Over fotografie, losse beelden en visuele verhalen. Van straatfotografie tot landschappen, met focus op verhaal en betekenis achter de beelden.
You probably know Ed Ruscha’s Sunset project, where he photographed all the houses along Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. He published this project in the book simply called Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
Getty has created a beautiful website – a piece of art on itself – that allows you to explore the project.
https://12sunsets.getty.edu/map/narrative?d=0.42006&mode=no-map
Yesterday I wrote about Bryan Formhals. He is the co-author of Photographers’ Sketchbooks. The book describes and shows how artists, not just photographers as the title suggests, create, try out, design, figure out, make notes, iterate, channel their creative endeavors. The books features Roger Ballen, Rob Hornstra, Peter van Agtmael, and many others.
Bomb of inspiration.
Production company Las Belgas creates interesting films. Two of these films were discussed in Kunstuur. Unfortunately, the link is dead now.
The first film was about Belgian Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert, who created the series “Made in Belgium” about life in Belgium in the 1980s.
The second film was about the work of photographer Herman van den Boom, who photographs a typically Belgian phenomenon: houses stuck together. This film can still be viewed on Vimeo.
Eddy Posthuma de Boer kende ik vooral van zijn foto’s in de reisboeken van Cees Nooteboom. En natuurlijk van Libretto.
https://www.eddyposthumadeboer.com/
Naar aanleiding van een grote overzichtstentoonstelling in Fotomuseum Den Haag gaf Hollands Beelden een speciale editie uit met alleen werk van Eddy Posthuma de Boer. De eerste helft zijn zwart-wit beelden, meest straatfotografie, met zijn typische humoristische toets. Het tweede deel is kleur en gemaakt in opdracht, voor de wereldtentoonstelling in Osaka in 1969. Het werk in kleur is meest geposeerd maar heeft toch een typisch EPDB stijl.
The small book “Martin Parr” from Phaidon has a relatively extensive introduction (I mean: for such a small book) to the work of Martin Parr. We see how he develops from a black and white photographer of British life into the critical flash & color photographer of life’s peculiarities as we know him today.
The book furthermore is a guide to how you can read a picture. Maybe a bit over the top now and then:
… the picture recalls Bernini’s sculpture of Daphne sprouting leaves and branches… (picture of girl on school party).
It must also refer to the psychological complexity of attending school”(boy with mother a grammar school).
Wonderful pictures of a stuffed owl, sausages, a cup of tea, and many other ordinary objects and scenes depicted in Parr’s unique manner.