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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir

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In researching other bodies of work by the photographers in this reading, I was immediately captivated by the work of Annelies Strba. This photo is called Nyima 499 and is part of a larger collection of photos called NYIMA. This collection is full of digitally altered photographs of her grandchildren (or children? it was a bit difficult to find the specific details of her collections, the information out there is more general). There is a painterly quality to the photos; they are dreamy, ethereal and fairytale-like. But there is something dark about them too, their psychedelic visuality seeming almost wrong in light of the delicateness and innocence of the subject matter. This photo is quite beautiful; the girl almost looks like she’s floating as the details of the couch are obscured by the alteration. she is the picture of innocence, sleeping peacefully. and yet the way the photo is edited gives it a radioactive quality that also alters the tone; a superimposed darkness on an otherwise pure and wholesome image. 

–Sophia 

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                                         Annelies Strba 

Annelies Strba- Artnet

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Sonja, Samuel, and Linda By Annelies Strba 

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         The artist I chose to explore is Annelies Strba. Her bodies work portray of the everyday life of her children and some of her work show her grandchildren too. She loves to do photos with her family. In the first photo, she shows one of her daughters enjoying nature. The way she took the photo makes it look like it was almost video taped. It looks like the girl is moving and loving the beautiful nature behind her. Plus she used a blurry vision screen to also make it look like it was a moving video  that went too fast. In the second photo she captures   her two daughters and 1 grandson sitting on the bed and doing nothing  really important. But for some reason it looks so important because it also captures a time way back in history. You can feel that this was a long time ago by looking at the way that they are dressed, the toys they are holding, the furniture in the background  and it leaves you feeling all warm and happy inside.

   I picked this photographer because my family is so important to me too and I really love to look at pictures of and from our family. This is a new way of thinking about pictures though. We mostly have pictures of events we do in our family like b birthdays, graduations, weddings, vacations, and other spacial times we do together as a family. I really like that this photographer doesn’t just capture special events but includes just regular thing that most of us don’t even really recognize or notice. It Is like she is saying that we have to “stop and smell the roses.” Her photos makes me feel very calm inside and also just like normal.   We all have things in common with the photos she takes. I also chose her because I love nature too. I love seeing beautiful green grass and flowers and I think that adding nature to a photograph is a great idea to capture on camera.

Quotation: “ Photographing of their respective families sensuously emphasize the archetypal narratives of personal lives, for example the bonds between mother and daughters, or a child on the cusp of adulthood. There is a neutrality in their techniques rather than a pronounced style such as that of a family snap.”

Posted By: Victoria Desantis

4/8/21

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Si tanto falta es que nada tuvimos.                                                                                                     Gabriela Mistral

Ph: Annelies Strba, NYIMA 317, 2006

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A Birthday Lamentation for Edward Gorey

Upon this day, so bleak, so bright, We mark your birth in pale moonlight. With solemn cheer and grim delight, We toast your specters, wraiths, and blight.

The children wane, the bats take flight, A hatless man is lost from sight. The cats observe with eerie grace, As something skitters through the place.

A candle flickers, snuffed too soon, By unseen hands in dusty gloom. Yet still your pen, though stilled in bone, Writes whispers from the great unknown.

So here’s to you, with wine or tea, May birthdays haunt eternally.

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Wir gratulieren Annelies Strba zum Willy Reber Kunstpreis 2020.

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Annelies Strba, Shades of times, 1997

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Annelies Štrba. Pema, 2016.

https://strba.ch/

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Annelies Strba - Shades of time 1970-1997

Annelies Strba’s slideshow Shades of time is one of the exhibitions I miss when I think back of the photofestival of Arles 2009. The presentation worked out so well, using three screens that show a new picture each 10 seconds. All in a closed room with one entry. Combined with dreamy minimalistic music.

In the photos you saw all her relatives getting older and change. In a very subtle way. Not -the beginning till the end- way, but more like a puzzle which you had to make yourself. Especially the slideshows that were getting back and forth in time made it so powerful. I kept sitting there for 30 minutes and really loved what I saw. I wish I could see it again. 

http://strba.ch/diashow/

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Vintage JOCKEY underwear ads from 1998/1999

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FREDDIE STROMA UnReal 1.02 “Relapse”

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HARRIS DICKINSON Beach Rats (2017)

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Kodama Takamura Rough Waves and Fishermen, 1930.

from artelino originally I believe

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