Yosemite Valley before Ansel Adams. Underwood & Underwood Stereoscopic Photographs of 1902

Tonight in Bolzano
Yosemite Valley before Ansel Adams. Underwood & Underwood Stereoscopic Photographs of 1902
Underwood & Underwood (USA)



Opening: 22.09.2009, 19:00 hrs.
Exhibition: 23.09.2009 - 17.10.2009
Visit hours:
Tu. – Fr.: 15:00 – 19:00.
Sa.: 10:00-12:30.
Free entrance.

Y O S E M I T E V A L L E Y Before ANSEL ADAMS
Yosemite Valley seen through the stereoscope in the three-dimensional photographs of Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1092.
Curated by Antonello Satta

As part of the Mountain Publishing International Festival that will take place from September 18th to 27th, 2009 in the city town of Bolzano, tonight will be opened the exhibition "Yosemite Valley – Before Ansel Adams” at the Foto-forum Gallery in Bolzano, September 22th, 2009 at 19:00 hrs., with stereoscopic panoramic photographs taken in 1902.

Since 1895, the Underwood & Underwood, probably the biggest house in the world specialized in stereoscopic photography of all kinds, published in carton boxes with the form of a book the so called Boxed Sets, several series of 50-100 original mounted prints consisting on images of cities, towns, varied events and war conflicts. What was fundamental in the image production was not to report the authorial credits, since the stereograms were usually labeled and numbered only with the name of the publisher house, and rarely with the name of the photographer, but to state the way these images would be seen. On the backside of the box, it was referred with golden characters as follows “through the stereoscope”.

Yosemite Valley is relevant for the visual culture in the wide world since the early years of landscape photography until nowadays. It is present in the collective imaginary of every photographer,and not only, due to the extraordinary photographs created in the 1930’s by the great photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the most famous figure between the American landscape photographers.

This exhibition is presented for the second time in Italy, and consists in images and texts taken from the volume: Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, published (1st. Ed.) in 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. In this occasion, at the Foto-forum Gallery in Bolzano, there will be displayed 25 panels with stereoscopic photographs, and one will have access to a guide and a map so as to identify every reproduction through information about position, orientation and the used angle of every photogram, following the exclusive patented model of the publishing house. Moreover, stereoscopic glasses will be offered to look at the images and perceive the three-dimensionality.

At the opening of the exhibition will participate Augusto Golin and the curator Antonello Stata, representing the TrentoFilmfestival and the Italian Stereoscopic Archive, respectively. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Italian Stereoscopic Archive, the TrentoFilmfestival and AVS South Tyrol Alpine Association.

This is an invitation to reflect about the worth of archival collections and the importance of making it accessible, understandable and valuable to the public. It is about giving the chance to people of acquiring new keys of lecture of far and forgotten places and, what is for me the most exciting, of exploring the ways of perceiving, once pioneer in the sensorial experimentation in the early1900’s, now really difficult to have access to in a ultra-advanced technological world.


Further information in Italian:
http://www.foto-forum.it/it/mostre-bolzano/mostra-attuale.htm

"Israel and Palestine: obstacles to peace" by Jeff Halper

The Master in Conflict mediation and international peacemakers, of the University of Bologna and the Italian Professional Formation of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano
invite the community to the open lecture:

Israel and Palestine: obstacles to peace

By Jeff Halper - ICAHD, from Jerusalem.
Anthropologist, author, lecturer, political activist, and co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

Dr. Jeff Halper has created a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to the Occupied Territories. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee for his work "to liberate both the Palestinian and the Israeli people from the yoke of structural violence" and "to build equality between their people by recognizing and celebrating their common humanity."

Some of his published books are:
- An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press, 2008.
- Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century, Westview, 1991.

Friday, September 11th, 2009. 17 hrs.
Kolping Haus – Sala Josef
Largo Kolping 3
Bolzano, Italy

Lecture in Italian and English.
Simultaneous translation offered.

Organized by the Master in Conflict mediation and international peacemakers with the financial contribute of the European Social Fund, in collaboration with The Alexander Langer Foundation.


To learn more about ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions):
http://www.icahd.org/eng/

The landscape in between of Michael Ackerman at the “Bieler Fototage 2009”

How impressive could be for one to know that somebody of the family has gone away from the own country to live somewhere else? Who knows when he is going to return. Through the years, it seems that it does not matter at all. I have been living in a similar situation regarding many of my family group: aunts, uncles, cousins, one of my brothers… me. Maybe it is just a natural disposition in the family. I realize just in my early adulthood that it has been normal for us. Nevertheless, it is a kind of condition that put every single person in a hairline, behind or in front of it, nearby. We could be many, but we feel alone the same way.

The work of the photographer Michael Ackerman “Departure” (Poland 1999 – 2009) reminds me of this condition. Together with the proposals of other six photographers, his photography will be presented in a simultaneous but not synchronized dia projection entitled “The Singled Person”. This project intends to offer a subjective reading of the relationship between the individual and its environment.

“My grandfather came from Poland. He left in the
1930’s and never returned. Growing up I had no
idea what that meant. And maybe I still don’t but
for the past ten years I’ve been in and out of this
land. Katowice, Krakow, Lodz. Warszawa and the
landscape in between. A sort of inheritance.“

“The Singled Person” (photographs by Michael Ackerman, Morten Andersen, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Peer Kugler, André Lützen, Hisashi Murayama and Filippo Romano) has been presented at the New York Photo Festival in 2008, and now is the turn of the City of Biel/Bienne, in Switzerland, to make it visible through its exhibition in different locations around the city. This project already makes me feel undeniable empathy.

Photo days “Fototage 2009”: September 4th – 27th.

For further information (only available in French or German), please visit:
http://2009.fototage.ch