MAGISTER DIXIT: William Albert Allard (1937, USA)

-”Tienes que pedirte más a ti mismo. Tienes que empezar a buscar fotografías que nadie más pueda hacer. Tienes que tomar tus herramientas e ir más allá.”

www.williamalbertallard.com

"You have to ask yourself more. You have to start looking for pictures that nobody else can do. You have to take your tools and go beyond. "




(born in 1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American documentary photographer.

*LARRY CLARK* (USA)

Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding.

Larry Clark nació el 19 de enero de 1943 en Tulsa, Oklahoma, fotógrafo y director de cine. Comenzó trabajando con fotografías en blanco y negro. Después de salir de la escuela, estuvo dos años en Vietnam.

Después de publicar algunos libros de fotografía, incluidos Tulsa y Teenage Lust, conoció a un joven escritor llamado Harmony Korine en Nueva York. Juntos trabajaron en el libreto de la película Kids, su polémica ópera prima.

Los temas más tratados en sus películas son la violencia juvenil, el "skateboarding", las drogas y el sexo casual. En diversas entrevistas, Clark ha declarado que estos tópicos fueron vividos por él mismo en su juventud. Sus películas son hechas de forma directa, con una fotografía cruda y simple, de un tono realista. Destacados directores, tales como Gus Van Sant y Martin Scorsese han admirado el trabajo de Clark, sobre todo en su primera etapa en el mundo de la fotografía.


Películas

1995 - Kids, acerca del comportamiento sexual de los adolescentes y el sida.

1998 - Al final del edén, una historia de un crimen, con James Woods y Melanie Griffith.

2001 - Bully, planificación de un asesinato adolescente, basada en hechos reales.

2002 - El regreso a las cavernas

2002 - Ken Park, historias de un grupo de adolescentes.

2006 - Wassup Rockers, acerca de un grupo de jóvenes amigos skaters salvadoreños en EE. UU.


http://www.larryclarkofficialwebsite.com/

*WILLIAM MORTENSEN* (USA,1897-1965)

William Mortensen es uno de los olvidados de la historia de la fotografía, durante los 20 y los años 40 retrató a los famosos de Hollywood, con una manera pictórica y elegante. Luego pasa a una tradición gótica y romántica, su estilo es una extraña combinación de Lorenzo de Bernini, Edgar Allan Poe, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí y Maxfield Parrish. La mayoría de sus negativos faltan, o están en paradero desconocido. También dejó algunas notas o cartas... Interesante artista para conocer...

William Mortensen (USA, 1897-1965). While it is often true that a great artist never lives to see his ship come in, the opposite was true of Mortensen: In the late 1920s through early 1940s, his star was ascending, seemingly without end. Based in Laguna Beach, California, he was photographer to many of Hollywood's most famous, working with such acclaimed figures as Fay Wray, Cecil B. deMille and Marlene Dietrich. While his "pictorialist" style of photography -- painterly and posh, relying on soft-focus and darkroom knowhow to produce luxuriously toned and finished prints -- was favoured by the stars, clearly Mortensen found himself on the wrong side of history when it came to fine arts photography. The new "purist" movement, which celebrated the "straight," unadorned, print and a more documentarian style, was afoot and found no place for the Gothic-inspired Mortensen.
Except that's not quite the way it happened. For the f/64 group, spearheaded by Ansel Adams and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall (curators with the Museum of Modern Art), it was not enough merely to disagree philosophically with Mortensen. Had they done so, it would have been unlikely that Mortensen would have been forgotten and ignored so during his own lifetime and after his death, for he was something more than just another painterly salon photographer: His compositions were steeped in Gothic and Romantic traditions, his subject matter often whimsical, often bizarre, his style a strange combination of Lorenzo de Bernini, Edgar Allan Poe, Man Ray, Salvador Dali and Maxfield Parrish.
In his essay, "Beyond Recall," photographer A.D. Coleman -- who is quite sympathetic to the Adams aesthetic -- presents a scathing indictment of Adams and the Newhalls, and their active campaign to completely shut out Mortensen from the elite artistic inner circles. Although he never said so, it is evident from reading these essays that Mortensen died a broken man. Even after Mortensen's death, "Saint Ansel" Adams tried to prevent Mortensen's work from being archived at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Fortunately, for posterity, curator James Enyeart (who, though a friend of Adams) remained objective, and was instrumental in finding a permanent home for Mortensen's artistic legacy.
Sadly, little remains of his artistic output: Most of Mortensen's negaives are missing, whereabouts unknown. He also left few notes or letters. No conclusions can be drawn, but it is strongly suggested that by the time he died Mortensen felt so irrelevant to the history of photography that he never bothered to leave much behind.

Book: William Mortensen: A Revival (Archive)

Richard Avedon in "Cold Blood" (A sangre fría)

En 1960 el fotógrafo Richard Avedon tomó una verdadera foto de ficha de los asesinos de Kansas Dick Hickock y Perry Smith, protagonistas de "A sangre fría" el libro de Capote. En su famoso libro "Retratos", Avedon imprimió al lado de un retrato de Dick una más grande del padre de Hickock (tomada ese mismo día). He aquí evidencia de una mirada ávida a la genética de las caras americanas en busca de lo que pudiera considerarse como patológico en ellas.

Avedon acompañó a Truman a la Penitenciaría Estatal de Kansas, tomó fotos durante el juicio y conoció a los involucrados. "Avedon me describió cómo era Truman antes que las presiones de su fama lo lanzaran al alcoholismo", cuenta Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote" en la ficción) quién se entrevistó con el fotógrafo poco antes de su muerte... "Y luego me contó cómo era después, un borracho muy punzante". Al final se pelearon por una foto que Richard le tomó. Concluí que Capote no tuvo poder sobre sus demonios, fue impotente frente a sus compulsiones y esto lo llevó a su autodestrucción.

. TRASLATION .


In 1960 the photographer Richard Avedon took a real photo card of the Kansas murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, star of "In Cold Blood Capote's book. In his famous book "Portraits", Avedon printed next to a portrait of a bigger Dick's ...father Hickock (taken the same day). Here is evidence of a hungry look at the genetics of the American faces in search of what might be considered as pathological in them.

Avedon accompanied Truman to Kansas, took pictures during the trial and met those involved. "Avedon was described to me how Truman before the pressures of his famous launch it into alcoholism," says Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote" in fiction) who met the photographer shortly before his death ... "And then he told me how it was then a very sharp drunk." In the end they fought for a picture that Richard took. I concluded that Capote had no power over demons, was powerless against their compulsions and this led to his destruction.

(Truman Capote y Perry Smith)

(Perry y Capote, en la ficción)

(Dick Hickock)

(Perry Smith)

Aquí pueden descargar en español varios de sus libros:

http://www.librodot.com/searchresult_author.php?authorName=C


A sangre fría - Cuentos completos - Desayuno en Tiffanys - Plegarias atendidas ... no sé si toda su obra está allí...












"CAPOTE" (2006) Filme completo en español:

http://www.divxonline.info/pelicula/2424/Truman-Capote-2006/

*STANLEY KUBRICK* (USA, 1928-1999)

Stanley Kubrick (Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 26 de julio de 1928 – Harpenden, Hertfordshire, Reino Unido, 7 de marzo de 1999) fotógrafo, director de cine, guionista y productor.

Nació en un barrio del Bronx de Nueva York, en el seno de una familia de clase media-alta de origen judío. Desde muy joven mostró su interés por la fotografía, que practicaba con una cámara réflex Leica III, regalo de sus padres. Otras aficiones eran la música en general, el jazz en particular (llegó a tocar la batería en la Taft Swing Band) y el ajedrez.

Estos tres pasatiempos serían fundamentales para su futura carrera como director. Su afición a la fotografía le permitió, en primer lugar, trabajar para la revista Look, donde hizo reportajes fotográficos a importantes estrellas del momento, y donde se labró una reputación profesional.


. TRASLATION .


Stanley Kubrick (New York, USA, July 26, 1928 - Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK, March 7, 1999), photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.

Born in a Bronx neighborhood of New York in a family of upper-middle class Jewish. From a young age he showed his interest in photography, he practiced with a Leica III SLR camera, a gift from his parents. Other hobbies were music in general, jazz in particular (he play the drums in the Taft Swing Band) and chess.

These three pastimes would be fundamental to their future career as a director. His love of photography was allowed, first, to work for Look magazine, where he made a major star photo stories of the moment, and where he built a professional reputation.

ANDY WARHOL "POLAROIDS"