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1st April 2008
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"Photography is the art of Not pushing the button"
Monsieur Horvat explains -
One difference between photography and painting (or drawing, or other forms of art) is that it takes no talent, and practically no effort, to get an image on film. A modern camera takes care even of focusing and exposure.
All my efforts are spent in holding back, in telling myself: "No, this is not yet the best light for Alexandra, not yet her most photogenic angle, not yet her truest expression."
The reason for holding back is not only to spare some film - it's like storing my energy, or rather my expectation; it's letting the image I want take shape in my mind, by the very act of refusing the images I don't want. Until the moment when I recognize, in the viewfinder, the image that I want to see - and then there is no holding back any more.

A Retrospective of 60 years of Photography

"After my return from India I spent about a year in London (1954-55), photographing mainly on assignment, for magazines such as LIFE and PICTURE POST, but also doing some speculation work in the streets, parks and pubs of the city.
A selection from my photographs of London has been exhibited at the MUSÉE CARNAVALET, Paris."
"Very often I say to myself, I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with.
For nothing to happen, something has to happen first."

Sharah Moon, photographer.
Born in England. In the Sixties worked as a model in London and Paris and fashion photographer and filmmaker. Lives in Paris.

"Entre Vues" with Frank Horvat


Hollywood film legend, actor RICHARD WIDMARK dies.

Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday 24th March at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93.









From the New York Times
Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. Duchamp invented the concept of the 'readymade': presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia's use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions.



"The Moment Art Changed Forever"
As always Pixiport is all ways endeavoring to improve on all of its services particularly ways of showing your work to the world. We now have a SHOWCASE which is updated weekly, and invite everyone to show on a regular basis a new piece, an old favorite; any one of your images you think would be interesting to us. This is a space to share your art with us, not for comment, just as an interest in you and your work. We suggest you send in one picture a week 600pix 72dpi jpeg to: The Site Manager

Photograph by Marc Hollembeak
'A heady fusion of Hopper and Vermeer'
An article by Michael Palin in the Guardian.
It wasn't exactly love at first sight; more a slow, benign haunting. It began after a visit to the Hayward Gallery in London nearly 20 years ago to see an exhibition of Scandinavian art. The South Bank, cold, grey and severe, seemed to echo all my prejudices as I dodged the swirling litter around the door, and readied myself for a therapeutic touch of Norse rigor. Instead I found walls full of colour, and canvases as bright and boundless as those of any impressionist, tinged with an appealing touch of melancholy. Golden harvest fields, couples strolling along beaches enveloped in the odd blue light of the midnight sun, women in deck chairs in long, white cotton dresses, big healthy nudes, thatched houses with spick-and-span rooms. Positive, glowing stuff, and very much in the general run of 19th-century European and American taste.
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As the White Cube Gallery in London, MOCA and other important art Galleries around the world prove, photography is alive and living well.
With the new technologies getting newer with ever-increasing speed, the opportunities for exciting inventiveness is increasing, and long may it be so.
With very grateful thanks to all who went before and everyone still leading the way.

Best wishes, scarlet


scarlet james
Pixiport Fine Art Photography & Creative Media


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