Photo © Rhonda Prince
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
moving
Photo © Beatriz RowlandA child helping her recently unemployed grandfather move from his apartment; he will live with his family.
on 591
From the series "Who knows where the time goes" by Shane Lavalette
From the reportage The Race by Ann Johansson
From the series Now that you are mine by Trine SøndergaardOne of the disadvantages of showing photography using a weblog is that the viewer perhaps tends to look for "the latest". I am trying to "fight" the blog formate the best I can by integrating a 591Site and highlight exhibitions in the 591 gallery. I often look for great photos that are already on 591. You may call it "found on 591 by Mr Urbano". Well, have a look at the work of Shane, Trine and Ann - three great series that I recommend.
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm - Tina Kim Gallery
© Amy Elkins, Max, Brooklyn, NY, 2008Amy Elkins is one of the artists exhibiting on Tina Kim Gallery in New York January 23 – February 21. Featured artists along with Amy are Robert Booras, Julia Chiang, Jeff Feld, Leslie Hewitt, Amy Kao, Marc André Robinson, and Kiki Smith. The exhibition is organized by Christopher Y. Lew
Read the poem by Wallace Stevens.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Welcome to Mikael's space
All pictures are © Mikael Jansson
My interests in photography are much about people and emotions and if there is a bit of melancholy added it will make my day. I also have a big interest in documentary work, I love to tell a story in my photos and I enjoy being served a great story in photos, I can sit for a long time just imagening the set around the photos and the people in it.
Hope to be able to serve you some good stories and emotions both from me and from other photographers here in my space!
Mikael Jansson
Born: 1968
Lives in: Stockholm
Inspiration (photographers): Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Miguel Rio Branco, Paul Hansen, Steve McCurry, Salgado and many more
Inspiration (other): Interesting People
Film, digital or both: Both
Quote: The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. Ernst Haas
I am glad to see Mikael opening up his space on 591. It feels like the most natural thing, since he has been around and helped me with suggestions and advice all the way from the planning of 591 Photography. He is a fine man and a great photographer. We meet for coffee (fika) now and then and will soon become almost neighbours - not only on 591 but also in da real life! Mikael has contributed with many pictures already to this universe. See his reportage Batak or search for his name using the local search on 591. Welcome Micke! - Mr Urbano.
Convenience Meal
Photo © Darren Hepburn
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
a room with a view
Photo © Malin HellesøI think many of us have been inspired seeing Abelardo Morell's camera obscura work. This is a beutiful view of Västra Parkgatan in Söderhamn from the summer of 2008. The world is one, outside and inside merging. Thank you for sharing Malin.
Monday, January 26, 2009
First on 915: maintenance vs. physics
Photo ©Robin McAulay915 is like 591 backwards - the downside or the upside of this place. And many things are upside down in this world today. You are invited to send contributions to 915. They can be amusing, controversial, pretentious, furious, boring, loveable, uncategorized and even excellent. There are many rooms in the 915 mansion. Pictures and texts sent to this far off place will be published at 9:15 AM or 9:15PM local time of the site. They are 915 on 591. Easy to remember. Hard to forget.
Thank you Robin for the opening picture. I will go to my thinking spot to figure it out properly.
Thank you Robin for the opening picture. I will go to my thinking spot to figure it out properly.
ahead on 591
Photo © Ulf FågelhammarDear reader/viewer of this blog/gallery/site called 591 Photography. From now until beginning of March, Mr Urbano will be busy attending to his offline life. But do not despair. Even if you will notice a bit of a slowdown from his part the coming month, there will still be people around keeping 591 going. Vera and Rhonda will probably expand their spaces. And to all friends of 591 out there: I encourage you to keep sending your best pictures, individual photos or series.
The coming weekend you will see two new exhibitions and in February at least two exhibitions on 591 Gallery. From March and onward there will be one single exhibition on weekends opening at 5 PM Sundays.
Watch out for a new feature tonight called 915. The time to remember is 9:15 local time of the site.
Support the future development of 591 Photography by donating. There is no contribution to small (or too big). Check the secure and fast payment method to the right in the sidebar.
Stay on course out there and take care.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
591 Exhibition: Keith Dannemiller
My City My Soul
"I have auditioned in my mind hundreds of titles for this ongoing work. One title that I keep coming back to, and that resonates is, "My City, My Soul". The DF can be a very inhospitable place if you do not have a personal compass to guide you. I feel like I am always in the process of trying to fashion a space for myself here in the urbe which is Mexico City.
One way I can do it is by populating that space with people I meet and photograph -- people with whom I identify. I guess it might be similar to writing fiction and selecting characters that reflect various facets of your own self. Characters will always be filtered through the prism of the writer's psyche.
I am a documentary photographer. And while on one level these are factual, accurate images, on another, I suspect they represent a subjective, but no less truthful, account of one man's search for his soul in this once and future city." -Keith Dannemiller
Photos are © Keith DannemillerKeith Dannemiller is such an excellent photographer of people. I am in love with the woman "stretching out her tounge" and so many others of these pictures from Mexico City - expressive and vivid. You have seen a series by Keith already on 591 called "Women in Glove" (a play on the title of the D.H. Lawrence novel, "Women in Love") showing women boxers.
I liked the series very much and asked Keith if he wanted to exhibit on 591 Gallery, and he was very interested in doing so. Recalling his bio, I discover that Keith is just about the same generation as myself and Abelardo Morell opening another online exhibition this weekend. It's nice, but as you probably have noticed there are photographers of all ages on 591 - the youngest born 1988 I think.
I have a another favourite among Keith's photos - it is called "Asi es la vida", portraying a fruit vendor eating a mango, during a break at the beach of Veracruz. Visit his site to see that image.
Keith Dannemiller
Born:1949
Lives in: Mexico, DF
Latest exhibition: "Luz Translation", November 2007
Inspiration (photographers): Richard Avedon; The FSA photographers from the 1930's USA, especially Russell Lee; Diane Arbus; Eugene Atget; William Eggleston; Nacho López
Inspiration (other): My father; the Centro Historico of Mexico City; Ernesto Guevara; John Berger; Johnny Cash; Martin Luther King; Toni Morrison; Charles Bukowski; Alejandro Escovedo; Roberto Bolaño
Film, digital or both: Both
Quote: "Look at those eyes!" breathed Dean. They were like the eyes of the Virgin Mother when she was a cjild. We saw in them the tender and forgiving gaze of Jesus. And they stared unflinchingly into ours. We rubbed our nervous blue eyes and looked again. Still they penetrated us with sorrowful and hypnotic gleam.---Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
A favourite photograph: Eugene Atget, "La Villette, Prostitute Paris, 1921."
Homepage/contact: www.keithdannemiller.com
Ending next Sunday: Deviation by Håkan Strand
Håkan Strand is a photographer who likes to work with long exposures, finding forms and geometry in nature and cityscapes. Have a look at a generous display from his work on 591 Photography Gallery (you will always find an updated list in the sidebar showing the current exhibitions).
Saturday, January 24, 2009
591 Exhibition - Abelardo Morell
Boston's Old Customs House in Hotel Room, 1999
The Pantheon in Hotel Albergo Del Sole al Pantheon,Room # 111, Rome, Italy, 2008
Some day I would like to meet the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and ask about his masterpiece "View of Delft" Did he use a camera obscura when he created this magnificent cityscape? Many experts say he did. It is a fascinating relationship between painted art and photography.
The knowledge of what light can do when entering a dark room through a tiny hole was known already by the Chinese in the 5th century B.C and for example by the mathematician Hassan ibn Hassan, born in Basra (10th Century A.D.)
I have tried to imagine what it was like when some of the great painters of history were drawing and painting in that dark chamber - the camera obscura. Then I saw the work of Alberto Morell. It completely knocked me out. So beautiful...so intelligent...a celebration of the art of photography. I hope Abelardo will go on forever making these photographs.
You should visit the site of Abelardo, where you will get to know this great photographer a bit better. I recommend you to have a look at the clip from "Shadow of the House: Photographer Abelardo Morell" It is a film by Allie Humenuk who followed Abelardo and his family for seven years.
I am truly happy to be able to show these pictures to the readers of 591 Photography as an online exhibition.
Many thanks Abe.
- Ulf
All images are courtesy of the artist Abelardo Morell and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York. Visit the site of Abelardo. It is great. www.abelardomorell.net
Havana Looking Southeast in Room with Ladder, 2002Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. He received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1977 and an MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art in 1981. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College.
He has received a number of awards and grants, which include a Cintas grant in 1992 a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994 and a Rappaport Prize in 2006. His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Princeton University Art Museum and over forty other museums in the United States and abroad.
Abelardo Morell, 2006He is represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY. His publications include a photographic illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1998) by Dutton Children’s Books, A Camera in a Room (1995) by Smithsonian Press, A Book of Books (2002), a publication of Morell’s photographs of books, introduced by Nicholson Baker and published by Bulfinch Press. Bulfinch Press has also published, Camera Obscura (2004), featuring sixty of Morell’s camera obscura photographs and introduced by Luc Sante.
View of Central Park Looking North-Summer, 2008Most recently, Phaidon Press released Abelardo Morell (2005), a retrospective work featuring 105 photographs and introduced by Richard Woodward. Recently, filmmaker Allie Humenuk has completed a film entitled Shadow of the House, an in-depth documentary about Morell’s work and experience as an artist. The film had its premiere at the 2007 Boston Independent Film Festival and has been shown around the world. Morell is a professor of art at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA. He lives in Brookline, MA, with his wife Lisa McElaney, a filmmaker, and his children Laura and Brady.
The Empire State Building in Bedroom, 1994Morell's camera obscura work
“The initial idea for the work came out of Morell's demonstrations to his photography students at the Massachusetts College of Art in the mid-1980s where he turned his classroom into a Camera Obscura. The exercise was designed not only to elicit a sense of awe and wonder, but also to connect students to the precursive roots of the medium.
It was not until 1991, however, that Morell decided to document the process on film, and he began by taking pictures in his own house in Brookline, Massachusetts. In order to capture the elusive projections, the exposures had to be about eight hours long, but the initial results charged Morell with possibilities.
The play between the inside and outside world, the tension between the right way up and upside down, the surreal contrast of buildings and beds, trees and walls, formed a miraculous and original vision of a magical but still real world.” -James Danziger
591 Exhibition ending next Saturday: Jan Bernhardtz
Photo © Jan BernhardtzThere is still time to discover the photography of Jan Bernhardtz. But watch out, it may become an addiction. I am looking forward to see even more work by this great photographer in the near future on 591.
More Myths and Legends
Photo © Rhonda Prince
Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
No doctrine can close the human heart
Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar"We cannot mutilate ourselves, and pure egoism would be meaningless, an impossibility. In the same way that the ego is considered an illusion by contemporary psychology, that there is no personality, that we are composed of an infinite number of beings and tiny consciousnesses, in the same way we might say that egoist pleasure is an illusion: my pleasure does not exist without the pleasure of others. All of society must more or less collaborate in it, from the small society that surrounds me, from my family to the great society in which I live."
The Morality of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines
Jean-Marie Guyau 1878
the dark chamber
Photo © Ulf FågelhammarIt is all about the light - and the dark. If you make a small hole in the wall of a darkened room, an inverted image of the outside is projected from the pinhole to the opposite wall.
This site made by Jack and Beverly Wilgus; The Magic Mirror of Life is a great resource if you want to lnow more about the camera obscura.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Blow up Blow up
Blow up Blow up is a project by Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) based on the well-known movie from 1966 by Michelangelo Antonioni. Using stills duplicated from a copy of the movie in 35mm, Fontcuberta continually expands a few negatives to a point beyond where Thomas stops.The exhibition opens in àngels Barcelona on January 28 at 8PM
Dogs on my street - Budapest 2009
Photo © Ági Vedresusing Fotobox, MOM Budapest, Achromat, 6x6, 1959
I could not beleive that a catman like me would post so many photos of dogs...well it is all about the photo at the end of the day. And this is another excellent dogscape.
the impossible project
Polaroid globally stopped the production of analog Instant Film in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico and the The Netherlands. It was a sad day to many Polaroid aficionados. But it was perhaps not the end of it all. The Impossible company want to re-invent and re-produce analog integral film for vintage Polaroid cameras. The company's goal is not to re-build Polaroid Integral film but to develop a new product with new characteristics. Impossible rents Building North (10,000 m2) in Enschede, The Netherlands. It has always been the heart of Integral film production. Ranging from simple screwdrivers via special spare parts up to 10 giant Integral Film assembly machines, all machinery and tools needed to develop and produce up to 100 million new Integral Instant films per year are present in Building North.
Wow. This sounds like a...possible re-invention!
Learn more from the website of the impossible project.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
it's only words
This is from wordie.net
A cloud created from Obama's inauguration speech and 591 recently. Will clouds help us understand? Mr Urbano is looking for a thinking spot.
Sannah's space is 1X1
Every second month a photographer is invited to dispose a space on her wall - 39x39 inches. The exhibition is open exclusively on the night of the vernissage - if you want to visit the exhibition another day you need to set up an appointment. It's a great idea. Photographer Sannah Kvist is primarily looking for unestablished photograhers as exhibitors. 591 wish you good luck!
Photo © Mikael AlmehagThe first photographer to exhibit on 1X1 is Mikael Almehag.
Opening Feb 4 at 6PM.
Website of 1X1
Website of Sannah Kvist
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