Le photographe britannique Joseph Ford à réalisé une série de photographies pour le magazine allemand « Sneakers » avec des chaussures signées Lacoste, Nike, Puma, Asics et autres pour le moins originale : araignées, serpents, scorpions et même crocodile posent devant l’objectif, et s’attaquent à des chaussures.
Fasciné par les choses infiniment petites, le photographe Linden Gledhill a fait une série d’ailes de papillons prises en macro intitulée « Butterfly Wings ». La série montre l’esthétisme des motifs que l’on trouve sur les ailes de certaines espèces de papillons et qui ressemblent parfois à des pétales de fleurs.
Le photographe, basé à Singapour, Ernest Goh a sorti un livre de photos intitulé « Cocks, The Chicken Book » où on peut admirer des portraits de coqs avec des postures et des expressions aussi drôles que bizarres. Un échantillon des photos de ce livre est disponible dans la suite de l’article.
La récente campagne Sony Bravia a été réalisée par McCann Worldwide dans des paysages magnifiques : un volcan au Costa Rica, des habitants du village, une quantité astronomique de pétales de fleurs, quelques effets spéciaux, résultat : une superbe campagne à découvrir dans l’article ci-dessous.
Avec l’aide de quelques enfants très créatifs, Alix Martinez a tirée des portraits d’enfants, non pas sur la terre ferme, mais submergés sous l’eau. L’artiste arrive avec amusement et imagination à recréer des scènes sportives comme le golf, le football et le tennis. Une magnifique série à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Cake
US artist Angela Deane’s paintings on found photographs make for an intriguing series of portraits of ghostly figures – at home, at the game, even in the pool…
Snuggle
Noted via @alixmcalpine, Ghost Photographs is a series which explores, says Deane, “the beautiful, painful, and ultimately puzzling human condition of having memories. What are they? Can we retain them as experience?”
In each photograph the subjects are painted white, ‘sheet ghost’ style, with two black holes for eyes. Depending on the scene, and the postures of the people in the picture, the results can be oddly touching (haunting if you will) or just downright funny (see ghosts enjoying some biscuits, below).
Taking in the Game
Close-up of parade spectators in Untitled (Ghost Photograph no. 203) 2013, 6’x 9”
Untitled (Ghost Photograph no. 198), 2013, 4”x 6”
Untitled (Ghost Photograph no. 193), 2013, 6″x 8″
Untitled (Ghost Photograph no. 156), 2013, 4” x 6”
See the ongoing project at Deane’s Tumblr, ghostphotographs.tumblr.com, or on her website here. Check out more of Deane’s work at angeladeane.com.
These days, shooting film photography is about much more than just taking an analog approach to the activity of capturing images. Every aspect can be savored—from the smell of fresh film to the acute understanding that each frame is precious. And, for Chicago-based…
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Le photographe Greg Barth, spécialisé dans les clichés et set-up surréalistes, jouant avec les perspectives et les objets, nous propose cette série incroyable réalisée pour Little Burgundy magazine. Des images très réussies, sans retouches, créées spécialement pour The Illusions Issue.
Penguin has revealed the process behind the making of its paperback cover for new book Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik. It involved working with photographer Dan Tobin Smith and carefully arranging an awful lot of, well, stuff…
Stuff Matters documents the ‘Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World’ and features a cover filled with various objects grouped by colour.
Briefed by editor Will Hammond to “make the reader feel more in touch with the physical world around them, to make them grasp its materiality,” the Penguin design team wanted to work with Tobin Smith because of his ability to turn intricate concepts into simple images, designer Richard Bravery told penguinblog.co.uk.
The brief interview explores the team’s initial ideas and details the eventual two-day shoot – timelapse below – with Tobin Smith. More of Tobin Smith’s work at dantobinsmith.com. Set design: Leila Latchin. Retouching: Martin Pryor.
Published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency last month, Kendra Eash‘s satirical poem This is a Generic Brand Video has now been made into an actual video by a stock footage company…
In an interesting take on Eash’s subject matter, stock footage providers Dissolve looked to their own database for every single cliché she describes in her poetic tribute to the ‘brand video’.
Aping the kinds of signifiers which fill brand videos for all manner of companies, her poem opens: “We think first / Of vague words that are synonyms for progress / And pair them with footage of a high-speed train.”
On their website Dissolve explain that “the minute we saw Kendra Eash’s brilliant ‘This Is a Generic Brand Video’ on McSweeney’s, we knew it was our moral imperative to make that generic brand video so. No surprise, we had all the footage.”
They then found the right music – emotive piano – and, in Dallas McClain, a familiar sounding narrator for the video.
On Twitter, Eash has said she’s delighted with the results, though one can’t help feeling this is a bit of a bizarre self-promotional move from a company whose product is essentially the fuel for the satire – though the brands themselves are of course the acual target.
We’ve seen stock imagery providers as the target of jokes before – Women Laughing Alone With Salad being a highpoint – but never the providers themselves sending up how their visuals are routinely used and abused.
All the clips featured in the film are from dissolve.com.
Kendra Eash’s original piece is published on McSweeney’s (see more of her writing here), while Dissolve’s film is on Vimeo here.
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