French Kiss - A love letter to Paris.
"French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris." |
I personally love the idea of focusing on intimacy because it gives things a personal feeling. I think love and everything to do with it is the most human thing, and that makes it so beautiful and sensitive. The pure intensity captured within his photographs makes the book feel personal and delicate, and it rises the questions who are the people? why those people? The overall feel of the book makes love seem wonderful, but also it leaves questions behind because not all pictures tell the whole truth. You could never know what could lie behind the photographs and thats something I find very interesting. |
Before photography came around in 1826, human beings captured life through painting and sculpting. Before humans photographed the human condition, we painted it to depict different emotions, and feelings towards people. In 1928 an artist called Rene Magritte painted a piece called "Lovers", within the painting it depicts two people with cloth over their heads kissing through it. Many question because the lovers cannot see each other or make any eye-conact is their any affection within the kiss, or is it emotionless.
Margritte is a Belgian artists born in the 19th century, throughout his lifetime he created many pieces of art focusing on the human condition and what make us human and what it means to be human. |
Its not the moment when you fall, or as you fall, or before you fall, it is the moment you let go. And I think Basjan explores that a lot, the moment you surrender control the universe, and all fate is in its hands. Ader normally done this, within his work, and within his life, but it seems that he never had luck, failure after failure, fall after fall. For example, when he almost shipwrecked, or how he failed in art school. It could be argured that his failures are reflected in his falling, and how in Genasis Adam and Eve fell from the garden of Eden after adam ate from the tree of knowledge.
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When I first got the idea of photographing receipts, I found my own that was in my pocket. I decided to place it on the table, and angle my camera in a specific way so a certain portion of the receipt was in focus, and so the shadows were prominent within the picture, so there is some sort of contrast. I then furthered my idea by turning flash on and photographing it again, but more scrunched up. Then expanded more on that idea by sticking it onto the window and framing the receipt, with the background out of focus and the receipt in focus.
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Mortality defines the human condition - Drew Gilpin Faust
Sequence 01 from Thomas Tallis School on Vimeo.