Perjalanan & Perhentian

Perjalanan & Perhentian: Foto perjalanan Banten-Flores

Oleh: Tommas Titus

1. Jogja

6. Banten

15. Bali

Perjalanan dan Perhentian

Merenung Singkat Bersama Foto-foto Tommas Titus Kurniawan 

Hidup bisa dimaknai sebagai perjalanan. Dari awal sampai akhir, kita bergerak. Kadang, dalam perjalanan itu kita berhenti, seolah mengungkapkan naluri yang tertanam sedemikian dalam pada alam bawah sadar kita, bahwa kelak kita akan benar-benar berhenti. Perhentian-perhentian kecil dalam perjalanan hidup memberi kepada kita kesempatan untuk berefleksi guna memaknai perjalanan yang telah ditempuh dan meneguhkan hati untuk melanjutkan sisa perjalanan yang masih harus ditempuh. 

Kedengarannya, hidup sebagai perjalanan, juga perhentian-perhentian kecil yang mewarnainya sangatlah serius. Memang. Sebab, bukankah ini soal pemaknaan hidup dan dengan demikian sarat dengan rona eksistensial? Tapi perhentian-perhentian kecil dalam rangka refleksi tidak harus mengambil bentuk yang serius. Bisa juga santai.

Teman saya Mas Tommas senang jalan-jalan. Piknik. Mungkin itulah saat-saat baginya untuk melakukan perhentian kecil di tengah perjalanan hidup yang berliku dan panjang – dan melelahkan. Potret-potret keseharian, yang nampak biasa, dari para abdi dalem yang sedang mengaso (foto 2) sampai bocah kecil yang sedang memegang parang (foto 5). Ada juga foto komodo (foto 26-29), juga “sekadar” kaki bersandal di atas pasir putih (foto 47). Semua diambil dalam suasana yang santai, cerah, dan sumringah, yang dinikmatinya dari Banten sampai Flores. Tapi siapa bilang yang biasa, santai, cerah, dan sumringah di saat-saat perhentian kecil tidak memberikan makna apa-apa? Siapa bisa menyangka bahwa justru dalam suasana santai dan wajah cerah sumringah justru di situlah refleksi menjadi begitu hidup, karena mengafirmasi perjalanan yang telah dilalui bukan tanpa arti dan perjalanan yang masih harus ditempuh menjanjikan makna baru sehingga hari-hari ke depan lebih mempesona dan menggairahkan?

Lanjutkan perjalanan hidup Anda, Mas Tom, dengan menikmati setiap perhentian kecil di sepanjang jalan!

Temanmu,

Rudolfus Antonius

Padepokan, April 2012

27. Pulau Komodo

34. Pulau Rinca

41. Lombok

250 Foto Perjalanan Banten-Flores akan dibagikan Gratis di 5 Kota,

Semoga ini kota anda: 
Kendal, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Trenggalek & Denpasar., :)

Poster

Jump Philippe!!!

'Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.'

(Philippe Halsman, 1906-1979)

 

Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1958

Dali with three girls, 1949

 Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia and began his photographic career in Paris. In 1934 he opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse, where he photographed many well-known artists and writers -- including Andre Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and Andre Malraux, using an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself.

Halsman began a thirty-seven year collaboration with Salvador Dali in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual “photographs of ideas,” including “Dali Atomicus” and the “Dali’s Mustache” series. In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. These uniquely witty and energetic images have become an important part of his photographic legacy.

Duke & Dutchess of Windsor, 1956

Edward Steichen, 1955

Richard Nixon, 1955

Jump was born in 1952, Halsman said, after an arduous session photographing the Ford automobile family to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary. As he relaxed with a drink offered by Mrs. Edsel Ford, the photographer was shocked to hear himself asking one of the grandest of Grosse Pointe’s grande dames if she would jump for his camera. “With my high heels?” she asked. But she gave it a try, unshod—after which her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Henry Ford II, wanted to jump too.

For the next six years, Halsman ended his portrait sessions by asking sitters to jump. It is a tribute to his powers of persuasion that Richard Nixon, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Judge Learned Hand (in his mid-80s at the time) and other figures not known for spontaneity could be talked into rising to the challenge of…well, rising to the challenge. He called the resulting pictures his hobby, and in Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book, a collection published in 1959, he claimed in the mock-academic text that they were studies in “jumpology.”

Brigitte

 "Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character. "

 (Philippe Halsman, 1906-1979)

Philippe Halsman died in New York City on 25 June 1979.

Philippe Halsman

 

The Photography Post : JUMP with PHILIPPE !!!

Richard Avedon and His Portait

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. 

Richard Avedon (1923-2004) 

Born in New York on 15 May 1923, Richard Avedon was in possession of a Kodak Box Brownie camera by the age of 12

Richard Avedon shot the Paris collections for almost 40 years, and was staff photographer for Vogue from 1966 until 1990

From the start of his career, Richard Avedon's name became synonymous with fashion as well as portraiture. He photographed everyone from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker and the Duchess of Windsor as well as a lot of "unknown" people. Known for bringing the fashion models of the day, including Suzy Parker and Sunny Harnett, to life, Richard Avedon injected a previously unseen vibrancy into the medium of fashion photography.

 He died in 2004 of a brain haemorrage.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon biography (Vogue.com UK)

 

THE RICHARD AVEDON FOUNDATION

 

Li Wei in Love

“I want to tell people that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE,”

-Li Wei-

 

 

Love at the high place

 Arrow of love

Beyond Gravity 2

Love meets 15m

 

Li Wei is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

 

 Harness Li Wei

 

 Loss of impulse

 

 

Love at the ribbons

 "Whether photographer or performance artist is not important to me. The feeling and the thoughts of doing art are more important. And I’ll also do art between these two medias, too. After each live performance I’ll shoot a photograph for it."

 -Li Wei-

Artist Liwei

 

 

Li Wei (artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

50 Impossible and Amazing Action Art of Li Wei - Quertime

 

Overpainted Photographs

Gerhard Richter is an important artist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; his work spans nearly five decades.

 Urban landscape, ohne titel, 1998

Family, ohne titel, 2005

 The end of World War II in many ways coincided with Gerhard’s transition from childhood to adolescence, and, now under Soviet control following the Potsdam Agreement, it was to be a very different Germany to the one he had been born into.

 Interiors, ohne titel, 2008

 People, ohne titel, 1998

Gerhard Richter » Art » Paintings » Photo Paintings

 

Gerhard Richter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Gerhard Richter on artnet

 

 

Gerhard Richter

Reading Photo: Duane Michals

"..It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me."

(Duane Michals) 

 

Madame Schroedinger's Cat

1988

 

Madame Schroedinger's Cat

1988

Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.

(Kristine McKenna) 

 

The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body

1986 

The Most Beautiful Part of a Woman's Body

1986

He is noted for two innovations in artistic photography developed in the 1960s and 1970s. First, he "[told] a story through a series of photos" as in his 1970 book Sequences. Second, he handwrote text near his photographs, thereby giving information that the image itself could not convey.

(Ian Phillips) 

Nude observed 

1968 

 A Woman Dreaming in the City

1968

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

(Duane Michals) 

Duane Michals on artnet

 

 

Duane Michals: Personal Page

 

Stieglitz & O'Keeffe

"Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession". 

( Alfred Stieglitz )

 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

1920

O'Keeffe hands by Alfred Stieglitz

1864–1946

"they were like two teenagers in love. Several times a day they would run up the stairs to their bedroom, so eager to make love that they would start taking their clothes off as they ran."

( Richard Whelan (1995). Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography. NY: Little, Brown. )

 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

1919

 O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz

1918

 One of the most important things that O'Keeffe provided for Stieglitz was the muse he had always wanted. He photographed O'Keeffe obsessively between 1918 and 1925 in what was the most prolific period in his entire life.

During this period he produced more than 350 mounted prints of O'Keeffe that portrayed a wide range of her character, moods and beauty.

He shot many close-up studies of parts of her body, especially her hands either isolated by themselves or near her face or hair.

Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

 ( Painter and photographer, wife and husband, New York, 1944 ) 

  

"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."

( Alfred Stieglitz (1897). American Annual of Photography )

Alfred Stieglitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Masters of Photography: Alfred Stieglitz

 

Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999) - YouTube