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Category Archives: Peace!
Still Going Strong
Great to see these images from a young Bod Dylan! I was happy to attend his first concert here in Stockholm last Saturday after that he received The Nobel price. A great concert by a great artist. He has changd his hat. đ Pelle
As Bob Dylan accepts his Nobel prize for literature this weekend, an exhibition of photographs of him on the cusp of international fame is planned to open in New York. The photographer Ted Russell first met Dylan in 1961 and his intimate pictures of Dylan performing, and at home, are the subject of a show at the Steven Kasher Gallery featuring dozens of images never before seen in the city. Bob Dylan NYC 1961â1964 opens on 20 April and will run until 3 June.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2017/apr/01/portraits-of-a-young-bob-dylan-in-pictures
Bob Dylan at home in New York City
Turning ordinary into magical
Ever so often I feel happy after I have seen a movie from India, France, Italy or from any other country when I don´t recognize the surroundings and/or the actors. Just as great is it seeing interesting photographs from India. More street photography from where the streets looks different. I found it in The Washington Post.
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Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India
More often than not, photography coming out of India tends to focus on the âexotic.â Weâve seen the pictures many times before â people performing religious rites in the Ganges River or huge gatherings like the Kumb Mela. So it is refreshing to see work that diverges from this path. Swarat Ghoshâs photographs of street scenes in India do just that. Far from the spectacles we are used to seeing, Ghosh roams the streets transforming the ordinary and banal into the magical. With his photography, he takes us on a journey through found mini-dramas or tableaus that we might ordinarily miss if weâre not watching carefully enough.
Ghosh is not a professional photographer but an avid amateur and student of the medium. In his day job, Ghosh is a lead visual designer at a software company in Hyderabad. His earliest memory of photography was when he began following the work of several street photographers (including Kaushal Parekh and Prashant Godbole) based in India around 2012. His own journey into photography actually came about accidentally at that time when his wife gave him a camera that same year.
Trash, or Not Trash!
It sometimes happens that you see photographs that you wished you had done yourself. For me, like these. The gloves I have made, but not the other. I like this. It is colorful, playful and provokes a thought about our consumption society.
Buckets, above
âIt is not just previous things that are the material means of carrying a memory. It is this truth that Haygarth so engagingly and deftly explores and celebrates, and to which he offers a kind of requiemâ
Stuart Haygarth walked from Kent to Landâs End, picking up the trash he found on beaches â and arranged it into collections that show us how weird the ordinary objects in our lives can be.
Toys
Initially using a trolley that stuck too easily in the Kent mud, Haygarth switched to carrying his treasure in a rucksack. Walking near Broadstairs, he says, âI stumbled across a long pink plastic penis wedged in between some rocks on the cliff face. It turned out to be a novelty straw, which made me smile and feel like an archaeologist discovering an ancient drinking implementâ
Graphics
In an essay about Haygarthâs work, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic speaks grandly of his project: âThe impulse to collect is universal, and it goes to the roots of what it is to be human ⌠We collect in search of order and meaning, and sometimes to signal our distress or to console us in our inability to deal with daily lifeâ
Collection (Blue)
In his book Strand â the Old English and German word for beach â artist Stuart Haygarth presents photographs of synthetic flotsam that he collected from Englandâs shoreline, and arranged in neat configurations, creating a taxonomy of trash⢠Strand by Stuart Haygarth is published by Art/Books
Harry Benson Shooting Rock History
Being a music nerd myself I find these images wonderful. Some truly amazing images and stories to go with them. Some images are composed while other let you hear the wings of music history. All the way from Sinatra to Beastie Boys. And now Dylan is coming to Stockholm, still going strong.
In a new documentary about his life and work, Harry Benson: Shoot First, his famous subjects-turned-admirers.
“what makes his photographs so memorable: they’re surprisingly candid and humanizing in a way that’s often lost in more controlled photography settings. “I hate studio pictures,” he told Rolling Stone earlier this week. “I like everything out of control. Like myself!”Â
The article from Rolling Stone and all images Š by Harry Benson.
London as seen by homeless photographers â in pictures
A crowdfunded photography calendar, created by homeless Londoners, shows off the chaos and beauty of city life.
The project is organised by Cafe Art, a social enterprise that hosts exhibitions of artwork by homeless people. Their first calendar was created back in 2012
When 105 cameras were handed out to homeless people at St Paulâs Cathedral, the aim was to give them a voice through photography â and itâs now resulted in a calendar of the best images, MyLondon 2017, launched tonight at Spitalfields Art Market, London.
Each photographer was first given training by the Royal Photographic Society, who have since been mentoring the photographers every two weeks to continue to develop their skills
Cafe Art says its aims are to empower homeless people, allow them to tell their stories and raise awareness of their plight
The images selected for the calendar were picked via a public vote in August
âPainting, drawing, sketching, photography, sculpturing and craft making are some of the many activities that homeless people or those who are socially excluded are encouraged to do to help boost self-esteem, confidence and self-worth,â Cafe Art say. âIt is also therapeutic in that it acts as an outlet to channel their feelings, frustrations, anger, but also hope and optimism for the futureâ
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A great idea with some great photos.
I found the article in The Guardian.
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Long ago
I made this series of posters. And it was long ago. Then what did I do? Nothing much. It is that long ago that I spelled my name with a hyphen.
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Don´t miss!
I am afraid I will, and I am very sorry for that. If you live close enough you SHOULD go there. Paul Biddle is a very good friend of mine, and one of the best photographers that I know. And know of. He has the gift to always creating interesting and surprising images from his imagination.
Photography is also, among many other things, capturing dreams. Seeing the inner vision and to let that come out. Paul is one of the best. I am sure that he and his colleagues will create a wonderful exhibition that will open up your fantasy as well. Go see!
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Bruce Davidson.
Photographer Bruce Davidson was shooting scenes of urban poverty on East 100th Street in New York, when a woman asked him why he was there. When he said he was shooting images of the ghetto, she responded, âWhat you call a ghetto, I call my home.â
Davidson, a member of the Magnum Photos collective, worked hard to balance the dire situations that residents lived in with moments of beauty and resilience. It was also a common thread throughout his lifeâs work. No matter the situation, Davidsonâs subjects maintained their inalienable right, as humans, to dignity. This is apparent in Davidsonâs book, âBruce Davidsonâ (Prestel, May 2016), a collection of his most important work including the civil rights era, the subway, a circus and a Brooklyn gang.
While Davidson could take a photo in an instant, reform came slowly. â[My work] doesnât change anything overnight,â he said via email, âNo matter how long I photographed on East 100th St., it wasnât going to change that fast.â
And I wonder, where are they now? What happened to their lives?
@ Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
I found it in The Washington Post
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But why!
A young boy is injured during a Russian airstrike that targeted the Qaterji neighborhood at sunset. An hour after he and his family were rescued, the whole building collapsed. His parents and 3 siblings were injured in the attack as well. (Photo by Mahmoud Rslan)
This photograph kicked me in my stomach and it hit my heart. Like the one with the child drowned on the beach. Or too many others of the same subject. I feel ill and helpless. Why do people have to fight over land, race, religion. Or other stupid things? I have just sent a small donation to Doctors Without Borders. Can you? Or any other organization that you think can help.
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/femarige-omran-en-symbol-for-lidandet-i-aleppo
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/femarige-omran-ger-kriget-i-syrien-ett-ansikte/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37116349
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On a photographers mind 