Max Scheler: Von Konrad A. bis Jackie O. / Deichtorhallen Hamburg

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Max Scheler: Von Konrad A. bis Jackie O.
Fotografien aus Deutschland, China, USA
11.09.09 > 15.11.09

Die Ausstellung „Max Scheler: Von Konrad A. bis Jackie O.“ zeigt mit rund 140 Exponaten vom 11. September bis zum 15. November im Haus der Photographie den ersten großen Querschnitt aus dem Werk des bedeutenden Fotojournalisten.

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Jackie und John F Kennedy empfangen den marokkanischen König Hassen II, Washington 1963.
USA, 1963, Washington, John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

Max Scheler war international bekannter Fotograf der Nachkriegszeit, Junior Mitglied der Agentur Magnum und ab 1959 einer der großen Bildermacher des “Sterns”. Mit Ende seines fotografischen Schaffens gründete er 1975 mit Rolf Gillhausen die Zeitschrift “Geo”.

Als Schüler von Herbert List beginnt Scheler sein Schaffen im Deutschland des Wirtschaftswunders der 1950er Jahre. Politische Reportagearbeit bringt ihn zur Qemoykrise nach China und Taiwan und in den 1960er Jahren zur Kulturrevolution Mao Zedongs. Die USA bereist Scheler in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren mehrfach und berichtet für die “Münchner Illustrierte” und “Stern” von Land, Leuten und politischem Leben.

Schelers Hauptthema ist der ‚human interest‘, die menschlichen Verhaltensweisen, Freude und Trauer, Begeisterung und Verzweiflung. Bei der Wahl seiner Themen zeigt er sein Bedürfnis, Chronist bedeutender Ereignisse zu sein. Menschen unterschiedlichster Kulturkreise beobachtet er im Alltag, bei Krisen- und Kriegszeiten, bei sozialen Problemen und Festlichkeiten. So entstehen Menschenbilder voller emotionaler Dichte, in ausführlichen Berichten, manchmal in mehreren Folgen.

Komisch und skurril, dann wieder ernst und dramatisch, mal dokumentierend und mal kommentierend, zeigen Schelers vielschichtige Bilder historische Ereignisse und Persönlichkeiten, aber auch alltägliche Momente der Welt, in der wir leben.

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Deutsch Amerikanischer Abschied, Norfolk Virginia, 1958.
USA, 1958, Norfolk, Virginia, German Navy with the first foreign training in the USA after WW2 with Ship Zerstörer.
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Die Familie King beim sonntäglichen Spaziergang, Atlanta, 1964.
USA, 1964, Atlanta, Martin Luther KING and his family on a sunday afternoon walk
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Der Parteivorsitzende Mao Zedong wird retuschiert, Bejing 1967.
China (People Republic of), Bejing 1967, Touching-up Mao.
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg Germany

Unterteilen lassen sich die ausgestellten Werke in drei Schauplätze: Deutschland, China und USA. Während die Photografien aus Deutschland das Wirtschaftswunder, den politischen Aufbruch der Bundesrepublik und die Teilung Deutschlands kommentieren, berichten die Bilder aus China von Krise, ideologischem Umbruch und kultureller Fremde. Die USA begegnet uns in den Arbeiten von Max Scheler als vielschichtiges und widersprüchliches Phänomen: hoch entwickelt und dennoch provinziell; demokratisch-fortschrittlich und dennoch rassistisch und ungerecht. Bilder der Vereinigten Staaten, die auch über Zerrissenheit einer großen Nation berichten.

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Bildmaterial © Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

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Sam Babicci holding saxophone – Photo of the day

Published by Paula Bray May 19, 2009 in Photo of the day.

Powerhouse Museum – Sydney

Sam Babicci holding saxophone

Sam Babicci holding saxophone, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection.

This image comes from the Thomas Lennon commercial photography archive that has been recently added to the Commons on Flickr. Sydney born photographer, Lennon, ran a studio at 64 Victoria Road, Drummoyne, NSW during the 1930s and 1940s. The collection consists of 796 negatives are largely of balls and dinners held in Sydney, but also include weddings, funerals, work events, parties, portraits, pets, fashion, horse races, and various places and events in Sydney.

This particular negative has this inscribed on it:
‘This negative was stored in a box inscribed in pencil ‘Ces Morrison – 17/11/33 / Sam Babicci – 18/11/33′.’

One of the comments from one of our members in Flickr states:
‘Sam Babicci was a restaurant manager and bandleader in Sydney during the post-war era. He managed Romanos.’

Do you have any information about Sam Babicci? I would love to hear about it if you do!




Photography by Thomas Lennon
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Max Scheler : Germany, China, USA. Photography 1950 – 1974 / Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

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Max Scheler
Germany, China, USA. Photography 1950 – 1974
11.09.09 > 15.11.09

The exhibition at Deichtorhallen Hamburg shows a cross-section of Max Scheler’s works, multi-faceted images reporting on everyday and political life – both documentary and commentarial.

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Jackie und John F Kennedy empfangen den marokkanischen König Hassen II, Washington 1963.
USA, 1963, Washington, John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

A pupil of Herbert List, Max Scheler begins his artistic production during the 1950s economic boom in Germany.

Political reportage takes him to China and Taiwan during the Quemoy crisis and, in the 1960s, to the cultural revolution of Mao Zedong. In the 1950s and 1960s, Scheler visits the USA several times and reports for the magazines “Münchner Illustrierte” und “stern” on land and people as well as the political life.

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Deutsch Amerikanischer Abschied, Norfolk Virginia, 1958.
USA, 1958, Norfolk, Virginia, German Navy with the first foreign training in the USA after WW2 with Ship Zerstörer.
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Die Familie King beim sonntäglichen Spaziergang, Atlanta, 1964.
USA, 1964, Atlanta, Martin Luther KING and his family on a sunday afternoon walk
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg, Germany

Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Der Parteivorsitzende Mao Zedong wird retuschiert, Bejing 1967.
China (People Republic of), Bejing 1967, Touching-up Mao.
© Max Scheler Estate, Hamburg Germany

Humorous and bizarre, then again serious and dramatic, Scheler’s photography depicts historical events and personalities, but also everyday situations of the world we live in. From 1959, Max Scheler was one of the great photographers of “stern”. In 1975, he founded the magazine “Geo” conjointly with Rolf Gillhausen. Later on, he became the photographic director of “Merian”.

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Sexties – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Sexties
Crepax – Cuvelier – Forest – Peellaert
25.09.2009 > 03.01.2010

This exhibition highlights the work of four authors who, thanks to their audacious illustrations and narratives, have been instrumental in the development of the comic strip by expanding the art form beyond the realm of children. It will take place in the impressive setting of the Centre For Fine Arts in Brussels.

Guy Peellaert

Pravda © Guy Peellaert

In the mid-1960s, the four artists in question found their inspiration in painting (including the Pop Art movement), cartoons (‘Yellow Submarine’, etc.), cinema, music (anything from rock to innocent French ‘Yé-yé’ pop), literature and photography. Through the eyes of these four major artists, the exhibition will attempt to paint a picture of an era that saw many changes in quick succession.

Guido Crepax (1933-2003), an Italian, created ‘Valentina’ – whose physique was inspired by the actress Louise Brooks – in 1965 for the publication ‘Linus’. Éric Losfeld, an avant-garde publisher, put out the album in 1968. Right from the start, Crepax was considered an undisputed master of highbrow eroticism. The following decade, this top-flight graphic artist would adapt, in an inimitable black and white, the great classics of eroticism: ‘Histoire d’O’, ‘Emmanuelle’ and ‘Justine’. His layouts included a revolutionary narrative system consisting of stories within stories and flashbacks.

Belgian Paul Cuvelier (1923-1978) was a leading post-war Belgian comic-strip artist. His ‘Corentin’ gives us little glimpses, from time to time, of a sensuality that would be expressed later in a more adult work. Jean Van Hamme, then just starting out as a scriptwriter, drafted ‘Epoxy’ (1968) for the artist. In this mythological tale, Cuvelier finally and fully expressed his passion for drawing the human body, especially the female form. Indeed, drawing would remain a central part of his comic books.

Cuvelier-Le Lombard

Epoxy © Cuvelier-Le Lombard

In 1962, Frenchman Jean-Claude Forest (1930-1988) initiated a shockwave by creating ‘Barbarella’ in ‘V-Magazine’. The character, whose physique was inspired by Brigitte Bardot’s, embodied modern woman during a period of sexual liberation. Seen by some as scandalous, the album that appeared in 1964 turned ‘Barbarella’ into the first-ever ‘adult’ comic. Forest’s sensually drawn lines and his imagination made the strip a huge success, which was further amplified in 1968 by Roger Vadim’s film (featuring Jane Fonda in the lead role). Forest himself designed the scenery for the film. As an author in his own right as well as a scriptwriter (‘Les naufragés du temps’ with Paul Gillon and ‘Ici même’ with Jacques Tardi), Forest was one of the founders of adult comics.

Belgian Guy Peellaert (born in 1934) enjoyed a brief, but legendary, career in comic strips. His style, which was in keeping with the era, introduced ‘Pop Art’ into the frames. Initially appearing in ‘Hara-Kiri’, ‘Les aventures de Jodelle’ (a character whose body was inspired by that of French singer Sylvie Vartan) was published as an album in 1966. Two years later, Peellaert launched a new but equally psychedelic heroine: ‘Pravda, la survireuse’ (another French singer, this time Françoise Hardy, was the model for the character of Pravda). The artist then devoted himself to painting, a field that led him to design posters for films (‘Taxi Driver’/Martin Scorsese, ‘Paris, Texas’/Wim Wenders, etc.), album covers (‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’/The Rolling Stones, ‘Diamond Dogs’/David Bowie), and for books (‘Rock Dreams’ and ‘The Big Room’), all of which are now iconic works of art.

Crepax

Valentina © Crepax

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Made an appointment with Death – photo of the day

Published by Paula Bray July 19, 2009 in Photo of the day.

Powerhouse Museum – Sydney

Made an appointment with Death

This ambrotype photograph was taken by Henry Death of Camberwell, London. One has to feel sorry for the photographer as it must have been hard for his sitters telling their friends that they had ‘made an appointment with Death’. The accession register for this photograph states that the woman in the portrait is the grandmother of a local Sydney woman, Mrs. M. W. Carter, and was taken around 1862.





Photography by Henry Death
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