ADAM MAGYAR: Can You Alter Time

 From the series "Squares” 2007

Photograph (c) Adam Magyar

“Shanghai, 2007” 

Photograph (c) Adam Magyar

Julie Saul Gallery, NY

#03621  Tokyo, 2010 / from the series Stainless

Photograph (c) Adam Magyar

#03621 Tokyo, 2010, magnified

Photograph (c) Adam Magyar
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VIDEO Excerpt: Shinjuku (Tokyo, 2013)

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ADAM MAGYAR / TEDx TALK

Recently at 'The Center for Photography at Woodstock' event (The New York Portfolio Intensive at CPW's Founder Howard Greenberg's New York Gallery) I was reintroduced to Berlin based Hungarian photographer, Adam Magyar, who reminded me I had posted his work in 2009 when first starting this Photo Journal. Unfortunately the original images I posted have since disappeared off his post (11.30.2009) so it seems appropriate to update now!  

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Photographer and video artist Adam Magyar is asking the big questions about Life and Time. His work takes us in-between those spaces we normally can't view. Watch his TEDx TALK to get a small glimpse into his larger vision: TEDx TALK

"Magyar has with his latest invention, managed to bend the conventional representations of time and space, stretching milliseconds into minutes, freezing moments with a resolution that the naked eye could never have perceived."

"Traveler, artist, visualizer and a self-taught photographer who is taking the world by storm; it wouldn’t be wrong to call this high-school dropout the Einstein of photography. Adam has successfully invented a new technique of photography which allows him to take high-resolution photos of speeding trains and passengers in the subway and turn this footage of seconds into minutes, allowing his audience to get a slow glimpse into the fast-paced human life."

"Born in Hungary, Magyar started taking pictures in his late twenties. A traveler at heart, he wandered through Asia and captured images of Indian street vendors, holy men, and students. His work evolved rapidly from conventional documentary photography to surreal, radically experimental imagery that reflected his obsession with finding innovative new uses for digital technology." – TEDx Talks, 2015

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The Center for Photography at Woodstock Director, Hannah Frieser, with Berlin-based Hungarian photographer Adam Magyar, at the New York City Portfolio Intensive at CPWs Founder Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC, May 21, 2018.

WOODSTOCK PORTFOLIO REVIEW WEEKEND: May 19-21 2017

WOODSTOCK PORTFOLIO REVIEW WEEKEND

The Center for Photography at Woodstock

May 19-21, 2017

Meet with some of the most illustrious photography professionals in the field, who will provide feedback, advice and potential opportunities.

A Q+A Mixer will be held at CPW on Friday, May 19, with review sessions taking place Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21, 10-4PM. Review sessions are 20 minutes each. 

REVIEWERS: Elizabeth Avedon, independent curator and contributor to L’oeil de la Photographie;  Jesse Blatt, photography agent; Elliott Brown, fine-art photographer and Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator at MoCADA; Clinton Cargill, Bloomberg Publishing; Karen Davis, Davis Orton Gallery; Elizabeth Dubben, Executive Director, Collar Works; Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC Arts Media;  Hannah Frieser, CPW; Charles Guice, gallerist;  Jan Nagle, CPW; Fabienne Powell, Assistant Curator of the Governor Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection; Elizabeth Renstrom, VICE Magazine; and Roger Ricco, Ricco/Maresca Gallery; Miriam Romais, CPW. 

 Registration here

May 19-21, 2017 

The Center for Photography at Woodstock

59 Tinker St, Woodstock

New York 12498

JEFF JACOBSON: The Last Roll [Of Kodachrome]

 Diner, Lone Pine, California, 2009

Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

 Mt. St. Helens, Washington, 2008

 Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

 Motel 6, Kansas City, Kansas 2009

 Photograph © Jeff Jacobson

"For 35 years, photographer Jeff Jacobson has worked exclusively with Kodachrome film to create images of people and landscapes, mostly made in America, that push the boundaries of photojournalism to present a more poetic and subjective view of the world. Jacobson has described his approach to his photography as rooted in the world but having "one foot in the real world, and one foot somewhere else." His photographs, which are sometimes difficult to decipher, can be beautiful, dreamlike, theatrical, artful, meditative, or quirky, reflecting the artist's personal approach to his work."

"The work in The Last Roll was not a pre-planned concept, but rather evolved out of the blue as a result of timing. In December of 2004, Jacobson was diagnosed with cancer. He underwent chemotherapy treatment, and his life temporarily stopped. While recovering at his home in the Catskills, he was at first too weak to leave the house so he started shooting inside (something he would never have imagined doing previously), out the window, and as he regained his strength outside the house in his backyard, on the street, and by the river. After six months he took his first trip on a plane to resume photographing the rest of America."
 
"In 2009, while still working on the The Last Roll, Kodak announced that it was discontinuing the production of Kodachrome film. The last roll of the film that Jacobson had used throughout his career was processed in 2010. While grappling with his own mortality, Jacobson was working in a medium that had already ended."

"In his personal statement Jacobson writes: "A few days before Christmas, 2004, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. Some present. After each chemotherapy session I retreated to our home in the Catskills to recuperate. I began photographing around the house, as I was too sick to go anywhere else. As my strength returned, my photographic universe slowly expanded. Shortly thereafter, Kodak discontinued production of Kodachrome. I loved Kodachrome. It helped shape my photographic vision. I filled my refrigerator and wine cooler with the stuff and kept shooting. I have outlived my film. A few days before Christmas, 2010, I exposed my last roll."

"The Last Roll is Jacobson's attempt to answer his question "what do you do when you are presented with your own physical and creative mortality?" This beautiful and compelling body of photographs provides a nuanced, first person depiction of a cancer patient's changing perspectives on life, death, art and the world at-large. The colors in Jacobson's photographs of deer basked in car headlights, a lake at dusk, cranes in flight, a tree splattered with blue paint, Mt. St. Helen's, his wife looking out the window, a self portrait, are more muted than in his previous work as he moves into a deeper place of self reflection. Jacobson refers to photography as the fulcrum of his life, no matter what else is going on, and this feeling is celebrated in The Last Roll. The photographs are accompanied by a poem written by Jacobson's wife Marnie Andrews." (Courtesy of Daylight Books)

JEFF JACOBSON: THE LAST ROLL

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

Exhibition through June 16, 2013 

The Last Roll  

Daylight Books, 2013. Printed in Iceland by Oddi Press 

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