Archive for the 'Photography' Category

RIP Peter Beard, & Portraits by Francis Bacon

Sunday, April 19th, 2020
  • Missing Photographer Peter Beard Found Dead in Forest

  • Francis Bacon/Peter Beard

    Bacon first met the American artist, photographer, diarist and writer, Peter Beard (born 1938) at the Clermont Club in London in 1965. The occasion was the launch of Beard’s book on wildlife in Africa, The End of the Game, which documented the massive die-off of over 35,000 elephants in Tsavo National Park from the destructive impact of overcrowding, a theme Beard revisits often in his artistic work. Beard’s images impressed Bacon who particularly admired his aerial photographs of dead elephants. They became friends and Bacon painted nine major portraits of Beard. From their first meeting in 1965, Bacon and Beard appear to have developed a close friendship.

    RIP Peter Beard (Homepage)

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    Ikko Narahara – A Master Photographer died at 88

    Monday, February 3rd, 2020
  • RIP Ikko Narahara (Mainichi JP)

    TOKYO (Kyodo) — Ikko Narahara, an internationally renowned photographer widely viewed as a precursor of photographic expression in postwar Japan, has died of heart failure at a nursing facility in Tokyo, his family said Monday. He was 88.

  • Ikko Narahara 31 Best


  • (Roller-Skating Rink, Colorado 1972)
    via MoMa

    See more Ikko Narahara – Photos from a Master of Photography blog here.


  • (Two Garbage Cans)

    Photo of Gerard Philipe by Agnes Varda & Film Stills

    Monday, November 25th, 2019

  • (Prince de Hombourg – 1952 Festival du Avignon – Gerard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau)
    Photo by Agnes Varda

    He died from liver cancer while working on a film project in Paris, a few days short of his 37th birthday. (His doctors concealed from him the nature of his disease.) In accordance with his last wishes, he is buried, dressed in the costume of Don Rodrigue (The Cid), in the village cemetery in Ramatuelle, Var near the Mediterranean Sea coast (via wiki)

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    Gérard Philipe posing for a campaign to promote reading, 1949-1950 by Lucien Lorelle

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    La Ronde

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    Gérard Philipe – Monsieur Ripois 1954 – Director: René Clément

  • “Everything rings true in this totally false film. Everything is illuminated in this obscure film. For he who leaps into the void owes no explanations to those who watch.” Jean Luc Godard

    Montparnasse 19 was originally to have been directed by Max Ophüls with a script by Henri Jeanson. Becoming ill, Ophüls turned the project over to Jacques Becker. Dissatisfied with Jeanson’s script, Becker re-wrote the scenario. (Leap into the Void, Godard and the Painter)

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  • Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle in an adaptation of Radiguet’s novel, Devil in the flesh. (1947)

    Gerard Philipe Michel Presle inThe Devil in the Flesh (France was slowly overcoming a murderous war, its veterans were revered, the adultry of a soldier’s wife was intolerable. via.)

    The novel is described as,

    an extraordinary mixture of perception and brutality, tenderness and heartlessness. (via)


  • (With Gina Lollobrigida
    in Fan Fan La Tulipe.)

  • CHINA – MARCH 26: The French Actor Gerard Philipe, His Wife Anne Philipe And The Chinese General And Statesman, Chou En-Lai In Peking On March 26, 1957. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

  • Roland Barthes – Notes on Mourning & Neil Young in the Desert

    Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

  • Notes on mourning. By Roland Barthes
    September 6, 2010

    Roland Barthes – A Cruel Country – The New Yorker

    Roland Barthes as an Actor

    Mythologies

    What I hide by my language, my body utters (See a Necktie Skirt)

    Camera Lucida

  • Jacques Derrida paid ironic homage to Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” in his essay “The Deaths of Roland Barthes”


  • (Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva in China, 1974)

    Writing Degree Zero

    Iconographie (more photos)

    When Barthes was Thackeray

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    Neil Young in the desert, photo by Dennis Hopper

    Happy birthday Neil Young!

    A Social Reformer, Lewis Hine, Photos of Child Labor, Immigrants

    Thursday, September 26th, 2019
  • History Place – Child Labor

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    (Italian Family in the baggage room Ellis Island 1905.)

  • March 1937 Scott’s Run, West Virginia Johnson Family. is a photograph by Lewis Hine

  • Lewis Hine

    Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.

    The Passing of Gianfranco Gorgoni Land Art/Avant Garde Photographer at 77

    Sunday, September 22nd, 2019
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    Photo of Robert Smithson by Gianfranco Gorgoni

    Gianfranco Gorgoni

    Obit from the art newspaper
    Artsy obit

    Gorgoni came to the US in 1968 to produce a photographic essay. His stay was intended to last just a few months, but, after a chance encounter with Robert Rauschenberg in 1969, Gorgoni spent the better part of the next 50 years in the United States floating in circles that included Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Andy Warhol, Walter de Maria, Bruce Nauman and other artists.

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    Portraits of artists by Giafranco Gorgoni at Whitney

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  • (Ed Ruscha photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni)


  • Robert Rauschenberg (photo by G. Gorgoni)

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    Portrait of an artist by Gorgoni (Nature Means Everything)


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    Cuba, El Salvador: Gianfranco Gorgoni by Betsy Sussler

    Robert Frank – Pioneer Photographer, Documentary Filmmaker Dies at 94

    Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
  • (Delphine Seyrig from Pull My Daisy)

    Pull My Daisy Robert Frank, Albert Leslie, USA, 1959, V’08, Tribute to Bob Dylan

    Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration

  • The Unseen photos: Outtakes From ‘The Americans

  • Guardian obit

  • How Robert Frank’s Book The Americans Redefined American Photography


    Robert Frank – 20 years in Mabou, Nova Scotia (Repost)

    Andrea Mabou
    Looking again at Robert Frank

    The Fire Below Mabou January 1980
    ( Click to see large)

  • Paris photos (youtube)

  • Robert Frank
    and his wife June Leaf. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
    Shooting from the hip..

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    (From Detroit to L.A.)

  • From Pina to Greta, Film Stills & Photographs of Peter Lindbergh

    Monday, September 9th, 2019

  • (Marion Cortillard – Paris 2007)
    Remembering Peter Lindbergh

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  • (Lindbergh shows Greta Thunberg some options in Stockholm.)

    Vogue 2019
    (“School strike for the climate” the sign said.)

    Obit via

    His pictures look like film stills, with action and time stopped, and he also directed several successful documentaries, including Inner Voices (1999), winner of best documentary at the Toronto film festival the following year, and a film about his friend the choreographer Pina Bausch(2002).

    The Birds by Peter Lindbergh

    One of the most respected and widely emulated photographers working today, Peter Lindbergh has been described as a “poet of glamour.” Since 1978, when Stern Magazine published his first series of fashion photographs, his work has been published by every major international fashion magazine and commissioned for the influential campaigns of the worlds leading fashion designers.

    See more here

    Afgan Photographer Abdul Haq Baratali and His Box Camera

    Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
  • Abdul Haq Baratali

    Afgan Box Camera

    Has the Afghan Box Camera Finally Met Its Match?
    The unique portrait-maker has survived wars, invasions, and fundamentalist tyranny. But digital photography may be too much to overcome.
    by Lynzy Billing

    The 69-year-old photographer is sitting on the porch outside his cluttered one-story house on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, remembering when he was six years old. Back then he had to use whatever was on hand—usually cameras from the Soviet Union, which he borrowed from his sister’s husband.

  • Baratali has photographed thousands of people over the years, from generals and children to popular singers and police officers. Lynzy Billing


  • The Taliban banned photography in the 1990s, calling it an affront to Islam. Displaying an image became a crime punishable by beating or imprisonment. Robert Nickelsberg / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images

  • Challenging Vision, Passing of a Prolific Photographer Barbara Crane

    Friday, August 9th, 2019

  • Artnews obit

    Barbara Crane, Protean Photographer of Intimate Chicagoan Scenes, Dead at 91

    Slideshow at Stephen Daiter Gallery

  • Her photos in China

    US photographer, one of the first foreigners permitted to take pictures in China

  • Barbara Crane’s homepage

    The issues in my work are often of a similar nature with an abstract edge. Though I build on past experience, I attempt to eradicate previous habits of seeing and thinking. I keep searching for what is visually new to me while always hoping that a fusion of form and content will take place.

    Barbara Crane, 2002

    wiki (Crane’s archive resides at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. )

    John Malkovich & Sandro Miller Pay Homage to Masters

    Friday, July 19th, 2019

  • John Malkovich as David Lynch

    (via)


  • (Homage to Eiko Hosoe Man and Woman #20)


  • Modern version of Hell

  • Eraserhead vimeo

  • As Simone de Beauvoir in the bathroom.
    (When Simone was visiting Nelson Algren in Chicago)


  • (Happy birthday Papa Hemingway – July 21)

  • John Divola – Vandalism

    Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

  • John Divola, Zuma 73


  • (Kaleidoscope)

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