Photographer Of The Week: DAVID LACHAPELLE

Andy Warhol offers to David LaChapelle his first professional photographic assignment for the magazine “Interview”. He opens the way for success to David. He works also for covers and photo shoots of magazines, including Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue and Rolling Stone. David, active always in fashion and advertising, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, the March…

“Domestic Vacations” by JULIE BLACKMON

“The Dutch proverb “a Jan Steen household” originated in the 17th century and is used today to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, helped inspire this body of work. I am the oldest…

How the great masterpieces of the past, influence the contemporary photographers? The sets staged by CLARK and POUGNAUD.

Do you remember the Richard Tuschman’s post? That photographer is influenced by the painter Edward Hopper but, another brilliant photographers-couple Clark and Pougnaud in 2000 homages the great painter. After ten years they became a different project, a true personal interpretation of Wilhelm Hammershoi’s painting, considered a master of Danish painting. The photographers works together…

Photographer of the week: QUENTIN SHIH

QUENTIN SHIH was born in Tianjin, China in 1975, lives and works as an artist, film maker and photographer between New York and Beijing. In 2007, Quentin was the ‘Photographer of the Year’ for Esquire Magazine in China. In the following years, he joined lots group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in China, Europe, Southeast Asia…

Conceptual Photographer: DEAN WEST

This is the week of the new proposals! If yesterday we talked about surrealism, today I’ll write about conceptual photography. At the base of conceptual photography is an idea. This idea is developed in the choice of the photographer and presented to the public in the form of realistic symbol. To be clear, some types…

ERIK JOHANSSON “His Impossible Digital Photograph”

Who is Erik Johansson? Erik is a young surrealist photographer, illusionist, creative and never boring. The contemporary surrealist photography, unlike the staged photography, needs a great deal of post-production. This of course, can only improve the final result. The use of digital manipulation, for the preparation of these photographs, it’s necessary! It has in common…

The surrealist underwater-world of ANDREAS FRANKE

The Austrian photographer Andreas Franke in 2010 promotes a photographic project destined to become one of the most bizarre and interesting never executed. The project ends with an exhibition “LIFE BELOW THE SURFACE” and includes twelve photographs set up to 130 feet deep in the remains of the former warship the “Vandenberg”, sunk in 2009…

ERWIN OLAF “It’s just the RAIN”, 2004

It’s with great pleasure that I present this week, the work of one of the most famous and brilliant photographers in the world: the Dutchman Erwin Olaf. He was born in 1959 in Hilversum, The Netherlands, and currently lives in Amsterdam. The world-renowned for its eye-catching shots, so alienating and extremely modern, combining his passion…