Mike Brodie's freight train photographs: 'It's a romantic life, at least in the spring and summer' | Art and design | The Observer Going off on an adventure across the country like Huck Finn is a very American thing to do," says Mike Brodie, who did just that on a whim in 2003, aged 18. Unlike many of the young drifters he rode trains with back then, Brodie took his camera along and the p hotographs he took have finally been distilled into a book, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, just published by the American fine art photography imprint, Twin Palms. "I have mixed feelings about the photographs being in an art book and on the walls of art galleries," says Brodie, "and so do some of the kids I photographed when they come to the openings. You have a lot of worlds colliding right there. Brodie was living in Pensacola, Florida in 2003, still at high school and working part-time "bagging groceries in a grocery store" when, in true Huck Finn fashion, he decided to light out for the territory, albeit tentatively. A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is published by Twin Palms
WILLIAM KLEIN "Ma devise en faisant le New York était: 'Anything goes'. Elle me va toujours, encore aujourd’hui. Pas de règles, pas d’interdits, pas de limites." Refusé par les Maisons d’Editions américaines, Life is Good and Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels sera publié, avec l’appui de Chris Marker, aux Editions du Seuil en 1956, et recevra le prix Nadar en 1957. Eric LAFFORGUE | Photography | Photographie RockfotoEmma Simon Roberts' best photograph: the London 2012 Olympics from above | Art and design Throughout the recession, I had been photographing the English landscape, exploring how it fitted with ideas of national character. Then I was asked to be the official photographer of the 2010 general election. My pitch to the International Olympic Committee was to do something a bit different for the London Games: to stand back, to always have an elevated view, and to gain more of a perspective. I was the only "art photographer" to be granted access. These events are usually recorded close-up: you can spot the sports photographers with their big lenses in this picture. The logistics were exhausting: I had to get to places that aren't normally available to photographers. The venue was the ultimate example of London 2012 creating a tableau of the city. As this shot attests, there's no doubt the Olympics were a highly successful advert for Britain, although the question remains as to what their legacy will be. Interview by Sarah Phillips. Born: Croydon, 1974
Légende de l’avant-garde soviétique: dix œuvres emblématiques d’Alexandre Rodtchenko Sputnik, Alexander Rodchenko Rodtchenko est l’un des grands noms de l’avant-garde soviétique, ayant grandement contribué à promouvoir le pouvoir communiste. Ses photographies ont en effet eu pour objectif de montrer la nation sous son meilleur jour. Portrait de la mère de l'artiste, 1924 Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/russiainphoto.ru Psychologisme, angles inhabituels, diagonale et géométrie, tels étaient les traits distinctifs d’Alexandre Rodtchenko, l’un des pionniers de la photographie soviétique. Portrait de Vladimir Maïakovski, 1924 Alexander Rodchenko Rodtchenko était proche d’autres avant-gardistes russes, dont Vladimir Maïakovski, Vladimir Tatline, Kasimir Malevitch et les prenait régulièrement en photo. Lili Brik. Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/russiainphoto.ru, Sputnik Conjointement avec Maïakovski, Rodtchenko a travaillé sur la création de la première publicité soviétique pour différents comandataires étatiques. Escaliers de secours. L’Escalier, 1930 Pionnier jouant de la trompette, 1932
Accueil - Melusine-Romance The 19 most expensive photographs ever sold It has been a long debate weather photography has its place at the fine art table or not. Opinions are divided among art specialist. Some would never consider photography to be a true art form, capable of reaching the depth of a painting or a sculpture. Others are more flexible in this regard and look to photography as a distinct ,stand alone form of art that is in no way shadowed by other mediums. While more and more critics and art specialists feel this way, the majority of the art world has not yet fully welcomed photography among the other visual languages that represent the gross of the market. 1.Rhein II by Andreas Gursky – $4, 338.500 in 2011 It is a 360x190cm photograph of the flowing Rhein river .Gursky removed some of the elements that were damaging to the composition, like people and buildings, claiming that ”a fictitious construction was required to provide an accurate image of a modern river. ” Recommended Reading: 2.Cindy Sherman- Untitled #96- $3,890,500 in 2011 5. 6. 7. 8.
Smeared Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been photographing for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy then digitally stacked the numerous photos to reveal shifts in color and shape reminiscent of painterly brush strokes that smeared the sky. Alice Springs | Dans l’ombre d’une lumière Pour les chroniqueurs de Boum! Bang!, un article digne de ce nom se doit d’être abondamment illustré. Pour débuter celui-ci, consacré à la photographe Alice Springs, commençons par évoquer le problème rencontré lorsqu’il fallut glaner sur Internet des photographies réalisées par cette artiste dont le nom ne vous évoque peut-être que l’Australie. Et bien, une fois ces deux mots entrés sur un moteur de recherche, c’est bel et bien face à des clichés du désert australien que nous nous sommes retrouvés avec d’ici de là quelques photographies en noir et blanc. Helmut Newton, June as St. De son vrai nom June Browne, June Newton est née à Melbourne en 1923. C’est quasiment par erreur qu’elle devient photographe en 1970. Suite à ce succès, June est contactée par José Alvarez, directeur d’une agence de publicité. June reçoit également ses premières commandes pour réaliser les portraits d’artistes ou de comédiens de magazines comme Elle, Vogue ou Marie Claire. © Alice Springs, Sirpa, 1972
Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 Review This is an in-depth review of the Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 DI VC USD – world’s first image stabilized standard zoom lens for 35mm sensor cameras that was released in April of 2012. I have been shooting with the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G for a while and although I love it for its super fast and accurate autofocus and durability, it has its share of problems. It is huge and heavy, has rather poor corner performance at fast apertures and suffers from field curvature issues (where sharpness is not uniform across the frame). In this review, I will talk about my month-long experience with the Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 DI VC USD lens, provide detailed information on its characteristics along with image samples, as well as some optical measurements and comparisons to the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G lens. 1) Lens Overview The Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 is a versatile professional lens designed for many different kinds of photography needs – from wide-angle landscapes and panoramas, to portraits and events.