#horst stein

[famousborntoday]

Horst Stein : Born May 2, 1928

Horst Walter Stein was a German conductor.

Link: Horst Stein

[aschenblumen]

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die tote Stadt (Acto II, Lied de Pierrot: «Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen»), op. 12. Horst Stein, director Hermann Prey, bajo-barítono

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Happy birthday Horst Stein

[isoldescurse]

right now I’m obsessed with Horst Stein’s live recording of Don Carlo, mainly the final Carlo-Elizabetta duet, Janowitz’s voice is just so silvery, beautiful, and sincere in it, that I think I’m in love

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On Horst Stein :

'Shoot is a gesture comparable to the compulsion to action of the killer at the time of their crime, "

- Horst Stein

Austrian photographer Horst Stein held an exhibition of his project APPEARANCE in Museo di Trastevere. A series entirely of diptych format, it was interesting to see how Stein conveyed his view of photography as an issue of "control and loss of control". Each diptych displays a narrative in which the "interruption" can at times seem to us extremely random and possibly, a mistake, or even convey a melancholic moment. 

The first photo of each diptych is of an urban situation, clear and uninterrupted by any "passer-by", which is followed by the next of the exact same urban situation's "serenity" interrupted somehow. The interruption itself is oblivious to what is happening, and seems to accidentally set foot into the frame of the photo, signalling it time for Stein to capture shot. A compulsive, timeofthemoment kind of shot, though. His view of photography as comparable to an act of "killing" at a moment of time" is dramatically equivalent again to the "Decisive moment" approach. However, it deems more critical in the former theme. 

Mixed signals with which is more important, the background so perfectly chosen/set and eyecatching, or the interrupting activity of the second photograph is the main subjective view of his photographs on my part. 

- Appearance : by Horst Stein -

In this particular case of most interest to me, we see a sort of irony conveyed by the photographer- a play on appearance, disappearance and (dis)appearance. Composed of consistent earthly tones, and a striking photograph in an urban setting, it was important to the photographer that the "interruption" remains of an earthly tone to mesh/bleed into the photo, and his moment was so anticipated as to capture the exact moment this protrusion being the dog covers the rock available in the first- hence, its (dis)appearance.