Istantanea Festival 2008 #1
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Polaroid is 60 years old. Used by Andy Warhol, loved by Helmut Newton, Nobuyoshi Araki and many others, Instant Photography was the symbol of an era. With instant emulsion, photography was also to become an expressive tool for pop artists, an immediate means to capture any aspect of everyday life. It can be used by anyone, artists, children and ordinary people; there is no longer any need to take the film to the processing lab, all it takes is to wait a few seconds to see the image taken moments before appear before your very eyes. Even though instant photography will always be seen in terms of the Polaroid, many photographers today produce their own instant emulsions and cameras. It’s only an instant print, but it makes a whole lot of difference.
read comments (1)Lilac Mural Project
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The Lilac Mural Project,displayed along the walls along the Lilac Alley, located right off the 24th Street BART Station in the Mission District. A quiet colorful pop art mural work of a group of San Francisco women artists, who got inspired by graffiti & cartoon art. In this cooperative project, local graffiti writers collaborated with cartoonist & pop artists in this visual concept, proving that with the consent of a community, graffiti can be an art culture, instead of a criminal behavior associated with vandalism. For more information: www.missionart415.com Music My Immortal by Evanescence **************************************** ************************* Copyright 2008 © CCDVProductions.com
“The Empire of Signs” (Episode Seven) the visit with Robert Rauschenberg continues Romare Bearden, jazz with pictures. an interview with Claes Oldenburg, “the best of the pop artists in the 1970s.” James Rosenquist clip is shown go here to playlist of all episodes of “American Visions”: www.youtube.com
Excerpt from Mr. Hoover and I by Emile de Antonio, writer, director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s – 1980s. He was born in 1919 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard with John F. Kennedy and would later go on to make a film about Kennedy’s assassination called Rush to Judgment. After serving in the military during World War II, de Antonio frequented the art crowd, often associating with such Pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, in whose film Drink de Antonio appears. De Antonio chronicled this art scene in his documentary Painters Painting (1972). In 1959 de Antonio developed G-String Productions in order to distribute the Beat Generation film Pull My Daisy. It was at this time that de Antonio discovered filmmaking. His first film, Point of Order, a compilation film made in 1964, regards Joseph mccarthy and the Army-mccarthy hearings. De Antonio went on to make many politically motivated films that attracted a substantial amount of controversy and also tended to align himself with Marxist thought. Most, if not all, of his films criticize aspects of American culture or politics or reflect a certain degree of political dissension, because of which, along with his Marxist affiliation, the FBI documented 10000 pages of de Antonio’s activities. Camera: Morgan Wesson, Mathew Mindlin. 2nd Unit: William Rexer. Editor: George Spyros. Assoc. Producer: Michael Thomas. Special Thanks: Ron Mann
Excerpt from Mr. Hoover and I by Emile de Antonio, writer, director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s – 1980s. He was born in 1919 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Harvard with John F. Kennedy and would later go on to make a film about Kennedy’s assassination called Rush to Judgment. After serving in the military during World War II, de Antonio frequented the art crowd, often associating with such Pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, in whose film Drink de Antonio appears. De Antonio chronicled this art scene in his documentary Painters Painting (1972). In 1959 de Antonio developed G-String Productions in order to distribute the Beat Generation film Pull My Daisy. It was at this time that de Antonio discovered filmmaking. His first film, Point of Order, a compilation film made in 1964, regards Joseph mccarthy and the Army-mccarthy hearings. De Antonio went on to make many politically motivated films that attracted a substantial amount of controversy and also tended to align himself with Marxist thought. Most, if not all, of his films criticize aspects of American culture or politics or reflect a certain degree of political dissension, because of which, along with his Marxist affiliation, the FBI documented 10000 pages of de Antonio’s activities. Camera: Morgan Wesson, Mathew Mindlin. 2nd Unit: William Rexer. Editor: George Spyros. Assoc. Producer: Michael Thomas. Special Thanks: Ron Mann