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| The Burial Chapel, Jewish Cemetery, Chernowitz, Ukraine 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| The War Game, Sczesczin, Poland 1994 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| The War Game #2, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
Saturday, August 24, 2013
The War Game
Friday, August 23, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
http://stuartpilkington.co.uk/bookfilmpainting/index.html
http://stuartpilkington.co.uk/
Created for Stuart Pilkington's online project "Book/Film/Painting"
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| "The English Patient" based on both book & film ©Sylvia de Swaan |
Originally when I chose "The English Patient" as my subject for this project, I'd neither read the book nor seen the film - what prompted me was having read about the process and intricacies of editing it in "The Conversations, Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film" by Michael Ondaatje - a book that has very much affirmed and abetted my own thinking about editing and juxtaposition to create a narrative flow...
Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Submission title: The Elusive Self
Who am I really, I
ask myself as I watch my elongated shadow play across the railroad tracks along
Lake Ontario; or my shattered reflection in a window of an abandoned gas
station on route 49; or when I hold an I.D. picture from my childhood refugee
papers against the background of a train journey through post communist Eastern
Europe; or me with a long ago lover in a penny arcade photo booth in the 1990s.
My
self-portraits are about intangible and fleeting moments of memory; mining the
past, remembered dreams, interior spaces. They are about metaphor, poetry,
vibration.
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| photo booth selfie 1992 |
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| Sylvan Beach 1992 |
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| Route 49, Marcy, NY 2007 |
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| Prague to Berlin, 1994 |
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| Oswego, NY 2005 |
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| Prague to Berlin 1994 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Passage of Time
Dorothy Riester, age 95, holding a picture of her young husband, who died some twenty years ago. Dorothy and Bob were founders of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY and lived an adventurous life of travel and projects. Dorothy currently lives in an assisted living facility, where she still makes sculpture in her room.
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| Dorothy Riester 22/92 |
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| Add caption95 year old Woman, Nepolokivtsi, UA 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Portrait as a young woman, Neolokivtsi, Ukraine 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Bus Stops
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| Bos en Lomerplein, Amsterdam, NL 2012©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| You Are Not Alone, Utica, NY 2009 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Missing Child, Utica, NY 2007 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Autobus Rumbo La Merced, Mexico, DF 2010 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Road Warriors, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2013 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Bust Stop, Chernivtsi, Ukraine 2008 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1994 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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| Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1994 ©Sylvia de Swaan |
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