Larry Clark

Larry Clack is American documentary photograph and film director. He is known for the film ‘Kids’ and his book ‘Tulas’. This book documents the aimless drug use, violence and sex activities of his friends. The photographs bin the book were taken between 1963 to 1971 and they combine documentary style photograph with intimacy and a raw edge to them. Most of all the photographs in the book have been taking in very low light and are all in black and white. The photos themselves are very grainy which I really adds to the hard edge of the subjects of the photos.

As I looked through the book the photographs seem to look so normal of young men and women jacking up and help each other with it. The photographs really like the viewer look at their lives and how they were living it. The image which really stands out for me is of a young girl jacking up. At first glance it shows the sunlight from the window in the room hitting the young pregnant girl, the light makes her look so beautiful and angelic, but as you look closer the young women is shooting up. The photograph which looked so innocent doesn’t any more.

This is what I really liked about Clarks images the stark contract between two ideas. All his images portray a harsh reality in yet such a beautiful way.

The House of Viktor & Rolf.

This book is an exploration of the designer duo Viktor and Rolf’s work to date. It features style shots by fashion photographers, catwalk images and exclusive sketches and snap shots that are from behind the scenes of the fashion house and previously ‘unseen’ documenting collections and backstage preparations at the catwalk show.

I feel in to the book not only works as a celebration of the duos work but also makes a chance for the viewer to get to know the designers more. They are invited into their private world in which readers are ensured to get lost in. Reading the book you get to understand the style and technique of the designers and you feel as through a previously private and hidden world have been opened up and revealed to you. The sketches are personal photography collections within the book add a sentimental, personal edge to the beautiful book.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

http://frillr.com/?q=taxonomy/term/143
http://searchingforstyle.com/archives/4450

The house of Viktor & Rolf by Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren

Glen Luchford.

Glen Luchford is known for creating seductive and imageries photography in a rich and dramatic style. His images span to fashion, portraiture and contemporary art recreated in an intense cinematic style. Luchford has created advertising campaigns for Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein as well as portraits for Madonna, and Tilda Swinton. His editorial work is frequently featured in Italian French & American Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Another Magazine and W.

What really attracted me to Glen Luchfords work was the amount of depth and richness each image has. They all seem to carry an air of mystery and in a sense almost appear like the stills from a film, as through the models are characters whose motivation and story line must be told to the viewer. I feel this strongly an influence of Luchford’s love of cinema. He prefers to work in the studio rather than on location as he can use elaborate high lighting techniques to create his evocative film like images. His images often have a romantic, softness about them, where models appear in a dream like state inviting viewers in to the Glen Luchford fantasy. He is known for using up to 50 tungsten lights and rarely shot in daytime which means Luchford style is so different from others. He also directed his first feature film – ‘Moch Documentry’ in 2001.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Luchford

http://www.showstudio.com/contributors/430

Glen Luchford by Glen Luchford.

Jenny Saville and Glen Luchford: Closed Contact by Katherine Dunn

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller is a highly influential figure with in the world of fashion. He is associated with the ‘Grunge heroin chic’ movement in fashion and is known for his open style. It was a stylist and photographer Vinetia Scott that encouraged Teller to get into fashion and the duo produced images that challenged the ideas of fashion, photography throughout the late 1980’s and 1990’s.

His images are never too polished and perfect and appear untouched digitally. There are usually shot within ‘Real’ locations whether it is on the street, back garden or the longue of the sitter. Teller was one of the first in a group of photographers including Connrie Day to introduce the aesthetic that allows viewers to reflect and connect to his images. Teller work combines elements of art documentary and fashion photography with his models often appearing to be unposed and natural. ‘I try to photograph people the way I really see them. I try to let them be the way they are. I think that I have the ability to go in to a person quite subtly… it comes naturally.’

Many of Tellers famous images have been advertising campaigns of renowned designers such as Marc Jacobs. These campaigns stand out against the many slick polished adverting campaigns, with their witty style, they often have a sense of sarcasm and portray the celebrates or models in an ironic way. One of the most famous subjects being Victoria Beckham which Teller spoke ‘I think at the time we shot her she may have been the most photographed women in the world. It would have been very to laugh at her but it was very important to Marc and myself that she was laughing with us.’

Juergen Teller stripped away the glossy air brushed of fashion and together with Venetia Scott in the early 1990’s their sprit changed the existing pre-conception of glamour and now fashion photography should look. Tellers free sprit brought personality as a sense of gritty and rawness to fashion photography.


Juergen Teller: Do You Know What I Mean by Juergan Teller.