Tranquility.

piątek, 29 sierpnia 2014

8.

Once again, I have chosen a photography by Anton Corbijn - nevertheless, I think I can say without any doubt that he became my favourite long time ago. This take comes from the set of Depeche Mode music video, called Barrel of a Gun - which is also one of my favourite music videos of all times.

Starting from the background - although it is blurry and unrecognisable I still can read the time the picture was made - I beleive it is a dawn, which gives the photography a special atmosphere and light. At that moment it is bright enough to enlighten the face (what gives it a stunning chiaroscuro) but dark enough to let the bulbs on the coat glow - and they keep enchaining my eyes. The coat and the gloves are very unusual choice themselves - although you could find them in many people's wardrobes, they seem surrealistic for the scene and the man. However, my cherished part of the picture are the eyes. As we can see they are closed tight, but make-up, faking the eyeballs, the iris and the pupil gives the illusion of a focused and interrogative look. Without that, the man would look cogitative, a bit hurtful, looking for a tranquility - the painting on his eyelids makes me think about a situation in which he cannot do that, he is not able to find the peace and forced to look, to see. This simple trick is very metaphorical itself and I think this is what I admire this picture most for.

9.

The ninth (almost there!) picture is a piece from fashion photosession made by Paolo Roversi - and if you remember my friend from picture number six, he is the one who made me a favour and introduced to Roversi's masterpieces.

I genuinely believe, that this photography is P.E.R.F.E.C.T. The model, scenography, the costumes - everything matches each other perfectly. However, that would be not the best (and definitely very short) explanation.

Firstly, what made me stop browsing the Internet and start breathing heavily when I saw this photography, was a stunning pallette, which are dusty, pastel, fairytale colours. Artist was clearly inspirated by the French culture from 18th century, but his interpretation is far more sensual and mysterious. The Model is not wearing clothes, it is more an instalation itself, a construction, a sculpture. Only few fragments on this photo are sharp, therefore artist was able to emphasise fragments which he considered as the most important.

Briefly speaking, I find this photo interesting because of the mood, the magic atmosphere, carefully chosen composition, scenography, make-up and the pose of the model. It is thoroughly crafted, studied and polished to the smallest detail artwork, which just gives me visual pleasure and inspiration to become a professionalist like Paolo Roversi.

10.

And this is how we get to the end - I gave the privilege of being the closing entry to a great modernist, Man Ray and one of his surrealist photographies.

Why this particular photography is so interesting to me? It is simply disturbing. It moves this parts of a human soul, which fears instinctively the unknown and supernatural. It was made back in the times when photography was a craft, and such a blurry, moved picture like Man Ray's, was considered as a mistake, a wasted film, but this is exactly what I find most attrarctive in it. This simple disobeying of the rules caused eyes appearing on photography twice - and they have different kind of expression, which could remind of a people, having two faces or a revealing someone's long worn mask.

What amazes me most is that this photography which is just a moved take, has a massive power of expression, because the artists choose it not to be a detailed, normal portrait - he just simply wrenched the camera, knowingly stepping out of the schematic thinking.

środa, 27 sierpnia 2014

Artist No. 1 - Michał Smandek

Source: http://michalsmandek.blogspot.com/

Starting from the upper, left corner:
- Untitled from the Modernists: tourists, Teleport Process - 2013 [x]
- Napinacz/ Tensor - 2014 [x]
- Prognostyk/ Prognostic - 2013 [x]
- Unnatural 2 - 2012 [x]