dal 17 giugno al 12 settembre 2010

tutti i giorni dalle 11 lle 21
Giovedì e Venerdì dalle 11 alle 23
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Quando lavoravo a RAIN, HOPE e GRIEF, non ero perfettamente sicuro di cosa volessi dire. Ora sto crescendo. Ho più dubbi e non so dove il mio lavoro mi porterà. Sento di stare esplorando. Quando realizzavo la serie DUSK ancora non conoscevo le risposte. Ora che ho terminato DAWN, capisco finalmente cosa volevo dire. Non penso di poterlo esprimere a parole, ma credo di saperlo. La cosa migliore, è quando alla fine di tutto rimane un punto interrogativo.
Erwin Olaf

Erwin olaf website

forma website

Noah Abrams website

vivanne sassen website

until the 2nd of june there’s an exhibiton of viviane at FORMA (Milan)

AURA PROJECT by Carl Van de Roer :

These portraits are made with a Polaroid aura camera developed in the 1970s by an American scientist in an attempt to record what a psychic might see. This project explores the idea that a portrait photograph can reveal an otherwise unseen and accurate insight into the subject’s character.

The subject is connected directly to the camera by hand-plates that measure biofeedback, which the camera depicts as an aura of color in the Polaroid and translates into a printed diagram and description explaining the camera�s interpretation of the subject. It also explains separately, what the the subject is expressing and how they are seen by others, such as the photographer, suggesting the camera bypasses the control of the photographer and subject in making the portrait. This printout, which includes information about the subjects emotions, potential, aspirations, future, etc. is presented to the viewer along with each photograph in a similar manner to a caption.

The aura camera has undertones of pseudo-scientific authority and attributes associated with a less mediated type of photography. It’s a modified land camera that uses instant film and has only one button, allowing the photographer little control over the mechanisms mediating the portrait making process.

Aura photography is a relatively recent offshoot of spirit photography. Unlike attempts to record images of ghosts, aura photography evolved from a type of spirit photography – popular around the time diagnostic imaging devices like the x-ray emerged — which sought to objectively measure and document unseen aspects of the human body.

I am photographing people who are familiar to me, or that I have expectations of — including friends and people whose personalities are in the public sphere.

Aura Project website

You must check also the Carl Van de Roer website