Pablo Carrera Oser

©Pablo Carrera Oser

©Pablo Carrera Oser

Everything I could say about him would be  missrepresented as far as Pablo is a very old friend of mine. We follow each other with our group Tangophoto during more than 10 years…and even our project ended, we keep the same relation and never stop to work together like for Ante Portas.  Pablo is one of those people who bring to me the first vibes for this blog project and if you follow it you know him…

Pablo’s photographs belong to my memory and some of them became iconic for many of us…

©Pablo Carrera Oser

0 – hoy -  1 -  2 – beach – bs as – Concret city – Il – la nuit furiose – NYC

All this series make one real strong body of work and as Solange Brand, first photo editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, saied about him when she discovered him : “It make me feel well! It’s such a long time I didn’t saw a real photographer.”…

So just get lost on his personnal online blog…

©Pablo Carrera Oser

One of his last serie, NYC,  wich I just discovered in it’s whole just make me feel that he is always more than a photographer…

©Pablo Carrera Oser

From Back Home

If you are in Paris and was not in Arles this year I would recommend you to go to there:

La Gallerie VU

17, Boulevard Henri IV
75004 Paris – France

Anders Petersen – JH Engström

From Back Home

Gallerie VU

From 11/09/09 to 31/10/09

Anders Petersen

JH Engström

“The land between Kläralven River and the chestnut tree at Ekallén is full of little hard memories of sad and lonely times, but there is also a streak of warm confidence that runs all the way up to Älgsjövallen, a place of fairy tale creatures and inquisitive moose. I’m carrying my camera, shooting these old dreams through the foliage. It means my memories can never be destroyed, because they no longer end in themselves”. Anders Petersen

“Maybe you can’t really go back home. But…

One more reason to go there is that the book  From Back Home, which got the author book award, Rencontres d’Arles 2009, is about to be out of print…

Anders Petersen

JH Engström

Anders Petersen

Face au Silence

A while ago now, in february 2007, I made a post called “Manifesto” and  I used an image from Christophe Agou. From this post few  exchanges of emails and books with Christophe had concretized the connection.

So when I discovered his tottaly new website and his last work : Face au Silence, I really get touched by the sincerity and the feeling that came from his photographs.

©Christophe Agou

Something is leaving: the farmers, the animals, the steam, the pan, the fields, the seasons, everything seem to be leaving here since century, in le Massif Central in France.

It is exactly like the description of my uncle when he speak about his grand father, a feeling of immortality submerged. It is now. Portraits remains and got printed in my memory immediatly.

©Christophe Agou

©Christophe Agou

©Christophe Agou

©Christophe Agou

After Before

This year the famous Leica Oskar Barnack price had been given to Mikael Subotsky, known for his intimate and in-depth study of the South African prison system.

Mikhael Subotzky win the Leica price with his extremely good work, already published last year and exhibited in the NYC’ MOMA “Beaufort West“.

©Mikhael Subotzky

A strong and straight point of view with a contemporary speech: Mikhael Subotzky’s work is exellent. The documentary form is here to say something, the critical mirror of Jean Paul Sartre is here also to show us something real. His work would fit to any kind of contest, from World Press Photo to Modern Art contest. So why this post tittle is “After Before“, wich is not Mikhael Subotzky’project tittle but Jim Goldberg’ project?

“After before“

After Before  by Jim Goldberg

Leica had the really good and innovativ idea to publish on their website all the entries of the contest (wich just can help next generation to make better). At first glance you can see that the baddest is mixed with the best. You also can see that some famous photographers,  who sometime won quiet all the Leica prices, are still on the fire… hard to play on the same court sometime…  To my eyes putting all the entries online is really good idea because it should push many photographers!

After Before by Jim Goldberg

All that words come into my head this morning because in the entries ,  I discovered this page and saw again, but shortly and extremly well edited the amazing, tottaly different work from Jim Goldberg, who also participated. It doesn’t fit in any drawer, in any school mood that exist today. Photography is used to say something, the medium is always the same, but tools are changings, the serie is here tottaly broken, distorted between large and medium format, drawings, writting…

This is just, with few others works I discovered since the two years I am doing that blog , one of the best work I ever seen…

After Before from Jim Goldberg would have definitely rock and shake the price….

This year he is on the guest list of Nan Goldin curation this year in Arles.

And all the time on Magnum website.

©Jim Goldberg

©Jim Goldberg

©Jim Goldberg

Rough Book

Rough Book is a personnal photo-stream. An “in progress” rough book, a webblog started few months ago. As all “in progress” works it is supposed to grew and evolve in the next months and will show its interest, or not…but it could be online on my official site in a year. Here from Streetpulse just a small door to follow the process…

Rough Book

Vincennes

©Olivier Thebaud

Pierre

©Olivier Thebaud

This stream is my internet rough book…
It’s an online journal, with some doubts, mystakes, reactions, inspirations and images that become intimate not through a possible waited form  but because they all relate with some personnal moments of my life.

Juliette et Thierry

©Olivier Thebaud

Blue

One of the picts Lina sent me by email, just like that inspired by the sky outside and the last party…

from Lina Scheynius.

NOTEBOOK

My friend Lorenzo Castore is having a new exhibition in Roma, I warmly recommend to everybody who can be in Roma to not miss it!!

s.t. foto libreria galleria

Via degli Ombrellari, 25
00193 Roma

tel/fax +39 06 64760105
e-mail: info@stsenzatitolo.it

domenica 11.00-18.00

giovedì 25 giugno
ore 19:00

Siamo aperti dal martedì al sabato
ore 10.30-20.00;

fino al al 15 settembre 2009
dal lunedì al sabato 10.30-20.00

All photographs ©Lorenzo Castore

Tribute

©Mario Giacomelli

The only photographs that was in my parents library was special issue about Koudelka, Don Mac Cullin and Giacomelli…

Probably the reason why few years after I start to used in secret the nikorrmat and rollei of my father…

©Mario Giacomelli

©Mario Giacomelli

©Mario Giacomelli

A week ago I discovered that Mario Giacomelli’s works is online on a really rich website…

©Mario Giacomelli

SUMMER TOUR

After his exhibitions in Krakow and in Mexico my friend
Vincent is having some really great exhibitions in Europe.
In case you will be around those places...and if not you
can purchase his book online!



BEYOND HISTORY /// 3 exhibitions this Summer
 >>> !!! BOOK for SALE (+ world store locator and other info) :  
www.beyondhistory.be

CHARLEROI - Museum of Photography
 >> OPENING : Friday 29/05/2009. 7PM. Welcome!
Solo show
30/05/2009 - 13/09/2009



www.museephoto.be

CUENCA - Festival PHotoEspaña (Madrid)
Collective show (BlowUp : Un collectif d'Images) - OpenPHoto
06/06/2009 - 26/07/2009

www.phe.es
www.dipucuenca.es

Fondation Antonio Perez
Ronda de Julian Romero20
16001 Cuenca
Espagne

!!! Public lecture : "BEYOND HISTORY. (Havana 1998-2006) - V.D. entre
documental y autoficción."
Saturday 06/06/2009, in Cuenca. (+ book signing session)
Please, for more info check the website of the festival or e-mail me.

GRONINGEN - Noorderlicht Festival
Collective show curated by Lauren Heinz
06/09/2009 - 04/10/2009

www.noorderlicht.com



 >>> BOOK for SALE (+ world store locator and other info) :
  www.beyondhistory.be

FFF

FFFFOUND is an amazing place for internet seekers…

In few scrolling you can access thousands of discovered through the web. So various and rich that I would just say : go and see…

Washington, 1943. A study in contrasts at Union Station. View full size. 4×5 Kodachrome transparencies, photographer unknown. Office of War Information.