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A small street near Kiyomizu Dera (清水寺), Kansai, Japan, 2007
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“me & my best fd!”, okinawa, japan, 2007.
(note: This lovely photo was taken in a nice restaurant, “Okinawa Monogatari”, Japan. The restaurant serves traditional Okinawa cuisine and the environment is very comfortable. A good choice when you visit Okinawa.)
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Okinawa Monogatari 沖縄物語
2-7-24 Makishi, Naha, Okinawa (牧志、那覇、沖縄)
tel) 098-863-0651
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tokyo, japan, april 2007
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shinjuku, tokyo, 2007
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window with a view, hakone, japan, 2007
Filed under photography, art | Comments (7)Herbert Bayer - the Sureal Photographer
Lonesome Big City Dweller, 1932
I like taking black and white photos and I love the work of those famous photographers in the early 20th Century. And Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985) is one of those awesome photographers I love.
Herbert Bayer, born in 1900 in Haag am Hausruck, Germany, began his career studying at the Bauhaus and subsequently developed further to become known as a Bauhaus “Master”.
Bayer started to work in Linz as a graphic designer in his early years. He then moved on to Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, before he emigrated to the USA in 1938, where he worked as a graphic and landscape designer, until he died in 1985 in Santa Barbara, California. In his time he has become one of the most renowned and influential artists in design as well as painting, photography and sculpture.
In fact, Herbert was an awesome artist with special visions. He was not only a photographer, he was also a typographer, advertising artist, painter, sculpter, architect and designer of office lanscape. Photography was his preferred means of expressions in the thirties. Most interestingly, we could see in this Bauhaus “Master”’s photographic work, he was not only a representative of Bauhaus, he was also a surealist.
Taking his creation, the “Lonesome Big City Dweller”, as an example, we could see the superimposition of two big eyes inside the palms on a city landscape. The big eyes are staring to us through the palms, a somehow terrifying vision. In his another work, the Stilleben, one would certainly recall the art creations of the Sureal Master, Dali. Through his photos, Herbert shared with us his visions of a world of unreal, or sureal, out from the real world.
Guten Morgan, 1936 Stilleben, 1936
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“still life 1 - 8″, taken in july 2006, hau hin, thailand.
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to the light house, okinawa, japan, july 07.
coastal, okinawa, japan, july 07.
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I was driving along the Western Corridor this evening when I saw the breath taking sun setting scene.
It was Peter KAM (金培達, a renouned Hong Kong film scoring musician, the award winner of the Silver Bear For Best Film Music kudos at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival by the Hong Kong film “Isabella” in 2006. ) who said: “there should be a moment in life, a piece of music, a photo, a song, etc., that touches us. Artist, is to pursuit, re-create and capture the very moments throughout ones life. ”
This is exactly what photography, art, literature and architecture meant to me. This is the very reason I wish to share all those breath taking moments with you.
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金培達 KAM, Peter
Peter KAM is a versatile musician. He was first admitted to the University of San Francisco State, and then Dick Grove School of Music to study music composition and arrangement. Upon returning to Hong Kong, he focused on song writing, music arranging, music producing and commercials and film scoring. He has written myriad works for a host of famous Hong Kong artists such as Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau, Gigi Leung, Jordan Chan, Hacken Lee, Karena Lam, Shawn Yue, etc.
Peter has won a number of awards including “Best Original Film Score”and “Best Original Film Song” (“Fly Me to Polaris”) in the 19th Hong Kong Film Award , “Best Original Film Score”(“Lost in Time”) in the 23th Hong Kong Film Award, and “Golden Horse Award for Best Original Score” ( “Purple Storm”).
The movie “Isabella”: http://www.mediaasia.com/chn/newsLetter2.php?Id=88&subsection=1&file=../newsletter/20060603/
http://www.loveasianfilm.com/features/isabella_feature02.html
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