Christopher Anderson

매그넘 사진가 크리스토퍼 앤더슨.
잘 모른다.
머 아는 사람이 없다;;;

그런데 오늘 매그넘으로부터 메일을 받았다.
(이 메일은 매그넘 사이트에 등록해두면 주기적으로 보내준다.)
매그넘 사진가를 소개하는 메일인데 이 사람의 사진이 눈에 띄었다.

매그넘 사이트를 가보니 이 사람들의 다른 사진들도 눈에 띈다.
찬찬히 봐야겠다.


아래는 메일 내용:

	VENEZUELA. 2004. A prostitute makes a sales pitch. © Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos Capitolio is documentary photographer Christopher Anderson’s cinematic journey through the upheavals of contemporary Caracas,Venezuela, in the tradition of such earlier projects as William Klein’s New York (1954–55) and Robert Frank’s The Americans (1958). It presents a poetic and politicized vision, by one of today’s finest documentary photographers, of a city and a country that is ripping apart at the seams under the stress of popular unrest, and whose turmoil remains largely unreported by Western media. No stranger to such fraught situations (he covered the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel from its inception), Anderson notates the country’s current incongruities, where the violent and the sensual intermingle chaotically. "The word ‘capitolio’ refers to the domed building that houses a government," writes Anderson, elaborating on the title of this volume; "here, the city of Caracas, Venezuela, is itself a metaphorical capitolio building. The decaying Modernist architecture,with a jungle growing through the cracks, becomes the walls of this building and the violent streets become the corridors where the human drama plays itself out in what President Hugo Chavez called a 'revolution.'" » View all images from Capitolio » Request information about collector's print » View more photographs by Christopher Anderson		"Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that it is just a trick." Born in British Columbia in 1970, Christopher Anderson spent much of his early years in Texas, where his father was a preacher, before moving to New York City and then Paris. His life in photography began in the photo lab of the "Dallas Morning News" where he learned to develop film and print pictures. In 1993, Christopher was hired as a staff photographer for a small Colorado newspaper. Never comfortable with the idea of working as an employee, he left the newspaper in 1995 and began doing freelance assignments. Initially working in color, Anderson began photographing a wide range of subjects for magazines. In 1996, he became a contract photographer for U.S. News and World Report. Working now in b&w, Anderson was honored with the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Later that year, he photographed the stone throwers of Gaza, and was named Kodak's "Young Photographer of the Year". In 2003, he published his first monograph, Nonfiction, published by deMo. He joined the VII Agency in 2002, and became a Magnum nominee in 2005. He is based in New York. » Read more

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