Philip Jones Griffiths - Photos and contradictions
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GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. The incongruities of daily life in the urban war zone. For years, the people of Northern Ireland have lived in a strange and strained symbiosis with the occupying British army. 1973
VIETNAM. The battle for Saigon. 1968
CAMBODIA. This amphibious assault was to establish a beachhead for a barbecue. Vast quantities of meat and beer were consumed while local Vietnamese looked on. Such activities were prompted to engender morale among the troops and to expose the Vietnamese to what was considered the superior American ways of life. 1970Read more...
Philip Jones Griffiths - photojournalist
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The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten. [about Henri Cartier-Bresson]
Alas, nomenclature is sadly lacking in the field of ‘art’. Am I a news photographer? A press photographer? A photojournalist? An artist? I deplore the latter moniker because the word is so misused. For me, art is the melding of form and content, and as that is what I strive to do then perhaps ‘artist’ is correct. But I’m happy to be called a photojournalist!
Van Gogh - The world in colors
And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'" Vincent van Gogh, Letter 338 (19 November 1883)
No link between Saddam Husseim and Al Qaeda
Cinq ans après le début de la guerre en Irak, cette étude, basée sur l'analyse de 600 000 documents officiels irakiens et sur des milliers d'heures d'interrogatoires d'anciens collaborateurs de Saddam Hussein, indique n'avoir "trouvé aucun lien direct entre l'Irak de Saddam et Al-Qaida". [Le Monde]
Sponsored by the Pentagon, the report found no "direct operational link" between Saddam's government in Iraq and bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror ring before the U.S. invasion, an official told McClatchy.
The Bush administration put forth the argument that there was a connection between Saddam and bin Laden when it made the case to go to war with Iraq after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. [Fox News]
Baltazar Torres - Painting and Compositions
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Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title:the world belongs to me (Flag)
Year:2005
Tech:plomb painted
Size:28x50 cm
Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title: Prozac
Year: 2004
Tech: Wood, plastic and plomb
Artist:BALTAZAR TORRES
Title: Cuevas Urbanas, nuevas cartografias
Year:2003
Tech: Brick, wood and PVC
Colmena / Amor
(“love” from the series “beehive”)
2004
wood, PVC, aluminium, cables, steel, tin, acrylic, oil
61 x 80 x 21 cm
The works of Baltazar Torres open up critical, often political discourses in intently designed spaces. By radically reducing the scale of his figures and settings, he manages to show whole worlds, and allows the spectator to take up a new perspective. Often employing irony to make his point, he creates small, even cute-looking architectures and rooms, equipped with simplified symbols, and he works with easily recognizable, highly connoted images like tanks, maps, or garbage bags. But while his confrontations or combinations may at first seem obvious, they give rise to critical questioning.Contentwise, Torres is clearly positioned in the present. His works investigate the way in which humans deal with their environment, and explore processes of mapping and re-mapping, examining the relevance of geography and cartography to establishing a nation. He makes the spectator look critically into the relationship of power and subjugation, see individual behaviour in the context of universal calamities and perceive the world in all its large - or small - size. [source]
Jerry Uelsmann - Fantastic Art
Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, but may be composed of many [source]
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Raising the flag on Iwo Jima
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.[1]
Of the six men depicted in the picture, three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank) did not survive the battle; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon the publication of the photo. The picture was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the USMC War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. [source]
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