Mar 11 2010

Negativeland & Positiveland: Travellin’ Through Time

Is it possible to travel through time? Not with sophisticated tech machinery but via photography. After all, who says that travelling via photography isn’t sophisticated?!

Those are some questions on which Ana Peraica is trying to find the answer within photography projects Negativeland and Positiveland.

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From Negativeland series by Ana Peraica (c)
Glass negative of Nikola Kuzmanic, Leica lens in B&W vs color conversion

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Oct 22 2009

Body cinema: Masters of Photography – Diane Arbus

Although her artworks were exhibited and published widely, Diane Arbus’s carrier and work seem to have this oracular aureole, don’t you think…

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Diane Arbus: Mexican

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Sep 27 2009

Vintage exercises and machines…

And 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… once more… 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… Here are some lovely (and some scary) photographs of vintage exercises, machines and accessories… ladiez and gentlemenz practicin’ and pumpin’ their muscles at the beginning of 20th Century…

vintage_excercise_1.jpgPhoto: actress doing arm exercises, date unknown
Taken from thepaintedwoman.blogspot.com

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Sep 4 2009

Pocket cinema: Born into Brothels

Documentary film Born into Brothels by Zana Briski and Ross Kaufmann about ‘the children of Red Light District’ in Calcutta  is rather known to the audience connected with fields of human rights and photography. This film was accepted widely and awarded internationally over last five years, but its topics – prostitution and poverty, remain unsolved and opened.

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Jul 25 2009

Barbara Blasin’s environmental flip flops

Art project ‘An Endangered Particle‘ (2003-09) by photographer Barbara Blasin is a continuous project that begun in 2003 as a reaction to heavy landscape conflagrations in five tourist localities at the Adriatic coast: The island of Solta, Ucka Mountain, the Dubrovnik hinterland and the islands of Bisevo and Hvar) in Croatia.

endngered_particle.jpgBarbara Blasin: An Endangered Particle, photo: lomodeedee (cc)

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