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Meetings 20 March 05

Section: photography

Categories: Exhibition / museum

Weak, Photoshop–reworked* photos of town hall meetings, purporting to be some essay on power. Esthetic hollowness compels me, partially out of fairness, to research the artist. (*Not to imply that there is anything wrong with reworking photos: but in this case every aspect of the reworking was wobbly. To go into more detail here would call for more effort than the photographs warrant.) In this case I came upon a strange “statement” by the photographer in his "Homeland Security Series" of photographs. One quote: "There has been little concrete imagery of what is being done to protect the nation at home." I have read the statement a few times but it remains a scary, unreflecting outlook of a State photographer.

Title: Meetings

Photographer: Paul Shambroom

Museum: Fotografie Forum international: Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt

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Christel und Margret Tenbuß — Star-Fotografinnen 2 January 05

Section: photography

Categories: Exhibition / museum

This was a pleasant surprise. Twin sisters, one an employee of a department store, the other of a bakery, started taking snapshots of celebrities in the mid-50s and haven’t stopped. They have made use of their holidays to visit any events where celebrities might appear, sometimes waiting for hours to get close enough for a good photo — and the photos, hundreds of them, are good. One thing I noticed is that most of the celebrities have a soft, warm and genuine countenance, sometimes even pleasantly surprised.