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16 posts tagged cinematic
Last Picture Show
ISO 100, f11 @ 19mm, 46sec, 10:06pm
From my set: “Long Exposure” on flickr
The Time Traveller and his Daughter
ISO 800, f3.2 @ 27mm, 1/800
from my new set: “Moments” on flickr
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street Work
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is among the most influential and innovative photographers of the past thirty years.
DiCorcia’s images perch on the lines between fact and fiction, blending a documentary mode with techniques of staged photography. The viewer is often unsure whether a scene has been found or posed by diCorcia, which lends an uncanny quality to the typically mundane imagery the artist presents. Ultimately, his work asks viewers to question the assumed truth of a photograph and to consider alternative ways that images might speak to and represent reality. read more
John Cassavetes in Johnny Staccato (1959 - 60)
Perhaps better known to the general public as an actor, John Cassavetes’ true artistic legacy derives from his work behind the camera; arguably, he was America’s first truly independent filmmaker, an iconoclastic maverick whose movies challenged the assumptions of the cinematic form. Obsessed with bringing to the screen the “small feelings” he believed that American society at large attempted to suppress, Cassavetes’ work emphasized his actors above all else, favoring character examination over traditional narrative storytelling to explore the realities of the human condition. A pioneer of self-financing and self-distribution, he led the way for filmmakers to break free of Hollywood control, perfecting an improvisational, cinéma vérité aesthetic all his own. read more
William Eggleston: Untitled
A controversial pioneer of color photography, William Eggleston makes the fleeting and the everyday worthy of our attention.
Influential to both photographers and filmmakers, Eggleston possesses a painter’s eye for pure colors and complex compositions. From a tricycle on a suburban Memphis street to a mixed drink being savored on a plane passing through the clouds, the artist transforms mundane moments into visual poetry. read more
Alex Prager: Irene
A young blonde woman holds up her hands against the frantic flapping of grey pigeons encircling her. Another female character, this one in a red skirt, floats listlessly in a dark pool of blue water, her discarded pair of yellow heels resting nearby. Invoking intrigue and suspense with her luridly-colored dramas, photographer ingénue Alex Prager depicts the fissures of deception through retro Americana scenarios that somehow look timeless. “I want the pictures to be a fusion of the past with the present. That’s how I see the world. We’re never entirely in one period at one time,” explains Prager.
Drawing on cinematic cues from directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, Prager’s photos use exaggerated angles and theatrical lighting to create a melodramatic world of mystery with women frequently poised beneath low flying planes—Prager’s signature homage to the film North by Northwest. The suggestively bleak compositions are balanced by the bold hues of the vintage clothing and synthetic wigs that subjects wear. “People used color then in a way they’d be embarrassed to use now,” Prager reasons. In her work the artifice of color creates a ‘separation of reality,’ conjuring both a mood and an era characterized by unrest that lies just below seemingly perfect surfaces. read more
