Posts Tagged ‘ary snyder’
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Once more, walking in the woods with my dogs, I found some piece of trash that looked interesting: a sneaker shoe. Why one and not two if they’re always around in pairs? Who throws away just one shoe? And what’s more, why leave trash in the woods when you should take it to a garbage bin?
Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting to repeat the exercise of finding ways to “bring back to life” through photography that piece of garbage that had been taken for dead. Following is the series of 15 photographs that show the transformation from “rubbish” to art by means of a different way of looking at it and a camera.
As always, I kept within my own paradigms: I used only available light and no digital retouching with Photoshop or anyother kid of software. It’s all reflections, refractions, glass, metal, and materials of different colours to “paint” the light.
I ask of you, if I may, that you judge each photograph for what it is, not thinking of the rubbish that is the subject. Do you like it? Does it stirr your emotions, your feelings, your memories? Is it beautiful to you? Is it balanced?
Each photo should stand for itself, but each is also one of the 15 in the series. I’d love it if you left me a comment. Thank you.
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- tenis shoe, garbage, rubbish, sneaker, red, vibrant, colors
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If you wish, you can see the first series “Death and resurrection of an object” in the entry: http://www.blog.arysnyder.com/?p=923
Tags: abstract photography, amarillo, anaranjado, andante in cromo, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, azul, black, blue, carteles, Coca-Cola, color, colour, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, death, death and resurrection, death and resurrection of an object, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, fotografía abstracta, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, green, intensity, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, naranja, negro, object, orange, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, red, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, resurrection, rojo, sensación, sensual, shadows, sombras, textura, texture, textures, vacío, verde, web photo gallery, yahoo, yellow
Posted in Cajas de fotografías / Photography Set boxes, Fotografía abstracta –nuevas creaciones / Abstract photography –new creations | 1 Comment »
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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The sun stroke the flower as if caressing it, and my macro lens revealed a whole new possibility when I photographed it this way.
Tags: abstract photography, amarillo, anaranjado, andante in cromo, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, azul, black, blue, carteles, color, colour, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, durazno, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, flor roja, flower macro, fotografía abstracta, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, green, intensity, macro de flor, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, naranja, negro, orange, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, peach, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, pistilos, pystils, red, red flower, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, rojo, sensación, sensual, shadows, sombras, textura, texture, textures, vacío, verde, web photo gallery, yahoo, yellow
Posted in Fotografía abstracta –nuevas creaciones / Abstract photography –new creations, Nuevas creaciones en fotografía / New creations in photography | No Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I have to say goodbye to 2009 by mourning the death of Kodachrome film. That’s the brand of film my dad gave me to prove to him that I could take good enough photographs so I deserved his camera. And now, they not just don’t longer make it, but nobody processes it!
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It’s sad to think my father left about 50,000 slides, most of archeological sites, anthropological issues or cultural matters and soon there won’t be a way of projecting them, seeing them… And the worst part is that those slides, in spite of decades, still have a spectacular quality, whereas digital files get corrupted or become obsolete because the storage device or back-up you use becomes obsolete.
I know I could buy a flatbed scanner or one like this to scan his slides and mine, plus all my negative film, but, you know what? Quality is still unmatched.
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We may never reach the Orwellian extreme of “War is Peace” (where war exists only to destroy material stuff —sorry about the casualties— in order to make people buy everything again thus maintaining the economy of the world going.
Requiem for Kodachrome.
Tags: abstract photography, amarillo, anaranjado, andante in cromo, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, azul, backing up slides, black, blue, carteles, Coca-Cola, color, colour, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, digitalizar, digitalize, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, fotografía abstracta, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, green, how to process slides, intensity, kodachrome, kodak, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, naranja, negro, nikon, orange, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, red, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, respaldando transparencias, revelar transparencias, rojo, scanner, sensación, sensual, shadows, slide, slides, sombras, textura, texture, textures, transparencia, transparencias, vacío, verde, web photo gallery, yahoo, yellow
Posted in Reflexiones / Reflexions | No Comments »
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
A series of 15 photos describing the finding of an useless, therefore “dead” piece of an object (a pet bottle) and its resurrection through photography.
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Tags: 15, abstract photography, amarillo, artistic photography, ary snyder, azul, basura, blue, botella, botella de pet, bottle, color, colour, conceptual photography, death, death and resurrection, encuentro, fifteen, finding, fotografía abstracta, fotografía artística, fotografía conceptual, garbage, muerte, muerte y resurrección, object, objeto, pet, pet bottle, photographic series, plastic, plástico, quince, red, reflection, reflejo, resurrección, resurrection, rojo, serie, serie fotográfica, series, tenis, yellow
Posted in Cajas de fotografías / Photography Set boxes, Creaciones fotográficas / Photographic Creations, Fotografía abstracta –nuevas creaciones / Abstract photography –new creations | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
A couple of months ago went on sale a book that’s a project I directed. It’s a book for kids that explains why our planet is sick and what to do to help it.
We wrote it in an everyday language so it wouldn’t seem a text book, it has a lot of sense of humour in spite of how serious the subject is, and it’s objective is make kids feel they have the power to demand the adults in their life to make the changes in habits that are needed to try and revert the ecologic emergency we’re facing.
The first thing kids read is a letter from a fictional company thanking them from choosing the Earth to live. Next, of course, they see the other “options” they had, like Mars, Venus and others and why they couldn’t live there. Then the structure of the book is like that of a manual of instructions on how to use the product (the Earth) correctly so it doesn’t stop working properly or gets out of balance.
The book has activities, scientific experiments, tips to help the Earth, brief historical facts, and we always gave all points of view on touchy subjects so kids judge themselves (for instance, on nueclear energy). The book was reviewed and approved before going into printing by the Environmental Ministry and the biggest NGO in México.
Here are some pages. We used three talented illustrators to give more dynamism to the book.
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The book includes a table game where kids have to make choices that are good, neutral or bad for our planet, plus an infraction booklet so they fine their parents, teachers, neighbours, friends, etc., regarding the way their environmental actions, like wasting water or electricity.
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And well, we’re already working on the second book. There are three books in the series. The text was written by Guadalupe Alemán, the art director was Jaime Esquivel,
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When I was 11 years old and realized what we were doing to our planet I chose not to have kids. I couldn’t bear the extinction of species, the ecosystems destroyed… I didn’t want to show my kid the photo of a whale and tell him how amazing whales were, but we killed them all. Through my life I’ve kept asking myself about it because I would’ve loved to have a kid, but I just don’t like the way I see us treating the Earth, I don’t like how societies are working, I can’t bear to have it and then tell him/her: “well, I wanted a kid and though things suck, you’re going to have to put up with it”. However, I will not stop trying to do all I can to change the way we treat our planet, and that’s why I feel so proud of this book. It’s my contribution to human kind.
Tags: abuse, abuso, alternative energy, ary snyder, basura, Big Bang, book for kids, calentamiento global, cuidado del medio ambiente, ecología, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystems, energía alternativa, extinción, extinction, garbage, global warming, how to help our planet, how to help the Earth, libro para niños, Mi libro verde, My Green Book, natural resources, overpopulation, por qué la Tierra está enferma, recursos naturales, Televisa, tips para cuidar el medio ambiente, tips para cuidar el planeta, why is the Earth sick?
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Backing up photos to the external hard drive I found two I took in San Francisco and that I don’t think I’d uploaded. I loved that one was an Abstract I kind, and the other, realistic —such a beautiful gecko!
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Tags: abstract photography, Animal, artistic photography, ary snyder, auto, azul, blue, building, car, diferente, different look, edificio, fotografía abstracta, fotografía artística, fotografía de animales, gaze, gecko, gecko verde, green, green gecko, green lizard, lagartija verde, macro, mirada diferente, nature photography, perspectiva, perspective, reflection, reflejo, reptil, san francisco, textura, texture, verde
Posted in Fotografía abstracta –nuevas creaciones / Abstract photography –new creations, Fotografía realista: nuevas creaciones / Realistic Photography: new creations | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
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Often Nature seems to me to be so delicate, so tender, so subtle that it’s almost hard to breath because the feelings of amazement. And I’m sure the math equation that could describe these curves and patterns is barely less beautiful.
Tags: abstract photography, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, beauty, belleza, blanco, carteles, color, colour, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, dandelion, delicacy, delicadeza, diente de león, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, flor salvaje, fotografía abstracta, fragile, fragilidad, fragility, frágil, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, instant, intensity, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, moment, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, sensación, sensual, shadows, sombras, tenderness, ternura, textura, texture, textures, vacío, web photo gallery, white, wild flower
Posted in Fotografía realista: nuevas creaciones / Realistic Photography: new creations | 3 Comments »
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
I went into the restroom and there was a sign saying: “If you found a red and black cell phone and you are an honest person, please call me at extension 123″.
That made me think that if whoever found it wanted to give it back but was not an honest person, he/she couldn’t do that because etically, he/she wasn’t up to the condition of whoever posted the sign. (I.e., only if someone honest found it could it be returned).
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Tags: ary snyder, busco celular, celular, cuestión moral, encontré celular, ethical question sign, found mobile, funny sign, honestidad, letrero gracioso, letrero paradójico, lost cell-phone, lost mobile, movil, Nokia, paradoxical sign, pérdida de celular, Sign in bathroom
Posted in About everything = 42 | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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I was in Vivi’s new car and we stopped next to a Mini Cooper at a red light. That’s when I saw this and shot it.
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Walking with my dogs on the mountain I found this senseless knot over a rusty sheet of metal. And I say “senseless” because, what’s the point of a knot if it’s not tying anything? Although, for me, it was beautiful precisely for that reason. The unbearable lightness of futility, Kundera might have called it..
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Walking on London, I saw this gorgeous Audi R8 parked and, looking at it from all its angles, I discovered this reflection of the Harrods' sign, where, by the way, I should've bought Earl Gray Tea No. 42, the one that Douglas Adams drank, and that was the reason why Deep Thought, the supercomputer that for 7 million years was looking for THE answer to life, the Universe and everything (in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), in the end revealed that it was "42".
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Our pear trees have very few pears now, their leaves are falling and they are a beautiful orange-red colour, and they’re starting to bloom. It’s a beautiful sight.
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I left the bus, crossed the street in London and immediately saw this on a wall. It made me think that someone was trying to rip off its outter shell.
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One of those reflections I love to find.
Tags: abstract photography, amarillo, anaranjado, andante in cromo, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, azul, black, blue, carteles, Coca-Cola, color, colour, computadora, computer, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, douglas adams, earl gray, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, fotografía abstracta, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, green, harrods, intensity, la galaxia, london, londres, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, naranja, negro, no. 42. deep thought, orange, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, red, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, rojo, sensación, sensual, shadows, sombras, tea, textura, texture, textures, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, vacío, verde, web photo gallery, yahoo, yellow
Posted in Fotografía abstracta –nuevas creaciones / Abstract photography –new creations | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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Question mark.
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Diagonal thought.
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Right colours, wrong order (for the French, at least).
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Mini Cooper abstract.
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Waves and parallels.
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Tags: abstract photography, amarillo, anaranjado, andante in cromo, arte contemporáneo, arte fotográfico, arte moderno, ary snyder, azul, black, blue, carteles, Coca-Cola, color, colour, contemporary art, contrast, contraste, empty, ensayo, essay, feeling, fotografía abstracta, galería de foto, galería web de foto, Google, graffiti, green, intensity, madera, melancholy, melancolía, modern, modern art, moderno, naranja, negro, orange, paradigmas, paradigmas de la fotografía, paradigms, patterns, pósters, photo gallery, photographic art, photography’s paradigms, red, reflections, reflejos, reflexiones, Reflexions, rojo, sensación, sensual, shadows, sombras, textura, texture, textures, vacío, verde, web photo gallery, wood, yahoo, yellow
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