Re: [pinhole-discussion] Blind photographer
Hi all, I am glad to see your interest for Evgen Bavcar' photographs and written works. I have been lucky to meet him in Paris about 12 or 13 years ago when he was the main guest of the Mois de la photographie in Paris. I like very much his pictures but I am still more interested in his texts about Art , generally speaking. Since 1972 he was a student in Philosophy of Aesthetics in Université de Paris I and in 1976 he began to work on his Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat (= Thesis for becoming national Doctor) choosing his subject : Art and Society in the contemporary French aesthetics ... He wrote a lot and also recorded several series about artist Jackson Pollock for the French radio broadcast channel France-Culture. In 1992 he wrote Le voyeur absolu (= the absolute voyeur) in which he writes about his experience as a blind photographer. This leads him (and us !) to the question :is not photography only a mental image of the world and only that ? A sensual effect whose the photographic paper print would be only a secondary phenomenon...? For those of you who want to go deeper in the realm of blind photography, I suggest the reading of a special issue of Mexican magazine Luna Cornea completely devoted to this subject with numerous texts and photographs. Luna Cornea numero 17, April 1999. The magazine is published in Spanish with very complete English translations in the 2nd part of the book (200 pages!). I ordered my issue about 1 year ago at Photo-eye bookshop. Try on www.photoeye.com. For French reading people of our community, there has been several articles gathered under the title de l'Aveuglement (= about blindness) in the January 2001 issue of French magazine Pour Voir (now disappeared!). It contains interview with Evgen Balcar, an article about Jane Evelyn Atwood's recent work on blind children, article about strange Sophie Calle's research gathering portraits of blind + texts by blind people + photographic representation of the dreamed image expressed by blind, articles about works of Yoshiko Murakami, Patrick Tosani, etc.. If you are interested, please contact me off-list. And now, just do not forget that Evgen Bavcar is not an exception; story of photography is full (as son as the mid 19th century) of non seeing people trying to capture their images of the world with this medium ... Aren't we going a bit blind when shooting the way we do? Joao, I believe the answer is contained in the question ! :-) Cheers from France Jean - Original Message - From: Joao Ribeiro jribe...@greco.com.br To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 4:39 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Blind photographer
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Blind photographer
Hi Guy, Thanks for the site. Bavcar made an exhibit here in Brazil a few months back, a friend talked to him a lot and he explained that he can photograph people by talking to them, so he can figure out where to point his camera to in order to frame the subject. It's hard to believe that someone blind can make such beautiful pictures. He mentioned that to make a good picture, the photographer must go a bit blind too, so his work is not at all disassociate to pinhole and zone plate isn't it? Aren't we going a bit blind when shooting the way we do? Just a though. Cheers Joao Guy Glorieux wrote: Hi all, I was prompted from a query on an another photo list to do a bit of research about a blind photographer I had seen an exbition of, some time ago, here in Montreal. I thought I would share this with you also, even if this is not pinhole. The photographer is Evgen Bavcar. Born in Slovenia in 1946, he now lives in France. He began to lose his sight at the age of eleven and started to do photography then. He works with an assistant and does outstanding work. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics Philisophy. He has also writen several books and lectures in Europe. He has an excellent web site on Zone Zero at http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/bavcar/ Hope you enjoy. Guy ___ Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???/discussion/
Re: [pinhole-discussion] Blind photographer
Guy, Thank you! You and Leezy have pointed out two wonderful sites in the past short while. The world is so amazing, terrible and beautiful all at the same time. Tina Martin It's About Light! www.tinamartin.com From: Guy Glorieux guy.glori...@sympatico.ca Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? To: Pinhole List pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Blind photographer Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:26:54 -0400 Hi all, I was prompted from a query on an another photo list to do a bit of research about a blind photographer I had seen an exbition of, some time ago, here in Montreal. I thought I would share this with you also, even if this is not pinhole. The photographer is Evgen Bavcar. Born in Slovenia in 1946, he now lives in France. He began to lose his sight at the age of eleven and started to do photography then. He works with an assistant and does outstanding work. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics Philisophy. He has also writen several books and lectures in Europe. He has an excellent web site on Zone Zero at http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/bavcar/ Hope you enjoy. Guy ___ Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???/discussion/ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
