tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426943655304914512024-03-13T22:00:37.543-07:00In Search Of Lost TimeRico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442694365530491451.post-80782593867186014352009-11-15T17:38:00.000-08:002009-11-15T22:57:07.502-08:00Lillian Bassman<div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Expanding on the idea presented in my last post, </span></span><i><a href="http://ricophotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/autochromes.html"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Autochromes</span></span></span></a></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, I’d like to dig deeper into the relationship between technology and art. My photography career began in a commercial photo lab in the pre digital days of toxic chemicals and long hours manipulating beams of light in darkened rooms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the same moment I was learning about Kodalith I became aware of a fashion photographer, Lillian Bassman, whose work closely echoed the effect of that film’s visual possibilities. Lillian established her reputation as a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar from 1949 through 1965. Under the tutelage of famed Art Director Alexey Brodovitch, her intimate, sensual black and white photographs stood toe to toe with the male fashion giants of the day – Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Horst P. Host, and Cecil Beaton.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">There is currently a tremendous renewal of interest in Lillian Bassman’s career. In 1996 she was hired by Neiman Marcus to shoot an advertising campaign. Now in her 90’s she still remains active, using Photoshop to fulfill her creative visions in a new age of digital reproduction. A book,</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Lillian Bassman<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lillian-Bassman-Women-Deborah-Solomon/dp/0810982609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258332803&sr=8-1">Women</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">has just been published and there is a concurrent exhibit at the </span></span><a href="http://www.staleywise.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Staley Wise Gallery</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> in New York through Nov. 28th.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.missomnimedia.com/2007/07/art-herstory-lillian-bassman/"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">M.I.S.S.</span></span></a><br />
</div>Rico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442694365530491451.post-89131229530089027832009-10-28T22:41:00.000-07:002009-10-29T10:40:37.965-07:00Autochromes<div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tB4JkSKxL38TNvscN9XyCF336dSVA5lRgG7gb-xMd8oSIqEjMO10WKCzY5dnr40oG5_ZylokLPeGvvjsCyQejXaNiUGVlMztu7B9LgNP3efBv9hRjMnkjsaHgfK-MQiZM1V-c_zgeCYo/s1600-h/Charles+C.+Zoller_ca.1915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tB4JkSKxL38TNvscN9XyCF336dSVA5lRgG7gb-xMd8oSIqEjMO10WKCzY5dnr40oG5_ZylokLPeGvvjsCyQejXaNiUGVlMztu7B9LgNP3efBv9hRjMnkjsaHgfK-MQiZM1V-c_zgeCYo/s320/Charles+C.+Zoller_ca.1915.jpg" /></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the wonders of photography is how it enables an interaction of art and science. A successful photographic vision must take both aspects into account. It’s fascinating to trace trends in photography and tie them to the techniques available at any particular time. Recent changes in digital imaging software often create a concurrent boom in style. For instance, a few years ago Photoshop CS2 introduced a built in High Dynamic Range function. Suddenly everyone was producing (or some might say, overproducing) images that represented luminance values unseen before in previous digital photographs. While this synergy between technology and creativity might seem commonplace in todays rapidly moving digital environment, the history of photography is laced with such interactions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alvin Langdon, an up and coming photographer known for his portraits of Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats and Auguste Rodin also jumped into this new world of color photography. In 1908 he produced an iconic image of Mark Twain reclining in red dressing gown holding a pipe in one hand and a book in his other.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There has been a renewed interest in autochrome photography in recent years. The George Eastman House has a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606226772243/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">significant collection</span></a>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Last year the Amon Carter museum in Fort Worth, Texas held a major show </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">100 Years of Autochrome</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. Currently UC Riverside has an exhibit </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/smokeandmirrors/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Smoke and Mirrors The Magic of Autochrome</span></a></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> through Jan. 2, 2010.</span></span><br />
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</div>Rico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442694365530491451.post-91418029587735803862009-10-09T10:08:00.000-07:002009-10-09T10:18:35.679-07:00Duane Michals<div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michals was born in 1932 in McKeesport, PA to working class parents of Czech descent. His mother worked as a live-in maid for a wealthy family and only saw her family on weekends. Often alone as a child, he delved into his rich imagination, creating an interior world populated with alter egos to keep him company. After serving in the military he spent a year at Parsons School of Design and then began working with magazines as an art director and designer. In 1958, bored and yearning for some larger existence he took the opportunity to travel to Russia, newly opened to tourism. Michals borrowed a friends 35mm camera to use on the trip. Wandering the streets of Leningrad he began taking snapshots and portraits of the people he encountered. Upon his return home, he realized the ennui had not lifted and his life needed a new direction. Photography was his new course.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michals demonstrated that photography didn’t have to be about a concrete reality. Instead he used the medium to explore philosophical and spiritual beliefs. He wanted to capture the mind’s interior thoughts and all its complex neuroses. He achieved these aims by using a cinematic technique of sequenced images to tell a story over time. He often employed his own hand written comments to elaborate the story, yielding a personal, memoir like effect. Death is a theme often visited in his sequences. He employs blurring as a technique to denote an evanescence of spirit and energy.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Each contribution is essential and must reach for perfection but none more so than the "maquillage".<br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Perhaps it's the human inclination to search the face first, before taking in any other visual information. When encountering a photograph I arrive at a multitude of aesthetic opinions at once but my eyes always lock on to the face, searching for clues to emotional communication. Delight, wonder, joy, sensuality, loneliness, fear are all communicated by the most imperceptible contraction of the eye or mouth and enhanced by the splendor of the makeup artist's work.<br />
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</div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">While there are a plenitude of talented makeup artists working today, none stand above "the little mouse" Topolino. Arriving in Paris at 19 years old from his native Marseille during the creative explosion of fashion photography in the mid 1990's, he quickly climbed the daunting fashion heights, working for magazines like The Face, Arena, Interview, I-D, and Vogue. His photographer collaborators include Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jean-Paul Goude, Mario Testino, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Thierry Le Goues, Raymond Meier and on and on.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">A genius with accessories, he can manipulate human physiognomy to create fantastical transformations that go beyond mere beauty and tap into a mixture of mythology and cartoon pop culture. Butterflies, feathers and beads of glass are just some of the items in his kit to aid his flights of fancy. He practically defined a style of makeup that is copied to this day.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Topolino is still in top demand for his makeup skills. In 1995 he was honored with a show at the Musée de la Mode. His book Make-Up Games was published by Assouline in 2002.</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the late 80’s I used to frequent an establishment called Quantity Postcards in North Beach, San Francisco. A large open space with two facing walls covered from floor to ceiling with racks of Postcards. Every type of imaginable image was represented – scenics, portraits, illustrations, sports, paintings; all of human activity condensed to 3 x 5 bits of cardboard. It was a glorious visual overload.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unable to afford costly hard bound catalogs of the painters whose work I admired so fiercely I instead collected their postcard reproductions. When I travelled to museums across the US or Europe I always made sure to visit the museum store before leaving to collect my souvenir postcards.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which brings me to a rather obscure photographer (to Americans at least) that single-handedly conquered the Postcard trade in Ireland and the UK. John Hinde was perhaps an unintentional artist. His main objective was to create images for mass consumption. He created his own business, John Hinde Ltd. in 1956 to facilitate the printing and distribution of his photographs through books and postcards.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">John Hinde was born in Somerset County, England to an Irish national mother and was raised as a quaker. Pursuing amateur photography at an early age by 1940 Hinde had conquered the difficult tri-color carbo printing process developed by </span><a href="http://ricophotography.blogspot.com/2009/08/paul-outerbridge-1896-1958-there-are.html"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paul Outerbridge</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. He fervently believed in craftsmanship and insisted on the finest color reproduction possible. Throughout the decade he worked on several books including some on horticulture where he struggled to match his meticulous color prints to the means of mechanical reproduction available for mass market books at that time.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By wars end Hinde was ready for new endeavors. In 1944 he photographed a circus to make pictures for his book British Circus Life. The circus bug had bitten and for the next ten years he participated in his own circus life, first as a manager and then owning his own circus troupe until 1955. It was during this period while traveling with this troupe that he first experienced Ireland. He made several scenic photographs depicting the wild, natural beauty of the Emerald Isle. Opportunity had struck again. He began his postcard business, catering to the tourist trade, illuminating the allure of his adopted new home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Prior to World War Two color photography was still a difficult process, both costly and labor intensive. It was not easily accessible to the amateur photographer. But by the wars end color photography’s moment had truly arrived. Inexpensive color film stock had finally arrived on the market. The stark, black & white, blitzed and bombed British Isles were primed for a new era of optimism and freedom best represented by vibrant, exciting colors.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hinde was famously quoted as saying “the lily has to be gilded”. He felt that the scenics must adhere to his rigorous definition of photographic composition. He had no problem rearranging his landscapes by adding plants or tree limbs to the foreground or perhaps wiring stalks to force their shapes into a pleasant symmetry. He wasn’t so much recording nature but reinterpreting it to match the tourist’s heightened memories.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the late sixties Hinde began working with Butlin Holiday Camps producing postcards advertising these low-cost working class vacation camps dotted throughout the UK. At this point he relinquished much of the actual shooting to a group of hired photographers and supervised the reproduction of the images still holding to his aesthetics of bold, vivid colors.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1972 Hinde sold his business and retired to a life of landscape painting. While he never had much regard for his own photographs as “art” he nonetheless was honored with a retrospective show in Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1993.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I’ve spent my entire life on the prowl in used book stores. Hungry for all those endless words and magical pictures. I was certain that someday they would all stack up to a transcendent meaning. It was both an act of faith and a decadent pleasure. Every trip up and down the musty aisles provided me with new vistas into my imagination. </div></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXWscAbWCof8MBIxXNPqOjdlrvSnyFkVrmLyIwZOPuZcUfj5jbZoy6ugIHnaJ2PIk1f7BQmc4IYl47uFFdJp-8V6WkbcyGUfB3O3vtjO-g-76sYtVFEtDkyETHL6zRrrt6UkCmmhUV3f2/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXWscAbWCof8MBIxXNPqOjdlrvSnyFkVrmLyIwZOPuZcUfj5jbZoy6ugIHnaJ2PIk1f7BQmc4IYl47uFFdJp-8V6WkbcyGUfB3O3vtjO-g-76sYtVFEtDkyETHL6zRrrt6UkCmmhUV3f2/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">It was during one such journey through the remainder photography section that I came across a stark image on an oversize soft-cover book entitled The Art Of Vogue Photographic Covers: Fifty Years Of Fashion And Design.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The powerful, startlingly simple cover depicted a face erased; with only a beautifully colored eye, a perfect arched eyebrow, pouting ruby lips and a black mole like a punctuation mark. The disembodied elements floated on the cover in perfect balance. I had to know more about the photographer who created this 1950 cover for Vogue magazine.</div></span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In the late thirties he moved to Paris and circulated with the Surrealist artist’s of the day including Man Ray. He began shooting for many magazines including French Vogue and Votre Beauté. At the start of World War Two he was interned in a French concentration camp. After his release he moved to New York and began to shoot for Harper’s Bazaar.</div></span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvgx2oUKpfK_lPhAESq6sCAOZDzg1qHDLj1kwbc_557L4xgq_k2SK46EMphdQXyZMSvAHQpy4o81pVe3cJWF6vpLhsGPnzr87zGHWsy5-QKgfCVn51_NE9_ASlg-f5g3BZLkiY1HDfcdE/s1600/Untitled-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvgx2oUKpfK_lPhAESq6sCAOZDzg1qHDLj1kwbc_557L4xgq_k2SK46EMphdQXyZMSvAHQpy4o81pVe3cJWF6vpLhsGPnzr87zGHWsy5-QKgfCVn51_NE9_ASlg-f5g3BZLkiY1HDfcdE/s320/Untitled-5.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Experimentation with darkroom techniques was key to Blumenfeld’s oeuvre. He utilized solarization and superimposed images to remove the subject of his photographs from any object reality. He often utilized mirrors to refract and reflect light which amplified the subject, creating repeating patterns. Deconstructed in the manner of the cubists, shards now stand in for the whole, fragmenting reality. The psychology of the image becomes the photograph's intent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">His constant experimentation with color and form has influenced a generation of contemporary fashion photographers including Paolo Roversi, Javier Valhonrat and Nick Knight.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyzdLCpEnzMpj6Mc2Gj_2TTs84a_40f538ijjLU3pufSLL1A9yzrJOi_GoECFkQupGjznvpXKsR4UEeymY9AiWc6fGNZG_2ibDq_uIQDmrbpiu3daADev1ez0rHUt9WTZPqq6JS5gh8yS/s1600-h/Untitled-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyzdLCpEnzMpj6Mc2Gj_2TTs84a_40f538ijjLU3pufSLL1A9yzrJOi_GoECFkQupGjznvpXKsR4UEeymY9AiWc6fGNZG_2ibDq_uIQDmrbpiu3daADev1ez0rHUt9WTZPqq6JS5gh8yS/s320/Untitled-6.jpg" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSAi68coVE1qbfMAvLV9tfAkj5Hi0FIYASUb_DfiKk09cO-N9_sTzHTI189m8uU4k5Jy5zjypS9Zxw-hZmo1YXpLAKO3QA93tmfqW_SyqgoSSyouAcEoJzLOkVKNJug3M1WqTWdOogepm/s1600-h/Untitled-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSAi68coVE1qbfMAvLV9tfAkj5Hi0FIYASUb_DfiKk09cO-N9_sTzHTI189m8uU4k5Jy5zjypS9Zxw-hZmo1YXpLAKO3QA93tmfqW_SyqgoSSyouAcEoJzLOkVKNJug3M1WqTWdOogepm/s320/Untitled-7.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Links:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blumenfeld-Photographs-Passion-William-Ewing/dp/0810931451/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252197181&sr=8-2"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amazon</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Blumenfeld"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wikipedia</span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Rico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442694365530491451.post-83865084783945581672009-08-22T14:43:00.000-07:002009-09-14T17:02:47.294-07:00Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958)<div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are some artists, upon discovery, whose work resonates profoundly, in a matter of an instant. Before the mind can explain why, the heart soars and you know it's love at first sight. This was my reaction when I was first introduced to Paul Outerbridge.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span> </div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Outerbridge was an American photographer that was most well known for his work between 1925 - 1945. He was successful as a commercial, fashion and fine art photographer. The rare trifecta, almost impossible for any artist. He made photographs for Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar magazines, among others. In the late 1920's he lived in Paris and associated with the avant-garde, bohemian circle including Duchamp, Man Ray, Picasso and Brancusi.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span> </div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His early B&W work explored the pure form of an objects geometry and light, reflecting the contemporaneous influence of Picasso's paintings and Brancusi's sculptures. His composition was masterful - refracting triangles, ovoids, squares and patterns into abstract still-lifes steeped in the psychology of Surrealism.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1930 he started developing a color printing technique that would become the Tri-color Carbro process. The resulting prints yielded lush, glowing, three dimensional colors.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The painstaking procedure involved using the same pigments found in oil paint and involved the assembly of multiple color celluloids. In 1940 he published a book describing the process entitled </span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photographing in Color</span></span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Outerbridge was also well known for his deeply psychological nude studies that bordered on fetishism. Masks became a common element in both his portraits and still-lifes.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paul Outerbridge was an exemplar of modernism during the fertile period between the world wars. His work continues to echo today in the contemporary work of David LaChapelle and Raymond Meier.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Links:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Outerbridge-Photobook-Elaine-Dines/dp/3822866180">Amazon</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Outerbridge">Wikipedia</a></span></span></div></div></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Rico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-442694365530491451.post-5115494516879506492009-08-22T14:32:00.000-07:002009-09-14T21:14:31.309-07:00Why Another Photography Blog<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are a multitude of photography blogs out there. The internet is lousy with them. If you're a photography fanatic and want to check out the latest lighting techniques or camera gear, there's a blog for you. If you're a Photoshop or Lightroom geek seeking the best workflow solutions, there's a blog for you. The resources to keep up with the latest trends in digital photography are phenomenal.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What I find sorely lacking however is any kind of historical references to where we came from as visual artists. I'm always stunned when I'm on a shoot and mention to the the digital tech or photo assistant the name of some photographer or painter from the past and I get nothing but a blank stare of non-recognition.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While I'm certainly not an art historian, I can't imagine working in the visual arts without a fundamental understanding of what went before. Nothing excites me more than visiting a museum or book store and getting turned on by a new (old) artist. It's like opening a door to an alternate universe that demands exploration.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which brings me to the point of this blog. I'm setting myself the goal of exploring the artists and art movements that have been influential to me as a fine art and commercial photographer. This list is completely idiosyncratic and certainly not exhaustive. What follows is what has and continues to inspire me. I hope it provides some open doors to you the readers as well.</span></span></div></div></span>Rico Schwartzberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08223128425733287212noreply@blogger.com3