tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63324383338878349892024-02-20T11:22:47.238-08:00Fatima Abbadi PhotographyFatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-51991996512719162582018-01-31T02:03:00.001-08:002018-01-31T02:03:44.978-08:00"Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful": Martha Rosler utterance way to open a conversation.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Martha Rosler born in 1943, Brooklyn, New York, is an American artist. Famous for her <br />
communicative art and as she says, “a form of an utterance, a way to open a conversation.”<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyxwYktzRkWzC0Is53x4NSumb0MWmcB6jRksm4aCTAWKuFDXalzfnxo186Yh_B_zG2fFsk9c96vr5U5j17kks-VHT36aJbEcnV9q8T61vRskstHQ_MXLjmUCnp5B1hYlpOnUUFbvDMjzzQ/s1600/martha-rosler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="576" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyxwYktzRkWzC0Is53x4NSumb0MWmcB6jRksm4aCTAWKuFDXalzfnxo186Yh_B_zG2fFsk9c96vr5U5j17kks-VHT36aJbEcnV9q8T61vRskstHQ_MXLjmUCnp5B1hYlpOnUUFbvDMjzzQ/s200/martha-rosler.jpg" width="197" /></a>Rosler’s video, photography, installations, and performances are infamous for their political and social critique as well as their tongue-in-cheek humor. In the course of over 35 years, Rosler has produced works about the trauma following the Vietnam War, the destitution of her native New York City streets, feminism, social justice, and the separation of public and private life and their respective architectural spaces. Rosler also spent over a dozen years in Southern California between the late 1960s and the early ’80s, during which time she made some of her most famous works, including the photomontages Bringing the War Home (1967–72) and the performance film Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975). Rosler's work and writing have been widely influential and is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport.<br />
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Rosler conceived Bringing the War Home during a time of increased intervention in Vietnam by the United States military. Splicing together pictures of Vietnamese citizens maimed in the war, published in Life magazine, with images of the homes of affluent Americans culled from the pages of House Beautiful, Rosler made literal the description of the conflict as the "living-room war," so called in the USA because the news of ongoing carnage in Southeast Asia filtered into tranquil American homes through television reports. By urging viewers to reconsider the "here" and "there" of the world picture, these activist photomontages reveal the extent to which a collective experience of war is shaped by media images.<br />
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From the series <i>House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, in Vietnam</i><br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-5197529944255333612017-10-30T04:53:00.001-07:002017-10-30T04:53:57.571-07:00How Gordon Parks' Photographs Implored White America to See Black Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Gordon Parks was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006, with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life.<br />
He was the first black photojournalist to work at Life magazine, from 1948 to 1972. Through Life, Parks documented the stories of those he photographed, personalizing his assignments to tell the broader story of the African American experience. By gaining their trust unlike any other photojournalist, Parks’ empathy and charisma enabled him to gain access into his subject’s world. The show will include works from the essays for Life magazine, Invisible Man, 1952; Segregation Story, 1956; Duke Ellington, 1960 The March on Washington, 1963; The Nation of Islam, 1963; Muhammad Ali, 1970; and The Black Panthers, 1970.<br />
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Gordon Parks captured the timbre and sound of the March on Washington in the photograph Untitled, Washington, D.C., 1963, where King gave his infamous “I Have A Dream” speech. In contrast to the non-violent movement led by King, the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) encouraged the separation of black and white Americans. They scorned the Civil Rights Movement for their emphasis on integration. Fed up with the government and its society, the Nation of Islam established their own subculture that was self-sustaining with separate schools, stores, places of worship, and self-defense training.<br />
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Gordon was given the unprecedented opportunity to document the private world of The Black Muslim movement when Elijah Muhammad, the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam, refused interviews with white Life reporters. Malcolm X, a passionate spokesman for the movement, was Parks’ first contact and guide. The photo essay is one of Parks’ most groundbreaking stories, documenting all facets of the Black Muslim community.<br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-64766935532014785292017-09-16T05:13:00.002-07:002017-09-16T05:13:51.325-07:00Behind Al-Salt project: An interview with Ismael Abdel-rahman Gil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those who don’t know or ever heard about Al Salt, it’s a town located in Jordan. it’s the capital of the province of Al-Balqa and is located 28 km from Amman. When talking about Al-Salt, I cannot help but think about my many childhood summer memories spent in this city, that sadly those photographic memories impressed in my mind are no longer recognizable in the city nowadays, given the myriad changes that have transpired over time. I remember the few homes that were visible outside of my grandfather’s house, the few lights that lit the horizon in the evening and the hours spent on the balcony contemplating them. I remember when my aunts used to take us to the mountains, surrounded by its beautiful nature where we would sit and drink tea, kept warm on top of an open wood fire. The sound of the man selling pinkish coloured <i>kreizeh </i>(a typical dessert made with water and semolina) on his head wandering around the streets shouting “<i>kreizeh ... children</i>”. Indelible images impressed in my mind. As I grew older I started to become more aware of the rapid changes happening to this small town. The mountains in front of my grandfather’s house morphed from beautiful green trees to a concrete jungle with people inhabiting seemingly every open space. More and more Western-styled houses with red roofs replaced the characteristic charm of the traditional Jordanian yellow stone.<br />
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My encounter with Ismael Abdel-rahman Gil was of fundamental importance to this project. Both our origins, in half, is linked to this town and it’s thanks to his detailed researches and hard work that together we tried our best to document every aspect of how once Al Salt lived and how modernization and globalization bought rapid transformation to this town. That’s why with the passing of years I realized that my photography served to capture the changes between past and present, and importantly capturing the past which was of vital importance as it’s the only remnant of a life I once knew and loved.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>An interview with Ismael Abdel-rahman Gil. </b></span><br />
<b>Where are you from?</b><br />
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Even though it is one of the most frequently asked questions, it is still very tough for me to answer.<br />
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It seems a simple question, however I have always thought of it as something more intricate due to the fact that I cannot answer to it with just a single place-name. In fact, that is why my answer is always far longer than expected. Moreover, I truly believe that just a few people can actually understand what it’s like to have more than one identity or to belong to more than one place.<br />
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Throughout the course of my life I have lived in several places within the Mediterranean basin: Jordan, Morocco, Italy and Spain. Nevertheless, I have been always able to see not only the dissimilarity between these places but also their common ground. The tastes of various olive oils, the different types of breads, the different ways cooking the rice with what is left at home or currently in season, as well as baked dough made with some home-grown ingredients and flavoured with herbs of the forest nearby.<br />
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Since I am old enough to think for myself, this situation has been drawn up in my mind map of finding my bearings and my own benchmarks. The staircases and streets that define me also confine me. Up or down the street, the whole urban mazy network of the city or the temples. And regarding my senses: the smell of incense, prayer calls by voice or bell and even food callings with no fewer liturgies than praying. The same shall be applied to everything that I hear or see: old men that begin their day reading the obituaries of the newspapers and gathering with those who remain and that haughtily think that they are in possession of the absolute truth. They get together to fix the same world problems by offering the same obsolete solutions, while the eternal half full glass is engrossed in thinking about the possibility of something being sweet and bitter or cold and hot at a time. Can we be in two places at the same time? And what’s more, can we be in two times at the same place?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Ismael's Al-Salt family album</td></tr>
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<b>What makes Al- Salt worth documenting?</b><br />
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These factors that recur in different places and different times are the ones creating or recreating many things, for instance, the clichés, particularly the urban clichés that I have haunted. By this, I am referring first and foremost to the construction and the houses building techniques which endlessly captivate me: Gothic and Neogothic arcades, Ionic, Doric, Solomonic, and Muqarnas columns, Islamic spandrels, domes, transepts, apses, courtyards... the order and the chaos of the cities where I have lived. In short, these are all different architecture styles that can be found in any Mediterranean city and that always leave me speechless.<br />
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Al-Salt is, indeed, like any other Mediterranean city. However, it is much more deserving of praise since it is the only city located in an area where magnificent metropolis have never existed as the population was always nomad, Oultrejordain.<br />
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Al- Salt successfully became a key trading centre in the east of the Jordan River. New traders and their families were drawn by it and brought with them new artistic movements that mixed together with the local ones made it possible for this city to be as great as any other Mediterranean one.<br />
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It may be more humble or sumptuous than other cities, but still in a sense Mediterranean and with the same ingredients. Alt-Salt, which is in a harassed and accused region, shows me that it is possible to be Arab, Tribal, Muslim, or Christian to the point of demonstrating to me that two different characters, such as Saint Jorge and Al-Khidr are the same figure even if their hagiography doesn’t correspond. Although, it is a matter of faith. While some assert that faith is believing in what you cannot see, others claim that seeing is believing.<br />
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Therefore, Al-Khidr and Saint Jorge from Salt and Mahis, allowed me to back up what I thought in the first place and then witness by myself, that two can be one, and one can be two, without them being opposed. In other words, it is not contradictory to find two natures in one recipient that are at peace and not in conflict. After all, an olive can sprout from a tree in the same terrace as the wine of a vineyard, without both being the same.
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-65716540381676535012017-03-09T05:19:00.001-08:002017-03-09T05:19:31.561-08:00LIFE AND HISTORY OF PALESTINE REFUGEES THROUGH THE UNRWA PHOTO AND FILM ARCHIVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
“<i>The cameraman seems to have the mission of shooting images meant to accompany a documentary text: most of the time, he films wide shots and the close-ups are either anecdotic either ‘sentimental’, as for example still shots portraits of children or elderly. In this mode of documentary production, (…), the image operator ignores the final editing his images will be submitted to. The cameraman’s role is coverage, he is not supposed to look for interactions or to shoot sequences.</i>”<span style="font-size: x-small;"> [1]</span><br />
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What makes a photograph historical is, aside from the image itself, the date and title and/or caption which contribute to situate it and contextualize it. According to Barthes, for any picture, “<i>the date is part of the photo: not because it conveys a style but because one cannot but notice the date, one can imagine life, death, the inexorable passing out of generations</i>” <span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span>. The name of the photographer could also be an important, though not a necessary, indication.<br />
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UNRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support has been outpaced by the growth in needs. UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and mandated to provide assistance and protection to some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip achieve their full human development potential, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, protection and micro finance.<br />
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UNRWA refugee images were firstly geared to document and publicize the programs of a humanitarian agency so as to increase donations and, from this perspective, to record and document the refugees’ situations and events.<br />
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At the meantime UNRWA archive contains more than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 video cassettes. In 2009, it was inscribed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register, in recognition of its historical value.<br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-59957122705019123802017-02-21T05:22:00.001-08:002017-02-21T05:28:08.415-08:00“Ella Watson” by Gordon Parks, 1942<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was an accomplished photographer, filmmaker, memoirist and breaker of color barriers. Before he was famous, however; before he was Gordon Parks, he had a one-year fellowship as a photographer at the <u>Farm Security Administration</u>. There, under the tutelage of Roy Stryker, he honed his skills.<br />
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In 1942, on arriving in Washington to work for the F.S.A., Mr. Parks discovered how deeply segregated and bigotry the nation’s capital was. In a single day, he was refused service at restaurants, barred from a theater and dismissed by a department store clerk. His mentor, Mr. Stryker, encouraged him not to give up. “<i>Talk to other black people who have spent their lives here,</i>” Mr. Stryker said, “<i>They might help give you some direction</i>. Only then should the process of shooting begin”<br />
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Taking Stryker’s advice, one of his first opportunities to put his determination into practice came when he talked to a woman who made her living cleaning offices in a government building. Her name was Ella Watson, and her hard work paid her a grand salary of $1080 per year. Parks was struck by the fact that one of the offices she cleaned was that of a white woman who had started work at the same time and with very similar qualifications. She recounted even how she was raising three grandchildren and an adopted daughter with her meagre salary.<br />
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Parks remembered: “<i>She had struggled alone after her mother had died and her father had been killed by a lynch mob. She had gone through high school, married and become pregnant. Her husband was accidentally shot to death two days before their daughter was born. By the time the daughter was eighteen, she (the daughter) had given birth to two illegitimate children, dying two weeks after the second child’s birth. What’s more, the first child had been striken with paralysis a year before its mother died.</i>”<br />
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Gordon Parks considered his portrait of Ella Watson as the very first of his professional career. He recalls that when his boss at the FSA first saw it, he “told me I’d gotten the right idea but was going to get all the FSA photographers fired, that my image of Ella was ‘an indictment of America.’ I thought the image had been killed but one day there it was, on the front page of The Washington Post” becoming one of the iconic images of all time.<br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-25917838816387626672017-02-02T00:22:00.003-08:002017-02-02T00:22:36.042-08:00War is not the answer:The story behind Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was plenty going on in 1970s America, and Marvin Gaye’s soulful “<i>What’s Going On</i>” tapped right into it. Affected by letters that his brother Frankie used to send him from Vietnam, Gaye wrote the lines, “<i>Brother, brother, brother/ There’s far too many of you dying.</i>” The title track of his 1971 concept album offered its own prescription, proclaiming, “<i>War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate</i>.” Motown label didn’t want to release initially Gaye’s album, which addressed a variety of issues and societal troubles such as Vietnam war, drugs, the decline of social situation in America, economy and the environment, all over a free-flowing musical backdrop that drew on jazz, pop and classical forms. The singer responded that he would not record anything else for the Motown label unless it let it go and he referred to the album as a “<i>gift from God,</i>” and the album’s spiritual dimension found overt expression in his liner notes: “<i>We’ve got to find the Lord. Allow him to influence us. I mean, what other weapons have we to fight the forces of hatred and evil?</i>” With his inimitable voice, he provided nuanced perspective that immediately resonated with audiences – and has so for generations.<br />
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In the Spring of 1971, Marvin Gaye's <u>What's Going On</u> disc was a hit becoming among Motown's fastest-selling single releases, hitting Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100.<br />
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Sadly, on April 1st 1984 the man who sang, “<i>Father, father, we don’t need to escalate,</i>” was fatally shot and killed by his own father due to a conflict with his father dating back to childhood. The wounds were fatal and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the California Hospital Medical Center. Gaye's death inspired several musical tributes over the years including recollections of the incidents leading to his death.<br />
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Mother, mother<br />
There's too many of you crying<br />
Brother, brother, brother<br />
There's far too many of you dying<br />
You know we've got to find a way<br />
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya<br />
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Father, father<br />
We don't need to escalate<br />
You see, war is not the answer<br />
For only love can conquer hate<br />
You know we've got to find a way<br />
To bring some lovin' here today<br />
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Picket lines and picket signs<br />
Don't punish me with brutality<br />
Talk to me, so you can see<br />
Oh, what's going on<br />
What's going on<br />
Ya, what's going on<br />
Ah, what's going on<br />
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In the mean time<br />
Right on, baby<br />
Right on<br />
Right on<br />
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Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong<br />
Oh, but who are they to judge us<br />
Simply because our hair is long<br />
Oh, you know we've got to find a way<br />
To bring some understanding here today<br />
Oh<br />
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Picket lines and picket signs<br />
Don't punish me with brutality<br />
Talk to me<br />
So you can see<br />
What's going on<br />
Ya, what's going on<br />
Tell me what's going on<br />
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh<br />
Right on baby<br />
Right on baby<br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-1946396915276532602017-01-05T06:08:00.000-08:002017-01-05T06:08:08.794-08:00Palestine through the eyes of Edouard Boubat <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The essence of Boubat’s spirit is summed up in his own words: <span style="color: #e69138;"><i>“Just as love at first sight erases everything and creates a kind of void, so I must confess that, when I take a picture, I have no desire, no intention, no memory. What I am photographing has taken control of me, it is a leap in the dark. It’s over in a second. This vacancy allows the fleeting instant to break through, the instant in which everything is plunged into one unique light.”</i> </span>(From Edouard Boubat: Pauses, 1983) and which are clearly seen in these extraordinary and magical shots taken from Bethlehem around the mid of 50's.<br />
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Boubat’s work has been exhibited throughout the world including the United States, Europe, and Mexico. He has been awarded several professional awards such as the National Photographic Prize of France and The Hasselblad Foundation Prize, both in 1988.<br />
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"Kanou Ya Habibi" كانوا يا حبيبي is one of the eternal works of Fairuz written in 1974. Originally, and like several of the works of Rahbani Brothers, the music was inspired from the Polyushka Polye Russian army march music and which music was composed in 1933 by the Russian composer Lev Konstantinovich Knipper. Even though the originale version had an intense reference to USSR and its formal glory, Fairuz managed to convert all the patriotic lyrics off the spirit of the music and insert love and drama instead as she played the character of Loulou that was imprisoned despite her innocence for 15 long years..<br />
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Polyushko-polye (Russian: По́люшко-по́ле; IPA: [ˈpolʲʊʂkə ˈpolʲɪ]) is a Soviet Russian-language song. Polye means "field" in Russian, "polyushko" is a diminutive/hypocoristic form for "polye". It is also known as Meadowlands, Song of The Plains or Oh Fields, My Fields in English.<br />
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The music was composed by Lev Knipper, with lyrics by Viktor Gusev in 1933. The song was part of the symphony with chorus (lyrics by Gusev) "A Poem about a Komsomol Soldier" (Поэма о бойце-комсомольце) composed in 1934. The original lyrics are sung from the perspective of a Red Army recruit, who proudly leaves his home to keep watch against his homeland's enemies.<br />
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The song was covered many times by many artists in the Soviet Union, including a well-known rock version recorded by The Singing Guitars (Поющие гитáры), released c. 1967. The song has been regularly performed and recorded by the Alexandrov Ensemble, and it is listed in the Alexandrov Ensemble discography, best known as the Red Army Choir....<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyushko-polye">continue</a></i><br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-26829689586274652192016-12-01T06:54:00.000-08:002016-12-01T06:54:18.513-08:00Who was José Ortiz Echagüe?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
José Ortiz Echagüe (Guadalajara, 1886 - Madrid, 1980) was a Spanish Photographer, aeronautical and industrial engineer . He founded the aircraft manufacturing company Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) and was the Honorary lifetime president of Spanish car company SEAT.<br />
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Ortiz Echagüe business management combined his passion for photography, a field in which he received prestigious international awards. His photographs were exhibited in many European capitals and in numerous American Photography magazine and by 1935, he was one of the three best photographers in the world.<br />
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His photographic archive consists of more than 30,000 negatives. A collection of human subjects, documentaries and art and more than 1,000 large and beautiful <i>carbón fresson</i> (a carbon process also known as direct carbon printing) printings, that gave his images a rather romantic or pictorialist look. Among his illustrated books should be cited <b>Spanische Köpfe – Bilder aus Kastilien, Aragonien und Andalusien</b> (Spanish heads – Pictures from Castile, Aragón and Andalusia) was Ortiz Echagüe’s first book . Images of Spaniards in traditional costume often photographed in historical settings.<br />
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The qanun is a string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of the Middle East, Maghreb, West Africa, Central Asia, and southeastern regions of Europe. </div>
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The name derives from the Arabic word qanun, meaning "rule, law, norm, principle", which is itself a phonetic borrowing of the ancient Greek word 'κανών' (rule) or Latin equivalent canon (not to be confused with the European polyphonic musical style and composition technique known by the same name). </div>
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Traditional and Classical musics executed on the qanun are based on Maqamat or Makamlar. </div>
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As the historical relative of santur from the same geography, qanun is thought to trace its origins back to Assyria, where an ancestral homologue might have been used in </div>
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Mesopotamian royal courts and religious ceremonies. The instrument today is a type of large zither with a thin trapezoidal soundboard that is famous for its unique melodramatic sound...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanun_(instrument)"><i>continue reading</i></a></div>
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<b>Mohammed Abdu Saleh</b>, who was born in a suburb of Cairo in 1912, the family of the art it was his father "Alnayati" a member of the choir and Hamouli Abdo Mohammed Othman, when he was the holder of Certificate world Azhar, while his grandfather was "Alnayati" private Sultan Abdul Hamid.</div>
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Early morningPush Abdo Saleh love art that is still small _, _ no more than six years to discuss a piece of wood and copper wire and nails be "legally small", defying his father, who tried to small through art, but in vain. Especially after playing Mohammed Abdo, ..<i><a href="http://egyptian-musician.blogspot.it/2012/10/qanun-player-in-umm-kulthum-band.html">continue </a></i></div>
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<b>Zeina Alkhatib</b> from Jerusalem, is a young woman shares her passion for one of the Arab world's most beautiful instruments, listen to her story.</div>
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-59923558435845000112016-11-02T07:08:00.000-07:002016-11-02T07:08:15.927-07:00Barcelona, blanc i negre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-86378267123520702102016-10-25T07:14:00.001-07:002016-10-25T07:14:17.608-07:00Kabardinka dance: Circassian Noble dancing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kafa (Adyghe: Къашъо; Kabardian: Къафэ) is a piece with (4:4) time signature, and usually this piece demonstrates the relationship between the Challa (male) and the Pshasha (female), this relationship which is built out of love, cooperation and strength. Usually 'Kafa' is the main piece to be played in a 'Djagu' (a Circassian dance party) and there are more than 100 kafas written by different Circassian artists.<br />
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Wuig (Adyghe: Удж) is a piece with (8:4) time signature, and usually this piece is played before Challas are going to war, but nowadays it is played at the end of the Djagu and usually it follows this rhythm each eight time intervals a new musical phrase is introduced, and this piece may be repeated several times since more than ten different Wuigs are available.
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Tleperush is a dance which originates from the Black Sea coastal area. It is a piece with (4:4) time signature, and the word "Tleperush" means "leg kick" and usually this piece is faster than Kafa and Widj, almost equal in tempo to known "Lezginka" but different in style and follows this rhythm (1&2..3&4) and this rhythm is produced by Pshina and Pxachach and Pkhetaw (a wood hitting instrument for tempo). Abkhazians have this dance too, and they call it "Apsua Koshara"
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Zefauk (Kabardian: Зэфакӏу) means "approach to each other". It is a piece with (4:4) time signature, and very similar to Kafa; the word "Zefauk" means (forward and backward) and it defines how it is danced by going 4 steps forward and another four backward exactly as the Kafa but with different musical taste.
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Shishan (Kabardian: Щэщэн) means "horse behaving". The dance is a fast piece with (4:4) time signature; this particular piece is played differently by pulling the Bellows of the Pshina in and out rapidly to create an Off Beat Rhythm which produces a Rhythm two times faster than its time signature, and the word shishan is a Circassian word and it is not linked to Chechen.
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Tlepechas is a fast dance and it is an improvisation dance it is considered to be one of the ancient dance of the Circassians, "Tlepechas" means "stick toes in the ground" the dance is based on the Nart sagas legends that used to dance on their toes.
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Zighalat (Russian: Загатлят) means "be the top". The dance is very energetic and fast, and it considered to be the fastest dance in the Caucasus. It is danced in pairs, in which the male dances fast and strong to show his skills, and the woman dances gentle but moves fast.
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Hakulash means "lame man move". At the beginning it was a joke and comedy dance to make the viewers laugh, but with time it became part of the Circassian repertoire; its leg moves look like lame moves but the dance is a fast dance.
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-90501348691328285492016-10-21T01:16:00.001-07:002016-10-21T01:16:44.434-07:00Struggle in Jerash - Jordan's first cinematographic film<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Struggle in Jerash" was Jordan's first cinematographic film dates back to 1957. Until the creation of the Royal Film Commission in 2003, there were only 7 narrative feature-length films created in Jordan. The number of Jordanian narrative feature-length films now are 24.
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-4778722756345303212016-10-20T04:03:00.002-07:002016-10-20T04:03:59.266-07:00Ilo Battigelli il fotografo pirata<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ilo Battigelli nasce a San Daniele del Friuli nel 1922. Si trasferisce giovanissimo a Santa Margherita Ligure, dove compie l’apprendistato presso lo studio dello zio Ernesto, noto fotografo, attivo dapprima in Friuli e, dopo la Grande Guerra, alla quale partecipa nelle squadre fotografiche dell’Esercito, in Liguria.<br />
A sedici anni, dopo una breve parentesi come gestore, nella sua città natale, della succursale dello studio fotografico bujese Barnaba, Ilo raggiunge, con la madre ed i fratelli, il padre Marziale ad Asmara, in Eritrea, allora Africa Orientale Italiana. Il giovane fotografo friulano freelance collabora con il Corriere eritreo e la Compagnia Foto Milano.<br />
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Gli eventi bellici lo vedono ancora in Eritrea, dove è trattenuto come prigioniero sino al 1946 quando, assieme a numerosi connazionali si trasferisce in Arabia Saudita, dove partecipa alla costruzione degli impianti petroliferi dell’ARAMCO a Ras Tannurah. Ed è proprio nel Golfo Persico che inizia l’epopea di Ilo il Pirata, lo pseudonimo da lui scelto e mantenuto durante tutta la sua vita di fotografo professionista. Degli otto anni di soggiorno in Arabia Saudita ci rimane una serie di rare immagini di paesaggio e una vasta galleria di ritratti, da quelli dei beduini a quelli dei governanti locali.<br />
Nel 1954 Ilo Battigelli lascia l’Arabia Saudita e inizia un lungo viaggio che lo porta in Terra Santa, in Medio Oriente, in Turchia, in Grecia, e, passando per l’Italia, negli Stati Uniti. Viaggio interrotto dalla notizia di una grave malattia della madre. Tornato in Italia, in Friuli e a Genova, dove lo zio Ernesto aveva nel frattempo trasferito la sua attività, Ilo sente però il richiamo dell’Africa e nel 1957 riprende la sua avventura trasferendosi a Salisbury in Rhodesia.<br />
Dopo un primo periodo di ambientamento, il Pirata viene messo sotto contratto dall’IMPRESIT che sul fiume Zambesi costruisce la diga di Kariba. Ilo non si limita a documentare il capolavoro di ingegneria idraulica ma, con grande sensibilità, entra nel mondo dei Tonga e fotografa la vita degli indigeni costretti a lasciare i loro villaggi poi inondati dal bacino della diga.<br />
A Salisbury, che ora si chiama Harare ed è la capitale dello Zimbabwe, Ilo apre nel 1960 uno studio che continua la sua attività sino al 1996.<br />
Numerose mostre e premi nel corso degli anni ed altri riconoscimenti puntualizzano la sua attività fino a raggiungere, nel 1964, il più ambito riconoscimento alla Mostra Internazionale di New York dove su 130.000 fotografie a colori inviate da tutto il mondo si vede premiare tutte e quattro le foto presentate. Nel 1968, l’Illustrated Life Rhodesian gli dedica la copertina della rivista e un ampio servizio antologico della sua attività. Il Rhodesia Herald nel 1970 rende omaggio ai suoi 40 anni spesi al servizio della fotografia dedicandogli la pagina centrale. Nel 1980, la National gallery of Zimbabwe presenta una sua antologica di 350 fotografie....<i><a href="http://www.craf-fvg.it/mostra-2005-267-ilo-battigelli.php">continua</a></i><br />
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Samira Ghastin Karamona, better known by her stage name Samira Tewfik (Arabic: سميرة توفيق surname also spelled Tawfik, Tawfiq, Toufiq or Taoufiq) (born 25 September 1944) is a Lebanese singer who gained fame in the Arab world for her specializing in singing in the Bedouin dialect of Jordan.She has also acted in a number of Arab films.<br />
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Samira was born in the village of Umm Haratayn in the Suwayda region of Syria. She lived in the Rmeil neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, where her father Ghastin, who was of Armenian descent, worked as a dock laborer.As a child, she enjoyed Classical Arab music and was particularly a fan of Farid al-Atrash. She often climbed a tree at her home and sang aloud his songs. She was heard by musician Albert Ghaoui, who was impressed with her voice and asked her father to become her musical mentor. Ghaoui introduced Samira to the Egyptian musician Tawfiq Bayoumi who taught her the tawashih musical form. Bayoumi also gave her the stage name "Tawfiq" (or "Tewfik") ("Success") when he told her al-Tawfiq Min Allah (success will come with the blessing of God). Her first hit on Radio Beirut was a song originally sung by Bayoumi called Maskin Ya Qalbi Yama Tlaawat ("Oh My Heart How You Have Suffered").<br />
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She struggled for success in Lebanon,due to the highly popular competing acts of Fairuz, Sabah and Wadi al-Safi, but she excelled after basing herself in Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s. There, the Jordanian Broadcasting Authority (JBA) employed her with the request that she sing in the Bedouin dialect. The JBA trained her to sing in the local dialect in order to make her music genuinely sound Transjordanian. Her first song played by Jordanian radio was her first hit, Maskin Ya Qalbi Yama Tlaawat. Samira performed her first concert at a Jordanian village called Ainata and the following day was invited to perform at an event attended by King Hussein. King Hussein became a fan of her Bedouin tunes and <i>mawalil</i>. She became the representative of Jordanian music to the Arab world by singing with the rustic, Bedouin dialect...<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Tewfik">continue</a></i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4CQmTjwQtnUOdrvoyd3Gj1V2xuo9a6Pniv5qbbkuZ_Qhc_JEQlDTYT9Xa0lfBo1sn5n6J3ZQtuRKa1u1BhWnKwVwYSFcEnbfOo9JHrsKZCNiQbQy6XaXYvXNCwjBJo-V3XN5tnLf7Ucx/s1600/Yousuf-Karsh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4CQmTjwQtnUOdrvoyd3Gj1V2xuo9a6Pniv5qbbkuZ_Qhc_JEQlDTYT9Xa0lfBo1sn5n6J3ZQtuRKa1u1BhWnKwVwYSFcEnbfOo9JHrsKZCNiQbQy6XaXYvXNCwjBJo-V3XN5tnLf7Ucx/s320/Yousuf-Karsh.jpg" width="219" /></a><b>Yousuf Karsh</b> (1908 – 2002) was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer. He has been called one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century by Time magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the latter noting the "distinct style in his theatrical lighting."<br />
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Yousuf Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, "I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village." At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio. Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His brother, Malak Karsh, was also a photographer.<br />
Karsh returned to Canada four years later, eager to make his mark. In 1931 he started working with photographer John Powls, in his studio on the second floor of the Hardy Arcade at 130 Sparks Street in Ottawa, Ontario, close to Parliament Hill. When Powls retired in 1933, Karsh took over the studio. Karsh's first solo exhibition was in 1936 in the Drawing Room of the Château Laurier hotel. He moved his studio into the hotel in 1973, and it remained there until he retired in 1992.<br />
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Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King discovered Karsh and arranged introductions with visiting dignitaries for portrait sittings. Karsh's work attracted the attention of varied celebrities and on 30 December 1941 he photographed Winston Churchill, after Churchill gave a speech to Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa....<br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-23654198754260924622016-07-04T05:38:00.002-07:002016-07-04T05:38:54.683-07:00Following the footsteps of “Sitt Halima”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>"I needed to live among the people, hear them talk about themselves in Artas, make records while they spoke of their life, customs and ways of looking at things. For that reason I decided to remain in Palestine---"</i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hilma Granqvist 1931, introduction to Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village</span><br />
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Hilma Granqvist (nicknamed 'Sitt Halima' in Palestine) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish anthropologist who conducted long field studies of Palestinians. In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem in the then British Mandate of Palestine as part of her research on the women of the Old Testament. She had gone to Palestine "in order to find the Jewish ancestors of Scripture. What she found instead was a Palestinian people with a distinct culture and way of life. She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs,<br />
habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village. Granqvist ended up staying until 1931 documenting all aspects of village life. In so doing she took hundreds of photographs."<br />
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Hilma Granqvist's international reputation is based on five extensive ethnographic works that focus on a Palestinian village in the 1920's. Granqvist was also an innovative photographer. During her research she took about 1000 photographs that greatly contribute to visual anthropology. Granqvist broke the prevailing research tradition of perceiving of foreign peoples as mere proof of the versatility of the human race and the subjects of research as anonymous objects. Granqvist documented people in their activities - in their every chores or going through the rituals related to different phases of life.<br />
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The research which Hilma Granqvist undertook between 1925 and 1931 provided her with most of the material, that later became the content of her published work. In 1931 she published<br />
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Based on the materials collected during the years from 1925 to 1931, the two volumes dedicated to childhood, <i>Birth and childhood among the Arabs</i> (1947) and <i>Child Problems among the Arabs</i><br />
(1950), offer a complete overview of children's way of life of the Palestinian village Artas, starting from the phase of pregnancy. In the first book the author describes the customs and traditions regarding conception, pregnancy, birth and post-natal practices, such as social and religious education, training and circumcision. The second book deals with the health and care of the child, examining issues such as infant mortality and devoting a large part of the description to rituals that ward off evil forces. It also provides a detailed list of names that were actually chosen for children, with several tables divided by gender and derivation. The two books can be considered a continuation of the previous publications of the author,<br />
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<i>Marriage conditions in a Palestinian village</i> <i>volumes I</i> (1931) and <i>II </i>(1935), which concern the same<br />
group of people and give a complete picture of the family in the community of Artas.<br />
In 1965 she published the results of her last period of research: <i>Muslim death and burial</i>. Arab customs and traditions studied in a village in Jordan. Here she describes customs and beliefs about illness and death.<br />
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More reading:<br />
<a href="http://www.academia.edu/20213809/Mother_and_Child_in_palestine_The_Artas_matrial_in_Hilma_Granqvist_Nachlass_at_the_Palestine_Exploration_Fund">http://www.academia.edu/20213809/Mother_and_Child_in_palestine_The_Artas_matrial_in_Hilma_Granqvist_Nachlass_at_the_Palestine_Exploration_Fund</a><br />
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<b>Publications</b>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village I. 1932</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village II. 1935</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Birth and Childhood in an Arab Village. 1947</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Child Problems Among the Arabs. 1950</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Muslim Death and Burial. 1965</span><br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-41323925338432933792016-04-19T01:19:00.000-07:002016-04-19T01:19:41.335-07:00Great Malian photographer Seydou Keïta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Seydou Keïta (1921-2001) is considered one of the greatest Malian photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. A self-taught photographer, he opened a studio in 1948 and specialized in portraiture. Seydou Keïta soon photographed all of Bamako and his portraits gained a reputation for excellence throughout West Africa. </div>
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Seydou Keïta worked primarily with daylight and for economic reasons took only a single shot for each picture.</div>
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Seydou Keïta was discovered in the West in the 1990s. His first solo exhibition took place in 1994 in Paris at the Fondation Cartier. This was followed by many others in various museums, galleries and foundations worldwide</div>
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More reading: <a href="http://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com/">http://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com</a><br />
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-88304708317223995632016-04-05T01:52:00.000-07:002016-04-05T01:52:10.934-07:00The Man Who Saved the 'Mona Lisa' From the Nazis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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mission began in Paris, one that was conducted just like a military operation. Hundreds of workers and volunteers took part, all commanded by one man who was acting on his own initiative, without orders from his superiors.</div>
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This man, Jacques Jaujard, is the hero of the new French documentary “Illustrious Yet Unknown” (Illustre et Inconnu), directed by Jean-Pierre Devillers and Pierre Pochart. It will be screened on Friday morning (February 13) during the Epos International Art Film Festival at Tel Aviv Museum of Art.</div>
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The stored works were marked according to their importance: in yellow, green and red. The "Mona Lisa," for example, was awarded three red circles. Not all the works could be packed in crates because of their dimensions: “The Raft of the Medusa” – an 1818 oil painting by French Romantic painter Théodore Géricault – had to be carried to a truck covered in a gigantic blanket.</div>
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When the order was given, a convoy of 203 vehicles set out, bearing 1,862 wooden crates with the priceless works of art. The destinations: castles throughout France, where the works would be kept safe until the troubles passed. The vehicles traveled at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour (25 mph). Electricity and telephone wires that would have impeded their passage were removed in advance, and the largest art rescue operation of World War II went without a hitch.</div>
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The Nazis entered Paris in June 1940, and soon afterward Jaujard was asked to conduct a tour of the museum for Adolf Hitler’s emissary, Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, who was tasked with inspecting France’s art collection and overseeing the Kunstschutz (German appropriation of art).</div>
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As archival film in the documentary shows, few items remained in the museum by this point and it was mostly empty, albeit still open to visitors.</div>
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Jaujard wrote in his diary – extracts from which are quoted in the film – that Wolff-Metternich, who was not a member of the Nazi Party, felt relieved when he saw the empty museum. Jaujard sensed that, like other members of the German nobility, Wolff-Metternich did not feel much affection for the Nazi regime and intentionally “cheated” at his assignment, allowing Jaujard freedom of movement and protecting him from other elements in the regime. After the war, at Jaujard’s initiative, France awarded Wolff-Metternich the Légion d’honneur.</div>
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The Louvre was subordinated to the education minister of the Vichy government, which collaborated with the Nazis. Jaujard had to play a double diplomatic-political game – satisfying the regime, on the one hand, and protecting the art treasures on the other. In a circuitous way, he succeeded in doing this. However, his relations with the collaborative regime reached boiling point when Hermann Göring, Hitler’s deputy and an art collector in his own right, stole works of art that belonged to France. Jaujard wanted to submit a complaint to the authorities, but was advised to keep quiet lest something bad happen to him.<i> <span style="text-align: left;">read more:</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kQSflyi8PPkJ:www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/.premium-1.645657+&cd=1&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138;">www.haaretz.com</span></a></i></div>
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-7323235624977924632016-03-24T04:18:00.001-07:002016-03-24T04:18:34.413-07:00Art of embroidery in Jordan and Palestine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">As a young
girl learned the stiches, she was also initiated into her culture. Patterns,
colours and fabrics revealed her
village, tribe, social status, material wealth, and the period in which she
lived. Individuality was expressed in the way each woman assembled the piece of
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<span lang="EN-GB">A young
girl’s skill in embroidery was noted by the older women and was equated with
her capabilities as a home maker. The finer her stitches, they said, the better
her groom. Until quite recently, nearly every Jordanian or Palestinian girl,
whatever her social class, embroidered her trousseau. The six to 12 loosely cut
robes she made were worn over a lifetime, and her bridal dress served for many
special occasions – and in some cases as her shroud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Trousseau
on both sides of the Jordan River traditionally included embroidered cushions
that were as beautiful and varied as the dress. Today, it is the cushions that
have carried this art into modern-day life in Jordan: in many homes, the décor is
not complete without one or more matching sets. Their colours can range from
red, maroon, purple and pink, spiked with orange, green, and gold, to a more
sober combination that instead emphasises the artistry of the needlework. The simple
cross-stitch forms the basis for the myriad designs, and the recurring motifs
tend to be drawn from nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Contemporary
pieces include large wall- hangings stitched with the “tree of life” motif and
elegant quilts based on the popular “horse’s hoof” design. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Berbers or Amazighs are an ethnic group indigenous lived in north Africa long before the arrival of the Arabs, and their culture probably dates back more than 4,000 years. The Amazigh which means "free humans" or "free men" are known to the world as Berbers . In fact, the word Berbers is offensive to these ancient inhabitants of north Africa </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the Sahara desert. The name "Berber" is another one of many peccadilloes of the Romans who threw names at people left and right. They, along with the Greeks referred to every people they could not understand with the same unintelligible Berber language whether they were in the East or the West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Traditionally, men take care of livestock. They migrate by following the natural cycle of grazing, and seeking water and shelter. They are thus assured with an abundance of wool, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cotton and plants used for dyeing. For their part, women look after the family and handicrafts - first for their personal use, and secondly for sale in the souqs in their locality. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Amazigh tribes traditionally weave kilims. The tapestry maintains the traditional appearance and distinctiveness of the region of origin of each tribe, which has in effect </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">its own repertoire of drawings. The textile of plain weave is represented by a wide variety of stripes, and more rarely by geometrical patterns such as triangles and diamonds. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additional decorations such as sequins or fringes, are typical of Amazigh weave in M</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orocco. The nomadic and semi-nomadic lifestyle of the Amazigh is very suitable for weaving </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">kilims. The customs and traditions differ from one region to another. The social structure of the Amazigh is tribal. A leader is appointed to command the tribe. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Middle Ages, many women had the power to govern, such as Kahina and Tazoughert Fatma in Aurès, Tin Hinan in Hoggar, Chemci in Aït Iraten, Fatma Tazoughert in the Aurès. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lalla Fatma N'Soumer was a Amazigh woman in Kabylie who fought against the French. The majority of Amazigh tribes currently have men as heads of the tribe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ahwash dance is part of Moroccan Amazigh culture and folklore. Ahouch, known as the dance of the village, is a popular music and dance from the High Atlas and the Anti-Atlas </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mountains performed by the Berbers. The lyrics are always in Amazigh language, in the Tashelhit dialect, which spoken in southwestern Morocco. Ahouch exists in its purest form in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the region of Ibrkak located in Tata. The word "Ahouach" means group dances in Tamazight, dances related to one another, poetic improvisation, individual and group singing in Tashelhit through rhythms alternating from slow to fast. The Ahouach dance and music bring together villagers, tribes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">”Taghbilt” in Tamazight (usually a group of small villages), families at all important moments of life. Ahouch is part of a celebration and social life of Amazighen,and is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">danced by men and women dancing and singing in harmony - sometimes only by women, sometimes exclusively by men, but always in groups. It begins with an improvisation sung solo, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in a shrill voice. Then the men or women in chorus sing songs about love, celebrating nature or events with the rest of tribe drumming, clapping, stomping to the rythem of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">movements .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, MS sans serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Jean Mohr (born 13 September 1925 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss documentary photographer who has been active since 1949, primarily with some of the major humanitarian organizations of the world, including the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organization.</span></span></div>
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-91351089381733111582015-12-23T02:42:00.000-08:002015-12-23T02:57:29.253-08:00London exhibition: ‘Parallel Orientalism’ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="en" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Globalization in our modern society, which is arguably increasingly more complex, has brought about a 'Clash of Civilizations' due to a lack of desire to understand and truly accept each other's humanity. </span></div>
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<span lang="en" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Different cultures, traditions, dreams and </span><span lang="en" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">aspirations results in inevitable simplistic reductions in the form of stereotypes. Alternatively, conformity to </span><span lang="en" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">each other breeds an arrogant confidence that excludes those who do not adapt, accentuating in this way more and more the gaps and the </span><span lang="en" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="en"><span title="Culture differenti, tradizioni, sogni e aspirazioni diverse finiscono così con il chiudersi in stereotipi, in sterili conformismi dove ognuno, forte di arroganti sicurezze, finisce con l'escludere chi non si adegua accentuando sempre più divari e differenze incommensurabili. ">immeasurable </span></span>differences that exist in modern societies. </span></div>
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<span lang="en"><span title="In questa incomprensione reciproca, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il complesso problema fra Occidente e Oriente, si inserisce l'opera della fotografa Fatima Abbadi e in particolare il suo lavoro Orientalismi Paralleli.">This mutual misunderstanding, especially concerning the complex issue between Occident and Orient, comes the work of the photographer Fatima Abbadi and in particular her research and work of "Orientalism Parallel". </span><span title="La sua produzione fotografica è personale, significativa, sempre equilibrata e obiettiva.">Her photographic production is personal, meaningful, balanced and objective. </span><span title="Lo scatto fotografico coglie attimi di quotidianità e scopriamo che quella vita nelle strade, quei bimbi, quegli uomini, quelle donne, quei vecchi dell'Oriente sono cosi diversamente simili nell'umanità dell'Occidente. ">The photographs capture moments of daily life and makes us discover that life on the streets, those children, those men, those women, those old people of the Orient are otherwise so similar with the humanity of the Occident.</span></span></div>
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<span title="Lo scatto fotografico coglie attimi di quotidianità e scopriamo che quella vita nelle strade, quei bimbi, quegli uomini, quelle donne, quei vecchi dell'Oriente sono cosi diversamente simili nell'umanità dell'Occidente. "><div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" title="E cosi, attraverso l'occhio benefico dell'arte e della poesia avviene che i dissapori ei contrasti che dividono, per un attimo si ricompongono in un'armonia universale, in un attimo magico di un'istantanea fotografica."><div style="text-align: justify;">
And so, through the unique method of photography, the disagreements and differences that divide us, even if only momentary, are captured in universal harmony and bringing forth a new insight on our shared humanity.</div>
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Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-39021497630780808542015-10-14T01:41:00.001-07:002015-10-14T01:41:32.893-07:00Portraits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span><span>Femininity is</span> <span>a</span> <span>delicate</span> <span>and</span> <span>impalpable</span> <span>l<wbr></wbr>anguage</span>. It's not an <span>exposed female body</span> <span>or</span> an <span>incarnate</span> </span><span>beauty </span><span><span>bu<wbr></wbr>t</span> <span>rather a unique form of collected </span><span>emotions</span> <span>and</span> <span>feeling<wbr></wbr>s</span><span></span>. <span>Unfortunately, in</span> <span>modern times</span> <span>people often</span> <span>associate</span> <span>femininity</span> <span>wit<wbr></wbr>h classic </span><span>clichés,</span> <span>imposed</span> <span>and</span> <span>d<wbr></wbr>ictated</span> <span>by society</span><span>, exchanging</span> <span>femininity</span> <span>with</span> <span>the</span><wbr></wbr> <span>crude and nude body language</span><span></span>; thus <span>giving</span> <span>a distorted</span><span> image of the female construct. </span><br /><br /><span>With</span> this exhibition <span>"</span>Portraits<span></span><span>"</span> <span>the photographer</span> <span>does not intend to</span> <span>exhibit the</span> <span>female body</span> <span>but</span> rather <span>invites </span><span>the viewer</span> to engage in a dialogue with the portrayed person with the intent<span></span> of<span> discovering the</span> <span>lost femininity</span> <span>of our times.</span></span><br /></div>
Fatima Abbadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03973282350817898900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332438333887834989.post-21531954462754429332015-04-07T06:41:00.000-07:002015-04-07T06:41:19.866-07:00 Into the Promised Land: Photo-essay Portraying Palestinian Life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by John Tordai (Photographer)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A portrait of the people of Palestine showing not only the turmoil of the Arab-Israeli conflict but also scenes from a daily life which has been characterised by over twenty years of military occupation.<br />
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For almost twenty five years the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have endured military occupation and, at the same time, have watched the creeping annexation of their patrimony, much of it given over to settlements. Such pressure led inexorably to the intifada and these photographs, taken between 1988 – 90, roughly span the period wich began with a popular uprising and ended in attrition. They reflect broadly what could be found on the streets any day of the week, evoking both the unchanging rhythms of daily life as well as the pathos and desolation wich, inevitably, have grown out of this enduring conflict. If a lasting peace were achieved, the photographs might be seen only as a painful episode in the rites of passage, but given the depth of the conflict they might as easily be viewed as the preface to a descent into perdition.<br />
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Text by J.C.Tordai
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Title: INTO THE PROMISED LAND </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Authors: text by Harvey Morris, Photographs by J.C.Tordai </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Publisher: CORNERHOUSE Publications
Year: 1991 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Number of pages: 80
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John Tordai has been photographing Palestinians for twenty years. He was in Gaza in the early 1980s, before it became the haunt of journalists and TV crews. He returned during the exhilarating early months of the first Palestinian intifada – when all seemed possible – and stuck around as the uprising sank into a mire of Israeli siege, Palestinian violence, and political stalemate.
He was in place to watch the entrée of the “peace process,” as embodied by the return of Yasser Arafat and the remnants of the Palestine Liberation Organization to Gaza in 1994 and the slow, deformed birth of the Palestinian Authority. And he was there again in September 2000 when that artifice finally collapsed amid the blood, arms, and death of the Intifadat al Aqsa, the second Palestinian national revolt in less than a decade.
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