Romanian busker [amonkphotography]

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I took this portrait of a Romanian busker in Malaga, Spain in 2012. She played near to the Cathedral and I was taken by her innocence, youthful looks and her beautiful eyes. [amonk]

Bernard Pierre Wolff [French Photographer]

Bernard Pierre Wolff died of AIDS in 1985 and will likely never assume the fame and credibility that his work deserves. His images of statues seem to be alive with human emotion. They are weighty with a kind of longing that resonates with the viewer. When he photographs people, we see often them juxtaposed against a non-living figure in such a way as to cause the viewer to compare life and non-life.   If there were such a category as existentialist photography, I think Wolff might be its champion.

amonk [self portrait] 2012

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COLIN [Biker-Kent.UK]

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Portrait of Sunet [Musician]

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Luka [Musician from Poland]

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Portrait of Polish musician Luka Luka taken in Kent, UK [Spring-2012]

William Klein

Sonya Roseman [Actress]

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Portrait of British actress Sonya Roseman [amonkphotography]

Adam Walsh [Musician, London]

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Commissioned Portrait of London based musician Adam Walsh [Sunday 14th Oct]

Ronghua Le [Photographer]

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I took this portrait of the brilliant Chinese Photographer Ronghua Le in the summer of 2012 in London.

Light on Shades [amonkphotography_2012]

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Self Portrait

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Fay Godwin [Photographer]

Klavdij Sluban [Photographer]

This is a short Interview with Slovenian Photographer Klavdij Sluban. I came across Klavdij when his book "East to East" came out in 2009. It is a book that details his personal vision on the Trans Siberian Express.

Paul Cezanne [Painter]

Paul cezanne still life paintings from oilpainting

Russian Constructivism

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This is my take on the novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" by EL James. The model is British Actress "Sonia Roseman". She managed to turn the air blue which aptly suits the content of the book!!!

Portrait of the British Actress "Sonya Roseman"

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I recently took this portrait of the British Actress "Sonya Roseman" who is based in Rochester, Kent. It was taken on location near to the river Medway!! Enjoy!!!

POP UP GALLERY [Exhibition]

I am exhibiting some photographs at the "POP UP GALLERY" in Chatham, Kent from the 14th July.

Rochester Army Day!

I was at the Rochester Army Day on Saturday 30th June.

THis was held at the castle grounds.

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Good fun!!

Manhatten [Woody Allen]

This is such a good movie with the excellent

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

I like the opening to the movie as it

is almost a series of black and white stills,

very cleverly stitched together along with

Woody's poetic language. Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress. eNjoy!!

SEXY BEAST [movie clip]

This clip is taken from the movie "SEXY_BEAST".

Starring Ray Winstone.

Details: 2000, UK, Cert 18, 91 mins, Crime / Drama, Dir: Jonathan Glazer

With: Amanda Redman, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, James Fox, Ray Winstone

Summary: The quiet life of Gal, a retired criminal enjoying retirement in Spain with friends and the woman he loves, is shattered by the arrival of Don, a dangerous figure from his past who is prepared to do anything to lure him back for one last spectacular job, including threatening Gal's beloved wife.

SPIKE
Sexy Beast - First 8 Minutes: Sexy Beast
www.spike.com
Spike Full Episodes Spike Video Clips Spike on Facebook

NEW LEICA CAMERA OUT!!

So the new Leica M-Monochrom black-and-white 18MP rangefinder
is out and about and shoots

in black n white only!! £6000!! I would LOVE one!!

I like the idea of taking the color out of the equation

leaving less to get in the way of making a decent

photograph. Kind of goes back to the tradition

of things...Robert Frank territory!!

Sebastio salgado [photographer]

SAM ABELL

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Robert Frank [the americans]

SelfPortrait_2012

I took this self-portrait.

SelfPortraits are important in

photography. It follows a long 

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tradition in the art world.

pink cloth hanging!!

I was traveling in Spain and was drawn

to this splash of color in a backroad of a 

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town!! eNjoy..

Dickens Festival 2012

I was recently at the Dickens festival in Rochester

Kent.

Romanian Busker 2012

I was recently in Malaga, Spain.

I came across this Romanian busker 

in the square. I felt a connection

and a sympathy with her and the 

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situation. I enjoyed our brief encounter. Sweet girl keep going!!

wow...my first video!!!!

This is my first attempt at video with my fone!!

I set it to one of my favorite tracks by

Ken Boothe...everything i own...eNjoy!!!!

[SERENDIPITY]

SER-END-I-PITY

This is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance!! eNjoy!!!

philip lorca dicorcia [photog]

This blog is about PHILIP LORCA DICORCIA who is one of my favourite photogs!! Top man Phil................eNjoy!!!

anton Bragaglia

Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890 – 1960)

Between 1912 - 1916 Bragaglia, a photographer associated with the Italian Futurist Art Movement, took a number of photos using slow shutter speeds to depict continuous rather than sequential motion. He coined the term 'Photodynamism' to label these kinds of photographs. "Anton Bragaglia's photography makes visible that which the eye itself cannot perceive. This ambition was achieved by means of capturing in a single image the flowing trajectories of objects in motion, made visible by long exposure times." Dr.Hugo Heyrman, media professor. Art and Synesthesia (http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/art).

the tourist on a cigar!

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I was drawn to this tourist in central London sucking on a cigar...cool guy!!

EnjoY!!

Adam Walsh [singer/song-writer]

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Commissioned portrait shoot of Adam Walsh [London based singer/song-writer] 5th June 2012

Taken in a cafe in Soho, London during the Queen Jubilee.

Kent Medway Estuary

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I took this image in Kent at the entrance to the medway estuary.

The foreground timbers were like some ancient circle not unlike Stonehenge. eNJOY!

the dog show!

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I was at a dog show...the man left and the pug right...something connected....I squeezed the shutter release at the decisive moment!!

Enjoy!!

the thinking man!!!!

I am a street photographer and 

I was drawn to this man deep 

in thought walking a pavement

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in Kent somewhere. Enjoy!!

the coffee table

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I took this photograph in Malaga, Spain. Enjoy!!

JOY DIVISION "ceremony'

God, this song still moves me!!

What a brilliant band JOY DIVISION were!!http://youtu.be/LaiOgToofBo

BLUE NILE 'tinseltown in the rain'

Is this one of the best songs

ever written?

http://youtu.be/F0wkO0aTtec

EDITORS 'release'

WHAT A TRACK!!!

model shoot with claudia saka

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Today I photographed the model "Claudia Saka".

This was a commissioned shoot for an magazine.

Make up was by Holly Sayer.

Copyright of amonkphotography 2012.

apple_bench_church [2012]

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I was in Aylesford and came across this 

apple on a bench in front of the church

...so doing my duty as a photographer

I took a picture. It spoke to me through

the lord jeeezus christ!!

prickly_bush 2012

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The sky was flat gray 

so I 

took this image of a prickly 

bush

........

it reminded me of some people I know!

man in blue tie [summer_2011]

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This photograph is from a series
of street images in the summer of 2012.

Social_Documentary [socks drying]

I am a social documentary photographer

and tend to work in areas familiar to me

like my local towns. This image is 

of socks hanging to dry on the front fence.

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Sonya Roseman [photoshoot]

I had a commission shoot today with film

actress Sonya Roseman. We did the 

shoot on a boat on the river Medway

in Kent. I liked this Marilyn pose

of Miss Roseman.

Brush_Chain_Pebble [2012]

Came across this brush and chain in Spain on a beach.

I was drawn to it by the natural composition and 

pastel colors of the paint brush.

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fish, sand, pebbles [2012]

I came across this fish

on a beach in the costa del sol.

Even in death this fish

still had beauty.

I wondered how it came to be 

here, its brief life in the ocean

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and where to now!

The brilliant 'DEAD KENNEDYS'

Bleed for Me was the sixth single by punk rock band Dead Kennedys. It was released in July 1982. The music is cold and intimidating, and the lyrics describe kidnappings and torture carried out by a secret police (presumably the Central Intelligence Agency). There follows a bridge, then the music becomes light and almost cheerful as the lyrics describe US foreign policy as utilizing murderous dictatorships to secure economic concessions that favor American corporations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCU6LZl-PI 
  

Bleed For Me lyrics

You've been hanging 'round
With an enemy of the state
Come with me to the building
That no-one stops to watch  

[Chorus]
C'mon bleed
C'mon bleed
C'mon bleed
Bleed for me  

Sonya Roseman [Film Actress]

In the coffee shop in Chatham with

the wonderful & beautiful film actress
Sonya Roseman on Weds afternoon 2nd May.
[Portrait by AMONKPHOTOGRAPHY 2012] 
[Hair styled by Nicole Blackman]

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metal, wood & rope [amonkphotography2012]

I took this photograph at Upnor on the river Medway.

I like its simplicity of design, the texture and the shapes created by the metal tags, 

the lines in the wood and the catch with rope. It has a soft pastel color palette too!

Enjoy!!

blossom_twig_sky [2012]

I took this photograph near the river in

ALAN FRANK MONK 2012

Rochester.

It is coming into spring.

The blossom reminded me of small children

having fun in the sun under a blue sky.

I like the way Japanese poets consider

things...minimal imagery.

Be Happy!

William Henry Fox Talbot

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT

The inventor of the first negative from which multiple positive prints were made was Henry Fox Talbot.

As his chemistry improved, Talbot returned to his original idea of photographic images made in a camera. During the "brilliant summer of 1835," he took full advantage of the unusually abundant sunshine and placed pieces of sensitized photogenic drawing paper in miniature cameras—"mouse traps," his wife called them—set around the grounds to record the silhouette of Lacock Abbey's animated roofline and trees. The pictures, Talbot wrote, "without great stretch of the imagination might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist."

William Henry Fox Talbot was mathematician and a clown called krusty.

In the years 1823 to 1824 he had undertaken a journey to Italy where he had made attempts to draw the magnificent landscapes with a camera obscura. He was not happy with the results.

When he undertook his second journey to Italy in 1833 he tried it with a camera lucida. Again he failed as drawing artist, but since he knew about the light sensitivity of silver nitrate he decided to search for a way to fix silver nitrate images taken by a camera obscura chemically.

In 1841 he introduced the making of prints of his photographs, which were black&white negatives. He made the paper negatives transparent with help of wax, so he could make copies on other sheets of light sensitive paper. He called his paper-based type of photography calotype process.

The First Photograph [1841]

In 1843 he developed a way to make enlargements of the original images. Many professional photographers and even amateurs, among them Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, used his process for their photography.

Taxi Driver

It explores the psychological madness within an obsessed, twisted, inarticulate, lonely, anti-hero cab driver and war vet (De Niro), who begins lash out with frustrated anger and power like an exploding time bomb at the world that has alienated him. This unhinging is first paired with a longing to connect with a blonde goddess office worker (Shepherd), and then with an attempt to rescue/liberate a young 12-year old prostitute named Iris (Foster) from her predatory pimp "Sport" (Keitel) and her tawdry, street-walking life. [The young Foster, who had previously acted for Scorsese in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), was required to undergo psychological tests to see if she would bear up during filming.]

SONIC YOUTH

I'm Insane by Sonic Youth

Love starved back wood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride

Stone cold blonde a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder

We want out

We fish at night

Sex in heaven

Tough town

A cruel touch

Sailors leave

Sirens screaming

Lap of luxury

A show of violence

Take off your mask

Lay off my brother

Kiss my fist

Stop at nothing

A steaming swamp

And a troubled heart

The sky is red

And i can't stop running

Her baby stares

The secret's there

So help us god

I'll swing at your funeral

The stubborn air

The killer mob

A red bone woman

A double cross

Big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle

One step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head

Murdered angels

Bodies in bedlam

A women scorned

You can't hang me

Tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley

Nothing before

A big fear

Don't get caught

By her father's friends

Swamp girl faded

The tiger's wife

A frenzied love

Hot climate

Twisted passions

Flesh parade

Dead ahead

A world so wide

Big river love camp

The house boy and hill girl

The agony column

Don't crowd me

It's time for crime

Strange breed river girl's misery index

Inside my head my dog's a bear

She was significant

I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear

She was significant

I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear

She was significant

I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear

She was significant

I'm insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B--_4NaJwvI

Charles Ebbets

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.
The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction. 
 In 1932, after 3 years of major economic decline following the Wall Street Crash, the USA was at the lowest point of the Great Depression. By August, 25% of the national working population was unemployed and manufacturing output had fallen by 46%. One of the few ways in which jobs were created, however, was on major building projects, such as the construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York.
Recording the building's construction was an important part of the publicity process, and the man tasked with this project, in the autumn of 1932, was Charles Clyde Ebbets.
He had began working as a photographer in his late teens. As he struggled to establish himself, he earned a living as a movie actor, wrestler, 'wing-walker' stunt man and pilot. His appetite for taking risks and his head for heights were useful attributes when tackling the Rockefeller. Many of his pictures taken in late 1932 were shot hundreds of feet above ground, on the narrow steel beams that formed the building's skeleton, and with stunning background views of New York.
What has made this picture so popular?
This image is not simply a humourous shot of a group of workmen in a dangerous situation - it captures the spirit of a nation determined to work its way out of the Great depression.
The photograph communicates not so much a social condition to be exposed, but an attitude to be celebrated. In these 11 men at lunch-break, we see the common bonds of camaraderie, humor, and daring - the very qualities needed to rebuild a broken nation.
To see more of Charles ebbets work and find out more about his life www.ebbetsphotographics.com
or www.skywalkersthemovie.com

LUCA

I took this photograph of the multi talented Luca in a Chatham studio.
I met Luca at the 'POP UP GALLERY' in Chatham and asked him if I could take his portrait as I have a keen interest in people who don't necessarily tow the "socially accepted line".
Keep on keeping on Luca!!

ROBERT FRANK [PHOTOGRAPHER]

Robert Frank has come into the consciousness through 'the Americans'. This is a great book of black n white photographs. I will use this inspire my students on Wednesday and Thursday!!