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This used to be my high school13 October 2007
12 October 2007
10 October 2007
09 October 2007
invited guest: Alan Wilson
I’m an amateur in the true meaning of the word and when not at my ‘real’ job I can usually be found walking the streets of Edinburgh, where I’ve lived for this past 30 years ago (I’m originally from Londonderry in Northern Ireland).
What I do is not so much photography its more like escapology, an escape into a space of my own making where I can ‘stare, pry, listen’ as Walker Evans advised.
There are many photographers I admire, known and not so well known, street and non-street, and I often look at their work and think to myself, “that’s how I’d like to take photographs”, small, perfect little packages of meaning and thought. But then when I’m walking down the street the reality kicks in and I realise that I am what I am, a ‘straight photographer’, simply recording what unfolds before me.
And that’s how it was up to the beginning of 2007 when I’ve moved away from black & white film for various reasons and began to take a few tentative steps with colour and a whole new set of influences opened up before me. Photography just gets more complicated.
Pictures and text by photographer: Alan Wilson
check out the site www.streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk
/invited by Ulf Fågelhammar
invited guest: Fritz Fabert - candidates of politburo
I found the Candidates of Politburo on the loft of an old, hidden soviet theatre near my hometown brandenburg. The colored b/w pictures on wooden bords are exposed to sun and rain because the roof is already gone. Some are perforated by bullets.
Fritz about himself:
born in 1970 in eastern germany
longer journeys through eastern europe and asia
I study photography at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie und Gestaltung in Berlin
photographic researches along the line of my own history
invited by Marcin Górski
08 October 2007
Only the moment lives - and the moment is eternity
Georg Oddner, a great Swedish photographer passed away yesterday at
the age of 83. He used to be a jazz musician, he worked with Avedon in
New York, he made films, he travelled the world and photographed it.
To me he was one of the best out there.
See some pictures here by Oddner
You, the Sleeping
Yesterday I saw Roy Andersson's wonderful new movie "You, the living". I was depely affected by it, and on my way home this image I shot last winter came to my mind. Alexandra Kollontai once wrote:
Alexandra Kollontai, portrait, 1888.
"The paths pursued by women workers and bourgeois suffragettes have long since separated. There is too great a difference between the objectives that life has put before them. There is too great a contradiction between the interests of the woman worker and the lady proprietress, between the servant and her mistress... There are not and cannot be any points of contact, conciliation or convergence between them. "
More about Kollontai
Related story on The F Blog
Virginia Woolf once wrote:
”Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a
mind that is purely feminine… It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and
simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.”
Although I find Woolf´s reflection on creativity and its conditions
interesting and even thought-provoking, I don´t agree with it. I simply
don´t understand what it means to be purely masculine or purely
feminine. More than anything else, Woolf´s statement just seems out of
date, locked in time, reflecting opinions of an era long gone (1920:s).
Still, when looking at art, I often think of it in terms of being
feminine or masculine. But every time I try to put my finger on what it
is that makes a piece of art feminine or masculine, it slips away.
Ideas of typical feminine and masculine expressions, are tricky subject
areas in our times. Yes, we often speak of such things as “gender”,
“feminism” and “male chauvinism”. But thoughts of a persistent gender
based way of being (a true male and female spirit), maybe just isn´t
possible in a time when identities such as "man" and "woman" sometimes
are seen as merely “social constructions”.
When Sally Mann visited Stockholm in February 2007, she asked if we, the
audience, believed that there was something like a female, and male way
of expression. Of course no one dared to formulate a view. I wanted to
shout, “Yes there are! And you are one of the finest artist of our time,
and your works are great examples of the female spirit!”. But luckily I
did not. How stupid to say such a thing, and then not be able to explain
my thoughts in any way?
signed Jan Buse
07 October 2007
No Breeze
Title: No Breeze
Place: New York City
When: October 1970
How: Nikon F, Ektachrome
By: Richard Friedman
Website: rchrd.com/photo
06 October 2007
early human artistic activity
Homem de Piscos / Human Figure
(Ribeira de Piscos) 
Cabra montês (pormenor)
Mountain goat (detail)
Rego da Vide
A concentration of rock carvings in the Coa valley, Portugal
(the oldest dated 25 000 BC) is according to the Unesco
"the most outstanding example of early human artistic activity in
this form anywhere in the world."
The carvings are found in the open air, not in caves as other
paintings in south of France and elsewhere. This has
made archeologists beleive that the cave paintings were
exceptions and the Coa way of exhibiting art was predominant.
Read more at the Unesco World Heritage site
and at the site of the Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia where
the pictures above where found (the site also in English)
05 October 2007
04 October 2007
100 000 and still counting
On 2 October 100 000 unique visitors had found the F Blog.
The count started 9 October, 2006.
We are not too active in promoting the site, but the flow
of visitors is of course encouraging. Thank you and stay
tuned to channel F!
Color photos by Marion
Natchez, Miss.
Photographer Marion Post Wolcott
created/published, 1940
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection,
[reproduction number, LC-USF351-115 DLC]]
Natchez, Miss.
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
created/published,1940
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection,
[reproduction number, LC-USF351-117 DLC]]
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03 October 2007
Trends (additional previews)
bländverk
labyrintFor more, see previous post about biennal of photography.
Using the Global Positioning System
A few days ago I had the possibility to see Ulf Fågelhammar´s Open Air exhibition in Skärholmen, Stockholm. Ulf has caught playing children in his photos. In the middle of the housing area there is a screen, divided into three parts containing 28 photos in black and white, showing the children and people of the neighbourhood.
/Ulla Larsson
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