Souvenirs d’un Printemps

 

The first rays of spring sunshine beckon and Max has invited Kia-Kirsch and Lycil to a very special romantic weekend.
Both are to be seen in a real film clip for the first time.

The premiere will take place on 5.13.2021 at 21:00 CET on Youtube and we invite everyone to watch this wonderful romantic film, which is accompanied by the instrumental piece “Emotion” by Francis Lai.

 

 

But that’s not all the interesting news!
Olivier Mathieu and Roland Jaccard are both coming out with a new release.

Olivier’s next book is called “The children of the afternoons (Les enfants des Aprems)” and is dedicated to Roland Jaccard.

Those “children of the afternoons” are Oliver when he was young, little Gabriel who died in December 2019 (see our article “another ship of sunshine”), and a young girl who is probably the real hero of this book…

Here you can read what the author himself says about his latest work.

 

The Children of the Afternoons (Les Enfants des Aprems)

 Sometimes, in life, almost unimaginable events occur.

This has happened to me quite often during my hectic life, but I could not have known that on April 8, 2021, the most unimaginable of all the unimaginable events of my life would turn out to be.

Struck in the heart, I have just written a small book, a very small book, certainly the book I wrote the fastest (in less than a fortnight), my most essential book. And if my friend the jew writer Roland Jaccard was recently kind enough to write that my book « Ma petite bande de jeunes filles en fleurs » (My little band of young girls in bloom) was « a masterpiece », I don’t know what he will say about my new book, which will be only a few dozen pages long (I still don’t know the exact number). The best of everything I’ve written, I think.

I therefore announce that a new book of me has just left for the printing press, that it is called The Children of the Afternoons (Les Enfants des Aprems: aprem being naturally the afternoon apocope and defining the happiest period of my life, my childhood).
It is a book that will be written in French, of course, but with passages in english). It was inspired by the woman of my life. The Children of the Afternoons (this is the main title, but there will also be a sub-title) will consist of twelve short chapters. A book of suffering and joy, when these two terms lose all meaning, that suffering is joy, and joy suffering.

The themes of the book? The distance in time and space, before the definitive distance from death. Love, entropy and aporia.

 

 

It should also be noted that Roland Jaccard (who collaborated with an unpublished text in Olivier Mathieu’s book “Ma petite bande de jeunes filles en fleurs”) has just published a huge book, “Le monde d’avant”, his diary of the 1980s, published by Serge Safran. The book has already been listed on the left-wing newspaper Libération, on the right-wing newspaper Le Point, and on Olivier Mathieu’s blog.

Here is what the publisher tells us about Roland Jaccard and his new book

A l’âge de 26 ans, Roland Jaccard est engagé par le journal Le Monde pour y tenir la rubrique psychanalytique : c’était dans les années soixante.

Tout semblait alors possible. Même qu’un jeune Lausannois puisse occuper un poste aussi convoité. Il se trouve qu’au début des années quatre-vingt il se lie à une jeune fille de dix-sept ans, rencontrée à la bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. Dès lors qu’ils vécurent ensemble, il décida de tenir son journal intime.

La psychanalyse a perdu de son aura et il est déconseillé aujourd’hui aux vieux mâles blancs de jouer les Pygmalions. On n’en découvrira donc qu’avec plus de curiosité “Le Monde d’avant” dans ce journal écrit avec une forme de spontanéité jubilatoire.

Go here to get a copy of the book! 

 

 

 

Max also did some beautiful still photography of Kia and Lycil during the film shot.
It will take some time until the pictures are developed, but they will soon be available from us.

The pictures on our site are available in different sizes and strictly limited to 300 copies.
Each picture is autographed by the Max Stolzenberg himself, titled and dry stamped to ensure originality.

The pictures in this article have not been published before and it is still possible to get hold of the number 1 of 300 prints.

Pictures can be ordered here.

Just let Bilitis know which picture you want to buy and which size you want and she will arrange everything for you.

Prices and sizes can be found on our shop page.

We also highly recommend to visit sour atelier. Here you can convince yourself of the high quality, painting like, pictures and the wonderful workmanship of our limited prints.

Max uses only analog cameras and genuine film for his artwork!

 

An Evening At The Etang

 

Once again we celebrate the anniversary of the death of photographer David Hamilton, to whom Max owes much.

Max used to regularly show his pictures to the grand master of light and both worked on new methods to improve the style of  romantic photography.

The following pictures have been shot in the beautiful South of France on real genuine film, the same way and with the same camera David used in the 1970’s.

Our special thanks go to Bilits, Stella and Yuna, who where fantastic models with the perfect feeling for the scene.

The text and poem below the pictures were provided by Olivier Mathieu.

They match perfectly with the pictures of Max and honour David Hamilton

Please click on the image to enlarge.

 

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David Hamilton starb am 25. November 2016. Wir werden Ihn nicht vergessen. Er war der große Meister des größten Geheimnisses, des weiblichen Geheimnisses. Hier ist ein Gedicht für David Hamilton und über das weibliche Mysterium.

David Hamilton est mort le 25 novembre 2016. Nous sommes quelques-uns à ne pas l’oublier. Il fut le grand maître du plus grand des mystères, le mystère féminin. Voici un poème pour David Hamilton et sur le mystère féminin.

David Hamilton died on November 25, 2016. We will not forget him. He was the great master of the greatest of mysteries, the feminine mystery. Here is a poem for David Hamilton and about the feminine mystery.

David Hamilton è morto il 25 novembre 2016. Alcuni di noi non lo dimenticano. Era il grande maestro del più grande dei misteri, il mistero femminile. Ecco una poesia per David Hamilton e sul mistero femminile.

Le mystère, infini, cède ou échappe en l’une

Ou l’autre, et se reforme: ainsi, quête d’exil.

Qu’il s’éloigne ou se donne au soleil, à la lune,

C’était moi, le mystère: aussi m’en souvient-il.

Telle fut ma recherche: amoureux des prisons,

Amant de liberté, poète ivre d’images,

Funambule fendant l’orage outre horizon

Et la boucle est bouclée, à la fin le naufrage.

Peut-être n’y eut-il ici aucun mystère

Autre que celui peint derrière mes paupières.

Au sein du temps donné, combien de moments ronds?

Combien de leurs échos chanteront les colombes?

Combien gésiront morts, étendus sous leurs tombes?

Sous leurs tombes, combien étendus gésiront?

 

Olivier Mathieu, blog en défense de David Hamilton:

 

The mystery, infinite, gives way or escapes in one of them.

Or the other, and reformed: thus, a quest for exile.

Whether he moves away or gives himself to the sun, to the moon,

I was the mystery: that’s why I remember it.

That was my search: prison lovers,

Lover of freedom, poet drunk with images,

Tightrope walker splitting the thunderstorm beyond the horizon

And the loop is closed, in the end the shipwreck.

Perhaps there was no mystery here.

Other than the one painted behind my eyelids.

Within a given time, how many round moments?

How many of their echoes will the doves sing?

How many will lie dead under their graves?

 

As always the pictures in the video and on our site are available in different sizes and strictly limited to 300 copies.
Each picture is autographed by the Max Stolzenberg himself, titled and dry stamped to ensure originality.

Some of the pictures have not been published before and it is still possible to get hold of the number 1 of 300 prints.

Pictures can be ordered here.

Just let Bilitis know which picture you want to buy and which size you want and she will arrange everything for you.

Prices and sizes can be found on our shop page.

We also highly recommend to visit sour atelier. Here you can convince yourself of the high quality, painting like, pictures and the wonderful workmanship of our limited prints.

Max uses only analog cameras and genuine film for his artwork!

 

About Roland Jaccard, Dawn Dunlap and beautiful Stella

Today we will fight the boredom of your isolation with a good shot of literature, a small video of a very interesting man and of course a lot of beautiful girls.

Do you know Roland Jaccard?
The Swiss writer?

Not only did he write books like “The Inner Exile”, “Freud” and “The Madness”, (yes, you’re right, he is a psychologist) which are also in Max’s library by the way, but he is also a big fan of Dawn Dunlap, the actress who played the role of Laura in “Laura, Shadows of a Summer” by David Hamilton.

Visit Roland Jaccard’s blog or read his column in the magazine “Causeur” and enjoy his refreshingly sarcastic, cynical and often nihilistic world view.

Roland Jaccard’s blog

Roland Jaccard’s column on “Causeur”

He also has a YouTube channel where another of his short videos has just been published.

https://youtu.be/fKZdHpwcDdA

Although it’s not easy to take pictures of beautiful girls these days, Max has managed to get a real beauty in front of the lens.

Stella, so her name, was already planned for Max’s trip to Florence together with Manouk and Bilitis. But unfortunately, as everyone can imagine, this trip, which would have resulted in some really extraordinary pictures, had to be cancelled.
So we are left with only a few pictures that were taken during a first test shooting with Max.
We don’t want to withhold these pictures from you as a further measure against possible boredom or even depressions caused by isolation.
You can be sure that these are not the last pictures of Stella!

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Olivier Mathieu has written a very interesting book about Dawn Dunlap.
As we can see, this beautiful woman has obviously stayed in the minds of many men (and certainly also some women) until today.
Read here on the page of Olivier Mathieu and order his novel about Dawn Dunlap against the boredom of isolation.
It is also recommended to watch her film “Laura, shadows of a summer”, directed by David Hamilton.

Dawn Dunlap by Olivier Mathieu

“Reflections” was shot by Max just a couple of days ago while strolling through the meadows and woods together with Bilitis and Stella.

Max says:

“I hope you enjoyed today’s article on my blog.
Read in the books of Roland Jaccard and Olivier Mathieu and if you like my pictures order one or the other of them for your home and let yourself be carried away into a world of beauty and romantic dreams. You will be surprised how good that feels.
By the way, Stella is not only very pretty but also an extraordinary interesting personality. I am already very much looking forward to dedicate a really large photo gallery to her.

All pictures you see here can be ordered now. As always on best paper and of course personally titled, numbered and signed by me.

And since we are celebrating David Hamilton’s birthday today, we are giving a 15% discount on every order placed until April 15th at 23:59 (UTC+2).

Gladly Bilitis also accepts your special wishes.
Simply write to her.

The Good And The Bad News

Today we have good and bad news for you.

Max’s philosophy is that it’s better to hear the bad news first.
Well, here they are. Due to the current crisis we have to cancel all exhibitions until after the summer.

Max also had to cancel his trip to Florence over the Easter week.
This is heartbreaking as we wanted to visit Olivier Mathieu and we also wanted to meet with Corrado Pinci who was the assistant of star photographer Angelo Frontoni. Corrado and Max have planned to publish a book with romantic photographies together. All this is now delayed until the crisis has ended.

We strongly recommend to visit the blog of Olivier Mathieu.
His books, which are blessed with incredible writing skills, and his interesting blog will banish your boredom in isolation in no time.

It is also merely possible to go on a shooting trip for Max because of the extensive curfews. But we try our best and maybe there is a ray of hope soon.

The good news are, we have a very new and very beautiful jeune fille for you. Max met her before the crisis really started and they already did a short photo shoot together. We will not reveal her name yet, but soon there will be a post with the first pictures here.

We are also pleased to inform you that the online shop is open without restrictions. However, there may be slight delays in shipping the pictures due to the current situation.

So why not just buy one of Max’s beautiful pictures and decorate your home with it! Maybe this will help you to get over this unpleasant time of isolation.

The pictures you see in this post have been done by Max just before the crisis started. It was one of the first days with a bit of sun after several weeks of constant rain. We love these pictures very much. They truly look like landscapes from a fairy tale.

Our thoughts are with you in this hard times and we hope Max’s pictures bring some joy into your heart!

Take care of yourself and stay healthy!

Soon this time will be over and new hamiltonian times will dawn.

Memories of an unforgettable Summer – Part II

Many of our subscribers have asked us when the second part of “Memories of an unforgettable Summer” will be finished.

Now the time has finally come. You can look forward to the premiere on Youtube next Sunday, 16.2.2020 at 20:15 MEZ.

In the meantime, Max is already preparing his next adventures.

This much is already known, there will be a reunion with Manouk this year and Bilitis and Yuna have already agreed to visit Max for the summer.

Until then sit back, pour a good glass of wine and enjoy the pictures of Max Stolzenberg in his latest video!

 

 

As always the pictures in the video and on our site are available in different sizes and strictly limited to 300 copies.
Each picture is autographed by the Max Stolzenberg himself, titled and dry stamped to ensure originality.

Some of the pictures have not been published before and it is still possible to get hold of the number 1 of 300 prints.

Pictures can be ordered here.

Just let Bilitis know which picture you want to buy and which size you want and she will arrange everything for you.

Prices and sizes can be found on our shop page.

We also highly recommend to visit sour atelier. Here you can convince yourself of the high quality, painting like, pictures and the wonderful workmanship of our limited prints.

Max uses only analog cameras and genuine film for his artwork!