09 December 2006
Invited guest: Viktor Gårdsäter
Viktor sent me eight "lone stars". Great pictures from this young man
with a free mind and fresh eyes. I have met Viktor once in real life.
You will see him soon again at a gallery near you. I am sure of that.
Viktor has added some comments to all of the pictures.
Invited by ulf fågelhammar

Looks like the little kid has to wait until the older
guys are finished.The picture is taken at
Björns Trädgård in Stockholm.

This is My Grandpa in his house.
His name is Erik and he is 86 years old

This picture is taken in Blackeberg, a suburb to Stockholm.
What does the shadow mean to you?

I have always been fascinated by contrasts.
Tiny old ladies in front of big symetric
building for example

This is a picture of some workers trying to
08 December 2006
Nickolas Muray
[Nickolas Muray], ca. 1920 / unidentified photographer.1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 10 cm.
Nickolas Muray papers, 1911-1978.
Archives of American Art.
I received a nice email from Mimi Muray concerning the article "The man from Szeged" posted here on the blog. I like to share some of Mimi´s words with you: "I like the blog about my father a lot. I think it is educational and enthusiastic, and a nice way for people to become informed about my father's work.
Soon I hope there will be a biographical book about Nickolas Muray, the Man from Szeged, and it will have lots of information and photographs in it. For the time being, there is a book called "I will never forget you - Frida Kahlo to Nickolas Muray" by Salomon Grimberg.
It was published by Schirmer/Mosel in Germany, in English, German, and Spanish; and now it is available from Chronicle Books in San Francisco in English paperback. It gives some excellent biographical information, as well as marvelous photos of Kahlo."
-Mimi Muray-Levitt
for Luke Skywalker
07 December 2006
Invited guest: Gustav Gustafsson
It is funny how the way we look at the world is influenced by the way other people look at the world. I am not at all sure that I have an independent way of looking at the world. I mean, everything I see gets related to somehting I have already seen. Past images shape future images. Future images shape past images. In between we have the present. What does the present look like? I sure do not know. I only look with other people's eyes. Gustav Gustafsson is one of them.
Gustav writes:
My older brother made me take up photography. He gave me a crappy old camera in graduation present. I didn't have the nerve not to use it.
Now it has become an addiction. I get depressed if I can't be creative. In other words, I take pictures to maintain my health.
I welcome you to see more of the world through the eyes of Gustav Gustafsson.
Invited by Joakim Sebring.




Invited guest: Nick Brandt
I´ve never been there but Nick has and some day I will be there too and enjoy these magnificent animals.
In my opinion its not many people who manage to make art of wildlife photography, Nick is one of them who manage to do that and please enjoy the mythical world of Nick´s animals of the savanna wich sadly is a vanishing world if we don´t stop that. It´s close (no teleshots) its personal and you can enjoy more at Nick´s homepage http://www.nickbrandt.com/
06 December 2006
invited guest: Sannah Kvist
/invited by markus andersson







gustav says: inte en aning, vad ska du skriva till?
sannah kvist says: en blog F blog http://gruppof.blogspot.com/ verkar vara en kul grej, inbjudna fotografer, både proffs och ickeproffs
gustav says: skriv att du har en förmåga att få vilket obetydligt motiv som helst att verka som det är svaret på livets problem.
sannah kvist says: men sånt kan man inte inte skriva?
gustav says: kanske inte, men det är ju sant."
http://www.sannahkvist.se































