Walker, Robert. Colour Is Power. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Walker, Robert. Colour Is Power. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
ISBN: 0500542597
UoA Fine Arts Library 770 W183

colour street photography. an okay book for a tired-from-household-chores flip-through.

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde

Henri Cartier-Bresson in The Decisive Moment:
The difficulties involved in snapshooting are precisely that we cannot control the movement of the subject; and in colour-photography reporting, the real difficulty is that we are unable to control the inter-relation of colours within the subject.

Denis Darzacq : La chute

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/photography/story/0,,2040037,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/mar/23/darzacq?picture=329756707
http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/la_chute/D-Darzacq-World.Press-Photo-07.pdf

\\\\first of all, this post should have been posted ages ago but i just thought i would write something grand. guess i was wrong about myself, as usual. so in order to keep my mind focused i think i should just write sh*t posts and see what happens. free country, free blogging.\\\\
these photos and settings in the series remind me of the french cités i was once familiar with, though they also could be any other city in the world. mass housing system is something quite particular in style, and of course this "cité culture" can be found elsewhere in the world, not just in france. yet the clothing and the body build do refer to the youngsters in the cité and the hip activities they engage themselves in -- jumping off building walls etc. yea, does look kinda cool on newspapers eh.
these photographs are really intriguing eh. make you wonder HOW HOW HOW.

"DON'T speak like someone from the cité!"
if i ever did, i took it as a compliment. merci, salaud.

riot 2005:
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/2005riots/index.html
1968 student revolution:
http://www.marxist.com/1968/may68.html

art photography in Germany today
26/3/2008 st paul st 15h

Barbara Honrath talked about German contemporary photography after 1945 in Museum collections in numerous cities spread out in Germany. Also put photography into traditional painting genres into "portraits", "landscape", "architecture", "interior", and "still life", and showed works by Thomas Struth, Jitka Hanzlová, Simone Nieweg, Beate Gütschow, Thomas Florschuetz, Heidi Specker, Candida Höfer, Beatrice Minda, Christopher Muller, Stephaine Senge, Frank Breuer, Wolfram Hahn, Joachim Brohm, Peter Piller, and Jörg Sasse. I personally found the photos of Peter Piller most interesting, especially "More Beautiful from Above (2004)". The housing says a lot about a culture and the mass influence, etc. blah. yea. good talk, good introduction. a bit tiring though.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/sg/pro/artphoto/index.htm

Martha Rosler

About Martha Rosler (born July 29, 1943)
http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/about/index.html
"Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and
writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and
internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday
life — often with an eye to women's experience — and the media to
architecture and the built environment."

Documents of Dissent - Martha Rosler
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_3_89/ai_71558212
"Political art, we are often told, comes in two modes. One is the
universal cry against injustice which resonates across time and
geographic borders, transcending the often forgotten circumstances
that inspired its creation. In this category lie the dark nightmares
of Goya's Los Caprichos and the shriek Of rage which Picasso's
Guernica lifts up against the atrocities inflicted on the innocent
victims of war."

Project: Unsettling the Fragments (Erschütterung der Fragmente)
http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/skulptur-projekte/kuenstler/rosler/index_html#projekt
Martha Rosler asks why history must be portrayed as seamless, for is
it not the contradictions that ensure that an urban community remains
vital?"

Film & Videos by
http://ubuweb.com/film/rosler.html
Semotics of the Kitchen (1975)
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (1977)
A Simple Case for Torture (1983)

Exhibiting "Martha Rosler": A feminist response to Martha Rosler,
Positions in the Life World.
http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/A-Feminist-Response-To-Martha-Rosler.html
"Martha Rosler's practice has played a crucial part in breaking the
modernist myth that art was a domain apart from society and immune to
politics and power. She has always made work for circulation in
galleries and museums and recently confirmed that she "has no
intention of giving up on the museum and gallery audience."(5) At the
same time, though, a commitment to reaching a wider public beyond the
museum and gallery-going audience is fundamental to her practice."

Expo : Portrait of a marriage - Deborah Smith

30/11-21/12/2007
Opening Friday 30 November at 17h30

One photo a day, day after day for 365 days, from one wedding anniversary to the next, Deborah Smith's project Portrait of a Marriage can be read as a diary on the one hand, a series of questions investigating boundaries for portraiture on the other.

I saw a man, half naked at times, often wearing a blank expression on his face; a boy jumping happily in the garden, the summer warmth; a woman and her camera, silent. Objects, the house, and the city. Rich in colour, but the presentation did not trigger much dialogue in me, at times I found it hard to engage in this almost generic auto-biography format.

It has to be personal and it also has to speak to others. I felt this negotiation through the depiction of objects, sites, changes of focus and perspectives. I also felt that this project could have been operated by a few different people, perhaps at a particular time on a particular day, she decided to see this marriage in a complete different way. .. No, I am not reading this right. But did she demand any deeper reading? There was hardly intimacy in the horizontal bands of pictures.

And I wondered, did she only take one photo a day, or she selected one from the hundreds a day?

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Frances Hodgkins
http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HodgkinsFrances/HodgkinsFrances/en
http://www.johnleechgallery.co.nz/artists/featured/franceshodgkins/

Joan Didion
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4956088

Expo: Lyon Septembre de la Photographie

http://www.lebleuduciel.net/html/cdv-accueil.htm
今年的Lyon沒有當代藝術雙年展, 而是舞蹈節. 動態熱情的聲光舞台在市區閃耀著, 而視覺藝術也同樣在城中各地展現 -- 攝影展, 原來已儼然第四屆了. Lyon實在不大, 但辦展的規模總小不了, 網站也總是做得有模有樣... 如果能去看就好囉! 回到NZ後真的可以知道歐洲的可貴... 終於, 人生有了方向.