the bell the bell
my deisel friend
arrives with steely flourish
to take me
to
away

- GC

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Slussen

Photo: Christian Wettergren

To set sail

-- To set sail! To grab the rope and pull the weight!
To make something happen.
And the nabbing feeling - is it worth it?
The rope hurting in your sore palms.
The sail randomly waiving back and forth.
Will the wind be enough? Are we really on the right course?

Suddenly, you feel the Flow. Everything tightens and is aligned.
The ship deck starts to lean. The water dances past the hull.
Happiness spreads in my stomach!

It has passed, the wind is gone for this time.
I want to lay down on the deck in the sun.
Get something soft beneath my head.
The warmth spreading as I rest. The palms aching.

Was it worth it?
-C

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The news reached me tonight that Sven Nykvist has died.
He was the director of photography on most of Ingmar
Bergman´s films.But he also worked with
Woody Allen and Andrej Tarkovskij and many others.

Films like The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sleepless in Seattle,
Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly), and Offret
(The Sacrifice) all bear the mark of Nykvist´s masterful handling
of the light.

There is a book by Nykvist and Bengt Forslund called
In Reverence of Light. The title tells us what Nykvist´s work
was all about. He was a great man.

-Urbano

He was one of the greatest photographers ever. Through movies like, "Through a Glass Darkly", "Persona", "Autumn Sonata", "Fanny & Alexander" and "The sacrifice", I was inspired to pick up photography. Later when he worked with Kaufman and Allen, that served as another boost of inspiration.

Please, have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Nykvist

- Abeku

O meu Portugal

I would like to invite everybody who will be in Portugal,
around Covilha on September 28th.I will talk about the way
how I see Portugal, and how I see photography, let's call it
"slow photography". But most of all I will show a selection
of my pictures I made in Portugal since 1999.
The lecture is organized by Faculty of Fine Arts, Department
of Photography of Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal.
Many thanks to prof. Frederico Lopes.

Marcin

Photo: Marcin Górski

F and others are invited to concerts

I was asked by gruppo F:s propaganda minister, to inform you of two concerts that I´m participating in. The first is thursday 28/11, with the Fredrik Nordström Virtual Imagination Big Band.

Check out http://www.fredriknordstrom.com

And the second is with the Alberto Pinton Quintet, Monday 2/10
Alberto Pinton-Woodwind
Mats Äleklint-Trombone
Mattias Ståhl-Vibraphone
Torbjörn Zetterberg-Bass
Kjell Nordesson-Drums

Check out http://www.albertopinton.com
Listen:
http://www.moserobie.com/motionemotion.html
http://www.moserobie.com/visible.html

Both concerts 20.00 at jazzclub Fasching, Kungsgatan 63, Stockholm!

I think I will be able to put some F-members on the guestlist.
Would be nice to see some of you guys there, and I think there will be some opportunities to get some good photos too.. :)

Mats

Photo: Mats Äleklint

Gunnar Smoliansky

Today some of us had the opportunity to see Smolianskys classic
pictures from Slussen exposed at the City Museum, Stockholms
Stadsmuseum. We also had a chat with this great photographer.
Gunnar we love you! You are from now on a permanent Member
of Honor of F.
-urbano
http://www.gunnarsmoliansky.se/

9 visions 9 photographers

Photo: Mikael Jansson

Absolutely free

Large format photography

Some of the pictures

Calling All Devoted

- Who are we? Asks Abeku
- A bunch of lonesome heroes, says Urbano

Photo: Anders Blomqvist

F12 now F17

All the sudden we are now 17. Additional members are Jeanette Hägglund, Christofer Grandin, Joakim Sebring, Fredrik Skott, and Mats Äleklint.
For a closer look at old and new members, please visit: http://abeku.web.surftown.se/f/12f_2.htm