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Category: Photography
Corpus – Alejandra Figueroa – Photoshoots I’ve loved #22
This week it’s “Corpus” by Alejandra Figueroa. I was given this book for my birthday and I’m absolutely in love with it.
Alejandra Figueroa was born in Mexico but moved to Paris in 1992. Her work is mainly concerned with sculpture, stained glass and architecture. She was commissioned to photograph the statues of the world’s greatest musuems.
This almost-A3-sized hardback book is a study of the human form. It is the fruit of several years of labour. It features abstract imagery of the beauty of the nude figure; parts of bodies: hands, feet, parts of faces. The images are presented in such a way that the viewer thinks they are viewing real nudes, flesh doesn’t look like stone. In this way, Figeroa acts as sort of an “anti” Medusa figure with her camera: instead of turning people to stone with it, she is turning stone, human. This book is a beautiful monograph of fine-art abstract imagery.
All images from Alejandra Figueroa.fr. Click on the image to go to the webpage
What do you think of them? Are they “too abstract”?
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Unless You Will issue 24
Blogging about this today, it’s an Australian online photo magazine. This issue is concerned with landscape photography and how artists connect to the land and photograph it.
The issue features 10 photographer’s practices on landscape photography and a really nice quote from Seneca in “Letters From A Stoic” –
“Are you telling me
not to investigate
Are you trying to bar
me from the whole
of it and restrict me
to a part of it?
Am I not to inquire
into the identity of
the artist who created
that universe?
Or the process by
which the huge mass
became subject to
law and order?
Or the nature of the
one who collected
the things that were
scattered apart, sorted
apart the things that
were commingled,
and when all things
lay in formless chaos
allotted them their
individual shapes?
Or the source of the
light (is it fire or is it
something brighter?)
Am I supposed not
to inquire into this
sort of thing?”
2012 in review
Here’s the stats for my blog in 2012. I have so many plans for 2013 for this blog so hopefully you’ll all keep reading!
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
Click here to see the complete report.
Sarah’s 21st aka my first professional shoot!
This past Saturday, I photographed my friend Sarah’s 21st birthday in the Grand Central bar. It was great experience for me as I’ve never done anything like this before. It was a really good night, I got to see friends from the media course I did last year that I haven’t seen since and I got to get some experience in club photography. Here are the photos:
Broken Flowers by Jon Shireman (Photoshoots I’ve loved #20)
These photos are from Jon Shireman’s “Broken Flowers“. He soaked the flowers in liquid nitrogen and then shattered them for his 2010 series.
What do you think of them? Is it too weird a concept?
All photos from Laughing Squid, click on the photo to go to the webpage
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- Jon Shireman’s Broken Flowers (trendland.com)
- Birthday Girls (photoshoots I’ve loved #18) (aislingkeaveyart.wordpress.com)
- Photoshoots I’ve loved #16 (aislingkeaveyart.wordpress.com)
- Geraldine Lamanna – Powder Dance (Photoshoots I’ve loved #19) (aislingkeaveyart.wordpress.com)
Geraldine Lamanna – Powder Dance (Photoshoots I’ve loved #19)
I’ve been so behind on my blogging schedule at the moment, I’ve been so busy. *Regularly scheduled posting will resume shortly* (haha). Anyway, apologies and bad jokes aside, this week I’m going to talk about “Powder Dance” by Geraldine Lamanna. This series of photographs is amazing. She photographed dancers and used powder to accentuate the power and movement of the dance itself. Lamanna coated a dance instructor and her students with powder and let them show their moves to the camera. The resulting photographs are supposed to show “echoes” of movement. Compositionally, these photographs are perfect, the composition draws you in to the middle of the frame, to the dancer’s face. The lighting is great, spotlights illuminate the dancers and the powder separately so the viewer can see both equally well.
What do you think of these?
All images from Peta Pixel, click on the image to go to the webpage.
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Fine art documentary landscape
To apologise for not posting yesterday (I am swamped with edits and college work…), here’s one of my latest projects. It is a fine art abstract look at my local beach.
First fashion photoshoot
Two weeks ago in college, we got to link up with the Fashion Design students and photograph them in the studio. Here are some photos from the day. They’re not my best as I’m only getting properly into studio portraiture now but I’ll post up more photographs as they come! Hope you enjoy.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
Photographer: Aisling Keavey
Model: Heather Rowan
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