File Viggo Rivad.jpg thumb 200px right Viggo Rivad Viggo Rivad born 3 July 1922 is a Photography in Denmark Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946 and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so called essay approach resulting in series of related photographs such as Et farvel 1962 and Laurits 1971 . Rivad, who has also earned a living as a taxi driver, is a quiet, dedicated photographer, concentrating on disadvantaged areas and people on the fringes of society. His humanitarian messages are a result of his indignation and his concern for society s outcasts. ref http www.denstoredanske.dk Kunst og kultur Fotografi Fotografi Viggo Rivad Viggo Rivad . From Den store Danske. da icon Retrieved 18 February 2010. ref Early life Rivad was raised in N rrebro , one of the poorer districts of Copenhagen . He had had a number of jobs and had attempted to become both a racing cyclist and a painter before he began photographing Copenhagen s coffee bars and night life in the 1940s. ref http www.kristeligt dagblad.dk artikel 180315 Mennesker Poul Exner, F dselsdage i dag , from Kristeligt Dagblad, 3 July 2002. da icon Retrieved 19 February 2010. ref In the 1950s, with his photographs of the slums of Paris and Barcelona, he developed a reputation as Denmark s leading humanitarian photographic documentalist. ref http www.photomondo.dk Infophoto User viri StartNative.html Viggo Rivad . From Photomondo.dk. da icon Retrieved 19 February 2010. ref Photographic career In 1946, at the age of 24, Viggo Rivad published two photographs in the Danish magazine Focus . They looked like stills taken from a movie. One of them, titled Paris in Copenhagen , was taken beside the Knippelsbro in Copenhagen with the photographer acting as a model. His ostensibly spontaneous pictures, which were frequently submitted to newspaper competitions, were often carefully prearranged compositions designed to convey a clear message. This approach w ... more details
File Viktor Giacobbo.jpg thumb 100px Viktor Giacobbo Viktor Giacobbo born February 6, 1952 is a Swiss writer , comedian and actor . Life File Viktor Giacobbo in young years.jpg thumb 100px Giacobbo as a child After school in Winterthur , he made an apprenticeship as a typesetter. Afterwards, he was a corrector, reader and media documentalist. Initially, he was author and actor at the independent comedy theater groups Stuzzicadenti 1979 1986 and Zampanoo s Vari t 1984 1985 , then member of the comedy group Harul s Top Service 1985 1998 . He worked for Radio DRS satire programme Satiramis 1991 1994 . During the 90s, he created satirical figures like Harry Hasler, Debbie M tteli, Fredi Hinz and Erwin Bischofberger see below for detailed list . He became well known, thanks to his job as a moderator and co author of the satirical programmes Viktors Programm 1990 1994 and Viktors Sp tprogramm 1995 2002 on SF DRS and as an author and main actor in the movie Ernstfall in Havanna 2002 . In 2000, Giacobbo initiated, together with Patrick Frey and others, the Casinotheater Winterthur. Since then, he is Verwaltungsrats Pr sident of the Casinotheater AG . In 2006 he was the Circus Knie s guest star. He lives near Winterthur. Alter egos File Viktor Giacobbo as Debbie M tteli.jpg thumb 100px Debbie M tteli Giacobbo sometimes plays himself as a selfish, arrogant egoist, who is accompanied by bodyguards who hold back the fans. He then has a desk full of goblets, a big poster showing himself, and gets paid for Product Placement in reportages of the Schweizer Illustrierte . He refuses a children home s offer to take part at its ceremony, because the job doesn t offer enough money. Further, Giacobbo cuts Walter Andreas M ller s gage. Giacobbo plays a video to show M ller, how miserable his acting was, but the shown role is Giacobbo s. M ller is hustled out of the office and gets the order to visit the children s home. This alternative Giacobbo is depicted as a man who originally was ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Merc Canela Sant Guim de Freixenet , la Segarra , 1956 is a Catalan people Catalan writer and translator . She studied archaeology in Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona , where she worked as a librarian later before she went to Brussels to work as a documentalist in the European Union . She started writing when she was very young, and she considers herself basically a writer. In 1976, the publishing house La Galera published one of her books for teenagers De qui s el bosc? , and she won the Josep M. Folch i Torres award with L escarabat verd . She published several children s and teenagers novels later and she has won several prices for them. In 1984, she was included in the Honour List of IBBY ref http www.ibby.org IBBY I nternational B oard on B ooks for Y oung People ref with Asper , joglar embruixat . She has translated to Catalan language Catalan several works in German language German , French language French and Italian language Italian . Besides, she published Un passeig pel Poble Espanyol Beta, Barcelona, 1998 , a book which explains the history of Poble Espanyol , in Montju c , in Barcelona . In 1980, she was a member of Cavall Fort magazine, where she is director since 1998. She is also director in El Tatano publications. Bibliography Children s literature De qui s el bosc? La Galera, Barcelona, 1976 . L escarabat verd. La Galera, Barcelona, 1977 . Utinghami, el rei de la boira La Galera, Barcelona, 1979 . La fantasia inacabable d Antoni Gaud Blume, Barcelona, 1980 . Quan l Eloi va ser m sica La Galera, Barcelona, 1981 . Asper , joglar embruixat La Galera, Barcelona, 1982 . Lluna de tardor. La Magrana, Barcelona, 1982 . A una m el sol i a l altra la lluna Argos Vergara, Barcelona, 1982 . Un gat dalt del teulat La Galera, Barcelona, 1983 . Globus de lluna plena Argos Vergara, Barcelona, 1983 . Els set enigmes de l iris La Galera, Barcelona, 1984 . El planeta dels set sols. Xarxa de Biblioteques Soler i Palet, Terrassa, 1985 Ba ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2011 Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name Georges Perec image language French birth date birth date df yes 1936 3 7 birth place Paris , France death date death date and age df yes 1982 3 3 1936 3 7 death place Paris, France occupation Novelist , Filmmaker , Essayist Georges Perec 7 March 1936, Paris &ndash 3 March 1982, Ivry sur Seine was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group. Oulipo membership continues after death. Life Perec was born the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla Schulewicz Peretz &ndash Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s &ndash in a working class district of Paris. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz . Perec s father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from unattended gunfire or Fragmentation weaponry shrapnel wounds, and Perec s mother perished in the Nazism Nazi the Holocaust Holocaust , probably in Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz after 1943. Perec was taken into the care of his paternal aunt and uncle in 1942, and in 1945 he was formally adoption adopted by them. He started writing reviews and essays for Nouvelle Revue Fran aise La Nouvelle Revue fran aise and fr Les Lettres nouvelles Les Lettres nouvelles , prominent literary publications, while studying history and sociology at the University of Paris Sorbonne . In 1958 59 Perec served in the army XVIIIe R giment de Chasseurs Parachutistes , and married Paulette Petras after being discharged. They spent one year 1960 1961 in Sfax Tunisia , where Paulette worked as a teacher. In 1961, Perec began working at the Neurophysiological Research Laboratory in the unit s research library funded by the CNRS and attached to the H pital Saint Antoine as an archivist , a low paid position which he retained until 1978. A few reviewers have noted that the daily handling of records and varied data may have had an infl ... more details
Infobox philosopher Philosopher category region Western Philosophy era 20th century philosophy color B0C4DE Image and caption image caption Information name Ren e Marie H l ne Suzanne Briet birth date 1894, February 1 birth place Ardennes , France death date 1989 death place Boulogne , France school tradition Information science European documentation Second generation European Documentalist , Continental philosophy , structuralism , post structuralism main interests technology , information science , semiotics , librarianship , scholarly communication , information overload , social epistemology , science and technology studies notable ideas indice , Philosophy of technology , documentary semiotics, institutionalization influences Henri La Fontaine , Paul Otlet , Eugene Wigner influenced Michael Buckland , Jesse Shera , Bruno Latour , S. R. Ranganathan Ren e Marie H l ne Suzanne Briet IPA fr b ie , IPA en bre lang 1 February 1894 in Ardennes , France 1989 in Boulogne , France , ref name gseis.ucla.edu Maack, Mary Niles. The Lady and the Antelope Suzanne Briet s Contribution to the French Documentation Movement. http www.gseis.ucla.edu faculty maack BrietPrePress.htm. Retrieved 10 November 2009. ref known as Madame Documentation, ref Buckland, Michael. Suzanne Briet, 1894 1989 Madame Documentation . http people.ischool.berkeley.edu buckland briet.html. Retrieved 10 November 2009. ref was a librarian, author, historian, poet, and visionary best known for her treatise Qu est ce que la documentation? What is Documentation? , a foundational text in the modern study of information science . She is also known for her writings on the history of Ardennes and the poet Arthur Rimbaud . ref Buckland, Michael. 2006 . A Brief Biography of Suzanne Ren e Briet. In What is Documentation? English Translation of the Classic French Text. R. E. Day, L. Martinet & H. G. B. Anghelescu, Trans. ed., R. E. Day and L. Martinet. Lanham, MD Scarecrow, p. 1. ref Her treatise Qu est ce que la ... more details
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