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30/07/2022

30/07/2022

17/06/2021

Master photographer Irving Penn ( 1917 - 2009 ) and some of his iconic images. 🎞

More about Irving Penn and his fashion work you can read here:
https://www.vogue.com/article/vogue-phyllis-posnick-irving-penn

All about Irving Penn you can find on the Irving Penn Foundation side:
https://irvingpenn.org

A video about Irving Penns work you can watch here:
https://youtu.be/39mPCf3fzx0

Keep film alive. 🎞

02/08/2020

Photography Secrets of Edward Weston's Darkroom

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2-xpKBafs&feature=share

Take a step back in time into Edward Weston's darkroom, and then come forward with us to get a tour of it from his grandson Kim Weston. Hear secrets of how h...

13/07/2020

Im Fotolabor (1980)

Im Fotolabor (1980)

17/06/2020

Many years ago this body of work was exhibited in Berlin. Those beautiful, huge prints! Breath taking. It was a real treat for a printer.

Richard Avedon ( 1917 - 2009 )
Pictures from " In the American West " from 1979 - 1984.
Shoot by daylight on 8/10 inch.

More about this project you can read here:
https://americansuburbx.com/2011/01/richard-avedon-richard-avedons-in.html

More about Richard Avedon you can read here:
https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2014/09/26/5-lessons-richard-avedon-taught-street-photography/

A documentation about Richard Avedon you can see here: https://youtu.be/4XElT1udbFM

A interview with Richard Avedon you can see here:
https://youtu.be/qvldmimdEJE

Keep film alive. 🎞

27/05/2020

Így rohad a magyar ipar egykori büszkesége, a legendás váci Forte film- és fotópapírgyár - kepek

The decaying Forte factory in Hungary... What an amazing paper it was! Very sad...
(Hungarian article, but mainly pictures of the ghost factory)

https://kepek.444.hu/2016/08/21/igy-rohad-a-magyar-ipar-egykori-buszkesege-a-legendas-vaci-forte-film-es-fotopapirgyar?fbclid=IwAR01s5E5iiw8NpWdszRna1SzFuEQz3D0VpC8GFQLHoyl_iYfx9h8c296GAw

A valaha 74 országába exportáló váci vállalat 2007-ben leállt, utcára kerül az összes dolgozó. Az elhagyatott váci épületek és a berendezések lassan rohadnak széjjel.

19/05/2020

Photographer Germaine Krull Captured 1920s Women in Intimate, Radical Images

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photographer-germaine-krull-captured-1920s-women-intimate-radical-images?fbclid=IwAR0p4LGMRqTCjty05d0FW5Z0Qz9ZodBzHPVZZfZ3SH5Tq2L3zYRasQstRFk

In her life and work, photographer Germaine Krull challenged traditional gender roles and antiquated ideas about s*x.

27/03/2020

25 best movies about real photographers

Movies to watch in the time of the Corona

Top biopics and documentary films about the lives of famous photographers

22/11/2019

retouching analog prints a photography website. Stories on film, digital

https://www.anatomyfilms.com/katherine-gillis-retouching-lost-art/

retouching analog prints a photography website. Stories on film, digital and Instant cameras, Photography news, Photo stories on old and new photographers

19/09/2019

www.caffenol-cookbook.com

Developing film in coffee:http://www.caffenol-cookbook.com/The%20Caffenol%20Cookbook%20&%20Bible%20-%20Recipes%20and%20Tutorials.pdf

27/05/2019

The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures

The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures

Maar’s work did not begin or end with Surrealism. She was several sorts of artist in the decade or less that her photography had free rein.

22/05/2019

Scriptphotography

TIM MANTOANI

Una fotografia non nasce mai icona: lo diventa. Se è vero che a tutti può accadere di fare una buona fotografia non è altrettanto facile che “quello” scatto fuoriesca dalla dimensione immagine per proiettare in eterno la sua luce per diventare assai più famosa dell’autore, né più né meno come un figlio che supera le gesta del padre. Ci sono fotografie che vivono una vita propria. Le abbiamo viste molte volte, sulle riviste, sui giornali specializzati sui libri fotografici, sulle copertine di dischi, per questo alcune fotografie ci sono familiari al punto da ritenerle parti integranti della nostra formazione fotografica. Sono le fotografie “iconiche”, quelle cioè che hanno saputo assorbire lo spirito del tempo con un ritratto, un evento o chissà ancora cos’altro e restituirlo intatto alle generazioni future. Italo Calvino in “Perché leggere i Classici” definiva, appunto, un classico, un libro che si staglia sul rumore di fondo della modernità, una voce che non ha ancora esaurito il suo racconto. L’assunto di Calvino può di diritto essere trasferito alla fotografia, sicché le foto che vediamo sono dei classici che travalicano il tempo e la cui bellezza, mai disgiunta dal racconto di un’epoca, supera ogni datazione chiamando noi e il nostro tempo a confrontarci con quel frammento di Storia, con quel “segno” stabilitosi saldamente nell’Olimpo delle Immagini. Come si è detto fin dal principio, una fotografia non nasce con l’intenzione di diventare un’icona – esattamente come un libro non nasce con il desiderio di farsi capolavoro –, lo diventa. E quando lo diventa dilaga imprimendosi per sempre nel nostro immaginario collettivo. Altro non desideriamo sapere. Osservando una fotografia che ci restituisce un momento di storia della società, della cronaca, del costume, non vediamo solo un’immagine, vediamo piuttosto noi stessi al cospetto della “nostra” storia, con il nostro vissuto e quella fotografia diventa un medium in grado di legare il passato con il presente. C’è di più: una fotografia “iconica” ha il potere non solo di vivificare il passato ma di stabilire l’importanza forse allora sfuggita – nel caso in cui non fossimo stati testimoni – oppure attestarsi come documento storico con una sua valenza. In ogni caso queste fotografie innescano con chi le ha scattate una specie di competizione: molto spesso non conosciamo né il nome né, tantomeno, il volto di chi le ha scattate. A “risarcire” gli autori di quanto le loro stesse foto hanno sottratto, ci ha pensato il fotografo californiano Tim Mantoani. In “Behind Photographs” (un progetto iniziato nel 2006) Mantoani ha ritratto circa centocinquanta fotografi mentre sorreggono la loro foto più famosa. Una restituzione o, almeno, una specie di tregua tra il fotografo e l’immagine che ha corso più veloce di lui e avrà senz’altro una vita più longeva. A ben guardare ogni cosa sopravvive all’uomo.

Giuseppe Cicozzetti
da “Behind Photographs”
foto Tim Mantoani
www.mantoani.com/behind-photographs/

TIM MANTOANI

A photograph is never an icon: it becomes. If it is true that everyone can make a good photograph it is not so easy that "that" click comes out of the image dimension to project its light forever to become much more famous than the author, neither more nor less like a son who he overcomes his father's deeds. There are photographs that live a life of their own.
We have seen them many times, in magazines, in specialized newspapers, in photo books, on record covers, for this reason some photographs are familiar to us so much as to consider them integral parts of our photographic formation. These are the "iconic" photographs, those that have been able to absorb the spirit of the time with a portrait, an event or who knows what else and return it intact to future generations.
Italo Calvino in "Why reading the Classics" defined, in fact, a classic, a book that stands out on the background noise of modernity, a voice that has not yet exhausted his story. Calvino's assumption can by right be transferred to photography, so that the photos we see are classics that go beyond time and whose beauty, never separated from the story of an era, overcomes any dating by calling us and our time to compare with that fragment of History, with that "sign" firmly established in the Olympus of Images.
As we said from the beginning, a photograph is not born with the intention of becoming an icon - just like a book is not born with the desire to become a masterpiece - it becomes. And when it becomes rampant, forever imprisoning itself in our collective imagination. We do not want to know anything else. Observing a photograph that gives us back a moment in the history of society, the news, the costume, we do not just see an image, rather we see ourselves in the presence of "our" story, with our experience and that photography becomes a medium capable to link the past with the present.
There is more: an "iconic" photograph has the power not only to vivify the past but to establish the importance perhaps then escaped - in case we were not witnesses - or attest as a historical document with its own value. In any case, these photographs trigger those who have taken a kind of competition: very often we do not know the name nor, even less, the face of those who took them.
To "compensate" the authors of what their own photos have stolen, the Californian photographer Tim Mantoani thought. In "Behind Photographs" (a project started in 2006) Mantoani has portrayed about one hundred and fifty photographers while supporting their most famous photo. A return or, at least, a kind of truce between the photographer and the image that ran faster than him and will certainly have a longer life. To look at carefully, everything that survives man.

Giuseppe Cicozzetti
from “Behind Photographs”
ph. Tim Mantoani
www.mantoani.com/behind-photographs/

06/11/2018

FOTOIMPEX

Sam Haskins in his studio.
You need a model - some stuff - inspiration and some tea.

30/09/2018

A Brief Compendium of Vintage O***m Underworlds

A Brief Compendium of Vintage O***m Underworlds

I don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, so if you're reluctant to step inside the world of 19th century junkies, I suggest you close the door and come back tomorrow when I promise to have…

12/07/2018

FOTOIMPEX

FOTOIMPEX

"Fossils can tell us a lot about the history of living things. Photographer Kent Krugh is creating a “fossil record” of sorts for cameras. His project Speciation is a series of X-ray photos of cameras that provides a brief history of photography, as told through the evolution of the camera."

09/07/2018

FOTOIMPEX

Edward Weston.
Pepper from 1930.
8/10 inch negativ.

17/04/2018

Landscape photographer races to finish decades of work

Little portrait film of a photographer still using the discontinued Cibachrome paper. Those colors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHINDOtFH1A

Oregon photographer Christopher Burkett is best known for producing large-format film prints of American landscapes, some of the highest resolution color pho...

01/03/2018

Tbilisi Art Fair | tbilisiartfair.art

Tbilisi Art Fair | tbilisiartfair.art

Aligning itself with the historical position of Georgia at the crossroads where East meets West, TAF aims to offer international exposure to galleries, artists, curators, institutions and art professionals from the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, as well as part of the Middle East.

26/02/2018

ILFORD PHOTO (Official Page)

Processing your film at home is so rewarding, but can be a daunting experience the first time.
Our learning zone had plenty of advice to help, including some tips for loading films onto a developing spiral.

www.ilfordphoto.com/loading-film-into-a-spiral/

20/01/2018

Seven Unsung Heroines of Photography

http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/7981/seven-unsung-heroines-of-photography

Oppressed by their male contemporaries, AnOther spotlights the female image-makers who paved the way for their successors

11/01/2018

The latest print I made in my darkroom. If you want to learn how to get around in a photolab, just get in contact, my different workshops, where I can teach you all the secret under the red light are ongoing! www.csibellow.com Hope to hear from you soon! Csilla

And now something quite different: A spooky fish! Inverted, scratched all over, changed in many ways, but all in the analog domain, in the darkroom - I really had a great time making this print! Hope you like it too.

Fish 3, 70x100cm, Silver gelatin print, Edition of 7

20/12/2017

Csilla Szabó Photography

Csilla Szabó Photography

Analog B&W portraiture in Berlin.
Please get in touch if you would like to have your portrait taken or you would like to give a portrait session as a gift for someone! Looking forward to hear from you! Csilla
http://www.csillaszabo.com/portraits/

03/12/2017

ANALOG B&W DARKROOM WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH
Would you like to learn, how to develop your own b&w negatives? And / or how to print them?
Do you already have a general idea and some practice in the darkroom, but would like to deepen your knowledge?
Or are you planning on putting an analog show or portfolio together but need help with it?
If yes, then please visit my www.csibellow.com website, where you can read about all the different one-to-one workshops I'm offering in my darkroom in Friedrichshain. There is also the possibility of purchasing gift cards / vouchers in case you would like to surprise someone. I hope to hear from you soon! Csilla Szabo, professional photographer and analog printer

02/10/2017

ILFORD PHOTO (Official Page)

ILFORD PHOTO (Official Page)

Making a Photogram is a great introduction to using photographic paper, plus it's lots of fun

11/08/2017

Analog photographic workshops in the darkroom in English, in Berlin. Now personalised VOUCHERS are also available in case you would like to give it as a present to someone.
I offer different, one-to-one intensive workshops from learning how to develop your b&w negatives, through making your first b&w prints, till serious exhibition printing. The lab is in Friedrichshain, near Ostkreuz, workshops are ongoing, and we can agree on the time which works for both of us. Details and references are on the website www.csibellow.com. I'm looking forward to hear from you! [email protected] Have a nice day! Csilla

12/06/2017

ILFORD PHOTO (Official Page)

ILFORD PHOTO (Official Page)

The first animation in our introduction to film photography series
www.ilfordphoto.com

10/06/2017

Timeline Photos

20/05/2017

Film's not Dead

Happy birthday to the 'father of fashion photography', Martin Munkacsi who was born on this day in 1896!

Munkacsi made history and changed the world of photojournalism forever when he took the first spontaneous fashion photograph for Harper’s Bazaar on Long Island beach, of model Lucile Brokaw running.

This is what made Munkácsi stand out above other photographers, at the time, was his ability to capture action in a way no one else had attempted.

During the 1920/30's, fashion was only photographed in studios; entirely staged, where models were posed like mannequins. After taking that groundbreaking photo, Harper’s Bazaar editor Carmel Snow offered Munkácsi a job, allowing him to move to New York and escape the ever growing danger in Germany.

"Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots. (1935)"

© Martin Munkácsi Estate

08/05/2017

20 creativos ejemplos de cómo emplear las sombras en los retratos - Cultura Inquieta

http://culturainquieta.com/es/foto/item/10684-20-creativos-ejemplos-de-como-emplear-las-sombras-en-los-retratos.html

30/06/2016

A closer look at modern Hungarian photography

A closer look at modern Hungarian photography

Two exhibitions focused around one influential Hungarian photographer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

29/06/2016

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from Robert Capa: "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."

23/06/2016

Moholy-Nagy and Photographic Processes

Moholy-Nagy and Photographic Processes

Conservator Sylvie Pénichon discusses László Moholy-Nagy’s exploratory photographic practices and the challenges they pose to efforts to conserve his works.

07/06/2016

ICP - International Center of Photography

Two of Robert Capa’s negatives.
📷 John Loengard, 1993

03/05/2016

Work in progress: Printing the Antanas Sutkus show – CSIBELLOW

Printing the Antanas Sutkus show - work in progress in the silver mine: http://csibellow.com/work-in-progress-printing-the-antanas-sutkus-show/

Work in progress: Printing the Antanas Sutkus show April 26, 2016By csibellow It was a great honor for me when I was asked by Eric Schlosser, the creative director of the ArtVilnius Art Fair, to print large-scale photo murals for the renowed photographer Antanas Sutkus – a living legend, the “Homer…

25/04/2016

Timea Oravecz: What happens when nothing happens – CSIBELLOW

Lab-to-go service of Csibellow Darkroom: http://csibellow.com/timea-oravecz-what-happens-when-nothing-happens/ with Oravecz Timea Anita

Timea Oravecz: What happens when nothing happens April 12, 2016By csibellow Timea Oravecz, a good friend of mine and a great conceptual artist, asked me to participate in a project of hers in 2012: She built a camera obscura in a Berlin-based gallery, which was big enough that people could walk in a…