José Caruncho Interview
Joseph Caruncho (A Coruña, 1953)
In the modern world full of digital cameras, mobile data tens of megapixels anddancing from one side to another without stopping, we find the quiet, delicate andpainstaking work of Joseph Caruncho, which involves us in an atmosphere of calmself another time, with a mysterious elegance, but ours, to show the beauty of our surroundings.
Caruncho and left more than a decade the world of banking where he worked to devote himself fully to his passion, photography, and create an analog formatlandscapes, people and customs natureza Galicia.
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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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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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe (New York, 4 November 1946 – Boston, 9 March 1989) was a North American photographer, famous by his white photographies and black of big format, especially flowers and nude. The sexual content of some of his works, described as pornography, generated more than a controversy during his career.
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Josef Hoflehnet Interview
Josef Hoflehner was born in 1955 in Wels, Austria when the country was still under allied occupation. He grew up in a family where the camera was used so rarely that as many as three Christmas holidays would be captured on one roll of film.
Although Austria could boast awesome mountains and a great natural landscape, it had no coastlines, deserts or empty spaces where one could see the horizon unimpaired. At the age of 20 Hoflehner purchased a camera and began to travel. An early award for photography began to open doors professionally and his career has continued to develop with amazing success.
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