sreda, 15. december 2010

Bill BRANDT: Self-portrait with Mirror


Bill Brandt: Self-portrait with Mirror; East Sussex Coast, 1966

"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment." Bill Brandt

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sreda, 27. oktober 2010

Jeff WALL: Double Self-portrait


Jeff Wall: Double Self-portrait, 1979

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. - Jeff Wall

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Alberto GIACOMETTI: Portrait De Caroline


Alberto Giacometti: Portrait De Caroline

"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure." Alberto Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti (Guggenheim Collection)

Ansel ADAMS: Selfportrait


Ansel Adams: Selfportrait

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams


"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." - Ansel Adams


"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." - Ansel Adams

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Paul GAUGUIN: Self-portrait


Paul Gauguin: Self-portrait, 1889, oil on canvas, 79x51 cm

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite." - Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin (Guardian)

Mary CASSATT: Young Woman Sewing in a Garden


Mary Cassatt: Young Woman Sewing in a Garden, 1886

American women have been spoiled, treated and indulged like children; they must wake up to their duties. - Mary Cassatt

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Mary Cassatt (Met Museum)
Mary Cassatt (Fiber Fantasies)

sreda, 21. julij 2010

Dorothea LANGE: Migrant Mother


Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936


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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. - Dorothea Lange

Herb RITTS: Tatjana Veiled Head


Herb Ritts: Tatjana Veiled Head, Tight View, Joshua Tree, 1988


Herb Ritts
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Herb Ritts (Youtube)
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I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element. - Herb Ritts

Paul STRAND: Blind


Paul Strand: Blind, 1916



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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. - Paul Strand

Ilse BING: Self-Portrait with Leica


Ilse Bing: Self-Portrait with Leica, 1931


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Seydou KEITA: A Working Man And His Adorable Twins




Seydou Keita: A Working Man And His Adorable Twins, 1950'


Seydou Keita (New York Times)
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Seydou Keita (African Imagery)
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Hiroh KIKAI: A performer of butoh dance


Hiroh Kikai: A performer of butoh dance (Persona/Asakusa Portraits), 2001, 14 x 14 inches/ 16 x 20 inches Gelatin Silver Print


Hiroh Kikai (Lens Culture)
Hiroh Kikai (Wikipedia)
Hiroh Kikai (Eye Curious)
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Butoh (Youtube)
Butoh (Youtube)
Butoh (Wikipedia)

Gary HEERY: Madonna


Gary Heery: Madonna, 1983


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Madonna
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PLATON: Vladimir Putin


Platon: Vladimir Putin, 2007



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Man RAY: Le Violon d'Ingres


Man Ray: Le Violon d'Ingres (model Kiki), 1924


Man Ray
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ponedeljek, 21. junij 2010

Harry BENSON: Michael Jackson


Harry Benson: Michael Jackson, Neverland, 1993


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Michael Jackson
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Eugène DELACROIX: George Sand


Eugène Delacroix: George Sand, 1838, Oil on canvas, 79 x 57 cm


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George Sand (wikipedia)
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Salvador DALI: Galatea of the spheres


Salvador Dali: Galatea of the spheres, 1952, oil on canvas


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Salvador Dali (virtual dali)
Salvador Dali (artcyclopedia)


Galatea of the spheres (artist salvador dali)


Gala (wikipedia)

Galatea – Raphael (wikipedia)

petek, 14. maj 2010

Francis BACON: Self-portrait



Francis Bacon: Self-portrait, 1969, oil on canvas, 35.5 x 30.5 cm


Francis Bacon
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Jean CHARDIN: The Young Teacher



Jean Chardin: The Young Teacher, c. 1735-36


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Leonardo DA VINCI: Cecilia Gallerani - The Lady with an Ermine


Leonardo da Vinci: Cecilia Gallerani - The Lady with an Ermine, 1489


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Cecilia Gallerani (wikipedia)

sreda, 12. maj 2010

Peter Paul RUBENS: Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia



Peter Paul Rubens: Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633), 1615. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Peter Paul Rubens
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Jacques-Louis DAVID: Napoleon Crossing the St Bernard Pass


Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the St Bernard Pass c. 1801; Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna; Oil on canvas, 259x221cm


Jacques-Louis David
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Napoleon
Napoleon (wikipedia)

Claudio NAPOLITANO: Accomplished Mission - series


Claudio Napolitano: iz serije fotografij Accomplished Mission, 2009


Claudio Napolitano
Claudio Napolitano (hasselblad)

Elderly age (new scientist)

Gerrit DOU: The Dutch Housewife



Gerard (Gerrit) Dou (1613-75): The Dutch Housewife, 1650


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Gerrit Dou (wikipedia)
Gerrit Dou (artcyclopedia)

Dutch Baroque (residenzgalerie)