Back to basics

This great work of Tilent Sepic has been suggested (once more) by one very important person in my life and indeed, it is worth having a closer look at it.

The following gif images are only an overview of the tumblr and, they perfectly illustrate simple everyday's feelings and scenarios that are likely to be ignored in our today's society, sadly.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who passed away in 2004 at the age of 96. He was usually called "the eye of the century" and became unquestionably the major representative of humanistic photography in the 20th century. Some consider him as the father of the modern photojournalism. 

Mr Cartier-Bresson would stride along the streets with his Leica camera to get an opportunity to capture some unexpected scenes that simply happened by chance. His original methods have definitely helped to democratised what we call today the "street photography".

He was often at different places where history was happening. For instance, he visited Gandhi in India in 1948 and then witnessed the transformation of China in 1949 with the victory of Mao Zedong.

Still today, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered as one of the most influential photograph of the history of photography.

Juvisy (1938)

Brie, France (1968)

Behind the Gare St Lazare (1932)

Moscow (1958)

 Beijing (1958)

Torcello near Venice (1953)

www.21vova.tumblr.com

Vova is an independent photograph who has a slightly different concept of the word "photo". These shots were taken in 2010 with a Fujifilm Instax camera.
You can also visit his Tumblr where you will find some interesting posts.

Along with Pakito, these are the kind of works I appreciate.

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Title: "Favred Peacellenq"


Title: "I will"

definition of lomography by Pakito

Clubmoustache is glad to introduce an excellent work which defines perfectly the word "lomography".
These shots have been taken by Pakito Moogli Rms. I hope you will appreciate them as much as I do.

Eadweard James Muybridge / 1830

E.J Muybridge was an English photographer who made things changed importantly for the 19th Century photographic scene. He was born in 1830 and died in 1904 in his home country.

What did he do exactly?

He was the first to photograph a solar eclipse, he also made panoramic photographs 26 feet (8 meters) long of San Francisco, he invented a precursor of the film projector, but he is especially known for his photographs of animals and people in motion... he then opened a new dimension of photography!

Galloping Horse, 1887



Phenakistoscope, 1893



Untitled, Year unknown



Woman walking downstairs, late 19th Century



Panorama of San Francisco, 1878

Keith Arnatt - Self Burial

Keith Arnatt, Self-Burial (Television Interference Project, 1969)

David Hockney

David Hockney is a multi-task English artist born in 1937 in the city of Bradford, England.
He has often been described as a "playboy of the art world", which made an important contribution to the 60s pop art movement. He is considered as one of the most influential British artist of the 20th century.
Indeed, he has exhibited his various works in the most prestigious galleries across the world. His success has not only been based on his works but on his original and strange personality too.
For those interested, a movie was made about him in 1974 and it is entitled "A Bigger Splash".

He has made tons of works including paintings, drawings and photos, so believe me it was hard to select only few of them.
I would recommend you to go on his website if you want to see more about his works.

Arcadia Fletcher and Robin Katz, 2002


A Bigger Splash, 1967


Nick Wilder, 1966


Mother, Bradford Yorkshire, 1982


Photographing Annie Leibovitz While She Is Photographing Me, 1982

EarthRise, 1968

This photo is actually the first photo of our planet taken from the moon! It was taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission, and it has been called by Galen Rowell (a photographer) “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken”.

I will let you be the judge.

Robert Mapplethorpe

R. Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, born in 1946 and died of AIDS in 1989. He said that he was influenced by artists such as Marce Duchamp and Joseph Cornell for his works.
He took his first photos in the mid-70s with a Polaroid camera and then he integrated them to some collages. "Polaroids" was his first exhibition in solo at the Light Gallery in New York City, in 1973.

His works were qualified of "pornography" (even by the artist himself!) but the aim was not shocking people but "looking for things he has never seen before". You will easily imagine that he was one of the most controversial photograph of his time.

Two years after the exhibition he changed his Polaroid camera for a Hasselblad medium-format camera and he started to take picture of his circle of friends (artists, pornography film star, musicians, etc...).
He actually also made the album cover of Patti Smith's album "Horse", and series of portraits and parties for magazines.

You will find below some "classic" photos, but unfortunately I will not publish some of his pornographic works as some would describe it, because I think it would be inappropriate and shocking.

Anyway enjoy his photos.


David Hockney, 1976


Deborah Harry, 1978


Pictures/Self Portrait, 1977


Thomas, 1987


Patti Smith, 1976

Olympics Black Power

Mexico Olympics 1968 medal ceremony is probably the most popular ceremony ever.

The two athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos protested during the victory ceremony against continuing racial discrimination of black people in the U.S.

As you may imagine, many of the crowd booed the act...

"Black America will understand what we did tonight." - Tommie Smith.

1972 / El Milagro de los Andes (Miracle in the Andes)

Source: bbc

1826

The first photo ever taken was in 1826 at Saint Loup de Varenne in France by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce a French inventor.

"Point de vue du Gras" is the title of the first successful picture that changed the world.
What you need to know about this human progress is that it needed a total of 8 hours of exposure during the daylight, a camera obscura and lot patience for such result!

Chernobyl 20 years later

Images will tell the story better than words.







Source: BoredPanda

Philippe Halsmann

Philippe Halsman has adquired an international reputation as one of the world's first portrait photographers.
The story starts when he arrived in New York in 1940 from Latvia with no money but with one camera and until the 1970s his portraits of actors, intellectuals and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the biggest magazines (e.g Life) in Europe and the US.

The particularity of this photographer is jumpology!

"Jumpology?! What does Clubmoustache mean by jumpology?"

P. Halsmann created a genre of portrait: "jumpology" by making people jump in front of the camera, simply because he wanted to capture a unique, natural and real portrait of a person without the typical face of the people put on in front of the camera! This originality lead him to become famous and he was convinced that when people jump there is a lot to learned about their character and personality.

I have selected some photos of his work to make you understand and discover this photograph. For more pictures click here!

Richard Nixon
Brigitte Bardo
Dali
Albert Einstein
Fernandel "the Frenchman"