Cartier-Bresson, Burri, Sander and …
A couple of years back I started publishing a photograph every time I loaded a new post to barebones communication. Eventually, I also started getting more serious about photography not only shooting left and right, upstairs and downstairs. Family and cute dogs.
This summer I started a proper photographic project called Berlin Black and White. Today that project holds 212 pictures from Berlin. There are more photographs to come. An exhibition and a book is also in the pipeline.
I couple of weeks ago I was approached by Frieder Zimmerman and Bernd Korte. They operate a German photosite, and they do their own publishing. “Are you interested in showing some of your pictures at our site?” Frieder asked me. I said “yes, selbstverständlich.” Now we are up running with 27 of the 212 pictures from Berlin Black and White.
Please visit the site at F11 photography. Click Expo 1 to get to the portfolio. The virtual exhibition will run from October 1, 2010, plus two months.
If is not everyday, by the way, I get mentioning in the same text as celebrities like Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Burri and August Sander. I don’t know how it is with you? I am honoured
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I thought I would let you know.
Here is the newsletter from 30 September 2010 (nr. 24):
Liebe Freunde unserer Website F11 photography,
Straßenfotografie ist die Kunst zur rechten Zeit am rechten Ort zu sein. Als distanzierter Beobachter doch nah genug zu sein, um mit Bildern Geschichten zu erzählen oder sogar selbst Teil der Geschichte zu werden. Straßenfotografie ist nicht die Jagd nach Schnappschüssen mit einem Teleobjektiv, sondern das Erfassen und Darstellen von Situationen. Große Meister haben diese Form der Fotografie zur Kunst erhoben. Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Burri, in gewissem Maß auch August Sander, sind berühmte Fotografen, die in diesem Zusammenhang immer wieder genannt und gezeigt werden. Viel Geld müsste man ausgeben, wenn man eines Ihrer Originale kaufen wollte.
Auf der Suche nach neuen Talenten haben wir Ihnen im Juni 2008 an dieser Stelle den Amerikaner, Phil DeVries, mit seinen eindrucksvollen Bildern aus New Orleans vorgestellt. Heute freuen wir uns besonders, Knut Skjaerven, als Norweger in Kopenhagen lebend, zu präsentieren.
Knut schreibt über sich selbst: “Ich habe Phenomenology und visual arts studiert. Ernsthaft zu fotografieren habe ich erst vor wenigen Jahren begonnen. Und damit meine ich, bei einem Thema zu bleiben, einen Stil zu entwickeln, der Wiedererkennbarkeit ermöglicht.
“Berlin Black and White” ist eigentlich mein erster Versuch, ein wichtiges fotografisches Projekt umzusetzen. Dabei macht es diese Stadt mit seiner Offenheit, seiner Multikultur einfach, fotografische Vorstellungen umzusetzen.”
Wir freuen uns, einige Bilder von Knut Skaerven zeigen zu dürfen und wünschen Ihnen genügend Ruhe und Muße beim Anschauen auf F11 photography . Klicken Sie danach bitte auf Expo 1.
Wenn Sie mehr über die Arbeit von Knut Skjaerven erfahren wollen, schauen Sie mal in seinen Blog: Berlin Black and White .
Ihr F11 photography – Team
Frieder Zimmermann und Bernd Korte
Dear friends of our website F11 photography!
Street photography is the ability to be on the spot on time and though being a distant observer to be close enough to tell stories with pictures or even becoming a part of the story oneself. This does not mean taking snapshots with a tele lens, but realizing and presenting specific moments. Works of famous photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Burri and August Sander have always been quoted and shown in this context. We would have to afford quite a bit to buy one of their originals.
Looking for new talents F11 has already presented the American Phil DeVries with his impressive New Orleans street-pictures in 2008. Today we are very glad to introduce to you Knut Skjaerven, a Norwegian, living in Copenhagen.
He says about himself: “I have studied phenomenology and visual arts and have become a serious photographer for a few years only. For me this means to stick to a theme, to develop a personal style of recognition for others.
“Berlin Black and White” actually is my first attempt to realize such a project. Berlin with its cosmopolitan and multicultural character is an easy and thrilling offer to realize my photographic ideas.”
We are looking forward to show some of Knut Skjaerven’s photos and do hope you’ll be able to watch them with leisure on F11 photography, clicking Expo 1.
In case you ‘d like to get more information about his work you should call up his Blog
Your F11 photography team
Bernd Korte and Frieder Zimmermann
October 2, 2010 Posted by Knut Skjaerven | barebones communication, photograph, photography | August Sander, barebones communication, Berlin Black and White, Bernd Korte, f11 photography, Frieder Zimmermann, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Knut Skjaerven, Knut Skjærven, René Burri | Leave a Comment
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Barebones Communication started in December 2007.
The idea was to make a blog about communication combining different resources like phenomenology, semiology, gestalt psychology, etcetera, and to show that different orientations worked well together.
I started adding a photograph to each post, and gradually the blog became oriented towards photography as an expression of visual communication.
In 2010 I made a blog solely based on photography. It became Berlin Black And White. Today is holds 470 images. The same month I started Phenomenology and Photography, as I found that was a particularly interesting area and one that there was scarcely any attention on.
I became interested in street photography and decided to develop that area in a living combination of photography and photographic theory. That is what I still do.
Barebones Communication became the mother blog for a series of specialized blogs as well as several social groups.
I call it THE BAREBONES PROJECT since everything is so closely linked to the inspiration you find in this blog. All of it has to do with phenomenology. Not in any scholarly fashion, but as the craft of photography. More specifically S T R E E T P H O T O G R A P H Y. I find that this type of spontaneous and documentary photography have a special kinship with phenomenology’s L I F E W O R L D.
I would like to think that I, as a photographer, E X E C U T E phenomenology. To me a mere scholarly interest in phenomenology can never be enough to fulfill the original intentions of phenomenology as, first and foremost, a practical, living philosophy. Phenomenology is not for reading. It is for D O I N G.
If you have an interest in how the theoretical platform are being developed into practical guidelines for street photography, you are welcome to follow the ongoing projects. I would be honoured if you did.
You will find all the activities listed in the link section of The Raw Material. I will keep it up to date.
Good luck with it.
Copenhagen, March 10, 2012.
Yes, I am impressed. Barebones Communication has largely been left unattended since mid 2010. It still runs incredibly well. The average views in 2111 were 68 a day, the same as in 2009. The most views on a single day were February 13, 2012 with 435 view.
Many thanks to all those who persistently use this blog. With this new introduction you have an opportunity to follow the many branches that has grown from it. Barebones Communication is still very much alive even if more goes on the sites that have sprung from it.
This year Barebones Communication with turn 100.000 visitors.
I really like your Venn representation of phenomenology
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My name is Mary Edwards and I’m a doctoral student at the University of Florida studying educational technology. My cohort of doctoral students is creating resources pages using google groups and I’m designing a page about phenomenology and the phenomenological approach to research.
I really like your venn representation of phenomenology and request permission to add it to my page (image attached as a bitmap for your reference). Our google group site is limited to Ed Tech doc students and requires an administratively distributed password.
Thanks for your consideration.
Mary
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