W Kabulu wybucha bomba podczas procesji szyitów. Zabija dzieci, kobiety, mężczyzn…
Dziennik New York Times publikuje na pierwszej stronie zdjęcia fotografa, który był na miejscu – fotografował procesję.
Zdjęcia oraz okoliczności w jakich powstały, nadały im własny bieg i trafiły na „jedynkę” NYT,
Różnica nie tkwi w szczegółach. My oglądamy po raz tysięczny Sarkozyego i Putina ale nie mamy zielonego pojęcia, że oprócz nich istnieje inny świat!
Ja rozumiem, że mamy bliżej do Brukseli i Moskwy ale gdzie na litość Boską jest fotografia? Dobra fotografia!
Polityków, nie chcemy już oglądać nawet na zdjęciach….
The video portraits can be seen in the three traditional ways that artists construct space. If I hold my hand in front of my face, I can say it is a portrait. If I see my hand at a distance, I can say it is part of a still life, and if I see it from across the street, I can say that it is part of a landscape.
In constructing these spaces, we see an image which can be thought of as a portrait. If we look carefully, this still life is a real life. And in a way, if we think about it and look at them long enough, the mental spaces become mental landscapes.
These portraits stem from a work I did in the 1970s, VIDEO 50. I made various portraits, including surrealist writer Louis Aragon, socialite Helene Rochas, a duck, a priest I met in a bar, museum director Pontus Hulten, Sony CEO Akito Morita and France’s Minister of Culture Michel Guy. Those portraits could be seen on TV, in galleries, museums, subways, hotel lobbies, airports, or even on the face of a wristwatch.
I imagine the VOOM portraits being seen in public spaces, as well as at home. At home, they are a kind of window in the room or a fire in the fireplace.
Often people ask me, “What are the ideas behind the images?” I do not interpret my work. Interpretation is for others. To fix a meaning to a work limits its poetry and the possibility of other ideas. They are personal, poetic statements of different personalities.
A man from the street, an animal, a child, superstars, gods of our time.
PORTRAITS
Johnny Depp – actor
Salma Hayek – actress
Sean Penn – actor
Isabella Rossellini – actress
Brad Pitt – actor
Robert Downey Jr. – actor
Winona Ryder – actress
Steve Buscemi – actor
Macaulay Culkin – actor
Robin Wright Penn – actress
Willem Dafoe – actor
Marianne Faithful – singer and actress
Mikhail Baryshnikov – dancer and choreographer
Alan Cumming – actor
Peter Stormare – actor
Jeanne Moreau – actress
Isabelle Huppert – actress
Juliette Binoche – actress
Renee Fleming – opera singer
JT Leroy – writer
Gabriella Ornstein – actress
Tatiana Platt – executive and philanthropist
Princess Caroline of Monaco
Gao Xingjian – writer
Dita von Teese – burlesque performer
Farah Diba – Empress of Iran
Norman Paul Fleming – auto mechanic
Byambajav Ulambayar – sumo world champion
Zhang Huan – artist
Lucinda Childs – dancer and choreographer
William Pope L. – artist
Alexis Broschek
Snow Owl
Black Panther
Porcupine
Frog
Briard Dog
Skunk
Horizontal and vertical versions of each portrait were created. Additionally, the Salma Hayek, Frog and Snow Owl were created as a series, which means multiple unique portraits were created of each. Of the 38 subjects, the is a total of 153 unique portraits.
