David Díaz Interview
David Diaz
www.david-diaz.es
David Diaz (Madrid 1974 unlike most photographers who start on the picture to go after either of devotion or obligation, to retouching and restoring photographs began tinkering was after having the expertise and experience sufficient to any challenge when he decided to tweak your own images deep into the world of photography, is perhaps the reason why their pictures always have an air and a unique style where the touch is present in the image but always being as realistic as possible being the most meticulous perfectionist who always stands behind its digital tablet.
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Modern Classics versions
Make a Frames performed a collection of modern versions of classic works of art. The version gives a contemporary perspective photographic format paintings by Diego Rivera, Gustav Klimt, Eduardo Kingman, Pierre Mignard, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. They all revolve around the theme of motherhood as the basis and provide an excellent, beautiful and tender exercise in creativity and passion for art.
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Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky was born Leizpig, 1955 German Photographer.With short age, his family moves to Dusseldorf where his father initiates him in the photography. It studies in the Academy of the Arts of this city and in the Folkwangschule of Essen, founded by Otto Steinert. In his beginnings adopts a next style to the of his teachers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, those who develop to finals of the 50 a new photographic aesthetics characterised by subjects of anonymous industrial architecture and abandoned that today is known like the new objectivity. In 1984 it abandons this style and restarts a more spontaneous observation of the reality, with scenes flooded of light that remember the work of young American artists like Stephen Shore or Joel Sternfeld. His work gives a decisive twist in 1990, as a result of a trip to Japan in which it photographs the stock market centre of Tokyo and that carries him to recover the precise methods of the Becher and of the commercial photographers. In the transcurso of the decade of the ninety incorporates to his work the digital manipulation. His work has put in relation with the speech of the posmodernidad; it realises an acute analysis of the social behaviour standardised, product of a world transformed by the high technology and the globalisation, of this that the serialización like subject in his images, usually of big format, was frequent. It has exposed in institutions of all the world, as for example: Kunsthalle Zurich (1991), Of Appel of Amsterdam (1992), National Museum Arts centre Queen Sofia. MNCARS (2001), Centre Pompidou (2002), MoMA of New York (2005), ICA London (2006) or Kunstmuseum Basel (2007), between many others. Leer más
Philippe Halsman
Halsman Was born on 2 May 1906 in Riga in the breast of a Jewish family and studied engineering in Dresde. In 1928 it was accused publicly of parricide; his father that had by name Morduch fell and died during an excursion campestre in the alpes Austrian, however the people of the surroundings did not doubt in accusing it to having committed murder, influenced by his Jewish origin and of the existent antisemitism and to fault of other proofs. It would be carried to trial and convict to four years of prison and of not being by the pressure of a stood out group of intellectuals, between which found Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, had happened between grilles more time of the two years that of by himself was. Afterwards it installed in Paris where worked like independent fashionable photographer and collaborated in the magazine Vogue. In 1940, begun the Second World War and in front of the imminent arrival of the German army left to the United States with help of Albert Einstein, where would achieve world-wide fame, arriving to realise more than one hundred covers for the magazine Life. In 1947 it obtained the American nationality.
If by something characterised Halsman was by his wit, materialised especially through the technician of the “jumping style” or “jumpology”, to which he gave origin. It treated to portray to the person jumping, for like this achieve an image of this much more real, truer, without artifice any, without that the brain could control the expression of the face. «In a jump, the mask falls . The real person does visible», explained Halsman. The result was an image of the very distinct person to as it was used to to appear, and thus with big appeal for the public, these «images of jumps» published in 1949 achieving big success. No all were jumps, but always his photographies showed fun situations, and some, something provocadoras.
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Photography with Long Exhibitions
Brilliant collection of photographies with time of long exhibition, mostrandonos a parallel reality that the rhythm of our eyes and of our brain does not achieve to feel.
The history of the photography begins in the year 1839, with the world-wide diffusion of the procedure of the daguerrotipo, developed and perfected by Daguerre, from previous experiences inéditas of Niépce.
The “year zero” is 1839. But his antecedents start with the discovery of the dark camera, and the investigations on the light-sensitive properties of some materials, like the blackening of the salts of silver.
The photography is born in France, in a moment of traffic of the society pre-industrial to the industrial society, favoured by the technical innovations of the period. Also it influences in his birth the positivist philosophy, that establishes that each element of the Nature has to be tested empirically. The bourgeoisie is the dominant social class of the moment, that uses the portrait like instrument of autorrepresentación, and affirmation of his social promotion.1
In 1816 Niépce obtains a first negative image, imperfect and unstable, with a dark camera. In 1826, it achieves his first heliografía, splitting of the bitumen of Judea or asphalt.
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Historical photographies re-created in Bequeath
One of the toys that to marked history is Bequeath, since it carries us to a world of imagination built by pieces with which can give him form to a world of possibilities for boys and big, is the case of Mike Stimpson photographer interested the one who re-creates historical photographies with figures of Bequeath.
Stimpson Programmer of video games of profession began with these fans from 2007. “Lunch atop To skyscraper” It was the first reproduction in where Stimpson says that it had to buy more than 30 minifiguras of Bequeath to ensure that there was sufficient variety as to imitate to the men in the photo of Ebbets.
To continuation present them some of the most representative of this homage to the photography and to Bequeath.
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