Julia Margaret Cameron The kiss of peace (1869)

It is almost impossible for someone to determine what is this that gives the impact to a photographer’s images. However in Cameron’s pictures I would dare to say that it is the combination of visual presence with absolute narrative hints. A combination that makes the theatricality a dominant element of her pictures. But the appearance of theatricality is not enough to stimulate the emotions. The viewer has to convinced for the tragically of her characters. The models gaze is lost to one another and to us. The title speaks for a kiss, but kiss there is none. The lips passively seek, but the gaze escapes. The title speaks for peace, but peace looks like a death how is expected. Everything is hinted, because Cameron knows that what is declared disappears. Whether it is sadness, happiness or love.
Cameron was the first and well-known photographer with coherent and conscious artwork. Her work is consists of three types of portraits. Those of her famous artist, scientist and friends, those of close friends from her surrounding environment and those that she did for the illustration of the poetic book of her friend Alfred Tennyson with name of Knights of the table Stroggylis.

Blind photography

"The whole trajectory of modern art for the last 100 years has been toward the concept of mental construction, and blind photography comes from that place. The very concept sounds like an oxymoron" (by new York Times). When I first read about this man I felt awe, and a power that made me appreciate the gifts that I have, the gifts that most of us have. Pete Eckert is a blind photographer and he doesn’t have these gifts, but obviously he has some others. His artwork is not only recognized but he won one of the biggest photographic competitions in the world, Artist Wanted “Exposure” competition, New York, NY, 2008. By looking at his work, we see something simple, something clear, something that goes directly to our harts and we understand that the person who did these pictures is special. By combining help form sighted people and his extraordinary ability of visualizing the world around him, he is creating images in his head — really elaborate, fully realized visions — and then bringing some version of that vision into the world for the rest of us to see how he imagine our world and what he wants to communicate as an artist. As he stated he want to create bridges between the two worlds. And I think he succeeds exactly that.

Time stoppers by SFINA

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Time-stoppers

This project was made by one of the razing Photographic teams of Thessaloniki, an idea which combines the new technologies and the basic idea of photography; the freezing of the time and the imprinting of the image on one piece of paper, succeeding by that to move photography one step forward. With this project the team is setting possible to the viewer to observe the same frozen moment from several different points of view. By using 100 connected cameras and merging the images in a computer they were creating super 180o degrees 3D images and some of the most realistic ones. It is worth telling that even the medium, which has been used, is photography, it is impossible to see these images printed on a peace of paper, so the use of technology (screen) is again necessary. A very interesting project, which literally travel us back to the immortalization of the moment and stimulate our imagination of what else we are going to see in the future!

Feminism . photography by Helmut Newton. They are coming.

They are coming.

The title, Sie kommen, sounds portentous in German, as if these girls are vanguard elements in an invading army. It is similar with the way that feminism invades in the western society in that period. They wear their skin as if it is a costume to which they are more or less indifferent. They care only to dominate our minds, and our every day life, with their beauty, and style. Newton was one of the first that understood, feminism. We see in his work a sense of worshiping the female body, and the understanding of its power.
Another problem which performers and major public artist faced in the 1970s and 80s was that of appearing in public without being used up by the event, this picture is a very good example of that; here the powerful models absented themselves as personalities and used the event to pass the message. “We are coming”. Thus Newton’s major models put themselves on show as impassively as it they were.
So their portraits become specimen pictures, anthropological and anatomical studies.