Christer Strömholm
December 1, 2020
When arriving back from Spain, I had planned to go to this exhibition. Like so many this year, Covid made sure nobody would ever see it. What a pity. In the same line, an exhibition about the work of Stephan Vanfleteren in the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam. https://pf.nl/martien-coppens-in-het-noordbrabants-museum/
https://jeffwhitlockdigitalartist.com/ Stumbled upon Jeff’s work in Behance where most think he was the photographer but Jeff is the one doing postproduction in an amazing way and stunning quality. Whitlock is, as he self describes a digital artist specializing in composite images & creative retouching. Just this note to...
Cindy Sherman American, born 1954 Self-portraiture, depicting stills from fictional movies or portrayals of female stereotypes found in television, and advertising. Strong sense of time period eg. the sixties or seventies. Sherman uses her self mostly because she cannot articulate what she wants to models or other people sufficiently...
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/tomoko-uemura-in-her-bath/ Again a visually perfect image by Smith. Depicting a human tragedy in his own, almost bombastic style, full of drama and aesthetics. The images shake but never carves, they engage but keep their distance, as a polite porter, opening a door to another world. Nevertheless, the image...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11360960/ https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/1c9c8a63-2adc-45f1-acb7-3fb58f72ba91/they-call-me-babu The movie made by a montage of existing images. Combined and voiced-over into a story about a “nanny” (Baboe) during the end of colonisation of Indonesia by the Dutch. Baboe is the dutch-indo term for a nanny, actually close being a slave under contract....
An intriguing and inspiring, almost emotional but very personal essay on photography, or better, photograph, by one of the greater thinkers, theorist, philosopher and (photo-)critics if the 20th century. Bathes tries to find personal meaning and reason in his perceived emotion in photographs. Never in a technical or...
Case Study 1.1: Dzhangal – Gideon Mendel Looking at Mendel’s work, I cannot help thinking about Ishiuchi Miyako and her work Hiroshima from a few years before. I have to admit, the work by Ishiuchi Miyako had more impact on me. Is it perhaps this wandering thought alone...
In this, rather well readable essay, Susan Sontag contemplates in a rather repetitive manner about atrocities depicted in photographs and how the viewer is affected by it. She does not really make a firm point, besides her personal findings on the position of an image (context), the possible influence...