SALVI DANÉS ©

by Mário Pires 16.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Dark Isolation Tokyo portfolio   (Via http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2011/12/salvi_danes/ )Via www.salvidanes.com

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Review: Scopophilia by Nan Goldin

by Mário Pires 16.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography NowGoldin is one of the 20th Century’s most important photographic practitioners. Her Ballad of Sexual Dependency will forever stand as one of the shining moments of American photography. Scopophilia “pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection” (to quote from the press release).Via [...]

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The Price to pay be a photojournalist | La Lettre de la Photographie

by Mário Pires 16.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography NowJonathan Alpeyrie is a photojournalist who talks to us not about his pictures, but about his finances: surprising, full of lessons and informations. “Getting published is not the issue. Making money in order to support oneself in the everyday life, and pay for upcoming projects, is the true problem.”Via www.lalettredelaphotographie.com

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special man, special camera

by Mário Pires 16.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography NowFrank Horvat made a couple of interesting interviews with well known colleagues about their practice, motives and ideas. One of the most funny ones he made with the then 61 years old Mario Gia­comelli in 1987.Via www.beikey.net

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INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

by Mário Pires 15.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography NowYou are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I [...]

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Photography, cameras, (dis)ability and empowerment.

by Mário Pires 15.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Length of this post: long. Words: a lot. Pictures: more than a few. Apologies for that: none.Via duckrabbit.info

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How Empires fall

by Mário Pires 15.12.2011 Photography Now

Via Scoop.it – Photography Now Our ability to achieve greatness is impeded by our  addiction to getting to fast results and instant gratification. We are a civilization focused on the ends rather than the means, resulting in a complete absence of ethics.Via blog.melchersystem.com

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