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Cinemagraphs – art or gimmick?

I’ve been thinking about the emergance of cinemagraphs, at this early stage I think there could be something there. I just hope it doesn’t end up like the ‘make everything miniature’ craze which will surely be an upcoming photoshop filter ‘Miniaturize’.

My fave cinemagraph is the girl in the mirror, by Jamie Beck and [...]

Photographer - Lise Sarfati

The photographs of Lise Sarfati’s series ‘The New Life’ are not based on film, but on Dante’s ‘La Vita Nova’. To me, the narrative feel of this work suggests a cinematic timeline, and in her interview Ms. Sarfati remarks (English translation from French) “The series is made as a moment that sits between two concepts. [...]

Robert Longo: Shadows and Forests

UNTITLED (ET IN ARCADIA EGO)

UNTITLED (IN THE GARDEN, ET IN ARCADIA EGO)

Like Beric Henderson, Robert Longo also finds inspiration in shadows and forests.
These works are currently on display in the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain. Nice, France until December 20, 2009. I was lucky enough to attend the opening of this retrospective [...]

Shadows, cinema and the art of noir.

Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of Doubt’

Why do shadows recur so often in my writing, photos and paintings? Not wanting to delve too far into my own psyche, I can only say that I was undoubtedly impressed as a child by film noir (especially Bogart films such as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo) and Hitchcock films, and [...]

Five Films that influenced Gregory Crewdson

Brief Encounter by Gregory Crewdson

From Five in Focus interview with Gregory Crewdson, here are the five films that influenced him as a photographer.
1. Vertigo
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4. Blue Velvet
5. Safe
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Fellini in Paris

From October 20, 2009 – January 17, 2010 JEU DE PAUME in Paris will showing the creative context of Fellini’s work. The exhibition includes drawings and photographs by Fellini, as well as original film posters, period magazines and excerpts from his [...]

Time Magazine article on Jeff Wall 2007 MOMA retrospective

Wall talks freely about his debt to filmmaking, his desire to achieve the beguilements of cinema. (One day someone will have to attempt a history of cinema-envy in the arts.) Some of the photographers who make staged images have virtually become directors. The American artist Gregory Crewdson operates like a small studio. He conceives his pictures, casts them and then has complicated sets constructed and lit by large crews. Klieg lights and fog machines are involved. Like a good director, he doesn’t even always get behind the camera himself. He’s directing–somebody else can click the [...]