All Those Old Cars
All those used and abandoned cars that fascinates me... the patina and the raw look... to mention some of my own thoughts.
Photos: Jeanette Hägglund
03 April 2007
short song of Äpson and other things
short song of those things which are created by people for other people and the way of using and receiving those things
02 April 2007
Invited Guest: Olle Norling
Mossgruvan
Basttjärn
Gränsgruvan
Ramhäll
Stråssa
Finnäset
Tuna Hästberg
-This pictures from 1993-94 derive from a project with photographs of abandoned buildings/monuments with connection to the mining industry in the middle of Sweden.
Of many reasons i´m happy to invite Olle Norling and to show his photography again. First, i simply love these photographs and secondly i have a deep interest in abandon placeses my self.
Invited of Jeanette Hägglund
01 April 2007
Falling
The Empires will fall. But don´t worry dear citizen. Just stay cool and remember
to hold on to your hat.
- by Ulf Fågelhammar
about knitting, the umbrella man and a congress in Budapest
Rabbit nurse (or was it Nurse rabbit?) brought up the subject of knitting.
I remember from the 1970s back here in Sweden when you could see young
men in beards sitting around knitting sweaters or whatever. It was some kind
of progressive stuff. But as you, dear F-blog addict already know, there is
nothing new under the sun. And we have photographs to prove it. Have a look
at the picture above showing Richard Girard, C. H. Shumacher, and
John F. Lydiard knitting with Mrs. Minona S. Jones assisting at the Woman
Suffrage, Race Betterment Association. This was back in 1911.
(DN-0009369, Chicago Daily News negatives collection,
Chicago Historical Society)
If you get interested in this stuff, dont miss the site "Men who knit"
I also urge my co F-workers from Sweden to share some stuff about the Progg
movement - a phenomenon that occured in the 1970:s.
Well, here is the mystery of the week. The umbrella man. The seventh
International Woman Suffrage Congress was held in Budapest,
June 15th-20th in the year of 1913. Rosika Scwimmer wrote in the
material provided to the delegates:
"We beg to give note of the following incident: When the Town Council
was considering the contribution one of the Councillors most vehemently
objected that the City of Budapest should neither financially nor morally
support the Congress and show any sympathy with the “window-smashing
Suffragettes,” which he said is beneath the dignity of the city.
(Picture from the Budapest Congress)The arguments of this gentleman were at once severely rebuked by other
Councillors, amongst whom were two Members of Parliament and a Professor
on the Technology of Budapest (the latter is the vice-president of the Men’s
League for Woman Suffrage), and finally by the Lord Mayor of the city,
Dr. Stephen von Barczy, who is an ardent supporter of our cause, and who
said that he will be most happy to welcome the Congress in Budapest, because
this movement must be promoted by all just men, and that the righteousness
of the cause is affirmed by the intellectual élite of the civilised world which
is connected with the movement. After this the amount unanimously was granted."
But let´s talk about the umbrella man. Have a real close look at this picture
showing Franciska Schwimmer with Swedish (!) young people. Who is the man
hiding in the back? What is he doing? This is weird. (Picture from the Budapest
Congress 1913)
/urbano
31 March 2007
Nine faces of Hilma Luntinen
The Finnish picture magazine "Suomen Kuvalehti" announced an expressions
competition in 1921. The search was for the person who ‘could pull the ugliest
or strangest face’. Read about this fascinating stuff here
I was actually looking for the pictoralist Oscar Gustav Rejlander and his pictures
from Darwin´s book "The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals".
Will return to them some other spring.
-urbano
Item #91 from HDK Gallery
With the kind permission of Happy Dale Krankenhaus Gallery I am
able to show one of the gallery´s most important holdings; item#91.
The information about the picture says:
Author: Gregory B.
40x50 cm
Silver gelatine print
processed in Rohypnol and Thunder Honey
fixed by Franz.
This is the best picture I have seen in many days.
As far as I can recall only "Trams in Amsterdam" is better.
/Boris K.
Dr F explains: Chronische Obstipation
Chronische Obstipation
Von chronischer Obstipation spricht man, wenn
- über mehr als drei Monate der Stuhlgang regelmäßig vier Tage ausbleibt
- starkes Pressen erforderlich ist
- ein Gefühl der unvollständigen Darmentleerung bestehen bleibt
30 March 2007
invited guest: Marcin Kuran - Lux Aeterna
Marcin Kuran (1975) - photographer. Graduated on Management at Warsaw University (1999) and Warsaw School of Photography (Internal Landscapes 2005).
Marcin in his works tries to capture the essence of creation phenomena, discovering or rather shaping his own vision of surrounding reality.
Intimate picture of the world, hidden in the landscape, is created by multiexpositions, sandwiches and self developed techniques.
Marcin debuted also with mulitmedial presentations during art festivals: FotoFestiwal: Lux Aeterna (Łódź 2004), PROGRESSteron: Revealed Stories I, II (Katowice 2005). Selected works were placed in German Olbricht Collection (2005). Marcin lives and works in Warsaw.
I am happy to present Marcin's photographic poems from the series Lux Aeterna at the F blog.
more of Marcin Kuran's works you may find hereinvited by Marcin Górski
Vernissage of Marcin Kuran exhibition Lux Aeterna in frame of III Warsaw Art Photography Festival will take place 31.03.2007 at 19.00h, in Migawka Gallery, Nowogrodzka 22, Warsaw.
Confessions of a lazy bum
This photo was taken 21 years ago. I was a teenager by then and I remember this summer to be very hot. I was sitting on our terrace, in the shadow, and staring at the chair that was exposed by the sun. There was not much else to do than sipping on some lemonade and playing around with the camera, taking a picture or two of things around me. I probably had some music in the background, perhaps China Crisis or Yes, and a comic magazine on the table. Not a very productive day, as people would say these days, but I still like those lazy days and I'll grab the opportunity whenever it comes this summer.
_
FP4 soaked in Rodinal, not a bad combo.
photo: abeku
The exhibition: Joanna Kinowska: La Santa Sicilia
With a great pleasure I’d like to invite you to the exhibition of my works La Santa Sicilia.The exhibition would take place in Warsaw, in Galeria Kuluary and will last until 19 of April.
The gathered works are telling a story about the daily life in Sicily, about people and their habits. All photographs are made in crossprocessing.
On 16th of April in Plan B. would take place the special “Sicilian evening” with the slideshows of photos taken in Sicily by among he others:Bart Pogoda, Mikołaj Grynberg, Angelo Parisi, Giancarlo Vizzi, Andrea Vulpio
28 March 2007
26 March 2007
Invited guest: Roger Ballen
"ROGER BALLEN – SHADOW CHAMBER
Introduction by Robert A. Sobieszek
Published by Phaidon
World-renowned and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen, who is known for the social comment of his previous publications Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa; Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa and Outland, now explores in his new Phaidon publication Shadow Chamber the underbelly or the ‘shadow chamber’ of existence. He takes major leaps forward into a metaphoric dimension with multiple conscious and subconscious meaning. He does this in an, as yet unseen, and entirely unique way. With Shadow Chamber he creates a way of seeing that makes an important and historic contribution to art photography.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
The results are completely abstract and not defined by the origins or specific location of the characters he photographs. Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit mysterious rooms – the shadow chamber. The rooms are unsettling and strange: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. Figures hide away in boxes, crouch behind overstuffed sofas and squat with their shirts pulled over their heads.
The humans and animals in Ballen’s photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are surreal and intriguing, and powerful disturbing psychological studies.
As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: ‘To discern fact from fiction in this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only futile but missing the point.’
Ballen regularly shows his work in galleries and museums around the world, and his photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
He has won numerous awards, including the prize for Best Photographic Book of the Year at the PhotoEspana festival in Madrid and was named Photographer of the Year at the inaugural Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in France in that same year. A traveling exhibition comprising many images from Shadow Chamber and Outland was shown at Frans Hals Museum, Biblioteque Nationale Paris, Fotomuseum Antwerp and will be shown at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2007. "
Introduction by Robert A. Sobieszek
Published by Phaidon
World-renowned and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen, who is known for the social comment of his previous publications Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa; Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa and Outland, now explores in his new Phaidon publication Shadow Chamber the underbelly or the ‘shadow chamber’ of existence. He takes major leaps forward into a metaphoric dimension with multiple conscious and subconscious meaning. He does this in an, as yet unseen, and entirely unique way. With Shadow Chamber he creates a way of seeing that makes an important and historic contribution to art photography.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
The results are completely abstract and not defined by the origins or specific location of the characters he photographs. Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit mysterious rooms – the shadow chamber. The rooms are unsettling and strange: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. Figures hide away in boxes, crouch behind overstuffed sofas and squat with their shirts pulled over their heads.
The humans and animals in Ballen’s photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are surreal and intriguing, and powerful disturbing psychological studies.
As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: ‘To discern fact from fiction in this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only futile but missing the point.’
Ballen regularly shows his work in galleries and museums around the world, and his photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
He has won numerous awards, including the prize for Best Photographic Book of the Year at the PhotoEspana festival in Madrid and was named Photographer of the Year at the inaugural Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in France in that same year. A traveling exhibition comprising many images from Shadow Chamber and Outland was shown at Frans Hals Museum, Biblioteque Nationale Paris, Fotomuseum Antwerp and will be shown at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2007. "
Invited by Lina Nääs
25 March 2007
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