Showing posts with label Photographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photographer. Show all posts
Meeting Joel Meyerowitz
Have just enjoyed a rare opportunity to meet one of the great street photographers-Joel Meyerowitz at the Photographers Gallery in London after a talk and the launch of his new book 'Taking My Time'.
Location:London
Graduate Show - Sidney Cooper Gallery Canterbury
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| Graduate Show - Sidney Cooper Gallery Canterbury by Margate Photographer Shaun Madden http://www.graduateshow.org.uk/2012/photographers/shaun-madden.html |
Guest Lecture: Ben Hills
- Ben Hills
- Long Days!
- had to constantly hassle for work
- 18 hour days as commercial assistant
- American connection - Mary Ellen mark, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz
- Wanted creative input
- Became location manager
- Years of experience
- Cannot make mistakes - people only remember them!
- Get given a 'scamp' (idea/drawing/photo)
- Toyota Hybrid - glowing, suburbia - Sam Hicks
- Deli - open doors - Will Sanders
- Hills & Lights for Talk Talk at dusk
- Spent five days travelling around - Saltdean
- All commercial photography requires council permits
- Convincing land owners that we will be ok
- Shhot gherkin from high level - less boring!
Guest Lecture - Laura Pannack
- Winner of World Press Photo
- D+AD
- How to approach people
- Advice from Mark Power = "Don't Stop Shooting!"
- Enjoys projects that are a challenge
- Camera is just a box!
- Style? No - just do what is natural...
Photographer: Gareth McConnell 'No Surrender'
These portraits, taken over the Easter Period of 1999, were situated in a Loyalist Bar in my home town of Carrickfergus. It was a place I had only ever glimpsed into as a teenager - through a cracked door or through the security bars of the adjoining off sales. I wanted to create a set of images of the loyalist community which did not adhere to the strict media guidelines of bowler hatted men, apprentice boys, Drumcree rioters and super star terrorists posed against backdrops of Shankill Road murals. I wanted to make photographs with all the dignity and poise of old masters and not to revel in the slogans and iconography so closely associated with the protestant people.
Photographer: Chris Shaw 'Life as a Night Porter'
The thing I like most about the pictures is the large element of what I call the chance meeting, the times I was so tired I lost the artifice and techniques of photography. I just took photographs to keep me awake. It became artless. The people I photographed, these episodes in the social fantastic would heighten and illuminate my whole night, often making a difficult job and my twelve-hour shift bearable. The sum of the book is really a hotel of my own imagination constructed from several hotels I have worked in and some Ive stayed in as a paying guest. In reality these hotels bear little or no resemblance to my actual pictures. It just depends on how you look at things. In my experience heaven and hell are places right here on earth, and you can stay in either one.
Lee Friedlander: America by Car
Photo Lee Friedlander
At the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London
Timothy Taylor Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of two bodies of work by the influential and critically acclaimed American photographer Lee Friedlander, on display for the first time in the UK. This will be Friedlanderʼs first solo exhibition in London since his 1976 show at the Photographersʼ Gallery.
Lee Friedlander: America By Car charts numerous journeys made by the photographer during the last decade across most of the fifty US states. Shot entirely from the interiors of rental cars, typically from the driverʼs seat, Friedlander makes use of side and rearview mirrors, windscreens, and side windows as framing devices for a total of 192 images.
In America By Car, Friedlander uses the quintessential icons of US culture – cars and the open road – to explore contemporary America, revisiting in the process many of the places and strategies that he has incorporated into his practice throughout his career.
In America By Car, Friedlander uses the quintessential icons of US culture – cars and the open road – to explore contemporary America, revisiting in the process many of the places and strategies that he has incorporated into his practice throughout his career.
Functioning as an introduction to America by Car we are also very pleased to be simultaneously exhibiting The New Cars 1964 portfolio, also previously unseen in the UK.
Comprising of 33 works in total, The New Cars 1964 was the result of a commission for Harperʼs Bazaar to mark the unveiling of the much-anticipated new car models of that year: Chryslers, Buicks, Pontiacs and Cadillacs.
Comprising of 33 works in total, The New Cars 1964 was the result of a commission for Harperʼs Bazaar to mark the unveiling of the much-anticipated new car models of that year: Chryslers, Buicks, Pontiacs and Cadillacs.
A pleasant surprise and my first visit to the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London was this exhibition of work from Lee Friedlander. Social Landscapes as he refers to his own work.
America by Car features 90+ monochrome photographs, all shot using a wide angle lens from inside a car, splitting the image to reveal different elements and also reflections in mirrors and glass. The story travels through the US and features only a few prints with people. Four of the last five prints include stop signs and the final photograph is of Friedlander himself looking into his car holding the cable release, a fitting end...
Photographer: Mark Power
Photo Mark Power
"Now that everyone in the developed world seems to own some form of camera, a different space has opened for documentary photographers. It's a space free from specific events, where there are different expectations, where it is first and foremost about ideas. Now we can all take pictures, with varying degrees of consistency, more than ever before it's about what we do with photography." Mark Power
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photo Alfred Eisenstaedt
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”- Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photographer: Thomas Hoepker
Young people on the Brooklyn waterfront on Sept. 11 2001, ©Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Photos
Martin Parr: The Merchandising
Photo: Martin Parr
Martin Parr turns his uncomfortably truthful lens on an unexplored aspect of the terrorist attacks: The Merchandising.
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