A film about Wolfgang Tillmanns
June 19, 2009
Fortunately, I was able to see a film about photographer Wolfgang Tillmanns yesterday at the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Berlin based director Heiko Kalmbach accompanied Tillmanns for several years and made this interesting documentary, showing a lot of private moments but also the artistic process which is very special with Tillmanns work (e.g. the way he hangs his photographs on the wall when he has a show – this can easily take several days…).
As far as I know, this film isn’t available on DVD, but maybe there are more screenings soon, I’ll keep you updated if I learn more about that.
If One Thing Matters
- a film about Wolfgang Tillmans
by Heiko Kalmbach, D/USA 2008, 72 min.
See also the PDF here.
In the documentary there is also a sequence that shows how the british band Pet Shop Boys ask Wolfgang Tillmanns to do a music video for them, “Home and dry”. In the beginning, the concept for the clip was very different from what it turned out to be later, and Tillmanns ended up to show mice in the London tube…Like that one.
Jussi Puikkonen
May 7, 2009
I just found the work of finnish (and now Amsterdam based) photographer Jussi Puikkonen and wanted to share it with you.
I first read about his book “on vacation”, that shows vacation parks, ressorts, beaches etc. in the long, 9 months lasting finish winter period. You find some photos of the series here, you must scroll down then to see all pictures.
But I also like his fashion and portrait stuff. Born 1980, young big talent.
Greg Miller – New Work
April 2, 2009
Greg has put some new work on his website, and again I love his photographs a lot, especially the County Fair work. A very interesting interview (here) explains, why he works the way he does (8*10 inch large format, narrow depth of field, only appr. 2 exposures per subject) and what are the consequences of it (working quite slow and directing a lot..). If I had the money, Greg Miller would be somebody whose work I’d buy.
design and photography on the guardian
March 24, 2009
Quick note in between: the art/design/photography part of the guardians website (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography) is a good source with quite interesting articles. I like their “My best shot” series where every week a well known photographer presents his personal favourite shot and explains how it happened.
New photos – Carnival portfolios
February 27, 2009
Last week the german Carnival season peaked out, especially in the Rhine Area in Western Germany. I grabbed my camera and tried to find my own view on this crazy event… I put together 2 portfolios, check them out by clicking on the pictures.
Portfolio_1
Portfolio_2
Annie Leibovitz Hollywood Portfolio 2009 – UPDATED
February 20, 2009
Just found Annie Leibovitz’s new Hollywood Portfolio fo Vanity Fair USA – here ! The ad’s on vanityfair.com are really annoying though…
I like some of the shots very much, nice concept. What a contrary to the previuous post.
Richard Renaldi let’s strangers touch each other…
February 18, 2009
Those of you who are not familiar with Richard Renaldi’s work and books, please check his website. i love to click through his website as there are so many different photos and projects to see, though navigation is kind of irritating sometimes.
I wanna recommend his “Touching Strangers” ( here ) series, where Renaldi asks people who don’t know each other to pose together for a photograph, touching each other in what form ever they like. Great concept.
Simon Norfolk skeptical
February 9, 2009
I found an interesting article of uk-based photographer Simon Norfolk who thinks that most editorial photographers should try to find another job to earn at least some money…Read it here.
I’m not that skeptical, mainly because if I’d be that pessimistic I could stop my photography right now (but as Norfolk suggested, i already do weddings…)
Via http://politicstheoryphotography.blogspot.com/
Pieter Hugo – Nollywood
February 9, 2009
Pieter Hugo who became well known through his books such as “The Hyena and other man” shot a new series that I like very much – “Nollywood” . He photographed actors and actresses in Nigeria where the 3rd largest movie industry (after Hollywood and Bollywood… )is located.
The series will be published in book form by Prestel in October 2009 – will buy it for sure!
Find more interesting informations on the project on his gallerists webiste here or by clicking the screenshot below.
By the way, Hugos website was updated recently, there are some ineresting new portraits there. In another blog I read that Hugo used to work together with Stefan Ruiz at Colors Magazine – no wonder I like both so much!
Richard Avedon Exhibition Berlin
January 20, 2009
I made a video of some installation shots I took last week at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, where they showed a large retrospective of Richard Avedon.
No doubt, Richard Avedon is and was one of the greatest portrait photographers EVER. He took countless strong and outstanding photographs, was a master of technique and printing and published some awesome photo books.
Nevertheless, I was kind of disappionted by the Berlin exhibition that closed yesterday. First of all, there was not enough space for all the pictures, what you can see in one of the last pictures of the video. The room that showed Avedons “In the American West” series was so full, that in my opinion the photographs lost a lot of their power. And second, these beautiful prints were mounted on massive aluminum pieces which just doesn’t look good – framed they would look so much more precious, wouldn’t they?
