http://www.anamorfose.be/ New photos to the collection en Copyright (c) 2012 Xavier Debeerst info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:05:35 -0500 Zen-Cart v. v 2.1.4 14.02.2008 15:26 RSS 2.0 Feed 1440 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography Collector's room is the photo gallery for vintage art photos by Anamorfose There is the online photo gallery your visiting now and there is the brick and mortar Collector's Room in Izegem, Belgium. At both locations we offer unique prints for sale by mostly European photographers. The collection is organized in different themes from 1880 until 1950. Online vintage photo gallery specialized in historical black and white photography The idea of the collectors room is inspired on the 18th century Fench concept of a comfortable Room for Art where people joined to talk about art. The selection of this vintage and historical photos is my personal choice of images. There isn't a specific theme of subject. After more then twenty years of collecting photos there are images that are burned in your memory. These vintage photos are brought together in this section of the website. I hope you enjoy visiting this Room for Vintage Art Photography. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:08:00 -0400 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/africana-colonial-rwanda-1910 Africana - Colonial Rwanda 1910 More information about the social and political context of this photos can be found on Wikipedia info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/africana-colonial-rwanda-1910 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:26:53 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nicola-kossikoff-ghent-seaport In Ghent (Belgium) there is a grayish, deserted, old industrial street referring to the modernist photographer Nikolaï Kossikoff.  This desolate street is situated in the Seaport neighbourhood. From this place you look at the port of Ghent, which is the major subject in Kossikoff's photography. In the 1930's Kossikoff made photographs of the activities in the port on an almost day-to-day basis.  The port was his world and major theme.  Kossikoff's work remained unknown until recently.  Presently, you can discover his work in museums and in private collections.  After more than 40 years Kossikoff finally gets the recognition he deserved. Continue reading ... info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nicola-kossikoff-ghent-seaport Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:13 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nicola-kossikoff-lion-rapide In 1954, Nicolaï Kossikoff received the order from the company Lion Rapide (Aalst, Belgium) to make a photo-reportage of their production process.  Lion Rapide manufactured motorbikes and bicycles.  The photo-reportage is a beautiful example of industrial photography. The lighting in photos is very striking. You can almost feel the film stills from the "Film noir".  Nicolaï Kossikoff's Russian background is prominently present. The prints are of an outstanding quality. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nicola-kossikoff-lion-rapide Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:22 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nikola-kossikoff-publications Nikolaï Kossikoff, Publications In the 1930's Nicolaï Kossikoff 's photos of the seaport of Ghent were published.  Kossikoff designed the covers for these publications himself. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/nikola-kossikoff-publications Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:33 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/social-photography Works of Labor info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/social-photography Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:43 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/cause-of-death Cause of Death "Cause of death" is a photographic exploration of Death in photography. A very obvious subject, and also one of the earliest, is the Postmortem photography. The subject of Death in photography is larger than only the Postmortem photography. Other subjects as war, Holocaust, Funeral albums, suicide, violence, mug shots, terror and "In Memoriam" albums are also related to the Death. info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/cause-of-death Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:58:35 -0400 http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/causes info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/causes Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:19 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/funerals Funeral Albums info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/funerals Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:28 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/holocaust Holocaust in press photos info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/holocaust Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:37 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/juges-et-assassins Painting has completely changed since the invention of photography. We don't paint for the same reasons as before." Francis Bacon Please scroll down to discover the catalogue He certainly would not have remained indifferent to these pictures on the website. Even if he admitted that "He was only interested in photography as a document" and "if some photographers were artists, he didn't take that aspect into account." (1) These pictures, which were documents to start with, have considerable power of attraction. And yet they are only portraits of assassins, thieves, dropouts that society had condemned. Most of them were taken at the end of the twenties; they were supposed to illustrate news items, which were printed by a certain kind of press that was already veering towards sensationalism. These pictures were mounted, pasted, retouched and the centring was done by cutting into the photo : the only reason for all this work was to denounce these assassins, thieves and other dropouts to a public as wide as possible. They are shown here in full of in black monochrome or bistre. They have great presence. They are miles away from what they were first intended for. Now they are works of art. It is even tempting to compare them to contemporary artistic tendencies : to Monory (news items), to Boltanski (identities), here, these pictures seem to resist any other plastic art invention. They are perfectly finished entities, they are works of art. This magnificent retouching is attributed to two Italians. The original work was purely technical, what needed to be done was, by making corrections to the gouache, to give the zinc a matrix which, thanks to is planned distortion, would deliver, after the printing, the hoped for the picture. The assassin, the thief or the dropout then looked the part. These documents were usually made in a hurry and the document was handed over to newspaper for a daily pittance. The result is crudely cropped, retouched, characterless photo which gives a superficial, first degree, slapdash photographic caricature. the printed picture was just like a story made up from banal identity of family photos and it brought out events in all their stark reality. Like the picture of the 14/18 deserter who pretended to be a woman and who was shown up twenty years later, after being murdered by his mistress, by the use of a photo in which he could be seen, dressed as a woman, ying on a chaise longue in his garden. While these photos are compared to police photography, they have however nothing to do with the project of Alphonse Bertillon, the head of the police headquarters identification department, who was the first to attempt to improve the scientific identification system by ridding police photography of any artistic traces. (1) in Francis Bacon, "Entretiens avec Michel Archimbaud, Jean-Claude Lattès, Paris 1992 et Folio essais (n° 289) Paris, 1996 Jean-Luc Pons in "Juges et assassins", 1998 Translation Jeanne Cordier info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/juges-et-assassins Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:45 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/postmortem Postmortem Photography info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/cause-of-death/postmortem Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:28:54 -0500 http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/street-life The street stands for liveliness and light and therefore it is a source of inspiration for many photographers. We call them photojournalists or documentary photographers. On the other hand also art photographers and experimental photographers love to use street life in their work. Street Life shows how people from different periods and cultures deal with open spaces in a city. It provides an opportunity to compare the way of life between them and at the same time it gives an overview of multicultural societies. The city is given another meaning and the street an sich has become the scene of unimportant events again. © Xavier Debeerst, 28/01/2002 info@anamorfose.be (Xavier Debeerst) http://www.anamorfose.be/documentary-photography/street-life Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:53 -0500