(11 Shots) | Palenque was a Maya City. It’s in the state of Chiapas. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. AD 799. What I liked a lot was that is was on a mountainside, surrounded by jungle; and that it had a more human scale. for example, the Temple of the Inscriptions was not ‘just’ a pyramid; but a pyramid with a temple on top, that you could actually enter.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Mexico from Slides prt16: The Cascadas de Agua Azul
(6 Shots) | In the state of Chiapas; near Palenque are ‘The Cascadas de Agua Azul’; or ‘The Blue Falls’. There wasn’t much Blue left in the old slides, so here it is in B&W.
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt8
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt7
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt6
‘Thunderbirds are Go’ popped up in my head, when I saw these Anton Corbijn portraits of the members of Kraftwerk. Great idea, this clean approach, and it suits their synthetic analog-computer music very well.
“Ich bin der Musikant mit Taschenrechner in der Hand
Ich addiere
Und subtrahiere
Kontrolliere
Und Komponiere
Und wenn ich diese Taste drĂ¼ck
Spielt er ein kleines MusikstĂ¼ck”.
(Short Mexico-break) | (looks best full screen; click once; and once more on the image and then F11)
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt5
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt4
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt3
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn. prt2
Impressed Impressions of an Exhibition; Anton Corbijn.
(7 Shots) | (Short Mexico-break) | Today was the last day of the large Anton Corbijn retrospective ‘Hollands Deep’, in the ‘Gemeentemuseum’ in The Hague. An additional exhibition, called ‘1-2-3-4’, in the ‘Hague Museum of Photography’, is extended till the 16th of august. Great work! Quite a lot of his photo’s are famous; but it was special to see them ‘for real’. Feeling, atmosphere, special-characteristic moments, that is what matters in his work; technical stuff is minor, like in the music of Joy Division or Tom Waits; passion and meaning speak. I had my camera with me; but it felt silly to take shots from shots. After a while I started to shoot the exhibition and the uniqueness of all these wonderful photo’s, being together.