Brown Book

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Tal y como proclama el Sr. Pearce en la página oficial de Death in June…

«In the stillness of a snowbound night .
Brilliant white flares drift earthwards.
The Runes are cast. Our idols are dust.
A bell is shattered. Punishment begins.
Further words would be futile.
Dead leaves scattered among your Dreams.
Listen and understand.
The ‘Heilige Tod.’
Hath Not The Soul
Descended upon
Those that are Living?»

(Extract from original 1987 Brown book press release)

Considered by some to be one of the most influential albums of all time, standing centrestage with works by The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan and Joy Divison, ‘controversial’ is too trite a word to use in describing Death In June’s 1987 opus ‘Brown Book’.

Escuchando: Kleine Aster – Das Ich

Primero dispara, luego pregunta… y enfoca cuando quieras

La noticia del día para mí, vía Xataka foto. Tal y como explican en esta entrada, la tecnología que ha desarrollado Refocus Imaging permite realizar una captura fotográfica y determinar con posterioridad el enfoque deseado, jugando con la profundidad de campo con total libertad.

Tras visitar esta galería y verlo en vivo y en directo tan sólo puedo añadir… ¡a qué están esperando para comercializarlo!

Escuchando: Dizzy blonde – Xploding Plastix

Goethe and his «Theory of colours»

«La luz es el alma de la fotografía», he dicho en numerosas ocasiones. Resulta que Johann Wolfgang von Goethe es el autor de un estudio cromático en el que puso en tela de juicio la visión de Isaac Newton sobre el tema. ¿Curiosidad? Para profundizar puede estar bien probar con este enlace.

Escuchando: Blacksheep – Sneaker Pimps

Entrevista a J.A.M. Montoya

Tras leer esta entrevista a José Antonio Moreno Montoya en Mentenebre me quedo con una duda. Sin pretender poner en tela de juicio su trayectoria profesional, entre otras razones porque no soy nadie para hacerlo, me formulo una pregunta: ¿realmente Sanctorum es una colección original e innovadora, que merezca la atención que se le ha dado?

Lo digo porque la caduca polémica político-religiosa me resulta bastante indiferente, pero tengo la impresión de que, si no fuera por el uso de iconografía católica, esta colección hubiera pasado totalmente desapercibida para propios y extraños. Y, de hecho, declaraciones de intenciones del estilo de “He sido católico, ahora soy un hereje” o «Ojalá me excomulguen… no saben cuánto lo agradecería» me suenan a ganas provocar, simplemente.

Eso sí, se trata de una excelente publicidad gratuita , al menos a efectos de lograr notoriedad.

Escuchando: Bewitched – Pauline London

Dead Girls

Today’s television schedule is crowded with crime dramas like Law and Order and CSI. Autopsies are regular fair several times a day on cable TV channels and new episodes are aired weekly. Crime dramas with forensic themes are among the most watched shows today. These show are the children and grandchildren of the early episodes of the David Lynch series “Twin Peaks”, part of ABC’s 1990 prime time lineup. It featured the dead and mostly naked body of the teenage homecoming queen Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic. During sweeps weeks today’s shows often feature plot lines about murdered call girls or models. The victims are often naked and covered just enough to make it past network censors. Murdered overweight, male accountants are never found naked.

In the course of my career I have seen quite a few real dead bodies. A body that has been sitting around outside for a few days does not look as good as the ones on CSI. I found the whole trend curious and I wondered about who the networks are trying to attract with naked, dead girls. Could there be millions of viewers in Middle America that are attracted to dead girls? I had to find out. Some of the most twisted people I know have the straightest outward appearance so I thought it might be possible. I had to figure out how to push this envelope.

In 2005 I began to shoot Dead Girls, a series of pinup model photos featuring sexy dead girls who had been raped and murdered, all staged for the photos of course. I thought that people would be outraged. There were not. People email me all the time telling me that they feel like its wrong, but the photos turn them on. Men and women alike. More girls have contacted me to model for this project than have called for anything else I have worked on. I think I have tapped into something but I don’t know what it is yet. I’ll let you know when I figure it out…..

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” –HST

Fuente: Esta entrada del blog de Scott F. Lanes (fotógrafo profesional)

Y que cada cual extraiga sus propias conclusiones.

Escuchando: The blue lagoon – (r)