skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Persona
Ingmar Bergman
Theo Van Doesburg
Robert Browning
By Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865
Heinrich Kühn, 1908
Rose Clark, 1898
Not only does looking at the predecessors help to put things in perspective, refining both what really appeals to one, and indeed hones in on what one is searching for.
But I feel it as a slap across the face, not through envy but rather despair and the plain fact of the matter that in portraiture the subject is all. Of course getting the exposure, composition etc.. correct also paramount, but without that connection it is just another photo amongst the billions. The light and subtle tilt of child's head, and her eyes all create this great confrontational spirit. Having never heard of Rose Clark, and forgetting the reddened cheek it is little discoveries as these that makes a dull day all the more brighter.

Clarence H. White
Berenice Abbot, 1930

Susanne Esche,
on the subject of shoes, 1975
nature of the beast
ou bien
the demon
one means
the medium
=
to exorcise
to fix
that which surfaces
in the minds eye
preoccupations within...
Vali Myers & Foxy
Foxy 1965-1979
Posted before but worth the repeat
Francesca Woodman
Raoul Hausmann, 1930
Tom Moran, September 1987
Nicholas Nixon
Composition with double line and yellow, 1932
P Mondrian
' Je
t o m b e
mais je n'ai pas peur '
Antonin Arnaud
Theo & Nelly van Doesburg, Weimar 1921

Justinus Kerner
Germaine Krull, 1930
Leonard Baskin
M Tichy
Guy Bourdin
La sortie
n'existe pas
seulements
les ronronnements
et puis
encore
des autres
sans fin
juste
un abîme
interminable
Pierre Louÿs
Georgia O' Keeffe 1922
A Steiglitz
Morning - The Bathroom

Evening - Interior, 1899
Clarence H White
Monna with leaf shadows, 1925
Edward Weston
Henri-Rousseau, 1907
Fruit of Paradise
all credit to Vali Myers
By Ed Van Der Elsken
Bert Stern
Charlotte Rampling, Saint Tropez, 1967
Helmut Newton
Carlo Mollino
Miroslav Tichy