VISUAL INDEPENDENCE ... a photo graphic experience. | Vol. 9 Winter 14
Rudolf Chametowitsch Nurejew 1990's by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Venus de Cnide 1870 by Giacomo Brogi
Autoportait, 1927 by Man Ray
Paris 2010 by JBS
Mont Blanc 1880 by Georges Charnaux (1864-1939)
Anti aircraft searchlights, Rome 1923 by Giulio Parisio (1891-1967)
The MGM lion, Hollywood 1920 by Karl Stuss (1886 — 1981)
Reading in the Train, Paris 1933 by André Kertész (1894 – 1985)
Seagulls, Wales 1884 by M. Evans
Dancers knitting, Paris 1930 by Brassai (1899 - 1984)
Le Havre, 1856 by Cyrus Macaire (1807 - 1871)
Charlie Chaplin, City lights 1931 by Roland Totheroh (1890–1967)
Central Park, 1970 by Barton Silverman
Nevada, 1956 by Robert Frank (made on his Guggenheim Fellowship)
Greece, 1959 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Barbershop, 1947 by Wright Morris
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1919. Photo Credit not available
Flight of the Pélican, 1887 by E.J. Marey
Gartenscheich by IBS Geissler
Nat Carr in "Angel Face", 1925 by J.C. Milligan
Police Shooting Range, Houston Texas by Thomas Hoepker
Troubles, Belfast 1974 by Nancy Moran
Attack, 1941 by Dimitri Baltermants
President Kennedy by Georges Tames
Ground Zero, 2009 by JBS
Distant view of Sebastopol, 1855 by Roger Fenton
Peru 1952 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Central Park, 1943 by Drahomir J. Ruzicka
Vitrine by Walker Evans
Vitrine by Ivan Baschang
Andalusia 1992 by IBS Geissler
New York 2009 by Jans Bock-Schroeder
Les Gitans, Paris 1900. Photo Credit not available.
Peru 1952, by Peter Bock-Schroeder (30.11.13 - 19.2.01)
Walking on the moon, 1972 by John W. Young & Charles M. Duke
Gio by Marcello Geppetti
Moscow 1956 by Peter Bock-Schroeder by Jans Bock-Schroeder Paris 2012
Man Ray at work (or play?)
Stairs, France 1930 by Andre Kertesz
Andy Warhol, New York 1982 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Eugene Smith Verso
In the domain of art, each creation is unique, and knows little progress thereafter. Arising over time are all sorts of variations of the same themes, sometimes full-bodied, often quite bland. But the force existing at the beginning of the work is rarely maintained. Similarly, when this force is reapplied, the action produced in the artwork becomes automated and mechanized, so much so that the dulled senses fail to respond to the medium. The time is then ripe for a new invention. What we call the technique is inseparable from the art. And so we are wanting, and this is not a trivial matter, to do away with some ideas. Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type, printed by this means a handful of books, which still remain supreme as realisations of the art of book typography. The centuries which have succeeded him were not marked by any other major invention in this field of interest – until photography.
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. - Berenice Abbott
Relentless Paparazzi
by Marcello Geppetti
Marcello Geppetti (1933–1998) was an Italian photographer. This is how David Schonauer, the editor in chief of American Photo magazine, described Marcello Geppetti in 1997. The New York Times and Newsweek compared him to Cartier-Bresson and Weegee.
Le Mouvement
by Étienne-Jules Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. In 1889, the International Congress of Photography decided "chronophotography" would be the term used to describe all sequential instantaneous photographic processes.
February 1917
by Karl Bulla
The February Revolution of 1917 was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was centered on Petrograd, then the capital (now St. Petersburg). The February Revolution was followed in the same year by the October Revolution, paving the way for the USSR.
Shoot a Photo
by Clément Chéroux
Distant ancestor of today's video games, « shoot-a-photo » attractions, for that is how they were called, appeared among fairground stands around 1920. In this new game the shooter fired upon himself. Among the Shooters: Brassai, Man Ray, Fellini, Sartre, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein
Visual Independence Articles
- Stamps of Man Ray by Steven Manford
- Though reluctant to admit it as a champion of Man Ray's photographs, often the verso can be more compelling than the recto.
See more | read more - Photo Diary by John G. Morris
- Morris is responsible for saving Robert Capa’s legendary eleven images of D-Day after the melted emulsion accidentally destroyed most of the precious negatives.
See more | read more - Interview with Galerist Baudoin Lebon
- He has been an art dealer since 1974, his mother was Jean Moulin's secretary, he has been representing
Joel Peter Witkin since 1986, as a child he wanted to be a farmer.
See more | read more
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. - Jean Cocteau
The Art of Collecting Photography
Establishing a well-put-together photography collection is an art in itself. For the collector at any level, photography presents a more accessible, relatable and affordable entry point to the art world than many other mediums.
Buying photographs will lead you to on an amazing personal and emotional journey. Look, react, and commit. Pursue the experience that’s pleasurable. If you find a photograph that speaks to you, that moves and inspires you, that makes you look at it again and again – buy it, take it home, hang it on the wall, and live with it.
If buying for investment, look at the artists' resumes, where their work has been published, what galleries represent them, and how their work is selling
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. - Alexander Rodchenko
Is photography art?
Anyone still asking that question should attend international art fairs, visit renowned galleries and auction houses, or even private residences of some foremost collectors
Photography’s presence within the art world has surged in recent years. The once distinctive line between photography and other art forms has blurred. Today’s photography art market seems to straddle two distinctive subsets – vintage/iconic pieces and current, contemporary creations.
There is a very real sense in which photography is actually the core of the contemporary art market. All sorts of ideas come directly from or through photography.
“There is a new generation of photographers that are creatively and intellectually pushing the envelope,” says Isabella Icoz, art advisor, nominator to the Prix Pictet and veteran art curator in Istanbul. “When I look at them, I don’t think of [their work] as photography but as art. I think it’s important to not look at labels.”
Photography is simply a medium of accepted art.
The landscape deserves to be photographed the way it presents itself to us. - Peter Bock-Schroeder
The Visual Independence Store
The Peter Bock-Schroeder Estate in in cooperation with Visual Independence produces modern/estate prints from the original negatives of the PBS Archive.
Photographs are stamped on the back with the Bock-Schroeder copyright stamp, and the Peter Bock-Schroeder Estate stamp. For authenticity reasons, all prints are signed by Jans Bock Schroeder with the print date and edition number.
Sizes noted are the paper size of each photograph and are rounded to the nearest inch. Image sizes are slightly smaller, allowing for a typical white border.
We agree to buy back photographs for the price paid within 5 days, provided it is returned in the same condition as supplied.
The Visual Independent Newsletter
Starting in October 2013, visualindependence.com began delivering a weekly newsletter to its subscribers. The Newsletter presents important photographers and their classic and at times unpublished photographs to Visual Independent Persons.
- Seascapes by Louis-Cyrus Macaire
- Dancers knitting by Brassai
- Study of Clouds by Carlo Simelli
- Reading in the Train by André Kertész
- Young Cadets by Peter Bock-Schroeder
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The Visual Independence Blog
Robert Doisneau, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Étienne-Jules Marey, Gustave Le Gray, Tazio Secchiaroli, Alfred Donné, Dimitri Baltermants, Peter Bock-Schroeder, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wright Morris, Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, Clarence White, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, André Kertész, Otto Wegener, Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq, Herbert List, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Eugene Atget, John Collier, Ilse Bing, Philippe Halsman, William Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Germaine Krull, Nadar, Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, Charles Marville, Dorothea Lange, Marcello Geppetti, Lewis Hine, Leon Gimpel, Pierre Molinier, Miroslav Tichý, Edward Jean Steichen, Karl Struss, Louis-Cyrus Macaire, George Ellery Hale, Israëlis Bidermanas and Walker Evans are amongst the photographers featured in the weekly Visual Independence Blog.
Image-making is our preference for what we imagine to what there is to be seen. - Wright Morris
Sotchi 1956
- Artist: Peter Bock-Schroeder (1913 - 2001)
- Size: 24cm x 30cm
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Edition: Unique Vintage Print
- Photographed: 1956
- Print Date: 1959
- Copyrightstamp: verso
- Provenance: Bock-Schroeder Estate
Vintage Fashion
- Artist: IBS Geissler
- Size: 24cm x 30cm
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Edition: Unique Vintage Print
- Photographed: 1959
- Print Date: 1959
- Copyrightstamp: verso
- Provenance: Bock-Schroeder Estate
Traces of Newton
- Artist: Jans Bock-Schroeder
- Size: 24cm x 30cm
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Edition: 25
- Photographed: 2010
- Print Date: 2012
- Copyrightstamp: verso
- Provenance: Bock-Schroeder Estate
Available light is any damn light that is available! - W. Eugene Smith
Collecting Bock-Schroeder
Provenance has always been an important factor in the painting and print markets and is has become the same in photography. Besides the possibility of contributing to an increase in value because of the reputation of the previous owner, provenance is also important in determining that a photograph is not a forgery.
Photographs are stamped on the back with Peter Bock-Schroeder's original copyright stamp, and the Peter Bock-Schroeder Estate stamp. For authenticity reasons, all prints are signed by Jans Bock Schroeder with the print date and edition number.
The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques. - Philippe Halsman
Back in the USSR
In 1956, one year after the peace treaty between Russia and Germany, Peter Bock-Schroeder was the first West-German photographer to get permission to work in the USSR. The Assignment came from a West German Film Production. The task was to travel with a international film crew on the production of the documentary: Russia today, We saw with our eyes.
PBS
"The photo journalist's landscape has to be more than just a pretty picture; it has to make a statement" - Peter Bock-Schroeder (1913-2001)
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. - Helmut Newton
Vera Maxwell
It was on a fabric buying trip to Peru in the early 1950s that Maxwell chance met Peter Bock-Schroeder, the world travelling German photojournalist. What follows is a retrospective of his lens on her work and letters that give a glimpse into their lifelong friendship that began in a faraway land.
Sefton Delmer
Denis Sefton Delmer (1904 - 1979) was a British journalist and propagandist for the British government. During the Second World War he led a black propaganda campaign against Hitler by radio from England and he was named in the Nazis' Black Book for immediate arrest after their invasion of England.
Disturbed Landscapes
Just as the landscape forms the people, people also put their mark on the landscape. So we needn’t go looking for a little piece of earth free of all traces of human activity, for it is the landscape altered by man that repeatedly gives us something new, that offers us fascinating motifs. The photo journalist’s landscape has to be more than just a pretty picture; it has to make a statement.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. - Pablo Picasso
Celilo Falls
The "Happy Fishing Ground", owned by the Wyam Indians, at the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington is endangered to be destroyed through the construction of the "Dallas Dam". During the Fishing Season (April-October) up to 5000 Indians from the Umatilla, Yakima and Warm Spring Reservations come here. Native settlements has existed here in various configurations for 15,000 years. The Building of the Dallas Dam which will supply a nearby electric power station, means the loss of their income and their ancient tradition. The torrential River will be replaced by a quiet Lake. In the 19th century the Indians were given the exclusive right of the Columbian River by decree of "the white man". Once again the Native Americans learn what these promises are worth. They are now promised apartments and money as compensation for their fishing grounds.