Tokyo Symphony August 23, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : New Media, Photojournalism, Publications, Publishing , add a commentmonographic projects developed. PARADOX’ activities include travelling exhibitions, film production, book and electronic publishing and organising workshops and symposiums.
Photo Ed van der Elsken
The installation was never finished due to his early death at age 60. It was thought that the collection of 1,600 images, which is currently stored at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, was all that remained of this ambitious project. In 2007, researcher Frank Ortmanns discovered five audiotapes belonging to the project. Fascinated by this missing piece of the puzzle, Ortmanns approached Paradox to discuss the possibility of posthumously realizing Tokyo Symphony. Taking into account Van der Elsken’s fascination with AV technology, it was concluded that a contemporary approach to this installation would be most appropriate. In other words: to make an installation as if Van der Elsken were still alive.
The immersive installation based on hundreds of unknown colour slides confronts the viewer with various traditional as well as contemporary and little known aspects of Tokyo: from demonstrations in Shibuya to weddings and memorial celebrations, from girls wrestling and karaoke in Harajuku to the Tsukiji fish market. Van der Elsken switches constantly from intimate portraits to lively street scenes. The spatial multi-screen design of the installation, which is accompanied by a soundtrack based on his original recordings, adds to the dynamic experience of the strange mixture of tradition and modernity that characterises the metropolis of Tokyo. Through the harmonic as well as disharmonic interplay of various audiovisual elements, the installation can be seen as a true modern symphony about urbanism and eastern culture – a symphony that reflects the notion of the all absorbing and omnipresent urban environment.
Ed van der Elsken´s photographs are represented worldwide in the collections of several renowned institutions including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Chicago Art Institute, the Kawasaki Modern Art Museum, the Special Collections Department of the University Leiden and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Even before his 1956 breakthrough with Love on the Left Bank, Van der Elsken attracted attention in international exhibitions such as Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man (1955). Further important exhibitions followed, such as Sweet Life (Amsterdam, 1968), Masters of European Photography (London, 1973), Van der Elsken´s Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 1979), L´Amour à Saint Germain des Prés (Tokyo, 1986) and De ontdekking van Japan 1961-1988 (Amsterdam, 1988/1989). Also posthumously: Once Upon a Time (Amsterdam /Tokyo, 1991), Long Live Me! (Paris /Amsterdam /Porto /Modena /Antwerp, 1996 – 2006), and Documenta X (Kassel, 1997). His most influential photo books include Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés(1956), Bagara (1958), Jazz (1958), Sweet Life (1966), Amsterdam! (1979), De ontdekking van Japan (1988) and Once Upon a Time (1991).
500 Photographers August 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Art, Australian photographers, New Media , add a commentWell worth a look at. For creatives, for people interested in photography and for professionals. Interestingly, the list so far numbers 89 photographers and number 87 is Jane Burton, a fine art photographer from Melbourne I met a couple of trips ago.
Jane Burton, 1966, is an Australian photographer. She has been in various exhibitions (group and solo) and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. Her photographs are dark, mysterious and often poetic. She often combines images of landscapes together with portraits. The following images come from the series Velvet Portrait Suite, Ivy and Wormwood.
Her website: www.janeburton.com.au
“500 photographers is a weblog that posts 5 active photographers a week for 100 weeks. The photographers can be from any discipline within the photographic range, but they have to be worth looking at and have a certain level of quality. When we get to number 500, we will have a deep database of great photographers.”
Peter Wisse
It is certainly interesting looking down the list. Philip Toledano, who has been written about in this blog, gets an early mention. It is worth savouring this list in a slow and deliberate manner.
500 photographers is done by Pieter Wisse, a photographer himself based in Rotterdam, NL and owner of Four Eyes Photography & Art
http://www.500photographers.com/
- Photography copyright Jane Burton
Sylvain Duffard May 24, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, French Photographer, New Media , add a comment
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- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Fez Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Agadir Photo Sylvain Duffard
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- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Fez Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
“It always rains the same light”, written in 1965 in Agadir and borrowed from Moroccan author Mohamed Khair-Eddine,
has been conceived in 2008 in the context of three artists’ residences provided through the invitation of the French Institutes of Agadir, Fez and Tangier.
Photography Hijacked April 29, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : American Photographers, Australian photographers, Documentary, New Media , add a commentPhotography Hijacked, a documentary film by Jack Pam, is a journey through the processes, techniques and outcomes of 12 unique photographers from Australia and America. The idea that individuality of process is what underwrites and makes possible all interesting artwork is explored with each new artist in the film representing a new way of looking at the contemporary medium of photography.
The film is divided into 8 sections containing 12 photographers each photographer is given their own space and presence in the film to represent what they want to say in their own way. This unique structure employed by the filmmaker gives the power and control of the film to the individual photographers themselves. The audience is given the opportunity to step into the world of the photographer where they explain how and why they make their work. The viewer is taken on a ride from the Hollywood Hills of LA, to the Wheat belt of Western Australia to the streets and lofts of New York and into the Rebel Motorcycle Clubhouses of Australia and beyond. You are invited into these worlds with a photographer as your guide as they journey to capture their subject and explain their work.
DIRECTED BY Jack Pam
PRODUCED BY Matteo Bruno
FEATURING
Graham Miller, Dean Karr, Shen Wei, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Sarah Small, Toni Wilkinson, Gareth Willis, Brad Rimmer, Amy Stein, Karron Bridges, Angela Boatwright, Bill Sullivan.
Jack Pam, a contributor to the forum on new media at Foto Freo 2010, has put lots and lots and lots of work into this project and wants as many people as possible to view it. Please pass on the message.
Photography Hijacked screens on ABCTV at 10:00pm (Tuesday) May 18. There is a Sunday screening on May 23.
… and it will also be available online via Iview (ABC’s online TV channel).
- Photo Jennifer Juniper Stratford
- Photo Angela Boatwright
Blind Boys April 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Blindboys, Foto Freo, India, New Media, Publishing , add a commentKapil Das is a photographer from Mumbai. He has a penchant for the Yashica T4, a point and shoot that is perhaps his favourite camera. He has an incredible sense of humour and a quick enquiring mind. He has been a great addition to the INCITE programme at FotoFreo where he was part of the panel of Aaron Rose (Think the film ‘Beautiful Losers’), Jack Pam, the magazine ‘eleventhirty’, with Art Gallery of WA curator Robert Cook chairing the discussion.
‘Blindboys.org is a magazine exploring Photography and Shared Territories in and from a new ever-changing Asia. In addition to being a platform for new visual perspectives from the continent, Blindboys.org also dreams of creating a community for a better synthesis of art, media, and Asian cultures leading to a holism of new Asian visual identities.
In its current form you can discover photography from Asia and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, poetic, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. We gear ourselves to be a free platform for inclusion, collecting perspectives that otherwise would have been left under told. Taking these perspectives on to the streets to foster better dialogue and taking the photographic medium into communities to galvanize and curate a visual self expression.
Had a quick look at the photographers exhibiting their work on Blind Boys and rediscovered the work of Adrian Fisk, a British photographer who has been based in Delhi for some years and who I first met in Perpignan France. Small world. Keep an eye on this photo commune and its blog.
- Kapil Das Blind Boys Photo Commune Mumbai India Photo Bohdan Warchomij
John Pilger January 19, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Education, John Pilger, New Media, Photojournalism, Publishing , add a commentTHE MEDIA AND PROPAGANDA
Nigel Dolan from UWA Extension Service was instrumental in attracting John Pilger, Journalist, Author and Film-maker to a lecture at the Social Sciences Theatre University of West Australia on the 12th January 2010 to talk and answer questions on the subject of “The Media and Propaganda”. Interestingly main stream media were conspicuous by their absence. John Pilger, who was the winner of the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009 answered questions from the floor. The theatre was packed.
‘It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere
messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the
message and myths that surround it’ – John Pilger. In this question
and answer session John examined the role and power of the
media and its responsibilities in a world of seemingly endless crises,
growing instability and inequality.
- John Pilger Photograph Bohdan Warchomij
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two journalists to have twice won British journalism’s top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. “John Pilger,” wrote Harold Pinter, “unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him.”
Rhizome December 27, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Art, New Media , add a commentRhizome is located within the New Museum at:
235 Bowery
New York, NY
10002
Art Vocabulary
Rhizome’s classification system consists of terms that artists assign to their work. Artists choose from Rhizome’s vocabulary of new media terms as well as adding their own terms. When new terms reach a certain level of popularity they become part of Rhizome’s vocabulary.
