Catching up on Harvey Benge’s blog, I came across a link to Andre’s work.
I especially like this series about loss of memory.
From the website…
An essay about the loss of memory. Once coherent scenes with a common thread through time and geography fall apart. Images of people, places and situations – the document of actual events – are not lost, they become displaced within our memory and reassembled into a different order, a different logic.
Another photographer I got to see recently was Hans van der Meer. He has a project I like a lot called ‘The Landscape of Lower League Football’.
This idea of treating a sporting event in terms of its effect on the landscape is an interesting one. Unfortunately his site is all flash so I can’t link to the pics I want to (am I the only one who really HATES flash sites?)
But the site is definitely worth putting up with the presentation.
I got to see some work by Christopher Muller recently. The montages I found interesting, as you could probably guess. These end up being printed life-size, presented on diasec so they are intended to function more as a ‘window’ than an aesthetic object surrounded by a frame.
Each piece is a complete work, no series for him.
He is interested almost solely in the still life, despite the various sections his work is presented in on his site. His found object work is not the result of careful search in the environment, but of meticulous construction in-situ
From an essay on his site…
“The viewing process reflects moments of self-awareness – as emotional content is inevitably linked to the responses and projections of the viewer.”
I really need to find out more about his process, as the formation of psychological resonance is something I’m very interested in. The essay on his site is a good read.
Just got back from my holidays. Had a good time and managed to see some great art.
First up was some recent work by Chema Madoz (o en castellano) . His webby is out of date and I really prefer the work from 2000 onwards – there is much more bite to it, including a series on flags as nationalist symbols which I liked.
A lot of his recent work would fit in the ‘I’d buy it if I could afford it’ category.
I also took a trip to the Wurth museum in Logroño.
A great place to view art. All this group’s museums are set in industrial parts and form part of the working environment for the employees as well as the public. Favourite of the show – as always when I see one – was a Caro piece…
I especially like his table top sculptures, I’ve never seen anything so physically heavy that gives the impression of grace and airiness
I’ve been wanting to see some of Rinko Kawuchi’s Aila work for a while, prints are so different from books…
and I like it. Simple, well ‘drawn’ images that have a consistent naivety I like. Couldn’t make these images for love nor money!
The work of Luisa Lambri was new to me.
as was the work of Jorg Sasse
I also got to see some ‘old’ friends,
I’ll be posting more links later, together with some work from the trip. Happy New Year!
I’ve posted about Keith before, but I’ve just had an email from him regarding the Crane Silver Rag paper, and he tells me he helped with its development and is a consultant for Crane. Really nice when you find a product you like has an input from a photographer you like!
Keith has some new work up too. I can’t insert these images into the blog as Keith has a roll-over presentation (Update: of course I can put these into the blog! and if Tim on a Mac can do it…!). But some of the extended are very nice indeed.
I first came across Rob when I still lived in the UK but I lost touch after I moved to Spain. His blog is here and you can get to his webpage from there.
Rob gave me lots of help when I was trying to learn how to load an M6 (put the base plate in your mouth, throw the camera high, pull the leader out of the cassette, catch the camera, throw the film etc etc), as well as helping persuade me to do the Charlie Harbutt course at Duckspool.
Rob has been earning his living as a wedding photographer, a very brave thing to do! I’m glad he’s still doing his personal work.
Going to see Adrian Tyler this week.
I’ve never met him in person, but we’ve communicated for years by email and on various lists. Like me, he’s a Brit expat married to a Spanish woman. Unlike me, he chose Madrid rather than Barcelona, so he’s stuck with a naff football team, but the night life is waaaaaaaay better! he’s also very kindly offered to put my wife and I up when we visit Madrid later this week – reminder to self, get his address!
I like Madrid, it has a really great museum, La Reina Sofia, home of La Guernica (maybe good ‘ol GW should be taken to see that one…), which is close to Atocha Station which is a fantastic building
In between the two is a great bar which servers ‘the best calamar sandwiches in the world’ (or so the sign outside says). I had a great afternoon with Chris Jordan there, sangria, art, food, good company… certainly a high point from my Photoespaña experience.
I’m really looking forward to seeing Adrian’s new work .
It is a huge step forward from previous work Imo in that he is exploring new territory. In the past he’s been adopting a Becher-like approach , whereas now he is trying to merge his urban landscape work within the wider context of human involvement. It is an interesting strategic problem reconciling the two almost distinct groups of photographs in this set – my instinct is to present this as dips, but then, it would!
I’ll report back after seeing the work and talking to Adrian.
A while back I posted in this post that Mel Trittin was setting up a studio
Well, Mel now has the studio up for business
And I think, although I could be wrong, that if you look really closely at the LH pic on the corrugated wall, you might recognise this
What a great place to work!
Paul is having a damaged print sale.
A good opportunity to get a print that, once framed, will be as good as a pristine one.
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