Focus Numérique - 1er magazine sur la photo et vidéo numérique BRASSAI / Biography & Images - Atget Photography.com BRASSAI took his name from the town of his birth, Brasso, in Transylvania, then part of Hungary, later of Roumania, and famous as the home of Court Dracula. He studied art at the academies of Budapest and Berlin before coming to Paris in the mid-twenties. He was completely disinterested in photography, if not scornful of it, until he saw the work being done by his acquaintance Andre Kertesz, which inspired him to take up the medium himself. In the early thirties he set about photographing the night of Paris, especially at its more colorful and more disreputable levels. Making photographs in the dark bistros and darker streets presented a difficult technical problem. When Paris de Nuit was published, the great photographer and theorist Dr.Peter Henry Emerson, then approaching eighty, wrote BRASSAI in care of his publisher, asking BRASSAI to please send his proper address, so that Emerson could send him the medal that he had awarded him for his splendid book. from "Looking at Photographs
Intro | Claude Lévêque The Atlantic Last month, reports surfaced, later confirmed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been delivering bags of cash to Karzai for a decade, in part to buy continued access and cooperation during the war. The New York Times reported that the payments had not resulted in the influence the CIA sought, and had instead fueled corruption and empowered warlords. A further report by the U.N. stated that opium cultivation across Afghanistan had increased for the third year in a row. As Western troops continue the long process of preparing for their December 2014 withdrawal, evidence of significant progress in Afghanistan remains elusive. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 16, 2013. Afghans at the Karte Sakhi cemetery on the foot of Karte Sakhi's Shrine in the foothills of TV Mountain in Kabul, on April 26, 2013. Wilbur, a U.S. U.S. U.S. A U.S.
Paulo Coelho - El manuscrito encontrado en Accra Steves Digicams - Digital Camera Reviews, Camera News, and Photography Information Robert Frank / Biography & Images - Atget Photography.com Robert Frank's fine flatulent black joke on American politics can be read as either farce or anguished protest. It is possible that Frank himself was not sure which he meant. In 1956, he was still a relative newcomer to the United States, and his basic reaction might well have been one of dumb amazement as he investigated the gaudy insanities and strangely touching contradictions of American culture. A similar shock has been experienced by many others who have been suddenly transplanted as adults to this exotic soil. A few artists and intellectuals have even managed to turn the experience to their creative advantage, if their direction had not yet been too firmly set, as though a new country might be a substitute for being born again. It is tempting to believe that Frank's emergence in the fifties as a photographer of profound originality was a measure of his success in meeting on artistic grounds the very difficult challenge of a radically new culture. from "Looking at Photographs
andreas gursky [abonnement gratuit] Andreas Gursky est né à Leipzig en 1955. Il a été l'élève à Düsseldorf du couple Bernd et Hilla Becher, photographes méticuleux et classiques de l'Allemagne postindustrielle. Veuillez noter : Il nous est extrêmement difficile de réunir les autorisations nécessaires à la présentation des photographies originales dans le texte et nous n'avons pas de budget pour la rémunération des ayant-droits. par Henri Peyre Andreas Gursky, Uni Bochum, 1988, 99,5 x 138,5 cm Andreas Gursky, Ruhrtal, 174 x 223 cm Andreas Gursky offre les images abouties de ce que peut être un travail à la chambre dans le format géant et avec utilisation du retraitement numérique pour amélioration de la qualité des images. Le choix des sujets non plus. Gursky parcourt le monde afin d'y dénicher ce qui peut convenir à la réalisation de clichés grand spectacle. En cela la photographie de Gursky dérange autant qu'elle séduit. Andreas Gursky, Stock Exchange, Tokyo, 1990, 188 x 230 cm
Time Lightbox On April 19, when the FBI announced that two brothers from southern Russia had bombed the Boston Marathon, the world’s attention quickly turned to where these brothers had come from — a lush strip of highlands called Dagestan, which stretches along the western shore of the Caspian Sea. The elder of the two suspected bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had spent half of last year in this region of Russia, visiting his parents and reconnecting with his relatives. He also spent a lot of time hanging out with local adherents of Salafism, the fundamentalist brand of Islam that Tsarnaev also seems to have embraced. Since the bombings in Boston, TIME has spent three weeks in Dagestan trying to learn what, if anything, the region’s Islamists had to do with Tsarnaev’s radicalization (to read the article, which is available to subscribers, click here ). The region’s insurgency and counterinsurgency have killed thousands of people over the last decade and shaped the lives of many more.
portal educativo tiposde