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Thursday 9 June
Bielsko-Biala
Bielsko-Biala
Bielsko-Biala
Friday 10 June
It proved impossible to hang my work at the Teatr Baniluka,
where it had been scheduled to show. There are 9 A1 size prints and 20 38x25cm.
Eventually this work was moved to SFERA where it could be
hung properly framed.
Vasil Stanko and Stefan Bremer in a cafe on Rynek, Bielsko.
Jan Kruml and Vasil Stanko
Inez and Andrzej Baturo.at the opening ceremony at the Bielskie Centrum Kultury
Vasil at the party at the castle after the official
opening.
Sarah Saudek
Eikoh Hosoe, Jutka and Stefan
Less than 95 theses (continued)
Its instructive to think what a history or overview of photography written
in the 1920s or 1930s might have looked like. We can be fairly sure that
some of those who would have featured most prominently, for example, William
Mortensen, author of Pictorial Lighting, 1932, Projection Control,
1934, Monster & Madonnas: A Book of Methods, 1936, The Command to
Look, 1937, The Model, 1937
and more, are among those now largely relegated to footnotes, while the
photographer many of us would regard as the most important of the early
years of the century, Eugene Atget, would not have got a mention.
There are many photographers who are not particularly well-known whose work is of interest, and often of rather more interest than some of those who have made the history books. Fame is about being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people.
Photography is not an American medium, nor does it belong to Dusseldorf.
Much of the most interesting things that are happening in photography
now take place away from these centres. Despite the efforts of historians
and authors - such as Naomi Rosenblum - we still have a very long way
to go in discovering twentieth century photography outside of the United
States of America. (I wonder how much space Polish photography gets in
her latest ‘World History’, being promoted during this festival.)
I’m ashamed to have written virtually nothing on it to date. However
In my features on my web site‘About Photography’ I try to
show a world view of photography, for example with the series of features
on photography in Central and South America. Along with the work of many
others these have helped shine a little light on photography in this vibrant
and active region.
You can download a zip file of
the 3 talks I wrote for Bielsko-Biala (text only.)
These include an introduction which contains some of the above material, which was rewritten in Poland, and presentations on the work of two great British photographers, Tony Ray Jones and Raymond Moore, another on the work of some of my London Friends, Paul Baldesare, Jim Barron, Derek Ridgers, Mike Seaborne and Dave Trainer, and on my own work.
Peter Marshall
Bielsko-Biala and Staines, June 2005.
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