This week on the web: Kurt Cobain’s last photo session, Stanley Kubrick’s youth, surprising portraits of teenagers, staged scenes of the Chinese taking over the USA, and a selection of online photo platforms: Blackdog and Flakphoto. And for fun: Batman in Texas.
► Interview: Kurt Cobain’s last photo shoot, 20 years later
An interview with Youri Lenquette, a French photographer who had the privilege of capturing the final moments of the Nirvana frontman, a gun in his hand.
http://www.konbini.com/fr/entertainment-2/photos-kurt-cobain-youri-lenquette
[Photo 01-02]
►The Young Stanley Kubrick:
Fifteen years after the filmmaker’s death, Konbini revisits Kubrick’s early passion for photography, to which he had devoted himself before turning to movies and before growing his famous beard. When Kubrick was 16, he went to work for the magazine Look and spent four years there learning what it was like to be a photographer. See it here.
[Photo 03-04-05-06]
► Julia Peirone’s Teenagers (Sweden)
At first glance Julia Peirone’s images might look like a mistake. However upon further inspection, the young female subjects betray something fascinating, each self-effacing hair flick and eye roll unraveling their thinly composed expressions and thwarting our own understanding of portraiture. In her series More Than Violet, Peirone shot hundreds of frames in order to achieve these startling “in between” moments, the girls themselves suspended between childhood and womanhood.
http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/04/julia-peroni/#!EeAvz
http://www.juliapeirone.com
[Photos : 07-08]
► Portfolio : Laissez mille fleurs éclore, par MEI XIAN QIU (Los Angeles)
http://lenscratch.com/2014/04/mei-xian-qiu-let-thousand-flowers-bloom/
Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles based artist who creates staged tableaux that reflect Cultural Revolution Propaganda imagery.
Qilin is a series of photographs portraying a Chinese takeover of the United States, it is a popular partial Western misquotation of Mao Zedong’s “Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend.” Taken from classical Chinese poetry, Mao used this slogan to proclaim a great society where arts, academia, and “a hundred schools of thought contend.” As a result, artists and academics came out of hiding and there was a brief flowering of culture.
http://meixianqiu.com/
[Photos 09-10-11-12-13-14-15]
► Online Photo Platforms and Magazines
– The Best of Instagram every week, by Jeff on Boooooo.com
-Black dog is the site of the blog Black Dog Represents: Black Dog Represents is a group of young photographers, both established and emerging, with a strong aesthetic sense. They’ve all been commissioned for prestigious ad campaigns and editorials. Here are a few portraits of young men by Gial Paul Lozza [Photos 16-17] taken from the book Homeland, which will be published by Hakuin and launched on April 30th and the Galerie Trace in Zurich. Also check out the Hollywood series Broken Dreams by Samuel Hicks. [Photos 18-19]
http://shop.thetrace.ch
http://blackblogrepresents.tumblr.com
http://blackdogrepresents.com
– FlakPhoto.com is an online art space for digital photography which celebrates the culture of 21st century photographers. Overseen by Andy Adams, the site features new series, photobooks and exhibitions from its community of contributors. [Photos 20-21]
http://flakphoto.com
Flackphoto is also holding a digital exhibition of 100 portraits from 100 contemporary photographers. We selected portraits by Elisabeth Fleming [Photos 22] and Joni Sternbach [Photos 23]. See the project, the list of photographers and submit your own work here.
+ An interview with Andy Adams about online publications and emerging photographers:
http://www.ccp.org.au/flash/2012/03/andy-adams-and-amy-stein/
► Fun: The Adventures of BATMAN in TEXAS, by Rémi Noël
Fascinated by American culture and by the state of Texas, the French photographer Remi Noël invites us to discover a series of images taken from Houston to Dallas, often featuring a figurine of Batman, traveling companion of the artist. They can be seen here and at the Galerie Sakura in Paris from April 3rd to June 2nd, 2014. http://www.galerie-sakura.com
[Photos 24-25-26-27-28]
► AGENDA
– Photo Contest: Fisheye, 15-22/04/2014 : http://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/a-vos-marques-prets-shootez/
– Hyères 2014, the 29th edition of the international fashion and photography festival, April 25-28, 2014. Featuring the work of Anna Grzelewska, Pologne, Osma Harvilahti, Finlande, Arnaud Lajeunie, France, Orianne Lopes, France, Birthe Piontek, Germany / Canada, Virginie Rebetez, Switzerland, Marie Rime, Switzerland, Marleen Sleeuwits, Netherlands, Charlotte Tanguy, France, Lorenzo Vitturi, Italy / UK
Full program here
[Photos : 29-30]
