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

„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

Arno Roncada

‘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

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

Jannes Linders

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

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

Movies about Photography

James Pomerantz, currently pursuing his MfA at The School of Visual Arts in New York, posted a great list of movies about photography on his webblog. I actually saw the link on his facebook page which also comes in very handy!

Here the link to the movie list: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2009/11/30/movies-about-photography/
There’s also a link to his facebook page somewhere on his page if you’re really interested!