dinsdag 1 oktober 2019

Views & Reviews The Book of Bread 1903 Parr Badger I Owen Simmons Photography

Title: The Book of Bread
Author: Owen Simmons
Published: 1903
Publisher: Maclaren & Sons

First edition/first impression; UK; hardback without dust wrapper, as first issued
Extremely scarce early 20th Century baking book, in its true first edition, which is now more famous as a fascinating piece of photographic history. Green cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with elaborate gilt lettering on the upper cover. Illustrated throughout with 12 chromolithograph plates, 8 tipped-in original photographs and 2 mounted silver gelatine prints. All plates, photographs and prints are present.

Referenced by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, in The Photobook: A History, Vol 1, where they write: “here, at the beginning of the twentieth century, one of the humblest, yet most essential of objects is catalogued as precisely, rigorously, and objectively as any work by a 1980s Conceptual artist".

See also

Views & Reviews The Bread Book Kenneth Josephson Conceptualism Photography

The Book of Bread 1903 Parr Badger I Owen Simmons Photography
The Book of Bread 1903 Parr Badger I Owen Simmons Photography https://bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/2018/09/views-reviews-book-of-bread-1903-parr.html

maandag 30 september 2019

Kurkdjian Surabaya Come to Java 1922-23 Dutch East Indies Photography

Come to Java 1922-23 by Official Tourist Bureau Weltevreden Java see for a slideshow on Flickr ... photography by Kurkdjian Surabaya

Onnes (or Ohannes) Kurkdjian, born in 1851, was an Armenian photographer who was based in Yerevan for part of the 19th century. Kurkdjian later emigrated from Armenia. He lived in Singapore for a short period - spending just over two months there in 1885 and working for another Armenian photographer. He then moved to the port town of Surabaya on the island of Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he continued his profession as a photographer. He eventually owned a photographic "atelier" studio in Surabaya, with more than thirty photographers and darkroom assistants, producing photographs that are now highly prized for their topographical and anthropological content. The studio's photographs were also reproduced on picture postcards. He died in Surabaya in 1903 (some accounts say 1901, or 1904). After his death the company was taken over by the pharmaceutical import company "Helmig". Read more ...

Blaze Gabriel Fabian Miller British Journal of Photography Issue # 7889 November 2019

British Journal of Photography Blaze Gabriel Fabian Miller Issue # 7889 November 2019 door Simon Bainbridge

GARRY FABIAN MILLER: MIDWINTER BLAZE
12 OCTOBER - 20 DECEMBER 2019

Garry Fabian Miller, 'There is no shadow', 2017, Light, oil, Lambda C-print from dye destruction print, Edition of 3. This copy 2/3. 116.8 x 116.8 cm

For the past thirty-five years Garry Fabian Miller has worked without a camera, making images entirely in the darkroom and using the techniques of early nineteenth century photographic exploration to experiment with the possibilities of light, as both medium and subject.

Since the mid 1980s Miller has patiently developed methods of passing light through coloured glass and liquid onto photographic paper, often using long exposures lasting anywhere between one and twenty hours to create his unique and luminous images. These techniques have earned Miller a deserved reputation as one of the most progressive artists working with photography today, a status marked by the Victoria & Albert Museum’s support of his work over the past 30 years. This support found physical form in Shadow Catchers, the landmark 2010 exhibition devoted to camera-less photography, and continues in the museum’s commitment to documenting the working practice of Miller's darkroom as a unique site of artistic production. The results of this - almost anthropological - engagement will be made visible in phase 2 of the V&A's new Photography Centre, planned to open in the spring of 2022, and proceeds in tandem with the museum's long term ambition to house the artist’s archive.

The photographs that will be shown at Ingleby this Autumn are characteristically virtuosic meditations on colour and form but they also mark the end of an era as the artist battles with the extinction of the analogue materials in a digital age. Dwindling supplies of paper and chemistry and the increasingly fugitive nature of his life-learnt methods see Miller embracing the perversity of his position in a final blaze of picture-making glory.

A new book, titled BLAZE, will be published to coincide with this latest body of work. The artist and writer Edmund de Waal introduces the new publication and comments:
Blaze is the word for manifesto – words and ideas to start a fire with. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Malevich’s writings. Kandinsky on colour. I think of the blaze of “Die Fackel’, the Torch, a blaze of red to set light to Vienna in the early part of the last century. Blaze is anger. And tenderness. And loyalty too: those emotions that are tinder-dry, unpredictable, unsearched-for and costly. The latest body of work by Garry Fabian Miller blazes.

Garry Fabian Miller will give the annual lecture of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography on Friday 15th November at the National Galleries of Scotland.

zondag 29 september 2019

Unseen Amsterdam 2019 BookMarket & Non ya by Moritz Jekat Dummy Award Photography

Taking place for the first time at Westergas’ Transformatorhuis, this year’s Book Market will be bigger and better than ever before. With more than 80 independent publishers presenting their latest photobooks, it’s the place to discover a range of rare and experimental photobooks. Don’t miss impromptu book launches, signings, talks and special events, and meet the creative forces of the photobook industry. The shortlisted selection of this year’s Unseen Dummy Award will also be on show for visitors to browse through. The winner, announced on 20 September at 16.15 in Living Room, will have their photobook published by Lecturis and distributed internationally.

See also

Impression of the Unseen Photo Festival Amsterdam 2019 Street Photography

Amsterdam Unseen Photo Festival september 22 2019
Amsterdam Unseen Photo Festival september 22 2019

Non ya by Moritz Jekat, Unseen Dummy Award Winner 2019 , Unseen Amsterdam 2019 © Olivier van Breugel

Unseen and Lecturis are delighted to announce that Non ya (None of your business) by Moritz Jekat has won this year’s Unseen Dummy Award! Chosen from an exemplary selection of photobook designs from exceptional artists all over the world, the Unseen Dummy Award grants the winner the opportunity to have their photobook published and distributed internationally.

This year’s international jury was comprised of Paul van Mameren (Managing Director, Lecturis), Christina Töpfer (Editor-in-Chief, Camera Austria International), Jenny Lindhe (Head, Photographs Collection & The Photobook Days at Landskrona Foto Festival), Natasha Christia (independent curator and writer), and Rebecca Fertinel (winner of the Unseen Dummy Award 2018).

Non ya, 2019 © Moritz Jekat

Jury Statement :

‘Our selection process was determined by three core elements: the urgency and relevance of the subject matter, a strong formulation and structure, and how it would connect to its audience. The winning book, Non Ya, illustrates Jekat’s personal family history and their experience coming from multiple different countries to set up a new life in Berlin. As you flip through the pages you experience many different layers of family life, the intimacy and the difficulties. Through a deeply personal look at the realities of life as an immigrant, Jekat’s photobook creates a portrait of daily life in contemporary Europe.

We all felt that the winning book became stronger the longer you looked at it. The combination of portraits and still lives adds depth to its narrative, depicting a new form of privacy that is inherently not private. The glossiness of the paper and pops of colour gives it a familiar, almost commercial, feel which contrasts to its raw and subdued imagery.’