Lisboa, Estádio Primeiro de Maio, 1 de Maio de 1974.
Um blogue com imagens a preto-e-branco. Dos consagrados e dos que hão-de sê-lo.
Missão
A Fotografia a preto-e-branco é a manifestação mais nobre da 8ª Arte. Uma imagem vale por si, pelo que contém e pelo que comunica. Todos os elementos acessórios são expurgados (começando pela cor) a ponto de não se sentir a sua falta.
Este singelo blogue pretende celebrar a Fotografia a preto-e-branco, relevando o papel dos Fotógrafos que, em nossa opinião, mais contribuiram para esta Arte.
Em complemento, os Autores do blogue irão trazer aqui algumas das suas próprias criações a preto-e-branco. Consoante a época em que foram produzidas (de 1960 até à actualidade) utilizaram-se múltiplos procedimentos na elaboração destas imagens.
Os detalhes técnicos de cada fotografia são deliberadamente escassos. Como se pretende, as imagens valem por si e as particularidades do processamento são quase sempre irrelevantes.
As imagens dos Grandes Mestres frequentemente retratam lugares, pessoas ou acontecimentos do conhecimento público. Do mesmo modo, considerou-se pouco relevante a sua legendagem quando o que se pretende é despertar a atenção do visitante para o portfolio dos Mestres, suscitando a vontade de melhor os conhecer.
** Edward Steichen ** (1879–1973)
Edward J. Steichen (b. Bivange, Luxembourg) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. In partnership with Steiglitz, Steichen opened the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession", which presented the first American exhibitions of Matisse, Rodin, Cézanne, Picasso and Brâncuşi.
Steichen's photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret in the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. He was a photographer for the magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair from 1923–1938. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world.
After WWII he was Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art until 1962. While at MoMA, in 1955 he curated and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man which eventually traveled to sixty-nine countries, was seen by nine million people, and sold two and a half million copies of a companion book. (Wikipedia)
Steichen's photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret in the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. He was a photographer for the magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair from 1923–1938. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world.
After WWII he was Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art until 1962. While at MoMA, in 1955 he curated and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man which eventually traveled to sixty-nine countries, was seen by nine million people, and sold two and a half million copies of a companion book. (Wikipedia)
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