Jean Gaumy : “Polaroids” Series (Photography)

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“Taking pictures is like fishing or writing. It’s getting out of the
unknown that which resists and refuses to come to light.” – Jean Gaumy

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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Haute-Normandie”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1994
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“Le Havre”
Jean Gaumy
Polaroid
1995
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Photographer Jean Gaumy invites us to discover another facet of his work on ports, which he has come to know very well over time, a set of polaroïds with poetic views of industrial zones of ‘Le Havre’ docks.

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Jean Gaumy : Magnum Photos

Jean Gaumy : Full “Polaroids” Series

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Akiko Takizawa : Photography

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“Father, Field #2″
‘Where We Belong’ Series
Gelatin silver print
2004-2006
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“Headland #1″
Gelatin silver print
‘Headland’ Series
2007
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“Shrine Window #1″
‘Goshogawara’ Series
Gelatin silver print
2011
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“Shrine Window #2″
‘Goshogawara’ Series
Gelatin silver print
2011
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“Wedding up in Heaven #4″
‘Wedding up in Heaven’ Series
Gelatin silver print
2011
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“Wedding up in Heaven #2″
‘Wedding up in Heaven’ Series
Gelatin silver print
2011
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“Headland #5″
Gelatin silver print
‘Headland’ Series
2007
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“Two Heads, Stones on the Hill #1
Gelatin silver print
‘Osorezan’ Series
2011
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“Knowing that she was about to die, my aunt said that she would have less regret about leaving this world if she knew that she would still be able to send letters. I feel that my camera acts as an antenna – to receive signals carrying urgent messages from the lost lives and objects that fill the air all around us. I also believe that it is this frantic whispering of death that pushes me to take these photographs, and enables me to continue living…”  – Akiko Takizawa : Artist Statement

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Akiko Takizawa : Website

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Thomas Leuthard : Street Photographer

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“This is Beirut… #24″
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“Peak…”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“Caught…”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“The Look…”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“Untitled”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“Let it snow…”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“Leaving Yerevan…”
Thomas Leuthard
Photograph
2012
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“I travel the World to witness life on the streets and to document it. For me this is a combination of two passions: Traveling & Photography. It’s not about cameras, settings and locations. It’s about the eye, the moment and having fun. I use an Olympus OM-D for all my photos…” Thomas Leuthard

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Thomas Leuthard : Website

Thomas Leuthard : 500px

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Kevin Kemner : “Illustro Divum di Nevada” (Photography)

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Reflecting the spontaneous and temporal quality of the condensation trails, the images are recorded with an iPhone, the camera I almost always have ready at hand. This is in opposition to the larger traditional film formats I prefer for documenting architecture and the built environment. Images have been cropped to a square format. Since the contrails usually happen for a short period around dawn almost every image was shot within sight of my home. K Kemner

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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Kevin Kemner
“Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series
iPhone Photograph
2008 onwards
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Prior to moving to Las Vegas in 1995, the image I had of the southwestern United States was one of an endless landscape of canyons embraced by an equally endless sky of vertical cumuli. Having been raised in the Midwest this was an image formed from afar, largely through the works of iconic figures such as John Ford and Ansel Adams. On arriving here, however, I discovered an entirely other landscape not reflected in the images that I had become familiar with, a landscape of great scale and openness countered by an endlessly vacant sky; the landscape of the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts.

It is the sky of my new home, Nevada that I find most remarkable; often cloudless for weeks the Mojave sky makes one aware of subtleties in the emptiness, observant of things otherwise omitted in the tradition of classic western photography. Such are the condensation trails, threadlike clouds formed by the passage of commercial airliners that appear overhead from late fall to early spring when the air is cold and dry, a linear rather than billowing cloudscape. Having the appearance of being organized, the abstractness of the condensation trails leads one to seek hidden narratives, search for meanings as they are inscribed on and then dissipate in the sky. Introduction – “Illustro Divum di Nevada” Series

This work is part of an ongoing record of the sky above Las Vegas from 2008 to the present.

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Kevin Kemner : More Works

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Luděk Vojtěchovský : “Square Interlude” (Photography)

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‘White Apple’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
2003
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‘Matches’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
1999
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‘Still Life from Memory I’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
2004
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‘Dream’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
2000
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‘Black and White’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
2003
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‘Winter Landscape’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
2002
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‘Wall that I imagined’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
1999
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‘Fragments of Reality’
16.5 x 16 cm
photograph
1999
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“Ludek Vojtechovský scorns the attractions of the never ending cycle of newly discovered, perfect cameras that produce any type of photograph simply by pushing a button. He’d rather lock himself in a darkroom with his enlarger and use the white surface of sensitive photographic paper or a negative to create photographs in accordance with his own desires – in harmony, from gray to white to a velvety black. He’s by his own choice a solitary walker amid the hunters of accidental encounters.”  - B Kolarova

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Luděk Vojtěchovský : Website

Luděk Vojtěchovský : Interlude / Mezihra

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Jaroslav Rössler : Abstract Photography

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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Komposition mit Apfel’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Ei mit Eiffelturm’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Bez názvu / Untitled’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Bez názvu / Untitled’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Zátiší s uzávěrem’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Surimprese jablka’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler
‘Kompozice s ozubeným kolem’
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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‘Loď’
Jaroslav Rössler
20.5 x 20 cm
photo
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Jaroslav Rössler (1902–1990) was one of the most important Czech avant-garde photographers and his work from the first half of the 1920s ranked amongst the earliest and most radical examples of the application of Abstract and Constructivist principles to photography. Rössler started as an assistant to František Drtikol, but quickly abandoned the pictorial style of his renowned teacher and began to focus on minimalist details of actual objects and on geometric paper cut-outs, abstract compositions with shadow and light, inventive photomontages, and Constructivist shots of modern engineering and architecture. In 1923 he was invited to join Devětsil, and thus became the only photographer in the most famous Czech avant-garde group of artists and writers. During his Paris sojourn, 1927–35, he worked in several important studios, mainly making modern photographs for advertisements, while continuing to experiment freely on his own. Later, after a long hiatus, he returned to experimentation in the mid-1950s, and once again contributed to the latest artistic trends in a truly original way. Extract

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Jaroslav Rössler : Abstract Photography (1923 – 1978)

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