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"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close
enough," Robert Capa used to say. It was a simple
formula. All it took to adhere to it was uncommon
courage.Capa made his name, or rather, that of his
alter ego, Endre Friedman being his real name by
photographing, up close and personal, the defining
conflicts and artistic personalities of the 20th century.
As Life magazine, one of his employers, boasted about his exploits, Capa "took his camera farther into the fighting zone than had ever been done before," which was no mean feat in itself, but truly significant only because of Capa's uncanny eye for the decisive moment. |
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Do I point my camera outwards to the existing world or
turn it inward towards my soul.
I was born in 1946, the first year after the World War II. My parents just survived hardships of evacuation and returned back home to Riga, then under Soviet occupation. I grew up among Russian speaking population of Latvia, and Russian culture become my root culture. I started to photograph when I was nineteen, driven by desire to create my own personal style and vision. I was involved in portraiture and did some documentary shots, but soon realized the results did not satisfy me. I put my camera aside and concentrated on reading (Dostoevsky, Bulgakov) and cinematography (Tarkovsky, Parajanov). I was constantly looking for the way to express my personal feelings and thoughts using photography. One year later it came to me clear and simple. I decided to photograph Concepts. |
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The photographer Jane Bown has had a career
spanning more than fifty years. She claims she
became a photographer almost by accident - she
took it up at the end of the Second World War after
leaving the Wrens. Over the years, the revealing
portraits she has taken for The Observer have
become legendary. She works in black and white,
avoids artificial lighting and has a tremendous knack
for capturing the personality of her sitter. She has
photographed just about everyone - from politicians to
actors, musicians to writers. Louise Adamson went to
meet Jane Bown at her home and they began by
looking at a photograph of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard
Burton and Noel Coward.
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Although celebrated for her extraordinary studies of
modern dance in the late 1920s and early thirties,
Barbara Morgan enjoyed an artistic career that
embraced a wide range of philosophical and
aesthetic influences. Her studies of pioneering
dancers such as Martha Graham, José Limón, Erik
Hawkins, and Merce Cunningham capture the
spirituality of a temporal art. She also combined
photograms and light drawing to experiment with
moving light patterns. A former painter, she used
montage and manipulated imagery to express the
visual and kinetic energy of New York City.
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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:
sitemanager @pixiport.com Photograph by Shirley Cross
Pixiport Artists` Showcase |
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YOU CAN NOW ADVERTISE IN OUR
NEWSLETTER !!!
Best Wishes, scarlet
scarlet james
Pixiport Fine Art Photography & Creative Media
email:
scarlet@pixiport.com
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