In the context of fashion photography, since the
options are quite limited, II like to create a kind of little theatre
stage, setting up a situation where I know interesting things are going
to happen and then let the models be. I tend to give few directions to
models, the context and this ‘little theatre' do the work for me, since
they usually experience something real. But there is also the fact that I
always try to find an exciting idea or a physical constraint, just
because otherwise I find fashion shoots massively boring.
I don't know much about Polanski, I will check out his early shorts and
films. I don't know much about the theatre of the absurd either, but I
think that one of my obsessions is in fact a certain kind of iwowgold
Vanity, the genre you could call les vanités idiotes. The connection
between vanity, the absurd, laughter and death. Indeed, this is very
much present in my photos, the series Trompe La Mort [Cheating Death]
for instance, or even Mort De Rire [Laughing yourself to death], with
laughing faces lost against a blue background, giving this floating
impression. Actually, one thing which you often find in the classic
Vanity paintings are, I think there is an element of this in Mort De
Rire the transient outburst of artificial laughter brought on by a gas
which discnnects your brain for a split second or something like that.
Another photo which i am thinking of and which could sum up this genre
is the Damien Hirst photo,, where you can see him as a young dossy art
student type laughing away, crouched next to the head of a corpse who
seems to be pissing himself too. I love this photo; I don't care about
his work, but I do find this photo really powerful, this image of a guy
who still looks a bit drunk from the night before and faces death with a
laugh. Yes, laughing is something important for me. Also, absurdity can
take on more abstract forms, as in the I shot for Adam Kesher last
winter, some kind of conquest of the useless where some guys carry a
piece of glass on top of a dune. So, to answer the question, I don't
know enough about the theatre of the absurd, I will check it out, but I
do feel really close to this tradition of ‘mocking vanities', of which
this by Van Gogh could be the emblem.
ok so like theese are the
most amazing wow po ever! since yesturday was my birthday. i wante to
buy them from nordies but they were sold out of the ones i lover, so i
went to bloomigdales and they were too. but i feel in love with them,
and now i am the proud owner of a new one wow po
I live in chicago and we can have some rough winters but my feet stay super fashion in these wow po!!
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