Imperfection

Bernd Stiegler started a blog on 'Photographic Realism' and he devoted one of his posts to the 'Imperfection'.

"In looking at both contemporary exhibitions as well as photographs as they are used in everyday aesthetic applications, one notices that imperfection plays a key role. Far removed from the ideals of the Group f/64, New Objectivity, or even the Bechers and their school, to name a few positions, photographs that consciously employ technical errors have become common sense in photography. There are photographers who use deficient cameras;..."

"Imperfection is the new ideal of contemporary photography, even if celebrated, staged, and represented in a kind of perfection. My thesis is that imperfection serves as the contemporary modus of the real in photography. For this very reason photography has become enamored of and committed to inaccuracy, because it enables a form of representation that aims to conceptualize reality in a unique aesthetic manner."

Read the rest of the post here and don't miss to read the huge correspondence in the comments

Pam et Jenny’s de Design Graphique Bruxelles

"As part of ‘Share/d Heritage,’ a recent symposium at the Royal Library in Brussels, examining the digitalization of cultural heritage, design team Pam et Jenny created these oddly fascinating mis-scanned versions of classical portraits and what appear to be vintage film stills..." via flavorwire

Pam et Jenny’s website for more.

"Photo Opportunities" by Corinne Vionnet

Series of photographic works entitled "Photo Opportunities", from hundreds of snapshots of tourist locations found on the Internet.
Corinne Vionnet explains "...These pictures are on the Internet, to be seen by any eventual visitors. I am just one of those visitors. It is the sheer quantity of these almost identical pictures that gave me the idea of superimposing them. I do not think I would have had the idea if I had made all these pictures of the same places myself. Anyway, the work would loose its meaning."







via flavorwire & mymodernmet

War is (not) Personal

First prize, Contemporary Issues Stories: Eugene Richards, USA, Reportage by Getty Images for The Sunday Times Magazine/Paris Match
From "War Is Personal," USA.
















from "The World's Most Arresting Images"
21 award-winning pics from the 53rd annual World Press Photo contest.
via Mother Jones.

Only A Free Press Can Hurt Them

Reporters Without Borders' new Campaign ad designed by Saatchi & Saatchi and the artists Stephen J Shanabrook and Veronika Georgieva.



via Reporters Without Borders

Alison Lapper

http://www.alisonlapper.com/

Alison Lapper is an artist - mouth-painter, photographer and sculptress.

"After graduating from Brighton University with a degree in art, I began creating a body of work which deals with the themes of beauty and disability. Can disability be beautiful? Can it evoke more than revulsion, pity or sympathy? I am showing that it can, that there is beauty in everything."

"My work questions notions of physical normality and beauty, in a society that considers me to be deformed because I was born without arms. In my photographic work, I use light and shadow to create images with a sculptural quality reminiscent of classical statues. A particular influence has been the Venus de Milo, who is admired as one of the great classic beauties, despite having lost her own arms. My final year degree show installation, included photographs of myself as a child wearing artificial limbs and concluded in a self-portrait, posed as the Venus deMilo. This – one of my best known works – was re-exhibited at London's Photographer's Gallery in a Millennium Exhibition."





Three documentaries "Alison's Baby" , "Alison and Parys" and one currently in production "The Real Venus" are unfolding her life before, during and after the birth of her son Parys.





Alison Lapper's statue “Alison Lapper Pregnant”, on display in Trafalgar Square until 2007, caused some controversy as to been Pregnant and disabled in public, even though Tragalgar Square and its public were acquainted with disability aesthetics. Horatio Nelson's column was erected there between 1840 and 1843c and his statue was sculpted with most of his right arm amputated as he was hit by a musket-ball and fractured his humerus bone in multiple places at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
As he is a national hero it is more justifiable to be (disabled) on display!

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