Charles Traub. He would become very renowned a few years later - and his color work is simply astonishing -, yet I love his b&w street snaps from the early 70’s in Chicago.
(Here a link to Traub’s photography do’s and dont’s, posted in September in Alec Soth’s blog)
Thanks to I Heart Photography I discovered a few days ago Joachim Schmid’s work.
The photos below are part of a project that Schmid started in 1982, Bilder von der Straße (Picture from the street). Schmid has collected in these 25 years almost 900 pictures that people lost, torn up, or simply forgot. I always feel […]
German photographer Robert Dämming plays with textures to produce color-rich images. I like the most his photos of Berlin’s ‘Palast der Republik‘ (below), now being demolished after months of heated debate.
I’ve just spotted at ‘File‘ Laura Kicey’s “construct” project. I find some of the composites truly intriguing -they somehow remind me of the sketches and drawings of Hundertwasser.
This is what the author says about her project:
“construct” is a series of images of places that do not exist. Their composite parts are the culmination of […]
The online paper Eines Tages (part of Der Spiegel) devotes one article (Die Kunst des Crash, the Art of Crash) to Arnold Odermatt, a Swiss policeman who captured with his RolleiFlex 40 years of accidents.
Odermatt bringing the scene to light
A short profile here and here (both in German). A book here. And more shots here.
A few days ago Jörg Colberg posted a great (a really good one) interview with Kai-Olaf Hesse. They talk about the current German art photography scene, stereotypes and corsets (German photography=emotionless photography), German photographers’ relationship with internet, Hesse’s work and influences..
It’s a must. Don’t miss it.
We went yesterday to Photobild, a photographic exhibition organized by Photomarketing.
I did not really know what to expect before getting there but I somewhat imagined it’d be something small. It was certainly tiny but also accessible and ‘warmhearted’. No galleries, no agencies no big PR machines behind. Just the photographers in their spaces, presenting their […]
Carlo Van der Roer has a beautiful collection of empty swimming pools and swimmers at open-air pools. The smart arrangements, the strategic positioning of the people and the pronounced vanishing lines make the pictures look as beautifully staged geometry compositions.
The author comments on his work in his submission to Hey, Hot Shot!:
Swimming pools and the […]
South African photgrapher Pieter Hugo’s ‘the hyena and other men’ portraits are impressive, menacing -they leave no escape.
Though I find interesting Angela Strassheim’s ‘Left behind‘ series on new born christians, its her nudes which really blow me off.
