© Burnéd Shoés, ca. 2012, Nuremberg
© Jim Marshall, 1960s, Scenes from music history
Marshall’s roots go deeper than rock: they thread through the history of jazz, in the nightclubs and festivals where he honed his skills as self-taught photographer coming of age in Jim Crow America. A perennial outsider, Marshall championed the underdog, the spaces where the oppressed and exploited transformed their pain and sorrow into beauty and art.
As a man of the streets, Marshall understood the power of the activist to transform the way we see and think. He used the camera as his instrument, to tell the story of the people and the times — not just the headlining names but the regular folks who fought for the cause that we’re still fighting for more than half a century after he made some of his most indelible photographs. (+)
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HELP!!! WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER?
Can anybody help me finding out the name of the photographer who shot this photo of Richard Pryor for Reprise Records in 1976, or who’s responsible for licensing/copyright?
A good good friend of mine needs that information to clear the rights/licensing for a film production – thanks in advance!
A photo of the same session is part of the Michael Ochs Archives, available via Getty Images (link), there I found following caption:
LOS ANGELES - 1976: Comedien and actor Richard Pryor poses for a Reprise Records publicity photo in 1976 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Further research led me to the Historic Images online marketplace where a scan of an official press photo can be purchased…. but no additional information there. HELP! PLEASE REBLOG!
© Abbas Attar’, 2005, Self-portrait, near Chittagong, Bangladesh
I’m leaving for a road trip to Eastern Europe next week, going to Romania (Danube Delta), Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia a.o.
I haven’t done a road trip like that for too long now, the last time was in 2014, so I can’t wait & look forward to all the things I’m going to experience, all the people I will meet, all the places I will see & all the memories I will take back home!
See you soon!
All the best, Burnéd
I just came back from ViennaPhotoBookFestival 2017 where I heard a very witty & interesting lecture by Martin Parr, met Kurt Hörbst (who revived my long-forgotten love for photography many years ago) and saw an exhibition of Klaus Pichler’s latest work, “This will change your life forever.”
I had such a great time (even after a sleepless night) – thanks for that, and thanks for joining me, Sarah Fe (Austria’s next top photographer – check out her Instagram)!
As I need to get some sleep now I’m going to be lazy and just reblog the review I wrote about one of Klaus Pichler’s book in 2013! Here we go:
BOOK: KLAUS PICHLER - SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
One and a half years after writing about the wonderful series ’One Third’, a project on food waste by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler, it is long overdue to continue my chorus of praises by presenting his latest photobook, ’Skeletons in the Closet’.
I got this self-published book already three months ago, at the Vienna Photo Book Festival
where I met Klaus for the first time. The photographs for this
beautiful book were taken between 2008 and 2011 in the Museum of Natural
History Vienna and give an unusual insight into the life behind museum
scenes.
Here’s an excerpt of the project description to give you a short introduction:
“It all started when I happened to catch a glimpse through a basement window of the Museum of Natural History one night: an office with a desk, a computer, shelves and a stuffed antelope. This experience left me wondering: what does a museum look like behind the scenes? How are exhibits stored when they are not on display? (…)
The museum’s back rooms presented to me a huge array of still lives. Their creation is determined by the need to find space saving storage solutions for the preservation of objects but also the fact that work on and with the exhibits is an ongoing process. Full of life, but dead nonetheless. Surprises included!
(…) I was aiming to find arrangements and scenes where prepared animals interacted with one another or the surrounding spaces of the museum. (…) as a result of constant change in the non-public rooms of the museum, new constellations were forever creating themselves, all I needed to do was to wait and keep my eyes open.” (Klaus Pichler)
KLAUS PICHLER 1 : 0 BEN STILLER
Klaus assured me that none of these photos were staged, what he did was to just put the objects in the right perspective - and he did that in a wonderful, charming way. The 63 images, combined with texts by Julia Edthofer, Herbert Justnik and Pichler himself, seem to breathe life into these dusty witnesses of the past, and the result is way more entertaining than Hollywood could ever dream of (sorry Mr. Stiller).
The cover of the book is made of rough, grey cardboard: this grey layer represents the layers of dust Klaus found in the archives of the museum, with a small peephole to uncover what’s beneath.
Klaus Pichler’s ’Skeletons in the Closet’ (hardbound, 21x21cm, Munken uncoated paper, limited to 700 hand numbered copies) can be ordered here.
Order the limited edition (including a - I’m not joking - fossil shark tooth and a print, coming along in an exclusive book box) here.
More of his work on his website.
(via burnedshoes)
© Masahisa Fukase, 1977, Ravens, Kanazawa (金沢市)
© Ming Smith, c. 1973, Untitled, Harlem
© Bruce Davidson, 1980, Untitled, Subway, New York
“Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.
But I looked at the
dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room.
It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will
remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
© Samuel Chagalov, 2012, De passage, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal
For those of you you haven’t met Samuel (aka chagalov) here on Tumblr:
Check out the archive of his blog which will always be a wonderful source of inspiration.
You are missed my friend. Tumblr – no: the world is not the same without you.
I hope you’re fine, wherever your soul may have settled. Rest in peace….
(via burnedshoes)
© Markus Klinko, 2001, David Bowie
“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about” ― David Bowie
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© Thomas Annan, 1868, High Street from College Open (Plate 3)
Thomas Annan (1829–1887) started off as a commercial photographer,
producing cartes-de-visite, landscapes and stereoscopic views. Later,
along with his sons John and James Craig Annan, he became famous for his
fine art reproductions and his photography documenting the architecture
of Glasgow: both its slums before clearance and its elegant houses.
In the late 1860s Annan received a commission from the city authorities of Glasgow to photograph the city centre, which would result in a series of remarkable photographs, later published as ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’. (find more information here and here).
GEH IN OASCH
Yesterday I bought a Record Store Day 2017 limited edition 7″-Single by Georg Danzer & Brenk Sinatra, featuring this photograph on its cover artwork (distorted and retouched):
Here’s side A, the amazing track “Geh in Oasch” (Austrian dialect / something like “screw you” or “go fuck yourself”) by the great Georg Danzer / first published on his album “Narrenhaus” in 1978:
And here’s side B, a HipHop remix of Danzers track by Austrian producer Brenk Sinatra / first published in 2015:
© Alexis Adler, 1980, Basquiat practicing clarinet in the bathroom
Alexis Adler had just graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in biology when she fell for a charming artist four years her junior. His name was Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The two moved in together later that year, into a sixth-floor walk-up with about 400 square feet of living space located on East 12th Street in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. The rent, wildly, was $80 a month, affordable enough for Basquiat to support himself by selling sweatshirts on the street. The couple spent about a year in the apartment, a passionate and creatively fertile time that Adler chronicled meticulously with her camera. (read more)
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© Julian Wasser, 1963, “Nude pondering her next move”
Eve Babitz with Marcel Duchamp. Read the story behind the photograph here.
© Robert Doisneau, 1960, Palm Springs
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to
look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest,
in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a
swan’s egg.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
© Sade Coghill Styron, 1929, Miss Styron
“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”
― Robert Schumann