Magnum In Motion

[Socke]

Wow!

I'm just watching Video Podcasts from http://www.magnuminmotion.com/

especialy I like the one Bruce Gilden.

As long as you have network neutrality, AT&T may give you enough bandwith 🙂

 

[Socke]

I thought this would spawn more interest, there is realy a lot to be seen.

So I give my post a bump 🙂

 

[oftheherd]

Some great photos and stories there. Thanks for the link.

 

[fitzihardwurshd]

Wow!

I'm just watching Video Podcasts from http://www.magnuminmotion.com/

especialy I like the one Bruce Gilden.

As long as you have network neutrality, AT&T may give you enough bandwith 🙂

Works fine on my T-Kom DSL line, the whole project is well thought and I find it really interesting to hear the photogs commenting their photos. Loved Bruce Gildens "Coney Island " photos, he seems strongly influenced by Diane Arbus !?
( The man with the inflatible plane !!) 😀

I am glad to see that Magnum survives so well in our world of animated pics.
No matter how perfect TV and Video is today and could be in future , the still photo will never die. Just watch those sometimes breathtaking action shots the guys with the long Tele standing along the sidelines produce at the time, during the football WC here, compared to TV pics a completely different story.

Thanks for the hint !

fitzi

 

[jshelly]

I'm speechless after viewing the Paul Fusco's Chernobyl Legacy images. I was driven to tears. There are few words to describe what I've just seen.

Images that evoke emotion good or bad is what I feel photography is all about, and this is an incredibly powerful example photographed in a very powerful way.

 

[Socke]

For me that was Requiem in Samba, since I have friends from Bahia and will travel there hopefully for next years carnaval.

 

[Pherdinand]

well i have no idea what it might be, from your subject+message body, but will check it now, thanks.

 

[Socke]

Oh, it is a website with videos made from pictures Magnum photographers took. mostly comented by the photographer. Very impressive way to present ones pictures and view on the subject.

 

[Pherdinand]

i checked one of them, it's nice, need more time to go through them.

 

[ywenz]

I think Bruce Gilden is overrated. He's catching his subjects by surprise - a simple thing to do compared to someone who stalks the subject and captures that "oh so perfect" moment.

Besides Magnum, there are some wonderful shots here as well:

www.ball-saal.com

You can also join the magnumesque group on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/magnumesque/

 

[rool]

I think that Bruce Gilden is more than OK.
Getting into people's faces with a flash is not always easy to do and the images he gets doing that are quite good in my opinion. And his Coney Island stuff is very good street.
But I also think that HCB is overrated, so don't listen to me.

 

[ywenz]

I think that Bruce Gilden is more than OK.
Getting into people's faces with a flash is not always easy to do and the images he gets doing that are quite good in my opinion. And his Coney Island stuff is very good street.
But I also think that HCB is overrated, so don't listen to me.

It's not an easy thing to do for someone who's very self conscious. It is an easy thing to do if you're not self conscious at all. Either way, it speaks more to the temperament of the photographer rather than the photography style or skill.

 

[Socke]

The Coney Island are quite good in my opinion, too. I like the Fashion Magazin shots especialy the Mafia Funeral part.

 

[rool]

Either way, it speaks more to the temperament of the photographer rather than the photography style or skill.

And I think that's why he is good: passing his message, his personality through his pictures rather than technical skills or style.
I mean, fashion photographs (in general, not B.G stuff) are good technically and often have a really specific style but who wants to look at them... especially amongst rangefinder shooters?!
However, I totally understand the fact that you don't like his pics. I just think his pics are more than OK.

 

[ghost]

i've looked at gilden's work several times, but i can't remember a single photo. either my memory sucks, or his photos aren't all that memorable (to me).

 

[akalai]

Bruce Gilden ROCKS!!!

...although I prefer the photos from his series "GO" taken in Japan.... here is a link to photo-eye where you can check out the "Book tease" and see a bit more of his work:

http://www.photoeye.com/templates/ShowDetailsbyCat.cfm?Catalog=zb818

 

[rool]

Bruce Gilden ROCKS!!!

Well, I agree.

 

[ghost]

i liked the soth piece on niagara.

 

[amateriat]

The first time I visited the Magnum site (some months back), I checked out Alec Soth's Niagra as well, and loved it for its offhanded quietude, contrasting with the with the shifting emotional fortunes of the couples who find themselves in fronto of his camera. I also find his use of color interesting as well.

I'll definitely be checking much more of the site out, but you need time to sit and study, as opposed to furious page-flipping, for this stuff. It's too good to rush through.


- Barrett

 

[fitzihardwurshd]

I agree about the Bruce Gilden comment, okay. I think he is overrated too, okay.
His images do not really say much

Overrated ?? Who overrates him ? I don't. The photos say nothing ? You mean to you they say nothing ? If so, I say okay, okay.

fitzi