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Maintaining Creativity
Posted by Kevin Moloney in Practice, Uncategorized on June 19, 2009
Maintaining your creativity takes work.
To stay in top form (and we all slip on this from time to time) we need to pay diligent attention to how we are working, what tools and techniques we might find to help our work, and how we are seeing the world.
A week or so ago I stopped by the Pinocateca do Estado art museum in São Paulo, Brazil, to see a fabulous building and an interesting art collection.
One show up, as part of “The Year of France in Brazil,” featured photographs of Brazil by Brazilian and French photographers spanning a half century. “À procura de um olhar: Fotógrafos franceses e brasileiros revelam o Brasil” — In Search of a Vision: French and Brazilian Photographers Reveal Brazil.
It was a nice array of work with beautiful square Rolleiflex images from the 50s through modern digital color.
One particular group of fresh images particularly caught my attention. The work was classic street photography from Brazil’s colorful edges, shot in dim light. The saturated color and almost noiseless image quality said this had been done with the latest digital equipment. The technique was modern, but the images didn’t sport any overdone trend.
I looked at the image tags assuming I would find the name of a new Brazilian of French talent. This person was embracing all the advantages of the new but without being driven by technology.
But it was Magnum’s Bruno Barbey. The 68-year-old master has been a member of Magnum since I was a toddler, and through my whole photographic life I’ve admired the magic that creeps into his image from his home in Morocco and throughout the world.
Barbey exploring world with which he is by now very familiar with a fresh eye and new technique. His work at maintaining his creativity has paid off.
Bruno Barbey, creativity, exhibition, museum, Pinocateca do Estado, technique, technology, work
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- Tomas van Houtryve VII Photo, ICP Infinity Award, World Press, POYi, PDN 30, Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, Grants from Aaron Siskind, Getty, Pulitzer Center, Magnum Foundation, Alicia Patterson, Amnesty International
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- Krisanne Johnson Prospekt, Getty Grant for Editorial Photography, W. Eugene Smith Fellowship, Magnum Emergency Fund
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- Peter Lockley ESPN The Magazine, Players Tribune, Washington Times, Rich Clarkson and Associates
- Morgan Heim International League of Conservation Photographers, Annenburg Space for Photography, TEDx, Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalist (2)
- Brett Wilhelm ESPN’s X Games, Red Bull, Sports Illustrated, the NCAA, The New York Times, Rich Clarkson and Associates
- Jacob Pritchard Lifestyle, Fashion for AARP, And Partners, Big Human, Big Spaceship, Bows & Bandits, Band-Aid, Bose, Bust Magazine, Colors Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Dance Magazine, DDB, Discern, Eldora Ski Resort, Elle, Entrepreneur Magazine, Focus, Freunde von Freunde
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- Silvia Razgova The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Sunday Times Mail, The National Magazine, Ethiopian Airlines and Chronicles of Higher Education, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Culture and Tourism Authority, Imagination Publishing, Wintershall…
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- Xiaomei Chen Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Visura, (China) Modern Weekly, Travel Business, World Magazine, Mangziner , (France) Camera Obscura
- Erin Hooley Chicago Tribune, Ogden Standard-Examiner, University of Alaska Anchorage, Fort Morgan Times
- Elaine Cromie Transborder Media, Steve McCurry, MLive Media Group, New York Times Student Journalism Institute
- Taylor McIntosh Documentary, Portrait Photopgrapher and Filmmaker
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