Images by Californian born Greek-American fine art and portrait photographer, Ithaka Darin Pappas. Ithaka's works have been shown at (MIS) The Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo [Brazil], at (MAC) The Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille [France], at The Annenberg Space for Photography [Los Angeles], The Academy Museum (Los Angeles), the (ICP) International Center of Photography [NY] and Manarat Al Saadiyat [Abu Dhabi]. Official instagram: @_Ithaka_
Monday, July 13, 2020
Portuguese Tribal House Music Pioneers, Underground Sound Of Lisbon (DJ Vibe, Rui da Silva) photographed in Portugal -1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas
Underground Sound Of Lisbon - photographed in Portugal (1994) by Ithaka Darin Pappas
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
So Get Up,
https://www.quora.com/Who-does-the-song-So-Get-Up
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
UMBILICUS by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas (Tokyo 1992)
"UMBILICUS" (the Tokyo belly-button project)
by artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas
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"UMBILICUS" by Ithaka Darin Pappas (Japanese belly-button project - 1992)
@photographer_ithaka.d.pappas
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Although originally conceived in 1988, it wasn’t until the summer of 1992, while briefly living in Japan, that Ithaka Darin Pappas began and completed his photographic project UMBILICUS, a collection of one-hundred and twenty-seven black and white navel portraits.
During a period of two months, Ithaka combed the streets of Tokyo is search of willing belly-button subjects.
However, photographing in the light of day, sometimes in the middle of public squares and parks filled with thousands of people, did not prove to be an easy task.
Japanese people were quite shy when asked to show their navels in public to a stranger, further complicated by the fact that the photographer was a Gaijin (foreigner).
For this reason some sessions were held in the subjects’ homes or offices after first meeting them in public.
Regardless, because of the high rejection rate
(10-20 refusals for every one acceptance), sometimes it would take an entire day just to complete the belly-button portrait of only one or two subjects.
In addition to the Japanese majority of navels photographed, a percentage of outsiders were also included.
These individuals were from Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United States.
Subject ages ranged from three to ninety-six.
In addition to the Japanese majority of navels, a percentage of outsiders were also included. People from Brasil, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and the United States.
Says Ithaka,
“I didn’t photograph tourists for the project, but only actual residents of Tokyo.The foreigners who participated, mostly in their 20s-40s, were all living full-time in Tokyo and held a diverse spectrum of jobs from dishwasher to scientist.
Among the Japanese subjects - I photographed the navels of children as young as three (as well as those of their parents) and elderly people too, one in his late 90's.
The end result of UMBILICUS wasn’t only a study of human anatomy, but in actuality, concluded in becoming an anthropological observation of Tokyo’s population in 1992."
UMBILICUS was published for the first time in January 1993 in the Japanese edition of the world-renowned fine art photography quarterly called Déja-Vu (Issue #11), the same issue that photographic legends Inose Kou, Frederick Sommer and Nobuyoshi Araki appeared.
Other international magazine appearances of UMBILICUS soon followed.
In 1995, the rock group Flood (signed to the Portuguese label, União Lisboa) chose images from UMBILICUS to appear on the front and back cover of their debut album, Despertar.
In 1996, the San Francisco culture magazine Speak featured Ithaka’s UMBILICUS as their cover-story. The cover itself (designed by world-famous graphic artist Martin Venesky) was considered controversial, causing the magazine to be returned by many of their distributors. It was the worst-selling issue in the magazine’s history.
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Photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2018
Note: These images are not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization
thru my myself ithaka.official@gmail.com or my representatives at the Tack Artist Agency Group in Los Angeles before reproducing in print, online or merchandising ... thank you.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12579280/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
Inspiring photographers: Shihachi Fujimoto, Bruce Gilden Hisae Imai, Takeji Iwamiya, Akira Komoto, Motoichi Kumagai, Seiji Kurata, Michiko Matsumoto, Aizō Morikawa, Eiichi Moriwaki, Tadayuki Naitoh, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Yoshino Ōishi, Kōji Satō, Tokihiro Satō, Bukō Shimizu, Mieko Shiomi, Teikō Shiotani, Raghubir Singh, Yutaka Takanashi, Toyoko Tokiwa, Haruo Tomiyama, Kansuke Yamamoto
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12579280/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
Inspiring photographers: Shihachi Fujimoto, Bruce Gilden Hisae Imai, Takeji Iwamiya, Akira Komoto, Motoichi Kumagai, Seiji Kurata, Michiko Matsumoto, Aizō Morikawa, Eiichi Moriwaki, Tadayuki Naitoh, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Yoshino Ōishi, Kōji Satō, Tokihiro Satō, Bukō Shimizu, Mieko Shiomi, Teikō Shiotani, Raghubir Singh, Yutaka Takanashi, Toyoko Tokiwa, Haruo Tomiyama, Kansuke Yamamoto
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Sunday, May 24, 2020
"Floral Attraction" a photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020
"Floral Attraction"
a photograph by artist Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020
@photographer_ithaka.d.pappas
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Photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020
Note: This image is not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization
before reproducing in print, online or merchandising.
Please contact ithaka.art@gmail.com - thank you.
Please contact ithaka.art@gmail.com - thank you.
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Friday, May 22, 2020
World-renowned Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Dede Fedrizzi photographed at his studio in in São Paulo, Brazil (2018) by Ithaka Darin Pappas
World-renowned Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Dede Fedrizzi photographed at his studio in São Paulo, Brazil (2018) by Ithaka Darin Pappas
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
"Polyrhythm" (1992) by Takashi Murakami. Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas
Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas at Galerie Mars in Shibuya-Ku
At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb.
Read Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html
At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb.
Read Full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html
Takashi Murakami photographed with "Polyrhythm" by Ithaka Darin Pappas
in Tokyo Los Angeles (1992)
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ithaka.art@gmail.com - Also see: @_ithaka_
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Artist Takashi Murakami photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas (Tokyo 1992)
"Murakami Yawns At Mars"
World-renowned contemporary artist #TakashiMurakami @takashipom with his piece entitled "Physical Pie" photographed at Mars Gallery in Shibuya-Ku, Japan, Tokyo (1992) by Greek-Californian artist/photographer #IthakaDarinPappas @_Ithaka_ @photographer_ithaka.d.pappas
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Takashi Murakami by Ithaka Darin Pappas,
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"Physical Pie" by Takashi Murakami (1992)
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Friday, April 10, 2020
World-renowned singer composer Dimitra Galani performing in Athens (1991) photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas
World-renowned singer composer Dimitra Galani
performing in Athens, Greece (1991).
Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitra_Galani
performing in Athens, Greece (1991).
Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas
Dimitra Galani (b. 14th November 1952) is a Greek singer and composer.
Galani was born in Athens. Her father had studied art and song, and her grandfather was a cantor from Epirus. In 1968, at the age of sixteen, she contributed two songs to an album by D. Moutsis and Νikos Gatsos, Ena chamogelo (a smile); that was the beginning of a long career in music. That contribution turned out to be the beginning of a long career in the history of music of both her era and Greece. She became a great performer gifted with a beautiful voice and a strong personality that has always prompted her to look into the reasons behind everything. She belongs to a “generation of leaders”, who for almost three decades have underlined and supported -each in his or her own way -quality Greek songs contributing at the same time to a colorful rainbow of great voices.
Her career currently includes well over eighty albums, and varies from pure Greek folk music to Byzantine hymns and easy listening performances.
She composes songs for herself as well as for other singers and she also composes music for television and film.As a producer she promotes young and talented artists.
She composes songs for herself as well as for other singers and she also composes music for television and film.As a producer she promotes young and talented artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitra_Galani
Composer, Thanos Mikroutsikos - Athens 1991 - photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas
Prominent Greek composer Thanos Mikroutsikos
(13 April 1947 – 28 December 2019)
photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas in Athens 1991
Photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas self-portrait in Carangola, Minas Gerais (Brazil) 2001
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
EAZY-E FROM N.W.A, SKATEBOARDING (1989). PHOTO BY ITHAKA DARIN PAPPAS.
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15. EAZY-E FROM N.W.A, SKATEBOARDING (1989). PHOTO BY ITHAKA DARIN PAPPAS.
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