Thank you iPhoneartphotography, it’s a great network platfotm for us to sharing our photos and to alternate with lots of new friends.
Thank you very much for all the people who work, share and join in iPhoneartphotography!

I have thoroughly enjoyed participating & interacting with such interesting & creative folks! Thank you!!!

“Cinema Verite” – If it has a ringtone – it’s a camera !

it started already with the polaroid SX-70 – Contemporary Artist found that new toy. and now this…
the topic headline:
“Cinema Verite” – “If it has a ringtone – it’s a camera !”
is a dedication to the nyc samsung advert.

Is the mobile photography the new (“ad hoc”) instant instument of demonstrating your personality and when yes, why ?

2nd what can we expect further on for politics, news, art, etc ?

So now pl continue and speak about the future…
Best, Francisco

Cinema Verite,
literally film truth, was a style of film making developed by French film directors in the 1960’s. Their production techniques did not depend on star quality actors, sets, props, casts of thousands, special effects and big budgets which was the trend in Hollywood films then as now. The cinema verite directors used non-actors, small hand- held cameras, and actual homes and surroundings as their location for a film. One of their production techniques was to tape record actual conversations, interviews and statements of opinion make by real people. Then they would find pictures to illustrate the actual sound recordings. The final production was put together in the editing room (which is also true of fiction/fantasy films). Cinema verite was characterized by the use of real people (not actors) in unrehearsed situations. Filming was done with unobtrusive cameras so the subjects of the film would forget the presence of the camera and just be themselves. The filmmakers goal was to show life as it really is using the film as his artistic medium. Sets and props were never used and everything was shot on location, often with a small, portable camera. The camera could be taken into peoples homes, automobiles, and other places where the heavy, bulky feature film cameras could not easily go.

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Prolog to the iPhone Art Photography
by portuguese poet
Paulo Jose Miranda

Space has always been the Visual Arts’ greatest problem when trying to reach people.
Art did not come to you,
You had to go to art:
to the gallery, to the museum, anywhere…

With the iPhone Art Photography,
photography comes to you.
At last, just as with the music inthe iPod,
you have galleries in the palm of your hand.

And the art in the palm of your hand
May be made this precise moment
on the other side of the world,
reaching you while you wait your turn
to enter the museum.

Space, time and creation join iPhone Art Photography.
Here and now, hic et nunc esse,
and forever.

iPhone Art Photography -
Human beings sharing beauty.

Paulo José Miranda

translation Daly Oliveira

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Such beautiful images! I look forward to reading more about this project. Will you hold another contest next year?

Hi,
I have a gallery in Lisbon, Portugal and I would be glad to do an exhibition of this project.
If you feel like it, just get back to me.
Thanks

Rui

Awsome page & great work.