I picked Karen Moskowitz not only for her various celebrity subjects, but for her portfolio #3 on her website : http://www.karenmoskowitz.com/
She has a wide variety of subjects from Sean Combs to Lisa Lampanelli to dogs to weird little rat looking animals with a furry ball tail?? She's done work for many clients from Wired and Vanity Fair to Absolut and Forbes.
She studied photography at Indiana University and then moved to Seattle where she started taking photos of her musician friends. She is apparenlty known for creating her concepts around the personality of the subjects, so her work is liked by many.
The site does not tell you much about Karen but I was drawn to the her portraits because they seem to have a lively character about them. They are colorful and most seem to show you more about the person or subject within the photograph and not have the background detach or distract you from that subject. Her portfolio is welcoming to me and exciting.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Gwon, Osang: Deodorant Type
I came upon Gwon Osang's site because I wanted to look for photography used in three dimesional terms. Gwon Osang's background is actually in Sculpture and he was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He has had many exhibitions, both solo and groups over the past 11 years all over the world, from Korea to the USA to Europe and Japan.
He has a series of work called Deodorant Type which are sculptures of mainly people ( there are other objects such as a dog and a van, etc.) doing various things from shopping to contortionism. He calls these sculptures "light" because they are made out of hundreds of little photos making a three dimensional being. He wanted to be able to move the sculptures around easily, stating that most sculpting materials are rather heavy and cumbersome to move.
At first, he made the sculptures of humans close to what the human body looked like and then started to gear towards more of a distorted form such as two-headed men. He worked on this particular series for about five years before he moved to another sculpture series dealing with still-life that still had photographs involved, but they were more simplistic than the Deodorant Type. There is an interview with him on his website where he compares photography to sculpturing, where you can reproduce photos from a negative like you produce a work of art in sculpture by making a model to use as a plaster mold. He talks about how he was at first interested in photography and then began a shift towards the art of sculpting more during the making of Deodorant Type. He pulled many of his ideas for images/sculptures from "contemporary images and advertisement" (as said by the interviewer Ju-hyeon Lee), which Gwon replied with that art circulates back and forth through advertisements and the artist.
Here is the website address: http://osang.net/works/deo.html
He has a series of work called Deodorant Type which are sculptures of mainly people ( there are other objects such as a dog and a van, etc.) doing various things from shopping to contortionism. He calls these sculptures "light" because they are made out of hundreds of little photos making a three dimensional being. He wanted to be able to move the sculptures around easily, stating that most sculpting materials are rather heavy and cumbersome to move.
At first, he made the sculptures of humans close to what the human body looked like and then started to gear towards more of a distorted form such as two-headed men. He worked on this particular series for about five years before he moved to another sculpture series dealing with still-life that still had photographs involved, but they were more simplistic than the Deodorant Type. There is an interview with him on his website where he compares photography to sculpturing, where you can reproduce photos from a negative like you produce a work of art in sculpture by making a model to use as a plaster mold. He talks about how he was at first interested in photography and then began a shift towards the art of sculpting more during the making of Deodorant Type. He pulled many of his ideas for images/sculptures from "contemporary images and advertisement" (as said by the interviewer Ju-hyeon Lee), which Gwon replied with that art circulates back and forth through advertisements and the artist.
Here is the website address: http://osang.net/works/deo.html
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