29.4.11

Apropriation

Street execution of a Vietcong prisoner taken by Eddie Adams1968, for many Americans certain photographs came to symbolize the brutality of Vietnam War. One was Adam’s picture of a South Vietnamese police chief, Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong prisoner in the head point blank range in the streets of Saigon. It was in the midst of the wild street fighting during the Tet offensive, when the Vietcong were sweeping through the cities of South Vietnam. The picture won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Adams, who took it for the Associated Press. Ironically, he later became a friend of Loan’s and often attempted to explain the context for the brutal act that the picture alone could not provide: Vietcong guerrillas had recently massacred a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife and six children in their home.


Vietnam with Love
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


15.4.11

Daguerreotype

imagine if Daguerre still alive and could see his technique still used today..


-Jerry Spagnoli-

(Gallery 3a)
Daguerreotype by: Jerry Spagnoli


(Gallery 2a)
Daguerreotype by: Jerry Spagnoli


The daguerreotype was the first publicly announced photographic process, It was developed by Louis Daguerre together with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. 


-Adam Fuss-
(Untitled) 
Daguerreotype by: Adam Fuss

(For Allegra)
Daguerreotype by: Adam Fuss


Daguerreotype continues to be practiced by enthusiastic photographers to this day, In recent years artists like Jerry Spagnoli, Adam Fuss, and Chuck Close have re-introduced the medium to the broader art world.


-Chuck Close-
(Brad) 
Daguerreotype by: Chuck Close

(Self Portrait)
 Daguerreotype by: Chuck Close


Jerry Spagnoli

 

Adam Fuss 'Daguerreotypes and prints' May 30 - artnet - The Art ...

 

Chuck Close on artnet

 

Daguerreotype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

  -Louis J.M. Daguerre-

          Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln, probably in 1846 or 1847


11.4.11

Dylan in 60's Frame

How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?



Bob Dylan Screen Test, 1965


Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter.


Bob Dylan Car Smoke, 60's


Dylan inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard.


Bob Dylan in NYC Recording Session 1965

Dylan in stage, 60's


Dylan has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame.


Dylan & Warhol, 1967


After his European tour, Dylan returned to New York. 
 On July 29, 1966, Dylan crashed his 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle on a road near his home in Woodstock, New York.
In the wake of his accident, Dylan withdrew from the public and, apart from a few select appearances, did not tour again for eight years.


Dylan in the street, 60's


What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
(Bob Dylan)

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
 (Bob Dylan)


Bob Dylan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Home Page | Bob Dylan

 

Bob Dylan Screen Test 1965 



8.4.11

Dictator with Love

"All you need is love."
(John Lennon)


Hitler with Love
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan

Stalin with Love
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


  
Mao with Love
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan

Soeharto with Love
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan



Document
 
Hitler with his son

Stalin with his son

Mao with the boy & girl


7.4.11

Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, designer, and film-maker based in London, England.
He's famous for his work in black and white.

David Bowie. Chicago, USA 1980

Anton Corbijn grew up in an orderly, religious household in Holland with his father, who was a Protestant church minister, and his mother, a nurse. As a teenager he was a tall, shy person who loved music. His photographic career began as result of his urge to get closer to the stage.

 
Elvis Costello. Amsterdam, 1977

 
Miles Davis. Montreal, Canada 1985 

Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, U2, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert de Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Clint Eastwood and Herbert Grönemeyer.

 
U2. Death Valley, USA 1986


Captain Beefheart. Mojave Desert, USA 1980 




anton corbijn

 

Anton Corbijn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Anton Corbijn on artnet

 

January - Anton Corbijn

28.3.11

Araki Now!

Araki is probably best known for his photos documenting the Japanese sex industry, focusing on the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku in Tokyo in the 1980s. These were later published in "Tokyo Lucky Hole."


 
From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


 
From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


From the Series PaINting, 2010, Zurich


-For his exhibition in Zurich, Araki has produced small-scale silver gelatin prints, partially overpainted in India ink. Such a time-consuming and costly procedure seems quite anachronistic in this digital age of image production. But it is through such compositional constellations that he repeatedly succeeds in lending his photos an inexplicable allure.-




-Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad.-



 
(ARAKI)


"I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection."
(ARAKI) 


“I can shackle the body of a woman, but not her mind. The bonds become an embrace.” 
(ARAKI) 



bob van orsouw

 

 

Nobuyoshi Araki on artnet

 


27.3.11

Photo Pop Art?

Beanstalk: Art Exhibition & Discussions 
"KeberAGAMAn"


 
Religiology #1
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


 
Religiology #2
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan


 
Religiology #3
2011
Tommas Titus Kurniawan



Agama, Simbol, Sunyi

Donny Danardono*]

Beanstalk menampilkan foto pop-art, lukisan dan instalasi untuk mendorong orang kembali ke simbol-simbol toleransi beragama yang populer di Indonesia. Tapi, ini yang menarik, bukankah dengan demikian, pada dirinya sendiri, agama tidak selalu merupakan simbol sekaligus jalan ke yang-suci dan perdamaian?

Tapi manusia tak sabar, tak bisa membiarkan yang-maha-lain, yang-tak-terpadankan, yang-tak-terbahasakan, atau yang-suci itu dalam sunyi. Manusia berusaha membahasakannya, memberinya sosok dan meringkusnya dengan membangunkan doktrin-doktrinnya, tempat-tempat ibadah yang megah, dan merayakan hari-harinya.

Manusia telah dan terus menstrukturkan yang-suci atau sunyi itu. Padahal struktur adalah arsitektur kuasa atau siasat. Strukur tak hanya menyederhanakan yang-suci dan sunyi dalam sebuah konsep, tapi juga menandai dan membedakan bermacam bentuknya. Itulah asal dan dasar segala kekerasan atas nama agama.

Sekarang saya bisa menghapuskan kedua “koma” pada judul tulisan ini, sehingga ia terbaca sebagai “Agama Simbol Sunyi”. Agama adalah simbol bagi yang-tak-terbahasakan, bagi yang-suci dan sunyi itu. Kini saya membayangkan Beanstalk berkarya lagi tentang yang-suci dan sunyi itu. Karya-karya yang akan mendorong  kerendahan hati dalam bertuhan dan beragama. Sehingga makin banyak orang tak mengklaim konsep sendiri tentang tuhan dan agama sebagai paling baik dan benar.


*[Donny Danardono adalah pengajar filsafat di FH dan PMLP [Program Magister Lingkungan dan Perkotaan] Unika Soegijapranata, Semarang.]



"..Tommas Titus Kurniawan menampilkan problem toleransi itu dalam tiga foto pop-art yang sedap di mata.." 
(Donny Danardono, keberagaman exhibition)





 


Agama, Simbol, Sunyi

 

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