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In no great hurry – Saul Leiter
Jessica Backhaus
Jessica Backhaus gives an insight into her working practice in this video on Foam For You (via LPV magazine).
Arrivals and departures
Follow Jacob Aue Sobol on his journey from Moscow to Ulan Batar to Beijing on the Leica camera blog.
(Via Bryan Formhals‘ weekly Digest – I look forward to it every Sunday!)
Falckenberg collection
This image was taken right outside the Falckenberg collection which is housed in an old rubber factory building. We went to see the Wim Wenders show and I must admit I was a bit underwhelmed. I really liked some of the images, but it was not the most exciting show I have seen lately. Perhaps too much gigantomania for my taste. Expertly crafted supersized prints by Grieger do not turn a well composed photo into a fascinating one.
Dummy Award 2012
The winning book „Passengers“ of this year’s dummy award has now been published. During a 4 month stay in wintery Poland photographers Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer (congratulations to both!) discovered a bus station where passengers where waiting for numerous regional busses. See the whole book HERE.
On sequencing
Harvey Benge just published a great post on editing and sequencing a book HERE.
We arrived in Kuching (Malaysian Borneo) yesterday and are slowly trying to adapt to the heat and the different timezone. I hope I can post some pictures in the next few days.
Saul Leiter opening
Lots of excitement at the opening of the big Saul Leiter retrospective at Haus der Photographie at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.
The sensational Mr. Leiter (88!) signing my copy of the exhibition catalogue (brilliant book design – once more – by Detlev Pusch).
On show until April 15. Go!
Barbara Crane
Recently I got a bit tired of street photography, simply because I feel there is so much repetition as opposed to bold and exciting stuff. So I was delighted to discover the street work of Barbara Crane. In the early 80s she photographed Chicago street festivals with a 4×5 Super Graphic, a Polaroid back and off camera flash, getting really close to her subjects and cropping her shots very tightly.
From the forword of Crane’s resulting book „Private Views“, published by Aperture:
„Her stated goal as a photographer is to ‚attempt to eradicate previous habits of seeing and thinking … to keep searching for what is visually new while always hoping that a fusion of form and content will take place‘.“
You can get a copy of „Private Views“ for a mere € 16 here.
On creativity
„This idea that everything has been done is a sign of the limitations of our own imaginations.“ Colin Pantall (via Conscientious)