Photo Slaves

Alexey Titarenko was born in St.Petersburg in 1962. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in both his beloved native city and in New York.

Titarenko joined the famous underground photo club “Mirror” in 1978. In 1983 he graduated from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at the Leningrad Academy of Culture. He organized the Ligovka - 99 exhibition space in 1989 and founded the Charitable Trust for the Development of Classical Music and Culture in 1995 (he remains a member of the board). Titarenko became a member of the Russian Union of Artists in 1997.

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From 1992 onwards, Spencer Tunick photographs increasing numbers of nude people, initially in New York, but soon also in diverse urban settings in the Americas, Europe and Australia. These ‘nude happenings’ have been widely commented in the media. Nudes in the city, and in such huge numbers at that: that certainly cannot go unnoticed…

No doubt, Spencer Tunick pushes the boundaries. Ever since it developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in remote places, nudism knew to conquer the more accessible beaches from the sixties onwards, where there is no longer any serious resistance against increasing degrees of nudity - at least in the Western World.

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Interview with Egor Abramov

You say in your blog that you like to explain your photos with a litlle bit of text. Isn’t enough the image itself?

The matter not in the fact that photo itself is not sufficient to me. I just do not like to limit myself. Some works cause the storm of emotions, the flow of some thoughts, and I don’t want to control my feelings. This does not mean that spectator should pay much attention to the words I write. The spectator has his connection with a work, and my words are only expression of my own state at the moment I work on a photo.

 Sometimes I write poems, sometimes it is simple address to spectator, but it shouldn’t be taken as direction for spectator thought. I don’t want invade in to the world, which was build by spectator himself. His connection with the photo is the invisible, intimate and personal thread.

I use such comments only on my Web site. They will possibly be in the future book. In general, reading such comments helps me to understand myself.

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Using long exposures, ranging from 20 seconds to 60 minutes, David Fokos have worked with the camera’s unique ability to “average time” in order to examine and understand the mechanisms of human perception and to reconcile our differing subjective and objective views of the world.

David Fokos believe that our sense of experience is built up over time - a composite of many short-term events. For example, if you meet someone for the first time, your impression of that person is not a snapshot in your mind of the first time you saw that person, but rather a portrait you have assembled from many separate moments. Each time that person exhibits a new facial expression or hand gesture, you add that to your impression of who that person is. Your image of that person - how you feel about that person - is formed over time, rather than upon a single expression or gesture.

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His style is surreal but ironic, and his vividly-coloured photographs are often described as baroque and over the top, so that many people have dubbed him photography’s answer to Fellini. He obtained his first professional photographic assignment thanks to Andy Warhol. He works in fashion, advertising and fine art photography, but is also known as a director of music videos. He is famous for taking photographs of half-naked celebrities in surreal settings, but David LaChapelle insists his work is about ‘creating a new reality’. He talks to Emma Brockes about materialism, bipolar disorder and why cowl-necked sweaters should be banished. Read the rest of this entry »

Jarosław Kubicki (1976) is an artist, photographer, webdesigner. He graduted from Fine Arts Highschool in Gdynia followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He designed numerous covers of music albums of such music groups as Closterkeller, Moonlight, Agonised by love, Artrosis. He is a graphic designer of websites like: Gothic Art portal created six years ago together with Bartosz Hervy, online gallery of the painter Ewa Skierska, official website of the Agonised by Love music group and etc. In 2003 Kubicki designed Zdzisław Beksiński’s website. In addition to this, the artist participated in the following artistic undertakings: comadivision, designmadeinpoland and eastern frontline. In 2001 Kubicki established his own graphic studio named Insania Evidens. Winner of the prestigious awards in the field of internet creation: American Design Award as well as Favourite Webside Award.

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Helmut Newton is the doyen of fashion’s dark side, a photographer who has fundamentally changed the terms of the fashion image. Over the last forty years he has brought a unique mixture of style, sex, and theater to fashion photography and has shaped not only magazine imagery, but fashion itself.

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He achieved international fame in the 1970`s while working principally for French Vogue, and over the next three decades his celebrity and influence continued to grow. Eschewing studios for the most part, Newton preferred to shoot in the streets or in interiors. His mixture of controversial scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature look. In 1990 he was awarded the “Grand Prix National” for photography; in 1992 was awarded by the German government “Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz” for his services to German culture and was appointed “Officer des Arts, Lettres et Sciences” by S.A.S. Princess Caroline of Monaco. In 1996, he was appointed “Commandeur de l`Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French Minister of Culture. Working and living in close companionship with his wife until his death at 83, through his last click of the shutter he continued to be as distinctive and influential as ever.

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Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with bursts of dramatic action by engaging with these creatures on an exceptionally intimate level, without the customary use of a telephoto lens. Evocative of classical art, from dignified portraits to sweeping natural tableaux, Brandt’s images artfully and simply capture animals in their natural states of being. With a foreword by Alice Sebold and an introduction by Jane Goodall, On This Earth is a gorgeous portfolio of some of the last wild animals and a heartfelt elegy to a vanishing world.

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 Awesome surreal photomanipulations of a’ANTIst - Ukraine photo artist. Must see!
 
 
 
 
 
 

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