31 January 2007

Taxi Driver (Image capture)- Martin Scorcese, 1976



Image captured from an Original DVD by RC with Cyberlink's "Power DVD"

28 January 2007

Bandit's Roost- by Jacob Riis, 1888



"Na segunda metade do século XIX, a imprensa desempenhou um papel fulcral nos movimentos sociais(...) A fotografia tornou-se num importante veículo de reformas." in "História da Arte", H. W. Janson - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Photo from Masters of Photography

17 January 2007

Boys running into the surf Lake Tanganyika- by Munkacsi, 1930



"The strongest Photographic influence came from the Hungarian photophapher Munkacsi. I saw his picture of some boys on a beach and I thought it was perfection" - Cartier-Bresson in "Dialogue with photography.", Dewi Lewis Publishing

"A mais forte influência fotográfica veio do fotógrafo Hungaro Munkacsi. Vi uma fotografia sua de alguns rapazes numa praia e pensei que era perfeita." - Cartier-Bresson em "Dialogue with photography", Dewi Lewis Publishing

Photo from ICP

11 January 2007

Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945


"It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn't mean a thing" - George Rodger in "Dialogue with photography", Dewi Lewis Publishing

"Nem sequer era a questão do que fotografava mas do que tinha acontecido comigo. Quando descobri que podia olhar para os horrores de Belsen - 4000 mortes e esfomeados à minha volta - e pensar apenas numa boa composição fotográfica, soube que algo de mau me tinha acontecido e tinha de parar. Senti-me como as pessoas que dirigiam o campo, aquilo não significava nada" - George Rodger in "Dialogue with photography", Dewi Lewis Publishing

Image from www.photo.fr/portfolios/rodger/photos/rodger7.jpg (find on http://postscriptum.blogspot.com/)

10 January 2007

3 Pictures of Lewis Payne - by Alexander Gardner, 1865





"Lewis Payne tentou assassinar o secretário de Estado americano, W.H. Seward (...) Ele aguarda o enforcamento. (...) Observo, horrorizado, um futuro anterior em que a morte é a aposta (...) A fotografia diz-me a morte no futuro." - Roland Barthes "A Câmara Clara", Edições 70

Image 1 and 2 from
www.eastman.org/.../tachap3_sum00002.html
Image 3 from http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/item.cgi?id=18784&template=submagnify&table=items

Wall Street, New York - by Paul Strand, 1915


Image from http://www.aperture.org/store/prints-detail-w.aspx?id=312

Stieglitz said, in 1915, about the collections of pictures where this was took: "You've done something new for photography" (from an interview with Paul Strand on April, 1974 in "Dialogue with photography", Dewi Lewis Publishing).

Stieglitz disse em 1915 sobre o conjunto de fotografias onde se encontrava esta: "Fizeste algo novo em fotografia" (de uma entrevista com Paul Strand em Abril de 1974 em "Dialogue with photography", Dewi Lewis Publishing)

2 January 2007

Woman Examining Man - by Helmut Newton, 1975


Photography from the Book "Private Property" by Helmut Newton