Rodger was one of many photographers to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, the first being members of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit. His photographs of the survivors and piles of corpses were published in Life and Time magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps.…
Noteblog
Here I will try to share my research, my studies, my sources, just about everything that catches my attention. For each document, I will summarize in a few words or through some quotes what seems important to me to advance in my reflection. Sometimes I will also add some comments, some questions that will be for me new ways of research.
Of course I will give you a reference or a link to the original document in the language in which I discovered it. As I will try to translate these notes myself in order to work on my language skills, sometimes I will also provide other documents, treating about the same subject but in other languages.
I hope this blog-like-notes will be as useful to you as are to me. It’s up to you to do your own research if you want to go deeper into the subject. I will open comments soon to give you the opportunity to share other sources.
His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. He described his camera as ‘infatuated’, and said: ‘I’m not a journalist, an objective reporter, I’m a man with…
Ed van der Elsken
Cover image: © Rob Bogaerts / AnefoIn 1955 he met Ernst Haas and Henri Cartier-Bresson, members of the photo agency Magnum Photos. This led to his acceptance as a nominee member in the same year, and full membership in 1957. He remained a Magnum photographer until 1967. He worked as freelance photographer in Europe, Africa and Asia until the mid-1960s, when…
Brian Brake
Cover image: © UnknownHalász’s job and his love of the city, whose streets he often wandered late at night, led to photography. He first used it to supplement some of his articles for more money, but rapidly explored the city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian André Kertész. He later wrote that…
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Cover image: © BrassaïIn 1933 Brandt moved to London and began documenting all levels of British society. This kind of documentary was uncommon at that time. Brandt published two books showcasing this work, The English at Home (1936) and A Night in London (1938). He was a regular contributor to magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post, and Harper’s…
Eve Arnold
Cover image: © UnknownWith the minimal and conceptual movement, the art of this period is defined and reconstructed with elements external to the work: proofs, certificates, complementary information … In response to this tendency, Mac Adams introduces the notion of fiction into his photographs. Mac Adams fits into the conceptual current but responds differently: in the narration, everything is…
Mac Adams
Cover image: © Mac AdamsAnsel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Ansel Adams
Cover image: © Malcolm GreanyEdward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision…