Etiqueta: photographer
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DAVID LACHAPELLE: SURREAL POP PHOTOGRAPHY
David LaChapelle is well known for his career as a contemporary photographer, fine art enthusiast and also, for his involvement with video. After initially gaining his social reputation and position within the artistic community, LaChapelle’s work became noticed by huge artistic figures. Andy Warhol spotted his artistic creations and offered him his first job, at Interview…
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August Sander
German photographer. After seven years as a miner and a period of national service, he studied painting in Dresden from 1901 to 1902, which allowed him to approach photography artistically. He had developed an interest in photography through work in photographic firms in Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle and Dresden from 1898 to 1899. In 1901 he…
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Michal Chelbin
Los retratos de la fotógrafa israelita Michal Chelbin de adolescentes prisioneros rusos y ucranianos dejan mella. Las materias primas, «expresiones sombrías yuxtapuestas con colores de alto contraste para crear una miseria escénica que provoca el deseo de mirar.» En cierto modo, las cárceles parecen ser una broma cruel. Los internos parecen seres inanimados y sin…
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Mark Laita – Created Equal
Detroit-born photographer Mark Laita questions what it is in life that puts people, who were born equal, to follow completely different paths. His album Created Equal is a a study of social and cultural clashes, as well as the influence of different background, schooling and upbringing. All diptychs in the book compare two people, who have some kind…
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Vee Speers
«I don’t like to follow the crowd. I like to seduce, with images that are at once disturbing and beautiful, but leaving a space for the viewer to enter my world. My portraits combine elements which evoke conflicting emotions that can surprise the viewer, telling a story that is somewhere between fantasy and reality, the obvious…
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Ingar Krauss – Portraits
With his black-and-white portraits of children and teenagers in Germany and Russia, Ingar Krauss reveals quietly intense moments of transformation and the emotional turmoil just below the surface of life’s thresholds. His young subjects seem to have knowledge and wisdom beyond their years. Despite the mask-like appearance each tries to project, their eyes, faces and…
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Axel Hutte – Naturaleza Sublime
La obra de Axel Hütte se enmarca dentro de una tradición de fotógrafos alemanes herederos directos de la estética conceptual y las enseñanzas de Bernd y Hilla Becher, que, en la década de los ochenta, readaptarán el proyecto originario de la Nueva Objetividad para adoptar una singular manera de enfrentarse al mundo. Al igual que…
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Robert Mapplethorpe
El desnudo masculino alcanzó con Robert Mapplethorpe (Nueva York, 1946-Boston, 1989) unas cotas de belleza que muchos equiparan a la perfección de los escultores griegos. Negros o blancos, total o parcialmente retratados, sus modelos desprenden una elegancia minimalista difícil de capturar con la cámara. Famoso en todo el mundo desde la década de los 60…
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Michael O´Brien – Hard Ground
Michael O’Brien got out of his car one day in 1975 and sought the acquaintance of a man named John Madden who lived under an overpass. Their initial contact grew into a friendship that O’Brien chronicled for the Miami News, where he began his career as a staff photographer. O’Brien’s photo essays conveyed empathy…
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ARAKI
Tras más de cuarenta años dedicado a la imagen fija, el fotógrafo es conocido, sobre todo, por sus japonesas atadas y desnudas o con los vestidos tradicionales, y por las escenas de sexo explícito de las que él participa. Para algunos movimientos feministas, Araki no es más que un pornógrafo misógino. En el otro extremo…