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I’m moving to tumblr

corehound — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:37:09 +0000

It’s official, i’m moving to tumblr…find it much easier and I’ve got a better layout. More photos, less text, but same information value!

please follow me: anythingthatburns.tumblr.com

How To Make A Mountain Sculpture – Mai Yamashita, Naoto Kobayashi

corehound — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:02:56 +0000

„In this project Yamashita and Kobayashi stick to the simple basic principle for creating artwork, that is “Look and Make”. They went to the Swiss Alps, picked up pieces of firewood around their house and created a mountain sculpture in front of the mountain.‘‘

>2006 (Matterhorn) wood 26x14x14cm digital prints 72x48cm

>2006 (Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau) wood 29x18x16cm digital prints 72x48cm

David Goldblatt in colour

corehound — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:52 +0000

My bachelor graduation exhibition is going to start on the 3rd of july. So I’ll keep it short. I came across some recent colour large format work from David Goldblatt who is known for his black and white work from South Africa. Goldblatt is one of the few photographers who put a lifetime (almost 50 years) in documenting South African society. Anyway, here are some photos:

Copyright © 2004 David Goldblatt
Joburg Colour, ‘Hacienda’ cluster housing development, Ruimsig, Strubensvalley, Johannesburg. 27 April 2004

Copyright © 2003 David Goldblatt
Joburg Colour, Clothes for sale on Freedom Square (now Walter Sisulu Square), Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg. 10 December 2003

Copyright © 2006 David Goldblatt
‘Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1000 houses. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, 5 August 2006′

bomb tests #1

corehound — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:48:18 +0000

The Gadget 1945 (2007)
Steel and plastics
230 x 170 x 160 cm
Photo: Marc Domage
ARTIST: Henrik Plenge Jakobsen
www.henrikplengejakobsen.net
Note: Replica of the first nuclear weapon device from the Trinity Test.

Trinity was the first test of technology for an atomic weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945.

The Mark 17 hydrogen bomb: the largest bomb ever made by the United States. Over 24 feet long, 42,000 pounds, and with an explosive power of 15-20 megatons (equivalent to over 1,000 Hiroshima size bombs). It’s on display at the National Atomic Museum.

Marshall Island nuclear test. Islanders, personnel gathered to watch…

nuclear blast

Trevor Paglen on blank spots on the map / secret part of government

corehound — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:45:03 +0000

just watch it!

From Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1754)

corehound — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:56:51 +0000

“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer, are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy…”

“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that, far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force. Astonishment, as I have said, is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree; the interior effects are admiration, reverence and respect…”

“To make any thing very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this, who considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings…In nature, dark, confused, uncertain images have a greater power on the fancy to form grander passions, than those have which are more clear and determinate…”

“Greatness of dimension is a powerful cause of the sublime…I am apt to imagine that height is less grand than depth; and that we are more struck at looking down from a precipice than at looking up at an object of equal height; but of that I am not very positive. A perpendicular has more force in forming the sublime, than an inclined plane; and the effects of a rugged and broken surface seem stronger than when it is smooth and polished…Another source of the sublime is Infinity; if it does not rather belong to the last. Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime…”

found on http://grasso4543.blogspot.com/

Richard Misrach

corehound — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:26:24 +0000

Arno Roncada

corehound — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:22:40 +0000

‘Arno Roncada doesn’t take photographs. He invents them. Pictures or fragments of perspective. Sceneries and landscapes. They are created from a mix of instinctive ideas, critical considerations and rational models, existing or not. He takes the time to give form to a space; to show us in full what there is to see and – if possible – what he himself thought to see. In such a way, locations are found or sometimes even literally personally constructed.
Here, the language of modernistic films serves as a pretext for exploring an enigmatic or subjective state of the landscape, using specific cinematografic shooting techniques (e.g. day for night) and thematic affinities.’ (Quote formatfestival.com)

A survey on dutch landscape photography

corehound — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:20:23 +0000

I did some research in my bookmark and collected some photographers whose interest lies in the documentation of the dutch landscape. Here are some of them

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Population growth, economic activity and lack of space all helped to shape the Dutch landscape. Photographers André-Pierre Lamoth and Jannes Linders were commissioned to capture these aspects under the title ‘The Dutch Landscape’.

Jannes Linders

Andre Pierre Lamoth

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Hans Aarsman, also known as a writer and for his job at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam. He did some nice large format photography, standing on the top of his RV with a tripod and his camera. In my opinion one of the best ways to photograph the typical flat and wide landscape of the Netherlands.

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Frank van der Salm works with largeformat photography and his relationship to painting is quite obvious. Especially his new still lifes, which almost reminded me of some Jeff Koons collages…I appreciate the older work though.

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Gerco de Ruijter examined the dutch landscape with a self made kite for his camera. The process is quite accidentially, because there is no viewfinder or anything. What a nice way to let the wind do some work And there’s lots of wind in this country.

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Wout Berger did beside his landscape photographs also a lot of close up photography of landscapes. I also posted one of his photos earlier.

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Bas Princen is actually at the same gallery as Wout Berger. There are some other photos on the website. I can’t remember where I found this one. It’s one of my favourites from his dutch landscapes..

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And I also came across some photographers like Marnix Goossens for the first time. These two shown photos are not that retro-like as some of his work on his website.

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After Hans van der Meer started his project about the landscape of lower league football fields in the Netherlands, he started to do the same with more places around europe. Reminded me of my childhood in a small village

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Jan Kosters‘ interest lies in the natural dutch landscape (or what you actually call nature in the netherlands). He documented the whole coastline with his project “dutchscapes”

Hans Aarsman on the mysterious ways of beauty in photography

corehound — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:34:44 +0000

I did some research about dutch landscape photography and I accidentially came across a great talk on photography from Hans Aarsman, dutch photographer. My english isn’t good enough to describe it properly, but i really recommend to view it on the website.

`Hans Aarsman’s talk at TEDxAmsterdam was titled “From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” and the audience judged it one of the highlights of the day. Surprising, insightful and at times hilarious, Aarsman shows different concepts of beauty in photography, and suggests that the only real photographic beauty is to be found in pictures that were made without such a goal in mind.´(quote from TEDx Amsterdam)

Whatever, here’s the link: Hans Aarsman Tedx Amsterdam