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2013-05-08 19:04:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Гельдерман Лев Абрамович
05 декабря 1933 года - 22 августа 1999 года.

По основной спеицальности Лев Гельдерман всю жизнь проработал инженером-строителем. На Кольском полуострове оказался после окончания института (ЛИСИ) в 1956 году в качестве молодого специалиста. С 1966 года жил и работал в Мурманске уже как главный инженер проектов. С Мурманском не мог расстаться до конца жизни; жил то здесь, то там.

Хранительница архива Льва Гельдермана, его дочь, Надежда Львовна:
anton@farmamedspb.ru
www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=gelderman_lev... more »

2013-05-07 13:20:45 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

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2013-05-07 06:35:57 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 17 +1s)

The Swiss Fred Boissonnas is the systematic photographer of the Greek cultural and natural landscape, the “Greek” photographer of the early 20th century. His work, the artistic and substantial value of which marked the history of photography, constitutes the best possible advertisement of the people, the nature and the monument of Greece during that era.

The photographic collection includes:
3.467 glass plates
1.079 gelatins
11.732 print outs
241 transparencies
142 sun engravings
139 photo engravings
375 books
Letters by Eleftherios Venizelos
Copy of the contract signed with the Greek Government (27.3.1919)
Detailed diary of the photo shootings
Correspondence of the photographer with his family

The Fred Boissonnas collection belongs to the Hellenic Culture Organization and it is located, based on a relevant agreement, atthe... more »

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2013-04-12 15:36:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Peter Bialobrzeski http://www.bialobrzeski.de/about.html 
studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensivly in Asia before he went back to study photography at the Folkwangschule in Essen and the LCP in London. After having worked as a photographer for almost 15 years and published world wide, Peter started to focus more on Personal Projects. In the last eight years he has published eight books. His work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Afrika and Australia. He won several awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010. Since 2002 Peter is a regular Professor for photography at the University of the Arts in Bremen/Germany. Furthermore he runs workshops around the world. He is represented by Laurence Miller Gallery in New York, LA Galerie in Frankfurt/Germany and also shows withR... more »

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2013-03-18 06:50:55 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

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2012-10-27 15:30:20 (5 comments, 19 reshares, 33 +1s)

Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. His talent was evident even earlier, however. At age five he had been a prodigy troublemaker, playing pranks that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in cement. Subsequently, as a young man, he began work as a literary illustrator in Paris, winning commissions to depict scenes from books by Rabelais,Balzac, Milton and Dante.
In 1853, Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron.  This commission was followed by additional work for British publishers, including a new illustrated EnglishBible. In 1856 he produced twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend of The Wandering Jew for a short poem which Pierre-Jean de Ranger had derived from a novel of Eugène Sue of 1845.

In the 1860s he illustrated a French edition of Cervantes's DonQui... more »

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2012-09-27 07:06:19 (3 comments, 9 reshares, 25 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/

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2012-09-15 16:06:36 (1 comments, 14 reshares, 30 +1s)

Olga Solarics ( 1896-1969) and her husband Adorja'n von Wlassics (1893-1946) ran the Manasse' Foto-Salon in Vienna from 1922-1938. Olga seems to have been the one interested in the photographic nude. She (or they) exhibited at the 1st International Salon of Nude Photography in Paris in 1933…

Studio Manasse, which flourished in the 1930s in Vienna, captured morethan just portrait photography bursting with erotic charge; it immortalized the fluid state of beauty and the “new woman”: confident in her own sexuality as she struggled to redefine her position in the modern world. Each picture offers a conflict of concepts, as provocative poses are presented in such traditional roles that the cynicism intended renders them humorously absurd . Adorjan and Olga Wlassics, a husband-and-wife team, founded Studio Manasse in the early 1920s. The first Manasseillus... more »

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2012-09-04 15:45:03 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

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2012-09-03 16:24:04 (3 comments, 8 reshares, 16 +1s)

www.parisbeijingphotogallery.com

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2012-08-31 19:52:07 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was born and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He was the first child of Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, a woman of English and Dutch descent, and Benjamin Eakins, a writing master and calligraphy teacher of Scots-Irish ancestry. Benjamin Eakins grew up on a farm in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the son of a weaver. He was successful in his chosen profession, and moved to Philadelphia in the early 1840s to raise his family. Thomas Eakins observed his father at work and by twelve demonstrated skill in precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid to lay out a careful design, skills he later applied to his art.

He was an athletic child who enjoyed rowing, ice skating, swimming, wrestling, sailing, and gymnastics-activities he later painted and encouraged in his students. Eakins attended Central High School, the premier public school for applied science... more »

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2012-08-29 12:15:43 (3 comments, 24 reshares, 37 +1s)

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2012-08-29 02:13:41 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 21 +1s)

Harold Cazneaux

Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878-1953) is regarded as Australia's leading pictorial or art photographer. Described by Max Dupain as the father of modern Australian photography, his influence has been profound.
Cazneaux's work is celebrated for its embrace of natural light, which he saw as a key element in developing photographs with a distinctly Australian character. His extensive and versatile photographic work - from city views and landscapes to portraiture - is a testament to his innovation, passion and drive to take photography as an art to the world.

He participated regularly in national and international exhibitions, receiving critical and popular acclaim. His 1937 photograph, Spirit of Endurance, is arguably his most famous work.

Cazneaux was also a prolific writer, including a 20-year stint as correspondent for Photograms of the Year... more »

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2012-08-08 00:20:02 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

Yves Tanguy was born January 5, 1900 in Paris, in the Navy Ministry where his father Felix, a retired navy officer had taken residence and became chief warrant officer after 25 years at sea (1).
A native of Brest, Felix Tanguy had married a sweet and secret girl of Locronan who already gave him three children. In 1903, he was assigned to the Hydrographic Service of the Navy and his son Yves spent his childhood residing at 13 rue de l’Universite.
Later, Yves will be perceived by his friends and fellow artists as a Breton infused with a Celtic imagination, "Guide of the times of the mistletoe Druids", according the the Abridged Dictionnary of Surrealism. In fact he was very attached to Locronan and the beaches of Douarnenez where he joyfully spent his holidays.
Following the death of his father in 1908, his mother was forced to ask for and obtained the licence of a tobaccos... more »

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2012-08-01 19:25:36 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 22 +1s)

Joan Colom i Altemir (born 1921 in Barcelona) is a Catalan photographer renowned for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was a self-taught photographer, and produced his best-known pictures while working during the week as an accountant. In 1957 he became a member of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya (AFC), and co-founded in 1960 the artist's group El Mussol ("The Owl"). In 1962 he was presented in Paris along with fellow photographers Xavier Misserachs and Oriol Maspons as part of the "New Avantgarde" movement, strongly inspired by masters such as Brassaï, Francesc Català Roca, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Man Ray. He was awarded the National Photography Prize by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 2002, as well as the Golden Medal for Cultural Merit by the Barcelona city council, theNat... more »

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2012-07-27 19:39:56 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 23 +1s)

http://sigfridodeguzman.blogspot.com

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2012-07-24 01:10:48 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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2012-07-21 22:13:02 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 22 +1s)

Born in Detroit on June 11, 1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his B.F.A. degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his M.S. and M.F.A. at Indiana University in 1960. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960 (“my first job offer”). He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of The Society of Photographic Education and a former trustee of the Friends of Photography. Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past thirty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of manymuseu... more »

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2012-07-18 23:36:06 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 11 +1s)

www.estherbubley.com
‘These pictures were made for a various reasons: magazine assignments, documentary projects, advertisements, and family albums. I have known some of these children over long periods of time, others for only a few minutes. Regardless of how long I have known them, my way of photographing children (and other people) usually follows a certain pattern. All children like to have their pictures taken. Even tiny babies are fascinated with shiny lenses and flashing lights. Older children, while they enjoy posing, have unfortunately often been conditioned to stand still before a camera and smile into the lens. Thus, posing children is not a problem; getting them not to pose is.

This is not to be confused with the illusion that they will be unaware of the camera. This is how I work. First, since on a job I usually am draped with cameras and other photographic gear, I can hardlye... more »

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2012-09-24 09:46:13 (5 comments, 13 reshares, 17 +1s)

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2012-07-15 14:35:34 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 13 +1s)

國立故宮博物院 National Palace Museum
www.npm.gov.tw

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2012-07-14 22:45:40 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information color slides and transparencies collection, 1939-1944 (Library of Congress)
❝Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.❞

The complete collection FSA/OWI (1,615 photos) can be viewed online:
Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/
Library of Congress Flikr Pilot Projecth... more »

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2012-07-13 17:15:53 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

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2012-07-13 01:40:06 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 16 +1s)

Peter Paul Rubens is considered one of the most important Flemish painters of the 17th century. His style became an international definition of the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian school with the fervent vigor of Michelangelo's art and the formal dynamism of Hellenistic sculpture, Rubens created a vibrant art, its pulsating energies emanating from tensions between the intellectual and emotional, the classical and the romantic. For 200 years the vitality and eloquence of his work influenced such artists as Antoine Watteau, in the early 18th century, and Eugène Delacroix and Pierre Auguste Renoir, in the 19th century. 
Rubens's father, Jan Rubens, was a prominent lawyer and Antwerp alderman. Having converted from Catholicism to Calvinism, Jan Rubens in 1568 fled Flanders withh... more »

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2012-07-11 23:39:26 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 19 +1s)

Walter Sanders
     One of Life Magazines greatest staff members was Walter Sanders.   He was born in Germany but left in 1933 when Hitler came to power.  Walter was a combat photographer for Life during World War Two.  He had been employed with Life from 1944 to 1961.  Sanders brought with him to Life Magazine, his great skills that he developed as a young man in Germany.  He died in his home in Munich, Germany.  Walter, according to Life Photographer Carl Mydans,  played a major role in the making of Life Magazine.

Walter Sanders was the one photographer in 1946 to do a story on the US Constabulary in Bamberg, Germany

 Walter Sanders took the assignment in New York to go to Paris in Feb. in 1946.  He was thinking it would be for a couple of weeks.  He was away a lot longer than that.  The rest of his things were sent to him in Germany a yearlater. 
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2012-07-10 22:47:46 (1 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

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2012-09-24 09:46:46 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 15 +1s)

.. i thought someone might like it before i delete it from the hard drive

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2012-07-08 19:13:56 (1 comments, 18 reshares, 35 +1s)

Born in 1923 in Sois, near Belluno, Mario De Biasi has lived in Milan since 1938.  He started taking photographs in 1945 with a camera found in the debris of Nuremberg were he was deported. Having returned to Italy, he held his first sole exhibition in 1948 and in 1953 begins his 30 years collaboration with  the magazine Epoca  working on numerous  assignments around the world and many hundreds of front covers.  His exhibition career has been very prolific: we must remember the Gli Universalisti  at the Photokina in Colone in 1972, The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943 – 1968,  , at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum of New York  in 1994 (his photo “Gli Italiani si voltano”  was chosen as the official image for the exhibition poster) and the wonderful retrospective at the Arengario in Milan in 2000.  Winner of the Erich Solomon Preis in Colone in 1964, the Saint Vincent Price for journalism in1982, a Life Ac... more »

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2012-07-07 23:49:06 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6th, 1907. She was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descent. She did not originally plan to become an artist. A survivor of polio, she entered a pre-med program in Mexico City. At the age of 18, she was seriously injured in a bus accident. She spent over a year in bed recovering from fractures to her spine, collarbone and ribs, a shattered pelvis, and shoulder and foot injuries. She endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime and during her convalescence she began to paint. Her paintings, mostly self-portraits and still life, were deliberately naïve, and filled with the colors and forms of Mexican folk art. At 22 she married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, 20 years her senior. Their stormy, passionate relationship survived... more »

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2012-07-07 07:34:15 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 17 +1s)

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information color slides and transparencies collection, 1939-1944 (Library of Congress)
❝Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.❞

The complete collection FSA/OWI (1,615 photos) can be viewed online:
Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/
Library of Congress Flikr Pilot Projecth... more »

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2012-07-03 03:56:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
A prolific draftsman who produced over 500 paintings, 4000 lithographs, 1000 wood engravings, 1000 drawings, 100 sculptures he was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen, although posthumously the value of his painting has also been recognized.

Life
Daumier was born in Marseille to Jean-Baptiste Louis Daumier and Cécile Catherine Philippe. His father Jean-Baptiste was a glazier whose literary aspirations led him to move to Paris in 1814, seeking to be published as a poet. In 1816 the young Daumier and his mother followed Jean-Baptiste to Paris. Daumier showed in his youth an irresistibleinc... more »

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2012-07-03 02:21:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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2012-07-01 23:13:14 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Inspired by the incisive realism of Honoré Daumier*'s Third-Class Carriage (29.100.129), *Walker Evans sought to avoid the vanity, sentimentality, and artifice of conventional studio portraiture. The subway series, he later said, was "my idea of what a portrait ought to be: anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind."

www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1971.646.18

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2012-07-01 23:11:02 (4 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

Following in the footsteps of Walker Evans, a young Stanley Kubrick, during his tenure as a staff photographer for Look magazine in the 1940s, captured New York City subway passengers on their daily commute in a series called "Life And Love On The New York City Subway."

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2012-07-01 02:31:12 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 23 +1s)

Kurt Hutton, born Kurt Hübschmann (1893–1960), was a German-born photographer who pioneered photojournalism in England.

Beginning his career with the Dephot agency in Germany, he migrated to England in 1934 and worked for Weekly Illustrated.

He then became one of the founding staff of the groundbreaking pictorial weekly news magazine Picture Post. One of his most famous images used there showed working-class girls enjoying themselves in Funfair, Southend, Essex (1938).

He spent the last decade of his life living in Aldeburgh where he photographed for Benjamin Britten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hutton

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2012-07-01 00:37:00 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

A World in Your Cup by the incredible Steve McCurry

http://stevemccurry.com/galleries/world-your-cup?view=grid

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2012-06-30 00:14:54 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Hiroshi Hamaya began teaching himself photography from the age of 15 and became a freelance photographer in 1937. He gained recognition in the immediate aftermath of World War II and his work was subsequently included in Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition (1955) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is best known for works such as Yukiguni (Snow Country, 1956) and Ura Nihon (Japan’s Back Coast, 1957), humanist portrayals of the rites and rituals of daily life in rural Japan focusing on the inextricable relationship between people and their natural environment.

In 1960 Hamaya became the first Asian photographer to work for Magnum Photos. During this year he covered the demonstrations against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, personally adopting an anti-government stance. His experience of this episode left him disillusioned with human nature and from then on he focusedhis... more »

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2012-06-27 04:11:53 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

www.dirkdeherder.com

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2012-06-17 17:54:34 (2 comments, 10 reshares, 31 +1s)

Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland. He studied photography with Hans Finsler in his native Zurich at the School for Arts and Crafts, then opened a photography and advertising studio. In 1942 he became a freelancer for Du magazine, which published his first major photo essays in 1943. Bischof received international recognition after the publication of his 1945 reportage on the devastation caused by the Second World War.

In the years that followed, Bischof traveled in Italy and Greece for Swiss Relief, an organization dedicated to post-war reconstruction. In 1948 he photographed the Winter Olympics in St Moritz for Life magazine. After trips to Eastern Europe, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, he worked for Picture Post, The Observer, Illustrated and Epoca. He was the first photographer to join Magnum with the founding members in 1949.

Disliking the 'superficiality and... more »

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2012-06-16 19:25:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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2012-06-11 23:03:58 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 19 +1s)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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2012-06-07 20:34:58 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

W. Eugene Smith learned the hard way that photography could be too easy, a matter of making expert images of interesting subjects. He set himself to learn the truth - about himself as well as his subjects. In the process, he produced a series of photographic essays, for LIFE and other publications, whose passionate involvement set a standard for what photography can be. Gene Smith was a loner, a driving and driven man, who bucked the system of which he was a part. Some say he sacrificed his career, and himself, on an altar of self-destructive idealism. When he died at the age of 59 in 1978, he had $18 in the bank. But his name had become synonymous with integrity. His work was his memorial.
 Why, then, a memorial fund in his name? Those who knew Smith knew also that he needed friends at critical times. Many photographers today are working against the fashions and economics of modern publishing.... more »

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2012-06-02 23:51:44 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 14 +1s)

Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent, whereas others consider him of non-aristocratic Spanish descent, from the region of Galicia. Financially independent, Picabia studied under Fernand Cormon and others at the École des Arts Decoratifs in the late 1890s.
In 1894, Picabia financed his stamp collection by copying a collection of Spanish paintings that belonged to his father, switching the originals for the copies, without his father's knowledge, and selling the originals.[1] Fernand Cormon took him into his academy at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec had also studied. From the age of 20, he lived by painting; he subsequently inherited money from hism... more »

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2012-06-01 20:33:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Russian photographic Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s, represented by Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Boris Ignatovich and others, in spite of persecution and repressive measures of the totalitarian regime, became a classic part of Russian and world art. Moreover, it became a sym- bol of the powerful energy and innovative spirit of Soviet Russia in the first years after the October revolution of 1917. But few people realize that at the very same period there was another, pictorial trend in Russian photography, which strove to approximate pho- tography to painting, using mainly ‘soft’ lenses and special, often very sophisticated printing techniques. Pictorial photography chal- lenged documentary shots and, just like painting, sought to convey the emotional side of things, and to express the individual senses and meanings implied by the artist in his work. The masters of Russian pictorialpho... more »

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2012-06-02 23:53:44 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Sheila Rock "Spiritual Beings – The Way of the Tibetan Monk"

Sheila‘s Tibetan portraits paralleled her work with her horse portraits. She was drawn both to their visual grace and beauty and the myth and symbolism that are associated with the Horse. “They are beautiful creatures that inspire mythology. I‘ve thought in romantic terms – like the old English master painters – and reflected on childhood dreams and memories. I‘ve been inspired by their physicality and their seductive forms. “Her approach was often to create a studio setting and isolate the Horses to make them appear more like icons or symbols.

During her studies at Boston University, Sheila Rock imagined she would become a documentary filmmaker focusing on »Qumanitarian, socially conscious issues.« Instead, at first, she was drawn to still photography and extroverted entertainmentpersonalities. He... more »

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2012-05-27 18:32:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

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2012-05-27 18:17:58 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange
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2012-05-26 01:14:06 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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2012-05-19 14:37:47 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 17 +1s)

Eugene Atget (1857-1927)
The life and the intention of Eugene Atget are fundamentally unknown to us. A few documented facts and a handful of recollections and legends provide a scant outline of the man:
He was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, in 1857, and worked as a sailor during his youth; from the sea he turned to the stage, with no more than minor success; at forty he quit acting, and after a tentative experiment with painting Atget became a photographer, and began his true life's work.
Until his death thirty years later he worked quietly at his calling. To a casual observer he might have seemed a typical commercial photographer of the day. He was not progressive, but worked patiently with techniques that were obsolescent when he adopted them, and very nearly anachronistic by the time of his death. He was little given to experiment in the conventional sense, and less to... more »

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2012-05-15 04:56:28 (2 comments, 9 reshares, 16 +1s)

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
Wassily Kandinsky

Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky

There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky

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A special service of CircleCount.com is the following button.

The button shows the number of followers you have directly in a small button. You can add this button to your website, like the +1-Button of Google or the Like-Button of Facebook.






You can add this button directly in your website. For more information about the CircleCount Buttons and the description how to add them to another page click here.

Eugene Eugene