Matthew Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Thanks for the notice for the book; I'm becoming very interested in photography concerning the "between the wars" era in Europe and also the Veimar Republic. Have any suggestions on who would be worth looking into besides Salomon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Young farmers, August Sander. Germany, around 1913. Matthew, for an inside view of Germany go have a look at the very beautiful and disturbing photos taken by August Sander! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 (edited) Another recommended book on Weimar Germany: 'Germany' by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Original copy is nearly impossible to find but the paperback edition from H.N. Abrams should be no problem. Eisenstaedt's eye: Goebbels, 1933 Eisenstaedt fled Germany soon after that photo... Edited May 9, 2006 by brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Another recommended book on Weimar Germany: 'Germany' by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Original copy is nearly impossible to find but the paperback edition from H.N. Abrams should be no problem. Eisenstaedt's eye: Goebbels, 1933 Eisenstaedt fled Germany soon after that photo... From the way Goebbels was looking at him, I would have left also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Photographer Arnold Newman, a master of portraits, died on Tuesday. He was 88. Newman's images of Igor Stravinsky and Willie 'The Lion' Smith... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Industrialist Alfried Krupp, Essen, Germany, July 6, 1963. by Arnold Newman GI: Have your personal feelings about someone ever affected the way you chose to photograph that person? AN: There's only twice I ever tried to deliberately show an individual as bad, and that was Alfried Krupp and Richard Nixon. Actually, I didn't do it on purpose to Nixon -- he did it to himself. I deliberately put a knife in Krupp's back, visually. He was a friend of Hitler's and Hitler let him use prisoners as slave labor. If the prisoners fell, he just unchained them and they went directly into the crematoriums in Auschwitz. Krupp's people realized I was Jewish, and they were worried that I might not be kind to him. I was trying to figure a way to show who he really was without being obvious. I lit from both sides and I said, "Would you lean forward." And my hair stood up on end. The light from the sides made him look like the devil. It's an un-retouched photograph. He actually was a handsome man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Sad news about Newman. I got a book which has this great portrait of Woody Allen on the cover - very nice one: better version of the Stravinsky photo: and a last one, George Grosz (1942) ****** Matthew: definitely go for Sander's work if you're interested in Germany between the wars. I think recently a book was published featuring urban photographs (Berlin only or mostly) by Roman Vishniac - I haven't seen it, but his photos from the eastern schtetls are an important and moving document. (Not Germany, exactly... rather the eastern borders of the austrian/hungarian monarchy - documents of a world that was most thoroughly extinguished by the German and the Sovjets and hords of willing helpers from the area.) Googled some, seems the book's called "Roman Vishniacs Berlin" (Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2005 - doesn't look like there's an english edition available). Here's a bit of info (in German): Vishniacs Berlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I love that Stravinsky photo. I'd like to get a print of that one. Anyone aware of such a thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I was reading Stephen E. Ambrose's history of D-Day today, and he mentions that Robert Capa was in the second wave on Omaha Beach, took 106 pictures of the invasion, flew back to England to get the pictures developed, and the darkroom assistant was in such a hurry to develop the photos he overheated the negatives and ruined all but eight of them. Wow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I was reading Stephen E. Ambrose's history of D-Day today, and he mentions that Robert Capa was in the second wave on Omaha Beach, took 106 pictures of the invasion, flew back to England to get the pictures developed, and the darkroom assistant was in such a hurry to develop the photos he overheated the negatives and ruined all but eight of them. Wow... An account of the Capa D-Day coverage - which is part of Photo lore by now - can be read here Actually, Capa landed with the first wave, not the second, on Omaha Beach. His editor John G. Morris is still very much alive and well in Paris. Another D-Day photo lore is the story of AP photographer Marty Lederhandler who landed on Utah Beach on June 6. Like many photographers, he had been provided with two caged pigeons to fly his films back to England. The photographers and their pigeons had been stationed for two days inside boats before the landing because of bad weather. After landing in Normandy, Lederhandler released his pigeons and saw one of them - by now disoriented - flutter into the ski to turn east instead of west! The pigeon flew into German lines, the film was captured and Lederhandler's photos were published - with full credit - on German newspapers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I was reading Stephen E. Ambrose's history of D-Day today, and he mentions that Robert Capa was in the second wave on Omaha Beach, took 106 pictures of the invasion, flew back to England to get the pictures developed, and the darkroom assistant was in such a hurry to develop the photos he overheated the negatives and ruined all but eight of them. Wow... An account of the Capa D-Day coverage - which is part of Photo lore by now - can be read here Actually, Capa landed with the first wave, not the second, on Omaha Beach. His editor John G. Morris is still very much alive and well in Paris. Another D-Day photo lore is the story of AP photographer Marty Lederhandler who landed on Utah Beach on June 6. Like many photographers, he had been provided with two caged pigeons to fly his films back to England. The photographers and their pigeons had been stationed for two days inside boats before the landing because of bad weather. After landing in Normandy, Lederhandler released his pigeons and saw one of them - by now disoriented - flutter into the ski to turn east instead of west! The pigeon flew into German lines, the film was captured and Lederhandler's photos were published - with full credit - on German newspapers. Thanks for the link, I'm finding photography to be a fascinating subject -- might have to buy me a camera sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Weiss Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I met Roy DeCarava Sunday night. Beautiful guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I love that Stravinsky photo. I'd like to get a print of that one. Anyone aware of such a thing? ...up until a couple days ago, you could have found one from about $2500.00 for an original print, depending on size but I'm sure they are moving up as we speak. You can find posters in various shops (allposters.com) for much less~~ Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I've been looking at a lot of Arnold Newman lately, just a masterful artist. I'm going have to sit down someday and do some serious studying about photography; it's fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Looking at Francis Bacon & Robert Oppenheimer, it strikes me for the first time that there is some kind of connection between the two, like Newman captured something that is present in both. Hmmmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sailor Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 My favorite http://www.flickr.com/photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Joe Rosenthal who took the image of US Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima died Sunday. The AP story: AP lensman who shot Iwo Jima photo dies By JUSTIN M. NORTON, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94. Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal. "He was a good and honest man, he had real integrity," she said. Rosenthal's iconic photo, shot on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954 and known officially as the Marine Corps War Memorial, commemorates the Marines who died taking the Pacific island in World War II. The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century. It shows the second raising of the flag that day on Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island. The first flag had been deemed too small. "What I see behind the photo is what it took to get up to those heights — the kind of devotion to their country that those young men had, and the sacrifices they made," Rosenthal once said. "I take some gratification in being a little part of what the U.S. stands for." He liked to call himself "a guy who was up in the big leagues for a cup of coffee at one time." The picture was an inspiration for Thomas E. Franklin of The Record of Bergen County, N.J., who took the photo of three firefighters raising a flag amid the ruins of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Franklin said he instantly saw the similarities with the Iwo Jima photo as he looked through his lens. Franklin's photo, distributed worldwide by the AP, was a finalist in 2002 for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography. The small island of Iwo Jima was a strategic piece of land 750 miles south of Tokyo, and the United States wanted it to support long-range B-29 bombers and a possible invasion of Japan. On Feb. 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines landed on the southeast coast. Mount Suribachi, at 546 feet the highest point on the island, took four days for the troops to scale. In all, more than 6,800 U.S. servicemen died in the five-week battle for the island, and the 21,000-man Japanese defense force was virtually wiped out. Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote that he almost didn't go up to the summit when he learned a flag had already been raised. He decided to up anyway, and found servicemen preparing to put up the second, larger flag. "Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know." "Millions of Americans saw this picture five or six days before I did, and when I first heard about it, I had no idea what picture was meant." He recalled that days later, when a colleague congratulated him on the picture, he thought he meant another, posed shot he had taken later that day, of Marines waving and cheering at the base of the flag. He added that if he had posed the flag-raising picture, as some skeptics have suggested over the years, "I would, of course, have ruined it" by choosing fewer men and making sure their faces could be seen. Standing near Rosenthal was Marine Sgt. Bill Genaust, the motion picture cameraman who filmed the same flag-raising. He was killed in combat just days later. A frame of Genaust's film is nearly identical to the Rosenthal photo. The AP photo quickly became the subject of posters, war-bond drives and a U.S. postage stamp. Rosenthal left the AP later in 1945 to join the San Francisco Chronicle, where he worked as a photographer for 35 years before retiring. "He was short in stature but that was about it. He had a lot of nerve," said John O'Hara, a retired photographer who worked with Rosenthal at the San Francisco Chronicle. O'Hara said Rosenthal took special pride in a certificate naming him an honorary Marine and remained spry and alert well into his 90s. Rosenthal's famous picture kept him busy for years, and he continued to get requests for prints decades after the shutter clicked. He said he was always flattered by the tumult surrounding the shot, but added, "I'd rather just lie down and listen to a ball game." "He was the best photographer," said friend and fellow Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut of The Associated Press, who said he spoke with Rosenthal last week. "His picture no one forgets. People know the photo very well." Ut's 1972 image of a little girl, naked and screaming in agony as she flees a napalm bomb attack during the Vietnam War, stoked anti-war sentiment. But Rosenthal's photo helped fuel patriotism in the United States. "People say to me, yours is so sad. You see his picture and it shows how Americans won the war," Ut said. Rosenthal was born in 1911 in Washington, D.C. He took up photography as a hobby. As the Depression got under way, Rosenthal moved to San Francisco, living with a brother until he found a job with the Newspaper Enterprise Association in 1930. In 1932, Rosenthal joined the old San Francisco News as a combination reporter and photographer. "They just told me to take this big box and point the end with the glass toward the subject and press the shutter and `We'll tell you what you did wrong,'" he said. After a short time with ACME Newspictures in San Francisco in 1936, Rosenthal became San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times-Wide World Photos. Rosenthal began working for the AP in San Francisco when the news cooperative bought Wide World Photos. After a stint in the Merchant Marine, he returned to the AP and was sent to cover battle areas in 1944. His first assignment was in New Guinea, and he also covered the invasion of Guam before making his famous photo on Iwo Jima. In addition to his daughter, Rosenthal is survived by his ex-wife Lee Rosenthal, his son Joseph J. Rosenthal Jr., and their families. ___ Associated Press Writer Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report. ___ On the Net: More on Rosenthal: http://www.newseum.org/warstories/intervie...ts/bio.asp?ID32 I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Rosenthal when he came to Perpignan, in southern France, for the Visa Pour l'Image newsphotos show some fifteen years ago. Rosenthal and photographer Nick Ut who took the dramatic photo of a napalm-burned Vietnamese girl running for safety were sharing an exhibition there. The warm personality of Rosenthal endeared him to everyone he met. He won numerous friends in Perpignan and he was invited back to the next festivals as a special guest. He was made an honorary citizen of the city. Joe and I became friends over the years. Unfortunately his falling health prevented him from flying from California to France in his final years. He is being dearly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Joe Rosenthal's photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, february 23, 1945. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Thanks for the information brownie. RIP Mr. Rosenthal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Clint Eastwood has made a film centering on Joe Rosenthal's famous photo in his latest film 'Flags of Our Fathers' due to be released this week. A preview of the French version of the film here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 The great photographer Leonard Freed died this week. Some of his outstanding photos can be seen here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 Thank you, Brownie.... "Harlem, NY, 1963" has been a longstanding favorite of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 The web-based New York Times was the source for this bucolic exotica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 The great photographer Leonard Freed died this week. Some of his outstanding photos can be seen here Man, that's sad; sorry to hear this ........RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Many thanks for the link Brownie. Wonderful stuff. We are diminished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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