2-THE AMAZING WORLD AND WORK OF FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER

Sylvia Plachy

Sylvia Plachy, a Hungarian-born photographer,

immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1958,

started photographing in 1964 and over the next forty years

by recording the visual character of the city along with

its diverse occupants managed the not insignificant

accomplishment of becoming essential to

the New York photography scene.
Sylvia Plachy's work is in the permanent collections of MOMA,

the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,

the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a CAPS Grant

Sylvia Plachy by the Berlin Wall photo by James Ridgeway

http://www.womeninphotography.org/Events-Exhibits/DistinguishedPhotog/SylviaPlachy_2004/Plachy.html

1- THE AMAZING WORLD AND WORK OF FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER

SquirrelQueen..........

as a starting point for further explorations into the amazing world and work of female photographers of all nationalities,their contribution to the field of photography deserves greaterrecognition and we can learn so much from them and try to understand what emotions are inherent in the story you are telling and find ways to make them visual, something us draws to the subject, makes pick them out of a crowd.

link to

http://thrusquirreleyes.blogspot.com/

TREASURES OF ICELANDIC

Jóhann Hjálmarsson was born in Reykjavik on July 2, 1939. From 1956 to 1959 he studied printing at the Technical College of Reykjavik; and in 1959, and again in 1965, he studied Spanish at the University of Barcelona. From 1967 to 2006, Jóhann worked as critic of both literature and theatre for the newspaper Morgunblaðið. Since 1990, he has also supervised literary broadcastings for the National Radio. Through the years Jóhann has been active in committees of the literary community, including serving on the Nordic Council Minister´s Committee from 1981-1990, acting as its chairman from 1987-1989. Jóhann has written numerous poetry collections and his first book, Aungull í tímann, was published in 1956. His works have been translated into many languages and published in collections throughout the world. He has, in turn, translated poems and collections into Icelandic. Poems in Treasures of Icelandic Verse Two of Jóhann’s poems – Birta (Light) and On Landscape (Um Landslag) – were published in Treasures of Icelandic Verse, an anthology compiled by Árni Sigurjónsson. Translation Sigurður A. Magnússon.

Light

Again light strikes
a bare landscape,
again evening falls,
night arrives
And you stand at the side of the smallest shadow
as before.
You don't feel anxiety,
are as quiet
as the stones, the withered grass:
this that was given you
of earth
of life.

....(rorem photo)