Oh the politics. After x-mas day the Swedish prime minister decided to announce that the election is
off because the parties had agreed on certain terms in a way so that the very right party will get less
power in the dealings of the money issue. This has caused the very right party (or is it very left?) -
I dunno 'cause I don't care for the politics really - well, they issued a complaint on the prime minister.
This is nothing the other parties care for either as they did not vote against the new minister as it were
a voting last week. Oh the politicians.
I am still surprised that the "angry young man" very right party got so many votes that they made
themselves seats in the government. It is not a party that is very right (it is just the direction of their
politics). The man that led them has gotten burned out already and has been replaced by another.
During the elections he was compared to a famous angry man figure with mustache from second
world war. So this other man has been in charge of the" very angry party" since december.
Now they have less than four years to government - until september 2018 when next election comes
if they don't get away with trying to kick out todays prime minister for what? on what charges? being
not like them, for being not with them on the money issue. Who are they?
We and they - that is the problem always, segregation.
Many of the swedish voters voted for them and now they have less power of the voting of money
since the secret agreement made between the other parties in Regeringen during december 2014.
Even Nelson Mandela once was an angry young man, but he got older and wiser - (during a horrible
27years! in prison). No man - is that where I wish for all angry men to be?! Wise up.
Anyhow. Last week we begun having lectures and I have learned about the history of photography by
Peter Assar Monssen. He told about Nan Goldin and the Ballad of sexual dependency that is her 900
some photographs that she has made soundtrack to with 30 different songs.
With time the camera has become less important and today film has greater impact on society. When
you do photograph, take a picture sans the lightning of the flash because the natural light is what the
picture needs. It is so that light is measured with Kelvin. And natural light has x Kelvin and a
lamplight a different Kelvin. There is warm red yellow light and cold blue green light and the warm
light is what feels comfortable.
Before Larry Clarkes closeups there was Muzi(Muyi?) a drawing artist before Jesus Christ, 2000
years before the year zero this man in china drew pictures. Time flies and Aristoteles wrote down a
description of fotografia that he saw a square round pictures on the grass from the light of the sun as
it traveled through the branches of a tree - during a solar eclipse.
Alhazeni was first to make a camera obscura.
Brunelleschi during the medieval times 14th century found out perspective.
Leonardo DaVinci was first with the description of a Camera Obscura, like its a hole in the wall for
you to get an upside down picture on a whitewashed wall.
Something about a french bishop Feon? that wrote a science fiction novel 1600 something described
how to get a picture on a gold-plate or silver via water.
The history of real photography is less than 200 years old (It put some things in perspective)
First there was daguerreotyper or diaramor, fotogram. 1830 a photograph was made. The first ones
was made onto copper and very sensitive for touch therefore they were framed in glass.
Important Names: Diane Arbus, Philip DiLorca, Henri Tati
Rene Descartes said cogito ergo sum - that is I think therefor I am. (Is it not so that a
photograph of you sucks the soul out of you? - to many self-portrait photographs might just do you
soul less?)
About the daguerreotype: Smithsonian institute.
