Art Dedicated to Joy: Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book
Motto: When you ask a person to jump, their attention is mostly directed to the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears. …
Five photos, five stories with extraordinary women
The baroness and the Mercedes Here is the Prussian baroness, Gisela Josephine von Krieger, with the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Roadster and above, the Hindenburg, the famous Zeppelin. The…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious (2)
You begin to squeeze your eyelids until it hurts, until you feel drops of the sweat of your soul appear. And then the memory turns into 100 labyrinths, then…
Metamorphosis, in contemporary artistic visions – Metamorfoza, în viziuni artistice contemporane
One of the great advantages of global connectivity is the ease of traveling to a space where the intellectual and artistic productions of millions of people are exhibited.…
History in photographic images or how nostalgia can become delicious
Motto: The Greek word for „return” is nostos. Algos meaning „suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. Milan Kundera Good times, hard times. The…
Cine a inventat “selfie-ul”? (Who Invented the Selfie?)
Who Invented the Selfie? A sometimes obsessive form of portrayal of the 21st century, the optical recording of one’s own being, the selfie records a glorious evolution from…
Proprietarul norilor: Aurel Mihailopol, unul dintre cei mai mari fotografi români
Unfortunately, in this age dominated by speed and anger, memories hang on the Internet. This makes great talents and names, who left us not long ago, but before this…
Un paradis în care poţi să crezi – Seminariştii lui Mario Giacomelli
Motto: Mă interesează o realitate care respiră, care continuă să se miște, pentru că spune ceva și acest lucru contează dacă imaginea este separată de prima intenție și plasată…
Covid19 în artă: Marco Mandolini şi autoportretul din spatele măştii
Motto: Am văzut cel mai de sus cerc al puterilor supreme. I-am dat acelui cerc numele de Dumnezeu. I-am fi putut da orice alt nume am fi dorit:…
Fotografia de portret sau ȋntre dionisiac şi apolinic (Dmitry Ageev şi Brett Walker)
Este greu de sintetizat un concept fãrã sã greşeşti sau sã jigneşti un artist. Mã gândeam la contrastul dintre cei doi mari artişti ai fotografiei: Îngeri vs. Demoni sau…