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21/10/2011


NOVOS LIVROS NA STET - 21 Outubro / 6ª feira / 18h - 23h

03/08/2011

19 Agosto Dia Mundial da Fotografia


O Centro Português de Fotografia (C.P.F.)

Campo dos Mártires da Pátria

Edifício da Ex-Cadeia e Tribunal da Relação do Porto

20/06/2011

Morreu Luísa Costa Dias, alma e motor do Arquivo Fotográfico de Lisboa



Luísa Costa Dias foi a “alma”, a principal impulsionadora de tudo o que se realizou no Arquivo Fotográfico Municipal de Lisboa. Comissariou dezenas de exposições e esteve na origem das bienais Lisboa Photo (2003, 2005). Morreu ontem no Hospital Pulido Valente. Tinha 55 anos e sofria de cancro no pulmão.

Os que a conheciam e que com ela trabalharam apontam-lhe uma “personalidade discreta”, alguém que “preferia trabalhar nos bastidores”, mas reconhecem-lhe “um papel fundamental” tanto na organização de exposições e edição de livros de fotografia como na angariação de novos espólios fotográficos que, desde 1994, não pararam de entrar no Arquivo. “Aquilo que o Arquivo foi, a dinâmica que conseguiu, deve-se ao trabalho e dedicação da Luísa. Foi, sem dúvida, a alma desta casa”, disse ao PÚBLICO Luís Pavão, fotógrafo e conservador da colecção do Arquivo Fotográfico Municipal de Lisboa.

03/11/2010


Selections from the FlakPhoto Archive



Flak Photo's 100 Portraits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art


Produced by Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair


Statement

As an added fine art component to the NightGallery projections, this screening features 100 dynamic portraits from an exciting group of contemporary photographers in all stages of their careers, each selected from the digital archive on FlakPhoto.com. Our decision to highlight work from this website celebrates the role that a thriving online photography community plays in the discovery and dissemination of work produced by significant artists in the Internet Era. Contemporary photo culture is marked by a continuous flow of images online, and our aim is to take a moment to recognize some of the noteworthy photographs published in this ever-expanding archive over the past four years. In this context, projected several times larger than life, these portraits look back at us and embody a louder voice in the discourse of the gaze.


Andy Adams:

"For the past four years I've been publishing FlakPhoto.com, a website that promotes contemporary photography from an international community of artists. This fall I partnered with curator and Indie Photobook Library creator Larissa Leclair to produce a FotoWeek DC festival projection drawn from Flak Photo's gallery archive. The exhibition features 100 dynamic portraits from an exciting group of photographers in all stages of their careers and celebrates the role that a thriving online photo community plays in the discovery of artists in the Internet Era."







27/07/2010

Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million


Los Angeles, California -- Rick Norsigian's hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter.


Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.

Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.

"It truly is a missing link of Ansel Adams and history and his career," said David W. Streets, the appraiser and art dealer who is hosting an unveiling of the photographs at his Beverly Hills, California, gallery Tuesday.

The photographs apparently were taken between 1919 and the early 1930s, well before Adams -- who is known as the father of American photography -- became nationally recognized in the 1940s, Streets said.

"This is going to show the world the evolution of his eye, of his talent, of his skill, his gift, but also his legacy," Streets said. "And it's a portion that we thought had been destroyed in the studio fire."

How these 6.5 x 8.5 inch glass plate negatives of famous Yosemite landscapes and San Francisco landmarks -- some of them with fire damage -- made their way from Adams collection 70 years ago to a Southern California garage sale in 2000 can only be guessed.

The person who sold them to Norsigian at the garage sale told him he bought them in the 1940s at a warehouse salvage in Los Angeles.

Photography expert Patrick Alt, who helped confirm the authenticity of the negatives, suspects Adams carried them to use in a photography class he was teaching in Pasadena, California, in the early 1940s.

"It is my belief that he brought these negatives with him for teaching purposes and to show students how to not let their negatives be engulfed in a fire," Alt said. "I think this clearly explains the range of work in these negatives, from very early pictorialist boat pictures, to images not as successful, to images of the highest level of his work during this time period."

Alt said it is impossible to know why Adams would store them in Pasadena and never reclaim them.

The plates were individually wrapped in newspaper inside deteriorating manila envelopes. Notations on each envelope appeared to have been made by Virginia Adams, the photographer's wife, according to handwriting experts Michael Nattenberg and Marcel Matley. They compared them to samples provided by the Adams' grandson.

While most of the negatives appear never to have been printed, several are nearly identical to well-known Adams prints, the experts said.

Meteorologist George Wright studied clouds and snow cover in a Norsigian negative to conclude that it was taken at about the same time as a known Adams photo of a Yosemite tree.

In addition to Yosemite -- the California wilderness that Adams helped conserve -- the negatives depict California's Carmel Mission, views of a rocky point in Carmel, San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, a sailing yacht at sea and an image of sand dunes.

"The fact that these locations were well-known to Adams, and visited by him, further supports the proposition that all of the images in the collection were most probably created by Adams," said art expert Robert Moeller.

Moeller said that after six months of study, he concluded "with a high degree of probability, that the images under consideration were produced by Ansel Adams.

Silver tarnishing on the negatives also helped date the plates to around the 1920s, Alt said.

"I have sent people to prison for the rest of their lives for far less evidence than I have seen in this case," said evidence and burden of proof expert Manny Medrano, who was hired by Norsigian to help authenticate them. "In my view, those photographs were done by Ansel Adams."

Norsigian, who has spent the last decade trying to prove the worth of his discovery, is now ready to cash in -- by selling original prints of the photographs to museums and collectors.

"I have estimated that his $45 investment easily could be worth up to $200 million," Streets said.

10/12/2009

Lançamento catálogo Dias Úteis de Catarina Botelho



Lançamento do catálogo , Sábado, 12 de Dezembro, 18h.

Loja temporária da Assírio & Alvim ao Chiado (pátio do quarteirão do edifício da Nespresso, com entrada pela R. Garrett, 10 ou R. do Carmo, 29).
Em paralelo com o lançamento do catálogo haverá uma projecção do vídeo de Renata Sancho e Catarina Botelho com o registo da exposição.
Livro editado pela Assírio e Alvim. Mecenas Fundação EDP. Apoio Vale d’Algares






 Catarina Botelho

Nasceu em Lisboa 1981, vive e trabalha em Lisboa. Licencia-se em pintura pela Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa em 2004. Frequenta o curso avançado da Maumaus - Escola de Artes Visuais em 2005 e em 2007 o curso avançado de fotografia do Ar.Co. Em 2008 integra o curso de fotografia do programa de criatividade e criação artística da Fundação Gulbenkian.

Born in Lisbon, Portugal 1981. Lives and works in Lisbon
Studies include a BA in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon; Maumaus School of Visual Arts in 2005; in 2007 the advanced Photography course at Ac.Co. and the Photography programme at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in 2008.

05/12/2009

Lisboa, cidade triste e alegre






O livro intitulado Lisboa, cidade triste e alegre foi editado em 1959, embora as fotografias que o compõem tenham sido primeiro apresentadas numa exposição realizada em 1958.
Durante vários dias e noites Victor Palla e Costa Martins misturaram-se com os habitantes de Lisboa, sobretudo com os de Alfama e Bairro Alto, e registaram, a preto e branco, o triste e alegre quotidiano dessas muitas e desvairadas gentes. Deste registo, resultaram seis mil fotografias, das quais os seus autores escolheram cerca de duzentas para integrar o livro. Fizeram-nas acompanhar de excertos de poemas de autores portugueses, como Jorge de Sena, David Mourão Ferreira e José Gomes Ferreira, optando, deliberadamente, por não as identificar, em termos de autoria. O livro foi um fiasco editorial.
O público foi indiferente - ou recusou-o por não o entender - a este verdadeiro “poema gráfico” de Lisboa e dos seus habitantes. Como consequência deste desinteresse generalizado, ele constitui uma obra rara.

Lisbon: Sad and Happy City is a lovingly produced volume of poetry and richly printed images depicting the Portugese capital in the late 1950s.For three years architects Victor Palla (1922-2005) and Costa Martins (1922-2006) recorded Lisbon street life shooting naturally lit black and white photographs influenced in no small part by the Italian neo-realist cinema of the time. Often their most engaging subjects were found in the then poor quarters of Bairro Alto and Alfama.
Interspersing the carefully laid out photographs in the book is the work of Lisbon’s poets, including poems by the melancholy recluse and creator of alter egos Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Certainly it must be the sadness of the poetry that is refered to in the title as there are no images here that evoke much sorrow, in fact some photographs of smiling shopkeepers are more picturesque than is helpful. Was life always so convivial during the Salazar regime?
On publication Lisboa: cidade triste e alegre met with critical indiference and no further editions followed the initial print run of 2,000 copies. However, like many books featured in The Photobook: A History (Volume 1, Phaidon, 2004) by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger the few remaining copies have seen their value rise dramatically, and the volume featured here was sold at auction for double the reserve price of £4,500 ($8,865) at Christie’s in London in May 2007.

The book has a 20 page index of photographic information detailing the architects use of Plus-X and Tri-X, Leica M3 and Leitz Elmar 50 and 90mm lenses, but despite their attention to detail Lisboa never quite enriches one’s understanding of the city to the degree that Brasaï‘s Séville en Fête (1956) enriches ones understanding that other great Iberian city.
Partly it is the breadth of coverege that gives the Hungarian exile the advantage. Palla and Martins produced a wonderful volume, but they never match the caught moments and eye for graphic form of the master Brassaï. Certainly some of the more touristy looking images would hve been better edited out (or, in that perrenial trick used when presenting lesser work, printed very large).

Of course it is often easier for an outsider to see the wholeness of a place, but then again Brassaï was a great photographer.
The dust jacket is printed with quotes on photography by a host of master photographers from Ansel Adams to Minor White. However, the quotes do not refer to the book.

20/11/2009


Hello, all you happy people. You know what?

I just wanted to let you know that I have a brand new blog :]



13/11/2009

Festival Temps d'Images 2009


Performance + vídeo = Festival Temps d'Images
13 e 14 novembro, Lisboa

02/11/2009

Paris Photo 2009


Paris Photo 2009 au Carrousel du Louvre
du 19 au 22 novembre 2009


Un des rendez-vous principaux de l’année pour les amateurs de photos, avec 88 galeries et 13 éditeurs provenant de 23 pays, 500 photographes internationaux et 38.000 visiteurs attendus.
La photographie iranienne et arabe est à l’honneur cette année, notamment avec un choix de photographies rares issues de la collection de la Fondation Arabe pour l’Image à Beyrouth.

Le salon est aussi l’occasion d’annoncer les gagnant de deux prix ;

- le concours SFR Jeunes Talents prime 4 nouveaux talents (thème 2009: Frontières
- le prix BMW avec 12.000€ à gagner sur le thème « Quand avez-vous vécu pour la dernière fois une expérience unique


Para a sua edição de 2009, que terá lugar de 19 a 22 de Novembro no Carrousel du Louvre, a Paris Photo irá centrar-se no trabalho fotográfico dos países árabes e Irão naquela que é uma exploração sem precedentes da prática da fotografia nesta parte do mundo.

Com curadoria de Catherine David que foi responsável pela Documenta X em Kassel em 1997 bem como por inúmeras exposições e publicações sobre a expressão artística no Médio Oriente, o projecto deste ano será baseado em três componentes: a Exposição Central irá revelar uma selecção rara de fotografias de estúdio dos arquivos da Arab Image Foundation em Beirute; a secção Statement irá apresentar uma série de talentos emergentes da região – de Teerão a Damasco, de Beirute ao Cairo, de Tanger ao Dubai; e a secção de Project Room irá oferecer uma série de trabalhos em vídeo, um testemunho ao crescente interesse pela dinâmica deste medium entre os artistas da região.

Paris Photo is the largest and perhaps most important international photography art fair in the world. This year promises to be provocative, inspiring, eclectic, and — due to the sheer volume of imagery — quite possibly visually overwhelming.

The emphasis in 2009 is on photography from Iran and the Arab world. But, as always, the works on display are rich with diversity — geographically, culturally, stylistically — and offer a unique opportunity to discover a wide range of contemporary and vintage photography never seen before in one location.

31/10/2009

DIAGRAMAS SESSÃO FOTOGRÁFICA


Representação e percepção do corpo humano.

Partimos do arquétipo do corpo, fotografando-o individualmente, de pé sem roupa, de costas para a câmara, contra um fundo regrado com o objectivo de registar o movimento implícito no mesmo quando este se encontra imóvel.
Diferentes corpos contra o mesmo fundo, com o mesmo enquadramento e à mesma distância da câmara produzindo um conjunto de imagens homogéneas.
Registando e mapeando assim as diferentes tipologias do corpo humano. Diferenças volumétricas, simetrias e assimetrias, desequilíbrios e consequentes reacções do corpo à força da gravidade.

"CONVIDAMO-LO A PARTICIPAR NA SESSÃO FOTOGRÁFICA A REALIZAR DIA 22 DE NOVEMBRO DE 2009NO PAVILHÃO DE EXPOSIÇÕES DA TAPADA DA AJUDA."

O trabalho resultante desta sessão fotográfica dará origem a uma exposição itinerante passando por várias universidades do país no ano de 2010, onde o corpo fotografado se apresenta em tamanho real.

O trabalho será também exposto, noutro formato, nos meses de Janeiro e Fevereiro na galeria P4Photography.
Os interessados deverão entrar no link seguinte e definir a sua disponibilidade no horário da sessão. Cada participante tem apenas de estar presente durante 1 hora.

PARA PARTICIPAR BASTA ENTRAR EM: http://www.doodle.com/x27mhbbbqdtgrsef

Contacto: Filipe Barrocas - 91 635 70 47 - filbarrocas@gmail.com

21/10/2009

Mostra de Cinema de Hong Kong


Mostra de Cinema de Hong Kong 28 Outubro - 1 Novembro Cinema Londres

A Zero em Comportamento apresenta, de 28 de Outubro a 1 de Novembro de 2009 no Cinema Londres, uma mostra dedicada ao cinema de Hong Kong.

A mostra tem como objectivo dar a conhecer uma selecção da melhor e mais recente cinematografia de Hong Kong. Serão exibidos sete filmes, que demonstram a diversidade e a vitalidade da produção cinematográfica contemporânea de Hong Kong.

Os filmes incluídos no programa são "Sparrow" de Johnnie To (realizador homenageado no IndieLisboa’08), o melodrama True Women for Sale de Herman Yau, o filme de acção "Tactical Unit-Comrades in Arms" de Law Wing-Cheung (sequela de "PTU" de Johnie To) e o drama adolescente "High Noon" de Heiward Mak. O programa inclui também uma homenagem ao aclamado cineasta Tsui Hark, com a exibição da sua célebre trilogia "Once Upon a Time in China".

Nos anos 80 e 90, Tsui Hark trabalhou não só como realizador mas também como argumentista, produtor e caça-talentos, tendo tornado o seu nome numa referência incontornável dos filmes de género de Hong Kong ao contribuir de forma decisiva para a renovação do cinema popular de Hong Kong através de uma série de grandes êxitos de bilheteira. A apresentação dos três filmes de Once Upon a Time in Chinaconstitui uma rara oportunidade de os espectadores portugueses poderem ver em grande ecrã toda a espectacularidade visual desta saga sobre as aventuras do lendário herói chinês Wong-Fei-hung.


PROGRAMA:

http://www.c7nema.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1481:mostra-de-cinema-de-hong-kong--28-outubro-1-novembro--cinema-londres

18/10/2009

Lx.Factory Open Day 23 de Out.

Open Day III
Lx Factory - www.lxfactory.com -
23 Outubro 2009
10h 05h

OPEN DAY 03 em parceria com o Museu do Oriente e com a participação especial da INOVCHP (comunidade
Hindu de Portugal) apresenta uma edição ainda mais rica em termos de ofertas culturais com um programa amplo
e diversificado. Este ano mais experiências gastronómicas nos vários espaços de restauração e também pelas festas.

09/02/2009


The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie, in association with the Financial Times.
With a single annual prize of CHF 100,000, the Prix Pictet will reward photographers and the images they use to tell stories of urgent global significance. Each year the Prix Pictet will focus on a distinct sustainability theme. The theme for 2008 is water.


Shortlist 2008


From Croatia with Love :)


Museum of Broken Relationships. A museum dedicated to broken hearts has been founded in Croatia. Authors of the concept Olinka Vištica and Drazen Grubišić decided to set up the museum after consoling friends over their failed romances.The Museum of Broken Relationships is an art concept which proceeds from the assumption that objects possess integrated fields - ‘holograms’ of memories and emotions - and intends with its layout to create a space of ‘secure memory’ or ‘protected remembrance’ in order to preserve the material and nonmaterial heritage of broken relationships.Unlike the ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers every individual the chance to overcome the emotional collapse through creation - by contributing to the Museum's collection. The individual gets rid of ‘controversial objects’, triggers of momentarily ‘undesirable’ emotions, by turning them into museum exhibits, and thereby participating in the creation of a preserved collective emotional history. The museum has everything from romantic and touching letters to different gifts given to lovers like teddy bears and photos, but also such unusual examples as leg prosthesis donated by a war veteran who fell in love with his physiotherapist or a gall stone. Every single object on display is anonymous, and has a description / story related to the relationship that was behind. After the success of the first display in Zagreb this unique museum is touring the world.

05/01/2009

JPG Magazine - A Glimmer of Hope 2/09


With our most recent announcement that we will be closing 8020 and JPG, we received an enormous amount of support from the community. Thank you for that -- it means a lot to the team here and it shows that JPG is made up of wonderful people. Along with that support, we have also received some interest from qualified parties who may be interested in acquiring the company so that JPG could live on. We don't want to get your hopes up unnecessarily, but there is nothing we would want more then for JPG to continue in some form, and we are working on that now.

03/01/2009

Adeus JPG Magazine


Caros Amigos (as)
Acabo de receber o seguinte e-mail: :o(
Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success.
As a result,
will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.


10/10/2008

Belles à l´intérieur

Erwin Olaf nous a habitués, depuis vingt ans, à des images grinçantes: pin-up octogénaires, débiles mentaux glamour, dames ensanglantées... Dans um ouvrage qui vient de sortir et dont la puplication coïncide avec une grande exposition au Musée de la photographie de La Haye, le Néerlandais a réuni ses images récentes, photographies et images extraites de ses vidéos.



Si leur tonalité semble de prime abord moins provocatrice, il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences. Où sommes-nous? Dans le salon de Bree Van de kamp, la vertueuse épouse de Desperate Housewives? Avec Grace Kelly, sous les projecteurs d´Alfred Hitchcock? Dans une publicité pour gaines et laques?

Regardez bien ces images: tout est dans le cadre, rien ne dépasse. Les décors sont feutrés, les cheveux lissés, les poitrines corsetées.
Regardez bien ces silhouettes à l´arrêt, ces larmes ravalées, ces regards de biais... et vous reconnaîtrez peut-être le monde merveilleux de George W. Bush, président d´une belle prison dorée, mentor d´une Amérique délicieusement puritaine et désespérée.


Natacha Wolinski - Beaux Arts Magazine Nº 292, Oct. 2008