What The Duck ?!

Today… a little bit of humor!

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C/O Berlin

bild_neu_3.pngC/OBerlin is a place for photography, design, architecture, cultural policy and cultural management. It is a young institution created by photographer Stephan Erfut, designer Marc Naroska and architect Ingo Pott.The Cultural Forum for Photography, has established as part of the cultural landscape in central Berlin between the Museum island and the government quarter. It is based in the Postfuhramt.

I had the opportunity to visit it this Easter. I was in Berlin for four days and I took a look the exhibition they have and the rest of the installations.

The running exhibition was Bettina Rheims . Can You Find Happiness? 95 photographs by Bettina Rheims from eight photographic series – among them “Chambre Close” and “Shanghai”. In this exhibition, which explores the relationship between the French photographer’s artistic work and her applied, commercial work, three series are being shown for the first time worldwide.

If someone of you is going to Berlin, I would recommend you to visit it.

Vanity Fair’s Portraits

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Legends of Hollywood (L-R: Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz) by Annie Leibovitz, 2001.

I went to the Vanity Fair’s Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery last Friday.

You can see there more than 150 portraits of people from the worlds of music, sport, fashion, business, literature politics, theatre, cinema, and the arts, like Claude Monet, Amelia Earhart, Jesse Owens, David Hockney, Arthur Miller, Madonna, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Demi Moore and Tom Cruise.

I had the opportunity to see portraits from photographers such as Baron De Meyer, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton by the Vanity Fair’s early period; and more contemporary photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, since its re-launch in 1983.

The picture above is Legends of Hollywood (L-R: Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz) by Annie Leibovitz, 2001. It is one of my favorites.

Vintage Snapshots

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squareamerica.com. I have just arrived to this site surfing the net.

Square America is a collection which compiles vintage snap shots from the XX century. Here you can find the kind of photos that museums and galleries ignore. These are pictures of normal people at normal situations. The owner bought those photos on markets, eBay, from friends, or he found them in a photo booth…

If you take a look at these photos, it will be like a trip, thinking about all those people and what they were doing at that time. It reminds me when I go to my grandma’s house and I watch the albums she has (only two) and a big box with more pictures of them, my parents, their parents… Their life story.

May be any of you think about… why that name for the website? This is because the favorite format photo of the collector is 3.5” x 3.5”, though in his archives there are different formats. squareamerica.com has the pictures grouped by themes, such as pets, weapons, or space missions(pictures taken of TV!), and a blog The Boat Lullabies.

Through my window

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My favourite place in my site is the terrace. Since I start living here I love having breakfast looking through the window on the living room. I specially like when the light in the morning and evening, how the branches, the people, the buildings draw silhouettes among the bars. Black figures and blue skies.
I decide capture that during weekends at different times during all day.

This is one of the pictures I took with a medium format camera.
You can see more of them at Personal Portfolio.