DOCU 09: Magasin H, Frihamnen
A large warehouse was burnt down in the Port of Gothenburg this summer.
Here´s some pictures of what´s left.
Here´s some pictures of what´s left.
23 September 2009
20 September 2009
Invited guest: Susanne Otterberg
"I don´t know what I´m doing when I´m making photographs. What I do know is that it makes me feel alive to do so. I would never leave the house without my camera, it´s always there, like a friend trying to make me understand something. I don´t want to escape from life, I want to feel something and to reflect. These photographs kind of symbolize the contrasts in life, as I see them. But I still don´t understand anything..."
Susanne Otterberg was born in 1962 and is an autodidact photographer. She had her first exhibition after participating in a workshop with Anders Petersen in 1998. She has had exhibitions in Sweden and in Lithuania.
To visit her blogspot: www.susanneotterberg.blogspot.com
Invited by: Markus Jenemark
19 September 2009
in your face - exhibition in Lisbon
ALT Fabrik - LX Factory
Rua Rodrigues de Faria, 103 – Edifício I – piso 3 – sala 3.4
1300 Lisboa
Telefone: 965786793
Email: altfabrik@fotoalternativa.net
Horário:
19 de Setembro a 31 de Outubro
3ª-feira a Sábado das 15:00 às 20:00
Inauguração:
19 de Setembro às 17:00
about photography
"I ask him if he would miss taking photographs if, for some reason, he had to stop. 'Probably not,' he says, shaking his head. 'I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me,' he says, smiling his childlike smile. 'Being here is suffering enough.'"
Sean O'Hagan interviews William Egglestone (Observer -2004)
about photography
'it's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever, only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it - in all these photographs I never bothered with things like the negatives. some of them got marked and scratched. I just used the cheapest film and took them to be processed at the cheapest place. I was just trying to make order out of chaos.'
- Richard Billingham
18 September 2009
17 September 2009
14 September 2009
about photography
"My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer... "
The Best of Popular Photography by Harvey V. Fondiller.
Invited guest: Przemek Wajerowicz
15 to Paddington
279 to Manor House
253 to Euston
131 to Kingston
69 to Welhamstow
237 to Shepherds Bush
266 to Brent Cross
Przemek Wajerowicz - have already shown some of his work ; This is all "From the Upper Deck" series. You may travel through London with his pictures, just choose a line...
http://www.ftud.net
invited by joanna
13 September 2009
preparations for celebrating!
this year celebrations gonna be even bigger and better!
we're almost ready for our 3rd birthday....
don't forget! we're looking for cards, cakes & sweets, presents ans gifts ;)
pictures from the Library of Congress: 1/ Alfred Palmer 1942, 2/ Howard Hollem 1942, 3/Jack Delano 1941: more pics12 September 2009
11 September 2009
10 September 2009
09 September 2009
concepts?
While watching one of the books published by Museum in Gliwice I came across photographs that I'd been fascinated with at one of the Museum's exhibitions - "Silesia in Old Photographs".
Exhibition (organized in a cooperation with Silesian Museum in Gorlitz) took place in 2007 and was really representative for old silesian photography - containing portraits (these studio ones, as well as outdoor portraits), industrial views, historical moments in a region, some everyday life situations, etc.
Tree photographs taken by Wilhelm von Blandowski - one of the most famous photographers in the end of XIX century in Gliwice, are showing three bricklayers in a very contemporary way! - that's the thing that somehow shocked me.
Wilhelm von Blandowski "Three Bricklayers", 1864 1 - They were going to work. 2 - They came during work. 3 - After work. (Photographs from the collection of Museum in Gliwice)
Until I saw these photographs I'd been thinking about concepts in photography as something that was domain of art in XX and XXI centuries. When photography was invented there were some attempts of showing movement - so they were photographing one thing or a person like "one shot after another" - some "series" had been created, but concept like "before and after"...
Here we have some very contemporary example:
Nicolai Howalt's photographs of young boxers, taken moments before and moments after their matches.
Marcin, I'm posting on ur birthday!
about photography
"The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self damning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake – I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect."
- Ansel Adams
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