Hartmut Schwarzbach

[kansei]

Hello everybody, my name's José and this is my first thread in this forum community . First of all I would like to wish a happy merry christmas to all

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I don't know this is the correct forum section to post the subject I would like to discuss but, since I'm the owner of a 503 cw I did not find a better way to put it so please let me know if I was wrong!

Hartmut Schwarzbach is a german photographer and he won the third place UNICEF photos of the 2007 award. He utilized a Hasseblad 6x6 system to take these color pictures :

http://www.thailandfoto.com/content/index.html

Apart from the artistic excellence and high sensitive vibrations of these photographs I was absolutely amazed about the superior image quality showed in the link I placed above. Do you know what camera/film combination did he used or the shots were taken with a digital back? It is possible to obtain scans from film with these incredible quality ?

Thank you very much,
Jose.

 

[fotografz]

These images were all shot on film using a Hasselblad ... so, yes, it is very possible to obtain scans with that kind of quality.

 

[polypal]

Welcome José,

Thanks for linking these pictures.
Contact Hartmut yourself to find out more about these pictures.
I am sure he will be delighted to give you information about his trip to the Philippines.

It strikes me most children have a rather sad look in their eyes.
I was there a few years ago and remember happy laughing children playing with toys they found or made themselves.

Paul

 

[cs_foto]

thanks for the link.

i find the images a bit exploitative and sadistic, manipulative.. maybe is the use of light and/or sometimes they seem too posed.. but i like them.. dunno what is the actual intention of them, i can read them as an analogy to corporate portraiture, where instead of CEO's we have this poor children "suffering"..

:s