Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Bezalel Academy for arts and design Jerusalem Israel website steals unnamed photographers photo

Behind the departments logo, the banner shows a grid of small images. this is a photo of the wall in the bezalel photo department lab, on the 7th floor. all the photos are from the Hulun excursion, a 3 day field trip in which the entire photo department was hosted by the city of Hulun, culminating in a big photo exhibition at the Digital media center of the city.
this are photos i shot on that trip but were mostly of friends and behind the scene. this from a time when i thought i wanted to be a photojournalist, wait, i still want to be a photojournalist, but in any case, i thought i was all cool and that all the photo agencies had weird ideas about photography and how to do it, not to mention the names of the companies, like BAU BAU, or Zoom 77, Magnum and so on.
each photo has a caption, depicting the scene in accordance to the wire standard but the second sentence always made a reference to some philosophical topic related to art or photography such as the meaning of full frame printing..they were all signed with pseudo names and mock agencies, such as Barretta 9, or Tapuz 500.
needless to say this did not go down favorably with the other poeple in the department, especially those in the pictures, and even more so the teachers and professors who were photographed.
eventually i took all the photos down to make room for other stuff i wanted to put up there.
i cant remmember if i ever took a picture of that wall. still its funny this is the background for the departments logo (on a random rotating stock).

No comments: