Anima/Persona - The photography of Brigitte Lacombe

©Brigitte Lacombe

From Claire O'Neill' s article for NPR, "Frank Rich of The New York
Times puts it well in his introduction:
"There is art, and there is show business. In a young century
overdosing on glossy and voyeuristic celebrity exploitation
masquerading as photojournalism, it's essential to keep the boundary
distinct. That is the key to appreciating the photography of Brigitte
Lacombe, whose work often takes her into the realm of show business
but whose pictures strip the commerce away from the artists until we
are face-to-face with what some of the seminal figures of our time are
trying to say to their audience."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/07/janet_johnson_who_edited_photo.html?ps=bb2

Related Link: http://www.brigittelacombe.com/
Related Link: Lacombe anima l persona by Brigitte Lacombe steidldangin:
http://www.steidlville.com/books/812-Lacombe-anima-l-persona.html

Napoleon III and Paris - Photography exhibition focusing on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire

Charles Marville (French, 1816–1879) Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche (from the Rue de la Huchette), ca. 1868 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Howard Stein (L.2001.13)

www.metmuseum.org, "This dossier photography exhibition will focus on
the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city's
narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards
and grand public works that still define the urban landscape of the
French capital. A prologue will introduce Napoleon III and his family,
and an epilogue will depict the ruins of Paris in the aftermath of the
Commune. Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan's collection, the
exhibition will feature portraits of the Imperial family by Gustave Le
Gray and Benjamin Delessert; views of old Paris by Charles Marville;
photographs of the New Louvre by Edouard Baldus and of the Opera by
Delmaet and Durandelle; and scenes of the destruction of Paris and
Saint-Cloud during the Commune by Alphonse Liebert and Pierre-Ambrose
Richebourg. The exhibition will also include works in other media from
various departments of the Museum. "

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B47E49A38-646C-4D09-A142-4DEAD1FBCDCB%7D

Related Link: Napoleon III and Paris Gallery:

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/napoleon_paris/images.asp

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Napoleon III and Paris
June 9, 2009–September 7, 2009
The Howard Gilman Gallery

Exhibition: In Focus: Making a Scene - The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center

"Photography, although commonly associated with truthfulness, has been
used to produce fiction since its introduction in 1839. The acceptance
of staging, and the degree of its application, has varied greatly
depending on the genre and the historical moment, but it has persisted
as an artistic approach. The photographs in this exhibition, drawn
exclusively from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, make no
pretense about presenting the world as it exists; instead, they are
the productions of directors and actors who rely on stagecraft and
occasional darkroom trickery to tell stories.

Spanning photography's history and expressing a range of sentiments,
the images in this exhibition are inspired by art history, literature,
religion, and mainstream media."

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_makingscene/index.html

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Exhibition - Photographer Anthony Hernandez: Technological changes created a new photography style

"Pictures by Anthony Hernandez of people waiting for the bus in Los
Angeles in the early 1980s were part of the re-evaluation of
photography that was going on around the world during that period,
according to artist Jeff Wall.

Until the late 1970s, street photography meant trying to make a
composition very quickly of strangers in public spaces. But Wall said
at about that time, he was among a new generation of artists that
included German artist Andreas Gursky in Dusseldorf who were working
with photography but were interested in taking the medium somewhere
new.

What Hernandez did technically was change from using a hand-held 35 mm
camera to a large format camera on a tripod. This both slowed down the
way Hernandez took street photographs and opened up his work, Wall
said."

From, Tech change created new photography style, by Kevin Griffin,
Vancouver Sun:
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Tech+change+created+photography+style/1757747/story.html

Related Links: Anthony Hernandez - Gallery:
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Gallery+Anthony+Hernandez/1757770/story.html

Related Link: Anthony Hernandez — Street life through a lens
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Anthony+Hernandez+Street+life+through+lens/1757761/story.html

Related Link: Vancouver Art Gallery
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

Wim Wenders for Leica Camera

A very nice black and white ad for Leica featuring and directed by the
director and photographer Wim Wenders. The camera in question, the M8
has had its share of issues, and detractors. However, just about every
review gets back to Mr. Wenders' observation that what distinguishes
this camera above all, is it's handling, the way it feels in your
hands and the relationship between, as Mr. Wenders says, "what you saw
outside and the inner image that proceeds each image."

For an in-depth review of the M8, Mr. Phil Askey for Digital
Photography Review: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/leicam8/

Link to Leica M8 product page:
http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m8/

CBGB Virtual Tour

I unfortunately never had the chance to go to CBGB. However, now I can
at least have a virtual tour of the famed club. Appropriately, the
tour starts in the bathroom.... this ain't no disco....
http://www.bravadousa.com/cbgb/pano/pano.html

TateShots: David Hockney Answers Your Questions

David Hockney, "Inspiration, she never visits the lazy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCMDgvZ3co