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Contemporary Group Journal Number 49 Autumn 2012 View from the Chair Contemporary Group Journal in July I Wrote About the Proposal for a Yorkshire/North East Group Number 49 Autumn 2012 Contemporary Group Journal Number 49 Autumn 2012 View from the Chair Contemporary Group Journal In July I wrote about the proposal for a Yorkshire/North East Group. Three months later I can safely say it was successfully launched by Nigel Tooby FRPS on 15 September. Nigel has thirty-eight members on his email list and twenty three attended the inaugural meeting, with apologies from those who were unable to attend. The group is likely to undertake a wide variety of activities and these were discussed at the meeting in the context of members’ aspirations. As a start, five members of those present agreed to show their work at the next meeting, View from the Chair Avril Harris ARPS 2 which will be on Saturday, 17 November in the Hampshire Room, Strensall Village Hall, Strensall, York YO32 5AW Editorial Patricia Ann Ruddle ARPS 4 between 2 and 5 pm. The meetings will be open to all. Whether you are an RPS member or not, you will be made to feel very welcome. I wish the Group continuing success. What you see is what you get Pascal van Heesch ARPS & Willem 5 On 6 September I attended the talk given by Joel Meyerowitz at the Photographers’ Gallery; the hall was packed Melching and I understand the tickets were sold very quickly. I heard Joel speak some years ago and can confirm that he has The Collector Lesley Parkinson ARPS 13 lost none of his fluency. His images of Ground Zero were particularly poignant to me as I had visited the site many Shoshone Falls book review Donald Stewart FRPS 15 years ago, and revisited last September when the Remembrance Park was opened. The photographs in New York that record the events of this dreadful time are not to be forgotten. Hyperreal modernity Del Barrett ARPS 19 The second Group e-news was emailed in September. I have had no comments from anyone about it, so I do not know if it is welcome or not. Please don’t forget if you have anything of interest that you would like to pass on to other Sculpting Light Arnie Whittle ARPS 24 members, whether exhibitions that you have seen, or that are to be held by members, books you may have seen and Contemporary Photography Today Brian Steptoe FRPS 26 liked or comments on how we run the Contemporary Group – I would be pleased to hear from you. FORMAT photoforum. A monthly meeting, last Tuesdays, will be held for discussions about photography, led A Very English Eye Rod Fry ARPS 30 by photographer, journalist, author and teacher, Paul Hill, one of the founders of the Contemporary Group. www. Group Events 39 derbyquad.co.uk and telephone 01332 290606 for more information. There are still tickets available for Contrasting Contemporary, 10 - 11 November. I understand that both Committee 39 Jurys Inn and Premier Hotels are offering special deals for the autumn and they are both very close to the venue in Demolition of squatter houses Anna Fox 40 Plymouth. Homer Sykes, Sian Bonnell Hon FRPS and Daniel Meadows Hon FRPS will be speaking on Saturday, and Sophy Rickett will speak on Sunday, We also hope to show a successful Contemporary Fellowship during the Sunday morning. Booking forms are available from the RPS website Contemporary Group in conjunction with the South West Region. Best wishes to you all, Avril Copyright notice Text should be in Microsoft Word and images are preferred in © The copyright of photographs and text in this issue belongs TIFF format, 300 dpi, file size guideline 10-20Mb. Images are to the author of the article of which they form part, unless also acceptable as high quality JPEGs, file size guideline 3-6 Contemporary Group ethos - Photography that explores the photographer’s personal view of otherwise indicated. Mb. Colour space in Adobe RGB is preferred rather than sRGB. contemporary society, environment, art or culture, usually through a themed body of work. If you wish to submit articles for the Journal, please send all For other formats, please contact the Editor. Large image files copy and images on disc to: may be supplied on disc or by use of online large file transfer Patricia Ann Ruddle, 28 Malvern Avenue, York, YO26 5SG. facilities. [email protected] Unless requested, discs will not be returned. Cover: Umbra 5, by Arnie Whittle ARPS DEADLINE for the Winter 2012 edition is 31 December 2012. 2 . The Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group Journal . 3 . Editorial What you see is what you get Five ‘realists’ from the Netherlands Pascal van Heesch ARPS & Willem Melching “It’s great that there is room for different opinions, otherwise it would be boring.” Dutch visual arts have a long-standing tradition of realism. The masters The above quote is a remark made in an email from Dutch member, Pascal van Heesch. from the seventeenth century like Rembrandt and Vermeer are well- I had asked his opinion of our Journal to which he responded by telling me what he liked known examples. This tradition is very much alive in the contemporary and didn’t like. But, as noted above, it’s all the better for having diverse articles. I think visual arts and Dutch photography is no exception. Twentieth century that this Journal issue includes such varied photography, which again is characteristic masters such as Eddy Posthuma de Boer, Ed van der Elsken, Cas of the Contemporary Group. Whether diversity in approach or diversity in perspective, Oorthuys and Rieneke Dijkstra are deeply rooted in this tradition of Group members make images that reflect their own world viewpoint and personal realism and social engagement. response to it. This tradition is also present in the work of the Dutch photographers I’m wondering - are you like Anna Fox who says that she keeps an open mind when represented here. Each represents a very personal interpretation of starting a project? Perhaps like her, you are open to new ways of seeing by sometimes the realistic tradition, which varies from outright contemporary work to changing processes? Or perhaps working ideas out while “on the way”? ‘classical’ social documentary. This year’s RPS Centenary Medal recipient, Joel Meyerowitz, gave a talk in London Of course pure ‘realism’ is a naive illusion. Vermeer’s Music Lesson which coincided with the Award ceremony in September. Brian Steptoe attended the talk is more than a registration of reality; it is full of symbols, hidden clues and told me that Meyerowitz’s ethos came across loud and clear - to keep advancing. and passion. The same goes for the photographers in this contribution Whenever he thought that his work was ‘plateauing’ he started working in a new way. from the Netherlands. Their work is only ‘realistic’ on the outside. They Indeed, when hibernating in a studio in Tuscany because it was too hot outside, he began prefer to leave the interpretation of a deeper meaning to the individual to make still life images of souvenir-type objects he bought for a few euros. Working in viewer. his tabletop theatre, he became fascinated with the seemingly endless juxtapositions The five photographers have attended RPS Advisory Days in Brussels that he could arrange, which in turn gave various interpretations to the different ways and the Netherlands, and have enjoyed the help, critique and feedback the objects were placed. (1) This is an astonishing departure from the type of photography from experts like Sam Ang ARPS, Simon Roberts FRPS, Roy Robertson that we usually associate with Meyerowitz. HonFRPS President and Ray Spence FRPS. At the moment Willem So, members, I’d be pleased if you sent me articles to show us the projects and ideas Melching is preparing an ARPS panel for the Contemporary Group. that you are working on, considering, or perhaps even stuck on. Then, our Journal will Cobi Neeft recently acquired an ARPS, and now hopes to benefit more continue to benefit from the range of genres that Group members engage in, whether from the RPS and its various activities. Ton Mijs submitted his series documentary or fine art, and to express and share our diverse purposes and concepts. of jazz photography in 2010 which was awarded an ARPS distinction. Armando Jongejan FRPS and Pascal van Heesch ARPS are members of Best wishes, Patricia the Contemporary Group and its third Postal Portfolio. All five agree that it is a great experience to explore and share 1. Land, David “Unsettled vision”. Interview with Joel Meyerowitz HonFRPS. The Royal the richness of the language of photography with an international Photographic Society Journal, 152.7, (2012): 396-401. community of enthusiastic photographers. Participating in the RPS is a great way to achieve this goal. 4 . The Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group Journal . 5 . Ton Mijs ARPS - Americana In the autumn of 2010, Ton Mijs travelled through rural New England, in Northeastern USA, in search of the ‘ordinary’ America. Ton was already well aware of the importance of the American flag in the culture of the ‘promised land’. Nevertheless, he was struck by the fact that he saw the national flag literally everywhere. In the present series, Ton shows his amazement as well as his ambivalence towards this omnipresent patriotism. At the same time, the images are a tribute to American photographers like Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, the pioneers who were the first to picture the beauty of the banal and the commonplace in full colour. Ton has a Fellowship distinction from the Dutch Amateur Photographic Society. website www.tonmijs.nl/ . 6 . The Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group Journal . 7 . Willem Melching - Figments of Reality Willem Melching characterises his work as ‘nihilistic humanism’.
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