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?
Feldstaerke 2009 / Greetings from Paris!
January 8, 2009
hola!
i’m right now in Paris for a week participating in a great workshop with lots of very talented artists from Paris,LA and Germany. Will let you know more soon, in the meantime, check out
http://feldstaerke.blogspot.com/
We blog every night on what has happened the day and how our projects evolve.
a bientot!
Joerg M Colberg’s Blog
December 15, 2008
Another blog I can really recommend to all those who are interested in photography and art please visit Jörg Colberg’s Blog (a native german who lives in the US and also curates exhibitons…).
There are many interviews with great great photographs like Stephen Shore, Richard Renaldi, Alec Soth, Peter Bialobrzeski…Since I’ve found Joerg’s Blog, I’m not that motivated anymore to persue my own blog as he writes about so many things I’d like to write about, too 
Use the “search option” for “interview” or “conversation”, you’ll really find lots of interesting posts there.
MoMa: Mikhael Subotzky / Nan Goldin
December 11, 2008
After I visited the MoMa in early November, i wanted to blog about 2 photographers. First one is Mikhael Subotzky, who is featured in MoMa’s New photography 2008, together with Josephine Meckseper. He shows a series called Beaufort West, and both the prints as well as the way this young south african photographer found his own style of documentary-reportage photography really impressed me.
See MoMa’s online feature here.
More pictures and interview about another related project here at aperture’s website
Check out his website here.
In 2004, Moma acquired a 45 minutes long slideshow by famous photographer Nan Goldin, called “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency ” I guess that for most of you Nan Goldin is a well known photographer, and her photographs have influenced lots of young artists. So I knew her books before, but I had never seen the original slide show which, instead of the book, was the original way of presentation. And allthough I love photobooks and see them very much as an important medium for photographers, I was really appealed much more to her slideshow than to her books. To me, this slideshow was something very special and moving, because the whole ambience in this dark slideshow room, with the music coming with the pictures, felt quite intimate and immediate. The message and intensity of Goldins photographs was so much stronger in the slide show than in her books (at least so different!). So what I want to point out is that it is very important not only to see photographs online (bad!), in a magazine (better!) or in a well-printed books (good!), but to go into museums and galleries and see the original way the artists wanted to show his art work, as the way of the presentation (print, size, way of mounting or framing, slidewshow, beamer etc ….) can give the work a completely different evidence.
