Picture Pages - web sites for people who hate to read. Via: insects are all around us.
Yookando. Photographie Analogue.
The rest of us--the living--we're ghosts. Jeffrey Eugenides: Passing Into Life.
reto camenisch: photography
Larry Sultan erzählt von seinen Pornofilm-Kulissen-Fotos:
In 1998, I was doing a lot of editorial work for a number of magazines. Just beginning to make that another way of getting my work out. And this one British magazine called, "Maxim," just somewhat of a trashy magazine, asked me to do, "A Day In The Life of A Porn Studio." I think they had a theme on labor. It was an issue on labor. On interesting jobs. The long and short of it is I flew down to Los Angeles with my wife, and drove to Haven Hirst Street; which is a block away from where I went to high school, and it was very strange to be in that neighborhood.
Drove up to this house where there was a bunch of grip guys saying, "Who are you?" & "What are you doing here?" And I explained. And from that kind of world of nostalgia & the suburbs, into this house where they were shooting pornography, it was really remarkably strange for about 5mins. And then it became quite banal and normal and the shock wore off.
And after I finished shooting, and the magazine story ran, I was thinking for several months that, "This is the perfect way of extending the work I had done on my family in the suburbs." And that while I'm not interested in pornography, I am interested in the darker side of the suburbs and how to make the daily life of the suburbs visible or interesting. So not unlike forensic photograph, a porn set add is a kind of heat, or the audience is willing to project or look at the interior in a special way. A viewer might bring something to someone laying a glass of water down on a counter.
If they know it's a porn studio, everything takes on a bit of intensity or density. Whereas none of us pay that much attention to daily life otherwise. So I started to photograph. I called a few magazines, found contacts; And the hardest thing for a photographer is getting access. It's one of the hardest things. So I worked anyway I could to get access to some of the bigger porn studios and some of the smaller ones. I would bring them 20x24 inch prints after I shot & everyone loves to get photographs. They were stunned that I made them look so beautiful. They said, "Gee, do we do that?" Is that how we look?" Cause I don't photograph, I do portraits. I don't photograph sex scenes or the coarseness of what's usually in front of the camera. I'm doing behind the scenes of the camera.
eye wide shut: Fotografie und Design von Markus Schäfer.
Gundula Schulze el Dowy. Eine von den vier Menschen, die ich in der DDR kannte. Die größte von allen. Telefonate um vier Uhr morgens wegen irgendwelcher Geschichten, Aperture-Bände rüberschmuggeln, ihre Fotos rausholen, argwöhnische Grenzer anfahren, dass sie sich lieber um die verdammten westdeutschen Revanchisten kümmern sollten als um mich, wundert mich noch heute, dass man damit durchkam, na ja, und diese Nachmittage in der Schönhauser, ach.
The history of youthful rebellion in 50s America is well known, but less familiar is the variant that sprang up simultaneously in placid Switzerland. Karlheinz Weinberger's vintage photographs of this secret subculture are currently wowing art directors, stylists and picture editors. And with good reason; as writer Till Maria Schiller discovers, those rebels could really accessorize.
Siehe auch: hier
Stefanie Bürkle. Bundespressekonferenz 1999. Mehr Orte /Unorte.
Konrad Adenauer, Ich liebe meine Frau, Amimanöver: Will McBride.
The Great Aliyah. Eine schöne Online-Exhibition der Central Zionist Archives [hebräisch, aber die Fotos sprechen auch so.]
Tom Baril, Gloxinia.
Tom Baril, New Yorker Fotograf, 1952 geboren. Zum Beispiel: Botanica und Wasserfälle.
Ziemlich hübsch ist das broken image project
Das photographic diary project von Jimmy Owens, einem 1981 geborenen Künstler aus Frankreich, dokumentiert in 60 000 Fotos das Jahr vom 12.4.2001 bis zum 12.4.2002. Auf der (Flash-intensiven) Website gibt es eine Preview.
Segregated water fountains, North Carolina, 1950. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum. Von The Civil Rights Movement - Interactive Introduction.
Lebensgefährten, Sorrent, Italien. Für den Lavazza Kalender 2000. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum. Von Profifoto online.