Robert Frank

“My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. » -Robert Frank

... nothing, it would seem remarkable way - just some the scenery of life - why are they so fascinating? The most ordinary things. No events. These pictures do not make that instant impression, which taught us many other photographers. Pictures of Robert Frank's are not locked into rigid frames of meaning, they cannot tell, they have no straightness, only a subtle and profound sense. As if after a quick change of events, experiences at one time to think and slow to realize that all that means is ...

And that’s why  they are amazing, not created, like other works of art, requiring a fantasy of creator. Robert Frank takes something that everyone can see...

Reading :

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/frank_robert.html
http://www.robert-h-frank.com/
Robert Frank: The Americans, by Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac,2008

The ideas of ​​modernism or subjectivism in photography

Subjective image is not often met with understanding among the general public - if you do not take into account the special inevitably existing category of the public, focused mainly on the capture of fashionable trends in art, regardless of their content.  Usually, If the exterior is beautiful and mystical coloring of  new pictorialism resonates with romantic mood of the audience, than these peculiar "subjective" photography techniques as a deliberate imbalance in the composition, the neglect of "significant" objects in favor of the photographic rubbish, and become the talk of the among the nations blur, grain, shake, over-contrasts, etc. - are a constant target of ridicule of the public. And not only unsophisticated audience, but many professional photographers are absolutely adamant that the only reason for the birth of "subjective- concept  Masterpieces" is the inability of authors to take" beautiful " pictures.

Despite the apparent relationship of these two directions, criticism, treat them very differently: Pictorialism - the most condescending, benevolent, and to Subjectivism - sharply negative, the latter being a constant sharp criticism for a departure from reality, that is - the loss of the very essence of photography, and as a consequence – unphotogenity . Thus, the subjectivist picture refuses to actually be a “right photo”.

At the same time, analysis of trends in contemporary photography in the light of trends in art in general suggests that these trends are neither dead-end branches, or manifestations of the general process of "death of modern art photography. " On the contrary - their appearance is a natural result of the development of art in general.

And here are some great imgaes which, to my opinion, create the "atmosphere of modernism".

                             Trent Parke,Dream Life album,2001

                           Sally Mann, Deep South album,2005

                              Georgy Panhasov,India, 1998 

Reading:

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/
http://www.in-public.com/TrentParke

Literary Modernism and Photoigraphy, ed. by Paul Hansom (p. 22-36 )

Ida Kar : Bohemian photographer

Yesterday visited the National Portrait Gallery to see Ida Kar, bohemian photographer who made the history. The exhibition runs untill 19 June 2011 so don't miss it!

And this is perhaps her most provocative work on display at the exhibit: 'Mother and Child' (Hanja Kochansky with her daugther Katya Cobham (née Bebb)).

Here's a link to quit interesting interview with Ida Kar - check this out
http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/946/Ida_Kar_Bohemian_photographer

Semiotics: Sign Language

The term "semiotics" is derived from the Greek word semeion, meaning "sign". In  the XVII century philosopher John Locke mentioned the concept of semiotics, defined as "the doctrine of signs", whose mission was - "to consider the nature of signs that the mind uses to and understanding of things, or to share their knowledge with others." 

One of the main distribution of semiotics is advertising.Understanding the basic idea of ​​advertising - one of the main problems of advertising psychology, reducing its effectiveness in the modern world. And in order to overcome this effect, you must learn to think like the consumer is thinking, and give him a clear understanding for the character. Some of the examples of nowdays advertise designs.

1. Chilean advertising agency shows how well advertised washing powder Bold cope with any contamination.

2. Belgian designers are advising to not rely too much on the acting skills while traveling to another country, but still learn a foreign language.

3. Advertising of warm athletic footwear for extreme and cold conditions.

From the very different people now and then I heard:" Tell me, what is semiotics? "Over time, for me it became obvious that this is a normal reaction to the word" semiotics ". No one exactly knows what semiotics is and what it deals with. It is remarkable that nobody usually asks: "What does the math?" or "What is  biology studying ?" The object and purpose of these disciplines seem obvious by intuition. (Although, maybe this is only because of the fact that you learn it in school?)

William Eggleston for Marc Jacobs

Portrait of William Eggleston taken as part of a series for the Marc Jacobs campaign featured in Purple Magazine. The image of Eggleston was shot in a hotel room in Paris by photographer Juergen  Teller.
There was an interesting photo essay published by Juergen Teller in British Vogue Magazine in 2010 about William Eggleston. A famous fashion photographer recalls how we went on a mission with instructions by famous fashion magazine to shoot a portrait of William. And that is how a merge of two interests happened. Since that time Teller became Eggleston's assistant and takes all his inspiration from American photographer.
Juergen Teller is now one of the masters of the snapshot aesthetic in fashion photography, a style that was born in the 1990's as a reaction to the oversaturation of glamor previous decade. 
the actress Charlotte Rampling and  William Igglstona in various, slightly tasteless pictures.Teller made ​​his shots with compact 35-mm camera and built-in flash. Harsh light bleaches the color and enhances the mood of disreputable, glamorous and bohemian decadence. Despite the fact that the script is coined this story is  used as a real reputation of Eggleston as aristocratic southern "bad boys". Dakota Fanning also appears in this story - as a fictional daughter of Eglleston. Standing in a corner in a fluffy white dress and white satin toes, Fanning gives the impression of feminine Lolita, further exacerbating the erotic subtext of the story.