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I don’t even like cars especially, but I can relate to these two photographic projekts about them. The first one is a series „Vector Portraits“ (1989-1997) by Andrew Bush, who took shots of people driving in their cars by 50 to 75 mph around Los Angeles. Maybe the relation of the owners to their vehicles …
Big exhibiton in Leipzig from 27th of February until the 15th of May 2011 covering german photography from 1839 onwards from 190 photographers including Joachim Brohm, Andreas Gursky, Boris Michailov, Timm Rautert and Heidi Specker. http://www.leipzig-fotografie.com
Photographer Chris McCaw uses a huge self built 20×24″ camera to actually burn the sun`s path into vintage photographic paper. He starts before sunrise, takes off the cap of his old, radioactive lens that was used in the 60ties for military aerial purposes and leaves the camera open for a few hours. The surface of …
There’s a discussion going on in Germany about „Google Street View“ and the violation of privacy rights and I still wonder what the german and international laws say exactly to that matter. What are you allowed to take pictures of and what not?
Interview mit David Hockney http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,389005,00.html „Fotografie ist ganz gut. Aber nicht gut genug. Viele Jahrzehnte lang haben wir gelernt, so zu schauen, als seien wir eine Kamera. Weil wir auf die Wirklichkeit nur noch mit Kamera, Digitalkamera und Handykamera schauen, fangen wir an, wie eine Kamera zu schauen. Wir sehen nur noch Bilder, die aussehen, …
Everytime I’m losing contact with contemporary Hip-Hop it pulls me back in again. After breakdancing like a clown to Old-School Hip-Hop and Electro there was a guy ten years later who gave me a tape with music by A tribe called quest’s „Low end theory“ to get me started again. Now Dubstep has done it …
I like almost still videos, it’s like adding an other dimension to a photographic portrait, streching the act of taking a picture in time. „L’Enfer“ by Henri-Georges Clouzot is a never finished psychedelic experiment in lighting and movie techniques literally starring a wonderful Romy Schneider. A familiar project is the first officially published DVD by …