it’s a rare day when i run across work that makes me stop and wish I had shot it….
i was doing some photo research for an upcoming project and ran across these two under a search for “horse polaroid”. neil krug and joni harbeck have combined their extra superpower forces for the PULPARTBOOK. trippy photos of joni shot by neil. trippy photography has always held a soft spot in my heart but these two take it to the next level by shooting the entire project in expired film and polaroids. the work looks like it’s been shot over an extended period of time in various locations but the look is completely cohesive. double up to joni; she looks exactly like giselle!!! and double up to krug for also shooting music videos. i’m so jealous…. now on to shoot my own work.
two of my big loves are fashion photography and music videos. i don’t even care when people say terrible things about the fashion photography biz or mtv… they are wrong. fashion photography is beautiful and music videos have had my heart since i saw Sade’s No Ordinary Love and wanted to be a mermaid foreva. i watch that video in its entirety at least four times a year. my other confession is that from the age of 9 to 12 i would stay up till daybreak watching fashion trance on the weekends. (if you’ve never seen it, you’ve clearly missed out)
today i fell upon these beautiful videos while surfing the web and also a list of the top 1o fashion films of the season. the video below is on there. AMAZING. it’s also amazing why more fashion photographers haven’t explored video. i’ve blogged about video before, it’s just so beautiful… whilst i was in journalism school all the talk was about how video is the new photo… blah, blah, blah. i don’t for one bit believe that video can ever replace photo but i DO DEFINITELY believe that photographers can harness the power of video and make shit amazing! like beautiful, mind blowing, art. if you are a great photographer, you have a great eye, why not try video? give it a whirl! i suppose everyone really is behind on the video wave, guy bourdin’s videos were listed in the top 10 of 2009…. hello, those videos were not made in 2009.
what i definitely DO NOT like is that all the cool fashion video work is coming from the Nick Knight/ SHOWstudio part of the world. WTF? are there really no other fashion photographers that have realized video is a really beautfiful element to add to their work? i get it, those guys are wildly intelligent and into beautiful things, but to everyone else: step the fuck up! i’m right on it…
props to kathryn ferguson for really bringing it on video #1. one of her blog posts is titled “experiments with crystals”. girl is cool. this film is tite! last two videos are nick knight, cause i just couldn’t resist posting them…
i’ve always been interested in vivid dreams. i’ve had them ever since i can remember. happy dreams, scary dreams, and sad dreams where i wake up in puddles of tears. if i wasn’t a photographer i would be a dream researcher. i like work that has dreamlike qualities, it would be interesting to know which artists work from their dreams.
michel gondry’s work attracts me for this reason. it has a strange, sad, emotionally charged quality to it. i’ve been telling myself for years that i should keep a journal of my dreams.
I told myself I wouldn’t look at new work until everyone started photographing like Lillian Bassman… Well hello there, Camilla Åkrans. I forgot how much I loved you.
I could go on and on about Camilla all day. She puts the double M’s to shame, photographs ladies like delicate flowers, and photographs ladies like powerful winds. This lady blows it up all over: Numéro, Vogue Nippon, Vogue China, Harper’s Bazaar… you get my drift.
Camilla Akrans, I want to be you when I grow up… or maybe in five years.
all is well in the world with camilla at the click of a mouse. hello 2010.
i’m tired. everyone’s tired. everything is perfect.
we are lucky… it doesn’t happen to everyone.
we are lucky to have youtube and find video of photographers we wish we could be. we are lucky we can shoot film and still afford to pay our rent. we are lucky we have each other to talk to about videos on youtube and not having enough money to buy film. “the luckiest people in the world”…
william eggleston, paolo roversi, and nadav kander
Among the big disney boys club of the 1950’s sits Mary Blair…. high atop. If you watch the credits of Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Ichabod Crane you’ll see endless streams of boys names with the exception of the costume designer and Mary Blair. Its a little complicated for me to understand what her exact role was in the production but it seems she was the conceptual illustrator. Walt Disney would give her some ideas and she would create beautiful illustrations that would set the page for the animators. Her illustrations were a sort of wild electric still images, you can see her influences of her work in the more decadent scenes of early disney feature animations. I found her name while I was watching the Making of Sleeping Beauty. The animators reveal that although her work was stunning and influenced the animations, Walt felt like the actually animation never really lived up to Blair’s work until Alice in Wonderful. Her work is fantastic, and even if you think you haven’t seen it I’m sure you have. it’s a small world….
Looking at too many photos on the internet makes me sick… I love the internet. I love, love the internet. But let’s face it often times it is more toxic than good. I am taking a hiatus from looking at so much crap, maybe forever or until everyone starts taking making work like Lillian Bassman.
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