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Juergen Teller: Zimmermann a surreal fashion fairy tale

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Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Juergen Teller, Raquel Zimmermann

 

Juergen Teller, the legendary German photographer who joined fashion and art in his work on a genius way, will release on the 31St of Mai 2010 his latest photography book called: “Zimmerman”. This book will feature his new photo series which documents his muse the supermodel Raquel Zimmermann engaging in family events and interacting with Teller’s native environment in Bubenreuth, Southern Germany. Holding true to his signature snapshot aesthetic while nonetheless managing to construct what he describes as a “surreal fairy tale”, a narrative akin in style to the Gothic and dramatic Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Teller captures Zimmermann in a state of seeming abandon, in the woods or lying semi-nude on the family table during a meal. It are suggestive images, elegantly dressed up with a touch of eroticism, and which tell a fashion tale which is going beyond conventional glamour.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Juergen Teller, Raquel Zimmermann

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Juergen Teller, Raquel Zimmermann

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Juergen Teller, Raquel Zimmermann

 

Photos: Juergen Teller | Zimmermann (Steidl)

Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective

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The NRW Forum in Düsseldorf has organised a major retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) dominated photography in the late twentieth century and paved the way for the recognition of photography as an art form in its own right. Both during his life and since his death, Mapplethorpe’s work has been the subject of much controversial debate.His radical portrayals of nudity and sexual acts were always controversial; some of his photos caused a stir and frequently resulted in protests outside exhibitions. Above all, Robert Mapplethorpe developed his own photographic style that paid homage to the ideals of perfection and form.

 ‘I look for the perfection of form. I do this in portraits, in photographs of penises, in photographs of flowers.’

 The fact that the photographs are displayed on snow-white walls underpins this view of his work and consciously moves away from the coy Boudoir-style presentation of his photographs on lilac and purple walls a dominant feature of exhibitions of Mapplethorpe’s work for many years and opens up the work to a more concept-based, minimalist view of things.

The exhibition in the NRW Forum covers all areas of Mapplethorpe’s work, from portraits and self-portraits, homosexuality, nudes, flowers and the quintessence of his oeuvre the photographic images of sculptures, including early Polaroids. It will run until 15 August 2010.

 

Trailer of the film Robert Mapplethorpe “Shapes”  by Ralph Goertz | IKS-Medienarchiv

 

 

Top photo: Robert Mapplethorpe at his Whitney Retrospective 1988 by Jonathan Becker, Vanity Fair

Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe | Top Photo by Jonathan Becker, Vanity Fair | Video by Ralph Goertz

Flower by Nick Knight

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Nick Knight is among the worlds most influential and visionary photographers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with leading designers as well as editorial for W, British Vogue, Paris Vogue, Dazed & Confused, Another, Another Man and i-D magazines have consistently kept Knight at the vanguard of progressive image-making for the past three decades. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a twelve year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel. Knight’s work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery. He has also produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London and was the first of Channel 4′s ‘Big 4′ 50-foot installations outside its London HQ in 2007.

The below Flower video by Nick Knight is featuring a remix of Special Cases by Massive Attack.

 

Photo and video: Nick Knight featuring Massive Attack | Youtube