28 1 / 2012
Dante Alighieri. Canto III de la Divina Comedia ( fragmento )
Inscripción
Por mí se llega a la ciudad doliente.
Por mí se avanza hacia la eterna pena.
Por mí se va tras la perdida gente.
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19 1 / 2012
Photography is about description. I don’t mean only mere facts and the cold accounting of things in the frame. I really mean the description of sensations I get from things -color, surface, texture - and by extension, my memory of them under other conditions, as well as their connotative equalities. Color plays itself out along a rich band of feelings—- Color photography, as opposed to black and white, offers more wavelengths, more radiance, more sensation. I want to see and experience feelings from a photograph.
Joel Meyerowitz
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19 1 / 2012
Where the Wild Things Are
Inspiration: Scary relatives, an inability to draw horses
Fun fact: Where the Wild Things Are was originally going to be called Where the Wild Horses Are. The only problem was that as it transpired, Maurice Sendak couldn’t draw a convincing horse to save his life. In the end, his despairing editor changed the title on the faith that if Sendak couldn’t do horses, he could “at the very least draw ‘a thing.’” The “things” he drew ended up being caricatures of the “hideous” family members who’d visit the young Sendak’s house on a Sunday afternoon. “I drew my relatives,” he admitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1993. “They’re all dead now, so I can tell people
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18 1 / 2012
35 Magnum Photographers Give Their Advice to Aspiring Photographers
What advice would you give young photographers?
You must have something to “say”. You must be brutally honest with yourself about this. Think about history , politics, science, literature, music, film, and anthropology. What affects does one discipline have over another? What makes “man” tick? Today , with everyone being able to easily make technically perfect photographs with a cell phone, you need to be an “author”. It is all about authorship, authorship and authorship. Many young photographers come to me and tell me their motivation for being a photographer is to “travel the world” or to “make a name” for themselves. Wrong answers in my opinion. Those are collateral incidentals or perhaps even the disadvantages of being a photographer. Without having tangible ideas , thoughts, feelings, and something almost “literary” to contribute to “the discussion”, today’s photographer will become lost in the sea of mediocrity. Photography is now clearly a language. As with any language, knowing how to spell and write a gramatically correct “sentence” is , of course, necessary. But, more importantly, today’s emerging photographers now must be “visual wordsmiths” with either a clear didactic or an esoteric imperitive. Be a poet, not a technical “writer”. Perhaps more simply put, find a heartfelt personal project. Give yourself the “assignment” you might dream someone would give you. Please remember, you and only you will control your destiny. Believe it, know it, say it.
David Alan Harvey
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17 1 / 2012
“No hicimos caso a Arthur Rimbaud cuando proclamó que no había que cambiar la sociedad sino la vida” del texto breve Los robots están aquí
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