Saturday, 20 June 2009
Paris a Finales de Mayo
Las ciudades son como cofres donde se guardan las joyas más preciadas. Ninguna ciudad contiene en su vientre más tesoros que París. Es una ciudad que por donde quiera que se la mire abre ante el viajero sus anaqueles de preciosas vistas y sorprendentes milagros.
Poniendo en práctica aquel viejo concepto de Walter Benjamin, la función del flanêur, el voyeur sin prisa que sale a mirar la ciudad como si estuviera admirando vitrinas en pasajes comerciales, como si anduviera de compras, produce los más sorprendentes encuentros.
El que camina en busca de minúsculos descubrimientos no tendrá que esperar demasiado. De distrito en distrito y de esquina a esquina se van descubriendo aquellos tesoros visuales que justifican el viaje y el cansancio de las largas caminatas.
Esta es una pequeña muestra que apenas alcanza a revelar unos cuantos de los cientos de cuadros que hallé durante cuatro días en la luminosa villa.
Saturday, 6 June 2009
From Duane Michals
Tattle-tales from the land of fauxtography
1) Photography has never been about money, it had always been about photography. Now that the Haute Kunsters have deemed it art, its all about money and not about photography.
2) Foxy photographers who call themselves “artists” who take photographs and not photographers, are moron oxys. If a photograph is labeled a mere photograph it is only worth $3,000; if a photograph is labeled a conceptual piece, it fetches $300,000 – semantic sleight of hand.
3) Never trust any photograph so large that it can only fit inside a museum.
4) The announced demise of the decisive moment is premature.
5) Bill Brandts nude give me an art-on.
6) Art is never boring. Andy Warhol was boring.
7) Garry Winogrand was a snapshooter. A snapshooter is a voyeur who loves the act of taking pictures but doesn’t necessarily care about the photographs. He left seven thousand rolls of undeveloped film.
8) Diane Arbus is authentic. Cindy Sherman is inauthentic.
9) Museums should never exhibit photographs of visitors looking at art in museums to visitors who are looking at art in museums.
10) An eight-by-ten inch photograph by Robert Frank can be heroic. An eight-by-ten foot Gursky is just a billboard with pretensions.
By Duane Michals
1) Photography has never been about money, it had always been about photography. Now that the Haute Kunsters have deemed it art, its all about money and not about photography.
2) Foxy photographers who call themselves “artists” who take photographs and not photographers, are moron oxys. If a photograph is labeled a mere photograph it is only worth $3,000; if a photograph is labeled a conceptual piece, it fetches $300,000 – semantic sleight of hand.
3) Never trust any photograph so large that it can only fit inside a museum.
4) The announced demise of the decisive moment is premature.
5) Bill Brandts nude give me an art-on.
6) Art is never boring. Andy Warhol was boring.
7) Garry Winogrand was a snapshooter. A snapshooter is a voyeur who loves the act of taking pictures but doesn’t necessarily care about the photographs. He left seven thousand rolls of undeveloped film.
8) Diane Arbus is authentic. Cindy Sherman is inauthentic.
9) Museums should never exhibit photographs of visitors looking at art in museums to visitors who are looking at art in museums.
10) An eight-by-ten inch photograph by Robert Frank can be heroic. An eight-by-ten foot Gursky is just a billboard with pretensions.
By Duane Michals
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Captain Stern's sixtieth birthday
On may 21st Captain Ted Stern from HMS Whitstable came to town to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.
As it has become customary, he made the trek to the nearest photo studio to have his yearly portrait taken for the occasion.
Many of his friends were present to accompany the old stone-faced land captain in his celebration and to raise their glasses to his accomplishment of having survived for so long without having thrown in the towel. Yet.
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