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 Abiding Memories: Adam Bartos, Kosmos By Philip W. Martin, Afterimage, July 1, 2002 The striking thing–or what strikes you first–about Adam Bartos‘s photographs of the people and places of the Russian space program is that they let you In: into a world thought to be off-limits and into the space of the photographs themselves, which are so large that much of what is depicted is itself life-sized. Though large-scale photographic… ADAM BARTOS: “Abiding Memories: Adam Bartos – Kosmos” (2002)  … it blows and it moves… it spreads and it affects.. there is no escape. It moves through your head, it freezes your bones… it lets no one in yet, it encompasses everything. This emotional freeze is at the core of Adam Jeppesen’s work and it is a bit relentless. With a minimalistic vision and a driven and quiet calculation, Adam Jeppesen speaks of this arctic-tundra-frozen-emotion and he talks with his silence and with his quie…  Boulevard. Photographs by Adam Bartos. Essay by Geoff Dyer. Steidl / Dangin, 2006. Cat# DP296 ISBN-10: 3865211593 …  Wake. Photographs by Adam Jeppesen. Steidl Dangin, Gottingen, 2008. 48 pp., 27 color illustrations, 6½x8″. …  Wake. Photographs by Adam Jeppesen. Steidl Dangin, Gottingen, 2008. 48 pp., 27 color illustrations, 6½x8″. …  Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. He started photographing professionally in 1986 and joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers with whom he worked closely until 1990. His work as a freelance photographer in South Africa for the local and foreign media included positions with Reuters between 1986 and 1988, and with Agence France Presse in 1993 and 1994. Tillim has received many awards for his work, including the P… ASX.TV: Guy Tillim – “Guy Tillim with Adam Hochschild” (2011) …hy’s claim to represent the truth is now a staple of popular culture. The cover story on the Weekly World News for February 25, 1997 was a follow-up to their 1992 “story” of the discovery of the skeletons of Adam and Eve in Denver, Colorado. Further analysis of the photograph now showed the skeleton of a baby girl, disclosing that the first couple had a hitherto unknown daughter. The subhead reads: “Puzzled Bible experts a… THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)  …have always said, thank heavens that not one piece of art or one piece of music has influenced me. If I was influenced only by Mondrian or only by Strand only by anybody I would then become only an imitator of Strand or Ansel Adams, who was a good friend, or any of these people…I was influenced by quite a number of people. Then, as I explained before, with the advice to young photographers — really try to find out what you love to do …  …enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment … HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)  …most responsive description we have of the spirit of Frank’s pictures. 4) Eugenia Parry Janis and Wendy MacNeil, eds., Photography within the Humanities (Danbury, N.H., Addison House, 1977), p.56. 5) Ibid., p. 56. 6) The wall label for his part of this exhibition was written by Evans himself: “Valid photography, like humor, seems to be too serious a matter to talk about seriously. If, in a note, it can’t be defined weightily, what it is not can b…  …ogrand, Friedlander’s alter ego, would seem to have run out of ideas and impulse. Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, in tragically differing ways, might be said to have quit while they were ahead. Only William Eggleston and Robert Adams appear to share the stamina and inexhaustible curiosity of Friedlander. But let us return to the basic question. What is the substance of this curiosity? This issue cannot be ducked by demurring that the diarist’s musi… | ||||||||||||||
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