Donovan Wylie #Photographe
Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1971. He left school at sixteen and travelled around Ireland. He joined Magnum in 1992, and became full member in 1997.
Livre North Warning System - Donovan Wylie Livre MAGNUM MAGNUM, les photographes de l'agence se commentent en duos Livre Donovan Wylie - British Watchtowers Livre THE MAZE by Donovan Wylie Festival Le Festival New York Photo dévoile le programme de sa première édition Exposition « Drone : l’image automatisée » : le thème du mois de la photo à Montréal Exposition Topographies de la guerre, au Bal : comment montrer la guerre aujourd'hui ? Exposition Sven Johne: Reports from the Crack of Dawn / Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 Exposition Magnum Photos 60 years at the Stedelijk Museum Modifier l'image
Born in Belfast in 1971, Donovan Wylie grew up during the Troubles – and his experience of living in a province where military surveillance was the norm has informed his work ever since. As his current exhibition, Vision as Power at the Imperial War Museum shows, the use of surveillance in the conflict in Northern Ireland was a small-scale blueprint for what is happening now in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond in the so-called global war on terrorism.
Over the past decade, Wylie, a Magnum photographer, has become the leading visual chronicler of what he calls "the concept of vision as power in the architecture of contemporary conflict". For his 2002 series The Maze, he applied a detached style redolent of the New Topographics movement to the abandoned prison in rural County Down that once housed republican...
Réédité en « Petit Format », l'ouvrage Magnum Magnum était déjà paru en 2007. Ce livre retrace le travail des grands maîtres de la photographie du XXe siècle, des grands photographes actuels et des nouveaux talents de l'agence de photographes la plus connue du monde. 400 images iconiques des 60 dernières années ont été ici sélectionnées et commentées par les 69 photographes de Magnum. Ainsi, entre autres duos le travail d'Henri Cartier-Bresson est décrit par Eve Arnold, celui de Martin Franck par Ferdinando Scianna. L'oeuvre de Martin Parr est commenté par René Burri et l'oeuvre d'Alex Webb est détaillé par Chris Steele-Perkins.
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Observation, whether by the human eye, or the technical eye of a surveillance camera, requires an architectural structure that elevates the viewer into a position of command. The system of Iron Age hill forts, built across Britain from around 500 BC, used natural promontories to survey the surrounding landscape. Two thousand years later, the British army used a similar system of watchtowers to survey the territories of Northern Ireland, and to observe the actions of the local people under their occupation.
The lines of sight from the watchtowers generated a kind of virtual environment enveloping the border region of Northern Ireland. These high tech towers, constructed in the mid 1980’s, primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty year conflict in and over Northern Irelan...
For nearly thirty years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. Built in 1976 to house terrorist prisoners, political segregation was so fierce it lead to scenes of violent protests, hunger strikes, mass escapes, and deaths of both prisoners and prison staff. At its peak capacity in the 1980s the Maze housed more than 1,700 prisoners, but in September 2000, under the terms of the Good Friday agreement, the prison was closed and the last four prisoners were transferred to other prisons in Northern Ireland. Now, a handful of prison officers man the empty complex while the future of the site is debated. The prison's current state of limbo and the unanswered questions regarding its fate seem to reflect Northern Ireland's unsteady progress in grappling with its rec...
Martin Parr, Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin et Tim Barber ont dévoilé lundi les noms des photographes sélectionnés pour participer au festival New York Photo 2008. À l’occasion de cette première édition, qui se tiendra du 14 au 18 mai prochains, le festival a demandé à chacune de ces personnalités de concevoir une exposition qui traduise sa vision personnelle des tendances les plus importantes dans la photographie contemporaine. En multipliant les regards et en confrontant les points de vue, ce nouveau rendez-vous annuel se donne pour objectif de permettre à chacun d’imaginer ce que sera le futur de la photographie.
« Les commissaires d’exposition du festival NYPH08 ont été choisis pour leur approche innovant...
À l’occasion de sa 13e édition, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal a invité Paul Wombell, commissaire britannique de renom, à proposer une programmation audacieuse autour du thème "Drone : l’image automatisée". Du 5 septembre au 5 octobre 2013, l’événement en mettra plein la vue avec 25 expositions déployées sur 14 sites à Montréal.
Les visiteurs découvriront les œuvres d’artistes locaux, nationaux et internationaux parmi lesquelles plusieurs ont été spécialement conçues pour cette édition ou seront exposées pour la première fois au Canada. Les artistes proposent ici d’explorer la relation en pleine mutation entre le corps et la technologie, en insistant sur les fonctions automatiques et l’intelligence de l’appareil p...
Le Bal (http://actuphoto.com/annuaire/lieu/le-bal-5885.html) est l'un de ces lieux de la photographie que l'on visite avec la certitude d'y découvrir des projets singuliers et aboutis. Un constat renouvelé vendredi 16 septembre 2011, lors de la présentation de l'exposition qui marque la première année d'existence du Bal, Topographies de la Guerre.
Privilégier "une lecture de la guerre par sa géographie", tel est l'objectif de l'accrochage qui réunit dix artistes et photographes explorant le langage de territoires meurtris par des conflits ; on est donc bien loin ici de "photos de guerre" au sens classique (que l'on peut encore voir par exemple à la MEP - http://actuphoto.com/19112-l-ombre-de-la-guerr...
The solo exhibition SVEN JOHNE: REPORTS FROM THE CRACK OF DAWN brings together several of the artist's most important series of works from the past seven years and offers an opportunity to comprehensively explore the conceptual exactitude of his artistic methodology.
Sven Johne (born 1976 on Rügen) pursues a conceptual approach to documentary photography. Like an investigative reporter he explores various social phenomena, researches background information, visits the places relevant to his story, and embarks on a documentation of these sites. The result is photos, texts, videos, and archives, which raise questions in terms of their authenticity. Oftentimes it is the brief dispatches and sideline reports from local newspapers – on things such as suicides, ships lost at sea, or killing sprees – that p...
Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed.
MAGNUM was established in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. They were convinced that photography was the best medium with which to document world events and raise public awareness. And they succeeded – the way MAGNUM photographer...