http://www.sylviegoy.com en-gb sylviegoy.com 2010-9-1T00:00:00Z sylviegoy.com http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#74074 Stare. It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare pry listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long Walker Evans Exposed Voyeurism Surveillance amp the Camera The current photographic show at Tate Modern plays on the ambiguity of the term 171 exposure 187 as a doubleedged sword. Of course the whole notion of 171 exposure187 is inherent to that of photography both in the photographic development process and in the impact it has as a medium to lay bare infinite aspects of human life and numerous facets of reality. The sheer power of the photographic image has shaped perceptions and has had an undeniable influence in determining certain human behaviours the whole notion of celebrity we are promptly reminded in the blurb that accompanies the show 171 is inseparable from the invention of photography.The show claims to deal with 171 voyeurism 187 from the French 171 voyeur 187 171 the one who see... 2010-8-29 18:27:14 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#74055 2010-8-29 15:21:24 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#62430 Went to see Clare amp The Reasons excellent gig at the Luminaire Kilburn a couple of weeks ago. At the ticket office each of us was hand stamped with a lovely handmade pen drawing and warmly led to a counter nearby where colourful homemade cakes were handed out free to the public.I was so taken by it I decided to pack my cupcake safely in a plastic cup lined with fifteen napkins to bring it home and photograph it as a relic testifying to the Luminaires exemplary generosity and heartwarming conviviality. 2010-4-7 17:13:10 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#61729 2010-3-27 00:38:23 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#61187 Found this postit note yesterday on the floor of a changing room at Gap. How did it ever get there one cannot help but ponder... Coincidental phenomenon or the result of a practical joke 2010-3-23 13:07:43 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#61051 2010-3-21 23:09:05 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#60877 Ren233 Malt234te 19302000 the quirkiness of his surname seems to have transcended the photographers vision at its core and tinted his recording of everyday lifes incongruities with equal amount of wit and humour. An assistant to Tati on Jour de F234te and a collaborator on Jacques Pr233verts 171 Paris des rues et des chansons 187 Malt234te had an eye for the poetic and successfully captured the visual puns that would otherwise fleetingly pass us by. httprene.maltete.commain.php 2010-3-18 23:55:02 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#59875 When I first came across this shot of my greatgrandfather left grandfather right and great aunt Blanche who undoubtedly had just stepped out of the kitchen for the picture staged against a white backdrop of snow it immediately conjured up admittedly in a bit of a farfetched way the sparse compositions and quaint surrealism of Japanese photographer Shoji Ueda 19132000. Although he hardly ever left his native Tottori region all throughout his career he showed undeniable Atgetian humility and continued to describe himself as a rural amateur photographer Ueda got acquainted with European avantgarde photographic developments of the 1930s and started to explore new technical and aesthetic ideas in his personal work. Drawing from the familiar he staged friends and relatives in his native Tottori creating curious settings in which characters are carefully arranged in a landscape of beach and sand dunes. Against the bare natural backdrop these mannered and artificial poses convey a sens... 2010-3-5 22:01:40 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#59620 2010-3-3 00:17:07 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#57819 In rural Switzerland as in many other European countries slaughtering the pig was a winter ritual a tradition now on its way out. It used to start early morning and go on until the night friends and family would gather together for a long day of freshmeat cutting curing salting and sausagemaking accompanied by much food and drink. Here a picture from the 1920s depicts my greatgrandparents neighbours and friends as they toast to the sizeable catch. Note how the animals weight 275kg was dutifully recorded on the pigs body directly etched onto the photograph. 2010-2-6 00:59:00 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#57711 2010-2-4 14:54:38 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#57086 A family group portrait from circa 1919 depicting my ancestors posing in soiled clothes and pitchfork in hand which suggests it was taken after a day of hard labour harvesting the fields nearby. A typical portrait of early 20th century farming life with garments and largebrimmed hats strangely reminiscent of the Ingalls familys wardrobe from late 19th century American West. The young girl with her head tilted to one side and an air of utter exasperation is my grandmother. 2010-1-26 22:02:51 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#55948 Dear friends from around the world and beyond Welcome to my blog. This little space of mine will be used as a platform in which to record and share my daily interactions with photography. A scrapbook in which I will stick fragments of reality figments of imagination quirky finds and anything that is remotely connected to photography or not that I usually collect but never show outside the confines of my studio. An informal digital pinboard in which I will post snapshots and disparate odds and ends that I accumulate alongside other longterm projects. Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions or if you want to send in your own little findings Until the next timeBest wishes to allSylvie 2010-1-18 00:50:47 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#56382 I have recently unearthed some early snapshots from the familys treasure chest. I will be posting more of these in days to come.First a postcard sent by my greatgreat aunt to her sister in late 1903. The latter was paying a visit to her young son afflicted by lifelong tuberculosis he eventually died of the disease in the Asile populaire des enfants in Leysin one of the first statefunded sanatorium in the Swiss French Alps. The same year witnessed the arrival of Dr Auguste Rollier who carried out medical experiments on children and developed heliotherapy a new cuttingedge therapy which consisted of exposing TB patients to hours of sunshine in the pure Alpine air. This type of treatment was first devised by Dr Oscar Bernhard a medical researcher from the Grisons who inspired by local farmers traditional method of preparing aircured mountain ham Grischuna Huusschinken decided to apply a similar curing technique to patients suffering from lung disease.The image on the postcard takes us awa... 2010-1-17 21:44:55 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#56205 Some selected shots I took in Dulwich Park following fresh snowfall last week. The two images by the lake were taken at nightfall using an improvised tripod built out of snow. London skylights reflected back on the vast stretches of snow in the park turning the whole scene into a surreal orangetinted light spectacle. 2010-1-14 23:15:27 http://www.sylviegoy.com/page11.htm#55830 ...ssport ...graph of ...be af...ed ... the ...ng... 61073Passport size photograph found on Dulwich Park football ground. The photograph is perforated with a date and bears what looks like a an official description on the back. Yet it depicts two jolly happylooking fellows in uniforms posing in a seemingly informal fashion. If anyone can throw some light on this intriguing picture andor identify their type of uniforms please let me knowSpotted the lice yet 2010-1-6 14:34:45