Mr. Penn

Fazendo meu trabalho de conclusão me deparei com essa foto!
Linda! Tinha que ser Mr. Penn ... que consegue manter uma foto com um gesto desses... classic!

Bendito TCC - tesouros do Mr. Avedon

E esse bendito (nem sempre, as vezes bem maldito) TCC que tem me trazido grandes achados!

Por exemplo, hoje numa busca por retratos do Richard Avedon me deparo com uma foto que reúne 3 dos meus fotógrafos preferidos de todos os tempos!!!

Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton! (NY 1983 foto de Roxanne Lowitt).

Como se não bastasse encontrei também o texto completo da carta que Richard Avedon escreveu pro seu pai e que foi encontrada no bolso do palitó do pai dele depois que ele morreu.

Assistam ao documentário Darkness & Light num dos posts que fiz aqui no blog!

Abaixo segue o texto da carta.

In 1970, I showed my father for the first time one of the portraits that I had made of him in the years just before. He was wounded. My sense of what is beautiful was very different from his. I wrote to him to try and explain.

Dear Dad,

I’m putting this in a letter because phone calls have a way of disappearing in the whatever it is. I’m trying to put into words what I feel most deeply, not just about you, but about my work and the years of undefinable father and son between us. I’ve never understood why I’ve saved the best that’s in me for strangers like Stravinsky and not for my own father.

There was a picture of you on the piano that I saw every day when I was growing up. It was by the Bachrach studio and heavily retouched and we all used to call it “Smilin’ Jack Avedon”—it was a family joke, because it was a photograph of a man we never saw, and of a man I never knew. Years later, Bachrach did an advertisement with me—Richard Avedon, Photographer—as a subject. Their photograph of me was the same as the photograph of you. We were up on the same piano, where neither of us had ever lived.

I am trying to do something else. When you pose for a photograph, it’s behind a smile that isn’t yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people. I want your intensity to pass into me, go through the camera and become a recognition to a stranger. I love your ambition and your capacity for disappointment, and that’s still as alive in you as it has ever been.

Do you remember you tried to show me how to ride a bicycle, when I was nine years old? You had come up to New Hampshire for the weekend, I think, in the summer when we were there on vacation, and you were wearing your business suit. You were showing me how to ride a bike, and you fell and I saw your face then. I remember the expression on your face when you fell. I had my box Brownie with me, and I took the picture.

I’m not making myself clear. Do you understand?

Love, Dick

Richard Avedon - sou fã!

Richard Avedon ... SEMPRE ele !
Eu aqui montand meu trabalho pra disciplina de Produção e Análise Gráfica fiquei viajando nas fotos e em algumas frases famosas dele.
Resolvi dividir aqui !



*A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

* A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

* A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

A minha preferida de todas eu preciso repetir aqui:

* If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Quote of the Day by Ansel Adams

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit." Ansel Adams

Pete Turner - Classics

Aqui algumas das imagens clássicas do Pete Turner.
Que antes da era do Photoshop achava formas de saturar cores e fazer efeitos incríveis.
E que aos 75 anos é adepto do PS e LR. Esses dias achei um podcast muito legal.

Sou fã do cara.
No workshop que eu fiz foi muito louco poder ouvir ele explicando como ele tirou cada uma dessas fotos aí de cima (entre outras). Foi como poder entrar um pouquinho na cabeça dele e entender um nadinha do olhar dele e como ele pensa a construção das imagens.
Sem falar que ele é muito mais do que modesto, é humilde pra caramba. Inacreditável.

Espiem no site dele a série The Colors of Jazz.

Pete Turner - Empowered by Color

Eu tive a sorte de poder fazer um workshop de um final de semana com ele! :)
Em 2003.

Entre os colegas de workshop Luiz Carlos Felizardo e Leopoldo Plentz.
Crazy!

Ansel Adams

"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. " - Ansel Adams
Engraçado que exatamente o mesmo acontece com as pessoas... hehehe