"The skeleton and the women" by Franz Fiedler

Franz Fiedler (17 February, 1885, in Prostějov, Austria-Hungary - 5 February, 1956, in Dresden, GDR).

Fiedler was born in Prostějov, near Olomouc in Moravia. Fiedler was a pupil of Hugo Erfurth. He was regarded as an eccentric during his apprenticeship in Pilsen, and worked in 1905 and again in 1912 with Rudof Dührkoop in Hamburg, and from 1908 to 1911 with Hugo Erfurth in Dresden. At the 1911 world exhibition in Turin he won first prize and had another exhibition in Prague in 1913. He belonged to the circle of Jaroslav Hašek and Egon Erwin Kisch and in 1916 married Erna Hauswald in Dresden where he occupied a studio at Sedanstraße 7.

From 1919, and coincidental with his friendship with Madame d'Ora (Dora Kallmus, of Vienna who was later to move to Paris) he began to work with a 9×12 folding camera and in 1924 became one of the first professional photographers to use a Leica. After expanding his studio in 1925, he took part in the exhibition "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart.

The outstanding publication on the city of Dresden, conceived in the spirit of Die Neue Sachlichkeit, is one of the first illustrated works created according to the new principles of photography. It marks a turning point in his work. To the same series of publications, published by Adolf Behne, belongs 'Berlin in Bildern' by Sasha Stone. That work was the subject of a show at the turn of the year (2006/7) in the Berlinischen Galerie.

Fiedler's studio was destroyed on 13 February 1945. All that was left was a box with photographs for exhibition which was deposited with his family in Moravia. After 1945 he did not have his own studio and earned a living in the GDR as author of books on photography. Anneliese Kretschmer, Dortmund, is one of his pupils.

(From the Portfolio Narre Tod, Mein Spielgesell/Fool Death, My Playmate,c.1922)

PHILIPPE HALSMAN, "JUMP BOOK"

In 1951 Halsman was commissioned by NBC to photograph various popular comedians of the time including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope. While photographing the comedians doing their acts, he captured many of the comedians in mid air, which went on to inspire many later jump pictures of celebrities including the Ford family, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe and Richard Nixon.

Halsman commented, "When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears." The photographer developed a philosophy of jump photography, which he called jumpology. He published Philippe Halsman's Jump Book in 1959, which contained a tongue-in-cheek discussion of jumpology and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers.

.TRADUCCIÓN.

Si por algo se caracterizó Halsman fue por su ingenio, materializado sobre todo a través de la técnica del "jumping style" o "jumpology", a la que él dio origen. Se trataba de retratar a la persona saltando, para así conseguir una imagen de ésta mucho más real, más verdadera, sin artificio ninguno, sin que el cerebro pudiera controlar la expresión del rostro. «En un salto, la máscara se cae. La persona real se hace visible», explicaba Halsman. El resultado era una imagen de la persona bien distinta a como solía aparecer, y por ello con gran atractivo para el público, estas «imágenes de saltos» se publicaron en 1949 alcanzando gran éxito. No todo eran saltos, pero siempre sus fotografías mostraban situaciones divertidas, y algunas, algo provocadoras.

.IN THE PHOTOS.

.Halsman with Monroe

.Marilyn Monroe

.Marilyn Monroe for LIFE

.Bob Hope

.Colette Marchand

.Brigitte Bardot

.Salvador Dali

.Elenor Ford (Mrs. Edsel Ford)

.The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

.John Steinback

.British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell

.Judge Learned Hand

.Maurice Chevalier

.Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis

.Aldous Huxley

.English Actress Hattie Jacques

.Nixon

.Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

"El taller de Marcos López"

"La vida es arte"

(En una sesión fotográfica de Marcos López)

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.: Marcos López nació en Santa Fe, Argentina, 1958.
Su obra es representada por la Galería Luis Fernando Pradilla en Madrid, la Galería Ruth Benzacar de Buenos Aires, y Galería KBK Arte Contemporáneo de México. Estas galerías muestran regularmente su trabajo en las principales Ferias de Arte Contemporáneo (Chicago, Art Basel Miami, Paris Photo, ArteBA, Feria MACO de México, FIA de Caracas y ARCO de Madrid).
Actualmente trabaja en su estudio de la calle Finochietto, en Barracas, Buenos Aires. Ha incursionado en la pintura, el fotoperiodismo y la dirección de arte y de fotografía para publicidad televisiva.