A message to all... Contemporary thoughts

So ... guys I happen to follow a teacher in Brera. Her name is Amonaci and she teaches History of Photography. I invite you all to come and watch her lesson every GIOVEDI E VENERDI AT 12:00 IN SALA NAPOLEONICA IN BRERA! Her lessons are verymuch mind opening and she makes her students understand history for what it is. Very enlightining!

The point of studying the past and the development of photography through the years is actually finding out what the contemporary times humans are missing and striving for; so that the artist or photographer understand what type of message he should send to the people through arts and culture.

Example: If you take the 1880s and 90s... Those were times of extreme modersnism. Creations of car, industries, urban areas like paris and london booming, electricity all over the streets, the fast world... the complete loss of the rural and the traditional ways. It was the time of impressionism. Nitzche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil: preparing for the teorization of the New MAN. - The end of 1800s prepared us for a totally new and revolutionary start of the 1900s, a centure where all the rules of the past seemed to have been denied. The world was becoming emperistist, rational, geometrical and abstract. Currents like the futirists and the new dada with a very different way of doing art were to come.

Therefore taking a look at how the world was at that time, one must look at the art and see what artists how artists were trying to portray the "mood" of those years. One shoudnt necessarily look the work of artist to understand..but any type of image production, prints, adds, movies,,, and so on... so that we can make a theory based on the "eSTETICS" of the time.
So that is very interesting.

I will keep on showing my photos which are tought to accumulate a database of what and how images should portray the feeling of these days.

Gregory Colbert

READ, DAMN YOU!

This artist uses only Analogical Technology, and I am sure he laughs on the face of any Digital Photographer.

Well, what I feel is my duty to speak about here in this blog is all a whole different type of photography. For those who don't know... This BLOG was created so that I could speak about my conceptions on Contemporary ART Photography.
Like people like to say: WHAT REALLY MATTERS TO CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY ART!

There are many currents that have been going on photography now

The most important and known movement started in1954 at the Dussendorf Academy where Bernd and Hilla Becher developed a new way of looking at photography. They questionedc themselves: Why was photography important to the contemporary art society ! I will try to demonstrate what they have come up as an answear for that question.!!!

For now I will post an Artist, Gregory Colbert , who does not follow the concepts of the art movement initiated by Bern and Hilla Becher !!!
Enjoy him, he has great pictures

Irving Penn DIed

The guy was 93 years old.

Questo artista e Bravissimo. Conosce molto ed e molto attento a detagli. Abita a NY e sa molto bene organizare il suo lavoro. Andate sul sito robertcass.com ! Spero conoscere artist come lui a Milano. La realta e che gli artisti a Milano hanno un potenziale molto piu grandi che quelli americani. Il problema e che gli artisti Italiani non riescono ad organizare il lavoro ed essere coerenti. Perfavore mandate i vostri lavori a pedropode@gmail.com - cerchiamo di catalogare gli artisti della citta in questo BLOG!

I hope you can enjoy the real Surrealistic/DADA photographic geniuses,,, instead of that man ray crap HAhahah ! Good week everyone

Pierre Molinier

Pierre Molinier

Pierre Molinier

Pierre Molinier

Pierre Molinier

Pierre Molinier

Molinier iniziò a fare fotografie all'età di 18 anni. Quando la sorella morì nel 1918, si narra che egli abbia fatto sesso col suo cadavere mentre era stato lasciato da solo con esso per fotografarlo. "'Anche da morta era bellissima. Ho spruzzato di sperma il suo stomaco e le gambe, e sull'abito da prima comunione che indossava. Si è portata nella morte ciò che di me è più prezioso.

Molinier iniziò la sua produzione erotica intorno al 1950 . Con l'aiuto di una vasta gamma di oggetti realizzati appositamente - bambole, varie protesi di arti, tacchi a spillo, dildo ed un'occasionale confidente - Pierre Molinier focalizzò il suo stesso corpo come l'armatura per un modulo costruttivo, che in ultima analisi produsse un gran quantità di lavori fotografici. La maggior parte delle sue fotografie e fotomontaggi sono autoritratti di se stesso nelle vesti di una donna.

Iniziò una corrispondenza con Andre Breton e gli inviò le fotografie dei suoi dipinti. Successivamente Breton lo integrò tra i surrealisti e così organizzò un'esibizione delle pitture di Molinier a Parigi, nel gennaio-febbraio del 1956.

Fotografi ispirati da lui anni doppo:

WHO IS SHE?

PArt ONe

Andrea Gursky

Andrea Gursky

Andrea Gursky

Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth

Thomas Strtuth

Sander

August Sander

These photographers were already Posted, but I will Post it again, cause it helps me Explain what
Type of photography Bern and Hilla Becher taught their students.
Little by little you will understand what I am talk about!

It is always nice to remember the classics. The question is, how these three photographer connect the history of photography. What is their importance?
First of all lets take a look at the time period they have lived.
August Sander: 1876-1964
Gursky: 1955
Thomas struth: 1954
These are all German photographers and they have been key characters to the development of art photography. Their work can describe a photogragraphic language created inside the german culture, surviving the first and the second world war.
The photography in the series above have the objective of classification through the depiction of the individual or the group. August sander before the second world war has published a book with over 60 portraits of the contemporary german society : Face of our Time publishes in 1929. He tended to classify the people by their porpuse within society.
Gurskys work using the same language of classification, can describe groups of people, problems of society, hypocrisy and etc...
Thomas Struth instead can puts families together in a portrait to analyze the role of each character inside the universe of a family ( which is fully comparable to a the many other universes ) . In his last work he seems to have gone a step further. His portraits of people watching painting in art museums through the world seems to have a double influence on the spectator. First he classifies the people that go to the museums, tourists, students, families. Then he photographers them in a dimension where the characters of the painting get confused with the character in the museum. Its a double classification, joining two separate realities.