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© Richard Avedon, Feb. 10, 1965, Bob Dylan in Central Park, New York “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” (Bob Dylan) Today, May 24, is Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday - Happy Birthday! As he’s way better with words than I am I just leave you with this quote and one of my favourite live performances of “Shelter From The Storm”: If above video doesn’t work in your country you can also find it here. More words from Mr. Zimmerman: What is your favourite Dylan song / album?

© Richard Avedon, Feb. 10, 1965, Bob Dylan in Central Park, New York

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” (Bob Dylan)

Today, May 24, is Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday - Happy Birthday! As he’s way better with words than I am I just leave you with this quote and one of my favourite live performances of “Shelter From The Storm”:

If above video doesn’t work in your country you can also find it here.

More words from Mr. Zimmerman:

What is your favourite Dylan song / album?





Unknown photographer, Dec. 3, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge, NYC Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city. About three weeks ago, the New York City Municipal Archives released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more.

Unknown photographer, Dec. 3, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge, NYC

Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city.

About three weeks ago, the New York City Municipal Archives released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more.





© Horst Faas / Associated Press, March 19, 1964, Vietnam In one of several photos that earned Faas the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border on March 19, 1964. Faas, a photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, died Thursday in Munich, said his daughter, Clare Faas. He was 79. (+) » find more war & conflict photography here «

© Horst Faas / Associated Press, March 19, 1964, Vietnam

In one of several photos that earned Faas the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border on March 19, 1964.

Faas, a photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, died Thursday in Munich, said his daughter, Clare Faas. He was 79. (+)

» find more war & conflict photography here «





WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE CAMERA A Leica Series 0 from 1923 achieved a new bidders record at an auction in Vienna on 12th May, 2012: The camera had been expected to sell for around 600,000 to 800,000 euros at the WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna, but ended up selling for a record 2.16 million euros. For the 5th time the world record for the most expensive camera ever sold was broken at a WestLicht auction in Vienna. The Leica 0-Series camera was sold after a furious bidding war with hopeful buyers placing bids via the phone, the internet and in the auction room itself. Only 25 of the cameras were produced in 1923 as test pieces for the 35mm film market. Only 12 of the cameras are now known to have survived. (source: +, +, +) See a video of the auction here. Another camera that is collecting dust in a collector’s home?

WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE CAMERA

A Leica Series 0 from 1923 achieved a new bidders record at an auction in Vienna on 12th May, 2012: The camera had been expected to sell for around 600,000 to 800,000 euros at the WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna, but ended up selling for a record 2.16 million euros. For the 5th time the world record for the most expensive camera ever sold was broken at a WestLicht auction in Vienna.

The Leica 0-Series camera was sold after a furious bidding war with hopeful buyers placing bids via the phone, the internet and in the auction room itself. Only 25 of the cameras were produced in 1923 as test pieces for the 35mm film market. Only 12 of the cameras are now known to have survived. (source: +, +, +)

See a video of the auction here. Another camera that is collecting dust in a collector’s home?





© Danny Clinch, 1998, Beastie Boys, Los Angeles It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA” Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old. (source) Mr. Yauch, thank you so much for everything you have done to make this world a better place, I appreciate it a lot. May your soul rest in peace. About the photo:Left to right: Adam Yauch (MCA), Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock), Mike Diamond (Mike D) Los Angeles, 1998: I was in L.A., and the Beastie Boys were playing there, and I called to ask if I could go to the show. And their manager said, “Yeah — as a matter of fact, could you spend a little time with them before the show and maybe shoot some pictures?” And I shoot with a lot of different cameras, so I have a whole pile of cameras sitting behind me. So [Adam] Yauch said, “Lemme see that Hasselblad.” I thought he was just gonna check it out, and he turned it on me. I should run the one he took of me and this one. (Danny Clinch)

© Danny Clinch, 1998, Beastie Boys, Los Angeles

It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam “MCA” Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old. (source)

Mr. Yauch, thank you so much for everything you have done to make this world a better place, I appreciate it a lot. May your soul rest in peace.

About the photo:
Left to right: Adam Yauch (MCA), Adam Horovitz (King Ad-Rock), Mike Diamond (Mike D)

Los Angeles, 1998: I was in L.A., and the Beastie Boys were playing there, and I called to ask if I could go to the show. And their manager said, “Yeah — as a matter of fact, could you spend a little time with them before the show and maybe shoot some pictures?” And I shoot with a lot of different cameras, so I have a whole pile of cameras sitting behind me. So [Adam] Yauch said, “Lemme see that Hasselblad.” I thought he was just gonna check it out, and he turned it on me. I should run the one he took of me and this one. (Danny Clinch)





“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
  Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra



© Ron Haviv, August 1992, Trnopolje / Bosnia and Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) “When several journalists broke the story of the Serbian prison camps, there was a huge outcry in the world. Immediate comparisons to Nazi concentration camps were invoked and a demand for investigations and intervention were discussed. I was working on the Bosnian Serb side at the time trying to understand the war from their perspective as, like all wars, nothing is completely one-sided. However it was extremely difficult to work as it appeared the Bosnian Serbs didn’t understand or care about journalism and the flow of information even when it was to help people understand them. I asked a Bosnian Serb Army officer if I could go to a front line near where they had recently lost ground and show the effects on their civilian population. He quickly said no but said if I wanted I could go to visit the prison camps in order to see they really weren’t as bad as people thought. To this day I am not sure if the Bosnian Serb leadership made a brilliant short-term public relations move or just created a long-term accusatory piece of evidence. After my trip to several camps, TIME published the images and the outcry was as to be expected. Brutal images harking back to World War II but now in color and in the 1990s were shocking to all. But the shock quickly wore off and people really didn’t care. Some camps were closed while new ones on all sides opened and the story in the immediate sense disappeared. But now 20 years later we are reminded what happened again in the heart of Europe while we all watched.” (read more) » find more war & conflict photography here «

© Ron Haviv, August 1992, Trnopolje / Bosnia and Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia)

“When several journalists broke the story of the Serbian prison camps, there was a huge outcry in the world. Immediate comparisons to Nazi concentration camps were invoked and a demand for investigations and intervention were discussed. I was working on the Bosnian Serb side at the time trying to understand the war from their perspective as, like all wars, nothing is completely one-sided. However it was extremely difficult to work as it appeared the Bosnian Serbs didn’t understand or care about journalism and the flow of information even when it was to help people understand them.

I asked a Bosnian Serb Army officer if I could go to a front line near where they had recently lost ground and show the effects on their civilian population. He quickly said no but said if I wanted I could go to visit the prison camps in order to see they really weren’t as bad as people thought.

To this day I am not sure if the Bosnian Serb leadership made a brilliant short-term public relations move or just created a long-term accusatory piece of evidence. After my trip to several camps, TIME published the images and the outcry was as to be expected. Brutal images harking back to World War II but now in color and in the 1990s were shocking to all. But the shock quickly wore off and people really didn’t care. Some camps were closed while new ones on all sides opened and the story in the immediate sense disappeared. But now 20 years later we are reminded what happened again in the heart of Europe while we all watched.” (read more)

» find more war & conflict photography here «





© Carol Friedman, 1993, Nina Simone, from the book The Jazz Pictures “Everybody is half dead. Everybody avoids everybody, all over the place, in most situations, most all the time. I know. I’m one of those everybodys. And to me, it is terrible. And so all I’m trying to do all the time is just open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else. That is all. That’s it.” (Nina Simone) Nina Simone had suffered from breast cancer for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003. Her ashes were scattered in several African countries. May her soul rest in peace.

© Carol Friedman, 1993, Nina Simone, from the book The Jazz Pictures

“Everybody is half dead. Everybody avoids everybody, all over the place, in most situations, most all the time. I know. I’m one of those everybodys. And to me, it is terrible. And so all I’m trying to do all the time is just open people up so they can feel themselves and let themselves be open to somebody else. That is all. That’s it.” (Nina Simone)

Nina Simone had suffered from breast cancer for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003. Her ashes were scattered in several African countries. May her soul rest in peace.





Exhibition: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Camera as a Mirror’

#1: © Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979, Patti Smith
#2: © Seydou Keïta, 1950-1952, Untitled #420
#3: © Seydou Keïta, 1950-1952, Untitled #419
#4: © Samuel Fosso, ca. 1970s, Sans titre. De la série Années 70

These photos are part of the exhibition: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Camera as a Mirror’ at the Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden.

This spring we will be showing more than forty photographs from the period 1950-90 taken by leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel Fosso, Tracey Moffatt, and Elina Brotherus. The exhibition focuses on the art of portrait photography and how the artist in his or her studio creates images that depict people not just as they actually are, but also as they would like to appear. (read more)

Exhibition dates: Feb. 18 – Apr. 22, 2012

(thanks to ArtBlart)

» find more exhibitions here «





© Gjon Mili, 1939, High jumper Clarke Mallery This photograph is part of ‘The Sports Show’ - on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through May 13, 2012. » find more exhibitions here «

© Gjon Mili, 1939, High jumper Clarke Mallery

This photograph is part of ‘The Sports Show’ - on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through May 13, 2012.

» find more exhibitions here «





© Paul Szynol, undated, Looking for short stories everywhere; Tokyo Paul Szynol has a passion for street photography in the great tradition of narrative photojournalism. He came of age in Warsaw, Poland and first came to the United States in 1984, which, as he ironically observes “was the year that New York City’s transit fare rose from 75 cents to 90 cents, 33 previously unknown Bach pieces were found in an academic library; and Canon demoed its first digital still camera.” (read an interesting interview with Szynol and find more pictures here)

© Paul Szynol, undated, Looking for short stories everywhere; Tokyo

Paul Szynol has a passion for street photography in the great tradition of narrative photojournalism. He came of age in Warsaw, Poland and first came to the United States in 1984, which, as he ironically observes “was the year that New York City’s transit fare rose from 75 cents to 90 cents, 33 previously unknown Bach pieces were found in an academic library; and Canon demoed its first digital still camera.”

(read an interesting interview with Szynol and find more pictures here)





© Robert Doisneau, 1953, Le Muguet du Métro “A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.” (Robert Doisneau - in the Dutch Photomagazine “Foto” April 1983) Thank you for so many beautiful treasures Mr. Doisneau! Today would have been his 100th birthday - if you haven’t seen it already, also Google celebrates this day: » find more of Magnum Photos here «

© Robert Doisneau, 1953, Le Muguet du Métro

“A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.” (Robert Doisneau - in the Dutch Photomagazine “Foto” April 1983)

Thank you for so many beautiful treasures Mr. Doisneau!

Today would have been his 100th birthday - if you haven’t seen it already, also Google celebrates this day:

» find more of Magnum Photos here «





© Saul Leiter, Exhibition at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg / Germany

#1: Untitled (Self-portrait), 1950s
#2: Postmen, 1952
#3: Man with Straw Hat, ca. 1955
#4: Phone Call, ca. 1957

House of Photography at Deichtorhallen will from February 3 to April 15, 2012 be highlighting the oeuvre of 88-year-old photographer and painter Saul Leiter in the world’s first major retrospective. The exhibition covers more than 400 works and brings together in marvelous combination his early black-and-white and colour photographs, fashion images, painted-over nude photographs, paintings and his sketchbooks, which have never gone on public view before. The final chapter in the exhibition is dedicated to Saul Leiter’s most recent photographic works, which he continues to take on the streets in his neighborhood in New York’s East Village.

  (read more here and here)

Current exhibition:
‘Saul Leiter Retrospektive’ at Deichtorhallen / Haus der Photographie in Hamburg, Germany / Exhibition dates: Feb. 3 − Apr. 15, 2012

» find more exhibitions here «





© Philippe Halsman, 1948, Portrait of Jean Cocteau (with multiple hands) “The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.” (Jean Cocteau) Before the age of Photoshop, there was Philippe Halsman. His dynamic and imaginative photography broke the rules of the day by going against the soft focus style of the time and giving sharp focus to his subjects. He used both stage and darkroom techniques to produce gravity defying objects and invented new ways of interacting with subjects. (read more)

© Philippe Halsman, 1948, Portrait of Jean Cocteau (with multiple hands)

“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.” (Jean Cocteau)

Before the age of Photoshop, there was Philippe Halsman. His dynamic and imaginative photography broke the rules of the day by going against the soft focus style of the time and giving sharp focus to his subjects. He used both stage and darkroom techniques to produce gravity defying objects and invented new ways of interacting with subjects. (read more)





On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain’s ear, the electrician reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found, addressed to Cobain’s childhood imaginary friend “Boddah”, that said, paraphrasing, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing … for too many years now”. A high concentration of heroin and traces of diazepam were also found in his body. Cobain’s body had been lying there for days; the coroner’s report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994. “Before I die many will die with me and they’ll deserve it. See you in Hell.”(Kurt Cobain) © Tim Mantoani, 2006, Portrait of Mark Seliger Photographer Mark Seliger with a print of a Kurt Cobain portrait he shot in 1993. This photo is part of Behind Photographs, a series of large format portraits of photographers holding one of their iconic prints, shot with an utilized 20”x24” Polaroid Camera. (read more)

On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain’s ear, the electrician reported seeing no visible signs of trauma, and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found, addressed to Cobain’s childhood imaginary friend “Boddah”, that said, paraphrasing, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing … for too many years now”. A high concentration of heroin and traces of diazepam were also found in his body. Cobain’s body had been lying there for days; the coroner’s report estimated Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994.

“Before I die many will die with me and they’ll deserve it. See you in Hell.”
(Kurt Cobain)

© Tim Mantoani, 2006, Portrait of Mark Seliger

Photographer Mark Seliger with a print of a Kurt Cobain portrait he shot in 1993. This photo is part of Behind Photographs, a series of large format portraits of photographers holding one of their iconic prints, shot with an utilized 20”x24” Polaroid Camera.

(read more)



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