Voici Taylor McCormick, une talentueuse photographe qui nous fait découvrir des images captivantes, appartenant au monde du rêve. Ses œuvres présentent un large éventail de nuances stylistiques : des scènes dominées par une atmosphère de conte de fées, des images troublantes qui rappellent le style romantique.
Avec sa série « Excursion », le photographe argentin Bruno Bernardi crée des parallèles et correspondances entre les touristes et les lieux touristiques sous forme de diptyques. Un hublot ouvre sur des nuages, un K-way trempé appelle un arc-en-ciel et une carte de parc aquatique fait écho à des chutes d’eau.
Basé en Californie, le photographe Tim Ronca a fait la série intitulée « California Squares » pour représenter l’état dans lequel il habite sous un format carré. Quelques cactus, des vieilles voitures et des stations d’essence abandonnées au beau milieu du désert : voici un échantillon de la Californie.
Focus sur le travail du peintre américain Joshua Suda qui peint des tableaux hyper réalistes en s’appuyant sur des photographies. Le rendu est incroyablement précis et le spectateur pourrait confondre une peinture avec une photographie. Une sélection de sa série est disponible sur son site et dans la suite de l’article.
The final day of Design Indaba featured some moving, funny and uplifting presentations rom Stefan Sagmeister, Alt Group’s Dean Poole and South Africa’s most treasured photographer, David Goldblatt. Here’s a look at some of the best bits…
89plus – art, post 1989
Following a talk from Ivory Coast architect Issa Diabate was a group of South African artists from new platform and research project, 89 plus. Founded by curators Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 89plus supports artists born in 1989 or later, after the birth of the internet and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This age group represents half the world’s population and for South Africans, it’s a generation that has grown up post-apartheid. The first 89plus exhibition, Poetry Will Be Made By All, was recently launched in Switzerland and will feature 1000 books by 1000 poets over two months, presented in displays designed by artists, designers and architects (more info here).
Images (top and above): Jody Brand
Among the 89plus artists speaking were Kyla Philander – a videographer and musician who uses film to address social inequality and racism and Jody Brand, a photographer and art director who captures South African street and club culture on her blog, Chomma (slang for friend).
Dean Poole – simplicity and constraint
After a talk from Danish designers, Alt Group’s Dean Poole delivered an excellent presentation on his love of language, simplicity – and holes. Beginning with a playful look at the letters of the alphabet (which those who attended AGI Open in London may remember), Poole explained the concept behind the studio’s award-winning identity for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Inspired by visual word play, experimental poetry and sculptors that work with language, Alt Group created a visual system based around the word art. By reducing the subject to three letters, Pool said he wanted to create a simple message that anyone could understand. The system has been applied to merchandise, wayfinding and communications and offers a flexible, playful scheme.
Poole also discussed condensing the story of an opera into one simple symbol when designing an identity for New Zealand Opera (see image, top) and the studio’s fantastic work for experimental theatre group Silo – for which they created ‘emoticon’ logo marks referencing tragedy and comedy theatre masks.
Funny, engaging and entertaining, Poole’s parting thought was to go out and do something different, or “give the world a bit of a wobble”.
Man building his house, Marselle Township, Kenton-on-sea, shot by David Goldblatt.
David Goldblatt – a life’s work
His talk was followed by photographer David Goldblatt, who discussed the stories behind some of his most iconic portraits and received a standing ovation from the audience.
Offering a fascinating insight into his 50-year career Goldblatt spoke about photographing victims of police brutality, township residents and political figures including Nelson Mandela during apartheid.
He also presented his work photographing offenders at the scene of crimes they were imprisoned for – including a victim of corrective rape who was jailed for 3 years after being falsely accused of armed robbery – and his close-up series of body parts from the mid-70s.
His work remains a powerful and poignant reminder of the country’s recent past and it was inspiring to hear Goldblatt’s insights on his images and their subjects.
Stefan Sagmeister – on happiness
The final speaker of this year’s conference was Stefan Sagmeister, who delivered an uplifting talk on happiness.
Showing examples of typographic installations, motion graphics and short films created with studio partner Jessica Walsh, as well as examples from his brilliant exhibition, the Happy Show:
He shared some surprising insights based on research into what makes us happy. Climate, age and life conditions play only a small role but marriage and religion can make us considerably happier.
Speaking of his experiences filming the Happy Film, his documentary on happiness which is now at rough cut stage, he also provided some tips based on what he had discovered from scientists, pyschologists and a trip to Bali. Singing in groups, making friends and taking part in non-repetitive activities will improve our happiness, but procrastinating and not doing the things we intended to will make us unhappy – some simple yet sound advice.
Bruce Weber’s work—renowned for its powerful and iconic imagery that has graced gallery walls, billboards and the finest fashion magazines around the globe—is largely an extension of the way he sees the world. And when the…
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La photographe italienne Alba Morassutti livre de belles photos en noir & blanc avec ses séries « R.E.M. ». Les photos jouent avec le grain, les contrastes et la texture afin que les clichés paraissent avoir parcouru le temps. Une sélection de ses deux séries est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
The 1993 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target was director John Woo’s first U.S. film. Woo, the acclaimed action director hailing from Hong Kong, was for the first time exposed to American production largesse: Six cameras where once he might have had two, and a variety of expensive, elaborate camera rigs well beyond the budget of your average HK flick.
In this little-seen spot produced by the L.A. Times, the Muscles from Brussels himself—in fine 1993 form and style—gives you a brief look at the unusual rigs used to “make the magic” on the set of Hard Target. (Who knew they had drone cameras back in ’93?)
Graduating with an MFA from the esteemed Royal College of Art in London, South Korean artist Jung Lee not only studied the theory and practice of photography, but also the art of a foreign language—English. Ever…
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Le photographe argentin Manuel Archain met en scène des personnes rétrécies dans des situations du quotidien mais de manière originale. Ainsi, une femme dort dans une assiette, des personnes vont à la piscine dans un récipient chaud et un homme lit en se tenant debout sur son livre.
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