I saw this photo, week beggining Sun., Dec. 30, 2007

Hello,
Steamer, now I have to go look for more from Cornell Capa (any link to suggest?)
Jon, a very good selection from you; I'd add n° 12 (Christopher Anderson)
Ciao
 
nico: I can see why that Christopher Anderson photo of the open mine pleases you.

The blackness, and the lack of scale.

I guess you'd do much the same sort of photo yourself if you had these sorts of landscapes in Tuscany.
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
nico: I can see why that Christopher Anderson photo of the open mine pleases you.

The blackness, and the lack of scale.

I guess you'd do much the same sort of photo yourself if you had these sorts of landscapes in Tuscany.
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Yes Jon I do like the lack of scale, not in any case, but sometimes is very useful: I think the blackness, and a strong contrast, works perfectly on landscape photo of a iron mine; but, when it comes to gentle environement like Tuscany or Alentejo hills, also a wide range of tones can help (in my opinion and for my taste) to renders the "character" of the place.
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
nico:


Thank you for the link to Ferdinando Scianna. I especially liked the fashion photo at: http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive...Album&IID=2S5RYDYMLXUH&SAKL=T&SGBT=T&DT=Image

I'm expecting my Mario Giacomelli book tomorrow. And I'm planning a day off in the praça to read it.
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Your plan sounds interesting and relaxing; I'm sure you'll enjoy Giacomelli's book.
About Scianna take also another look at "Feste religiose in Sicilia" a beatiful novel about Italy.
There's also lots of Italy in the photo you linked!
Ciao


P.S. a question for you and the other Portuguese RFf fellows: can you suggest some portuguese famous photographers? Grazie. N.
 
gb hill:


Thank you, I just went there and looked at the photos.

I too visit Slate regularly and had missed this, so am grateful for you mentioning it.
 
nico said:
About Scianna take also another look at "Feste religiose in Sicilia" a beatiful novel about Italy.
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It looks very interesting. I like the last line of the blurb that compares his work with cinema.


nico said:
There's also lots of Italy in the photo you linked!
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Lot's of Portugal too.


nico said:
P.S. a question for you and the other Portuguese RFf fellows: can you suggest some portuguese famous photographers? Grazie. N.
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I see an enormous revival in creativity which has not yet reached photography. In my own small city we already have four concert halls / theatres / performance spaces, several galleries with monthly exhibitions, and several cafe galleries.

There are plans to develop the dance center in the castle into the biggest arts center in Portugal outside Lisbon.

But, like the imagery threads here, participation is unimpressive. There can be a world class movie on for free at the open air cinema inside the castle and I'm watching it by myself.

nrb knows the recent history way better than myself. But in my opinion photography was difficult in the years of the dictatorship, both because of the political suppression and the poverty. So photography is undeveloped.
 
In today's New York Times there is a photograph supplement titled '2007 The Year in Pictures." An expanded version of this feature can be seen at the New York Times website, which is subdivided into nine areas of photographic coverage over the past twelve months. Each area includes a slide show, narrated by one of the photographers. It's worth a look. Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/photo/2007_YIP_FEATURE/index.html#

There are many photos in this feature worthy of comment, but two that particularly struck my eye were the photo by John Moore of Mary McHugh at the grave of her fiancee in Arlington National Cemetary, and the photo by Michael Kamber of returning Iraqi refugees. Both are worth many thousands of words...
 
nico said:
Your plan sounds interesting and relaxing; I'm sure you'll enjoy Giacomelli's book.
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It didn't arrive yesterday so I 'wasted' the day out with a camera.

Clearly it won't arrive today as it's a public holiday.

So, perhaps tomorrow. Although the weather forecast is strong wind and heavy rain so maybe not Giacomelli in the praça but in a cafe instead. It sounds sort of appropriate. ["A Martini please while I look at these photos."]
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
It didn't arrive yesterday so I 'wasted' the day out with a camera.

Clearly it won't arrive today as it's a public holiday.

So, perhaps tomorrow. Although the weather forecast is strong wind and heavy rain so maybe not Giacomelli in the praça but in a cafe instead. It sounds sort of appropriate. ["A Martini please while I look at these photos."]
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A good way to waste time, even though I do not drink (I don't know why but I can't) I'd suggest some wine for Giacomelli and Martini for LaChapelle! Enjoy it!
Ciao
Nico
 
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