miércoles, 22 de junio de 2011

Every Book by Aspen Mays

Einstein Rainbow 21 by Aspen Mays







With a keen sense of humor, Aspen Mays explores the relationship between scientific investigation and the photographic medium to question what knowledge can be gained through systems of cataloguing, classification and documentation.


 Every book is a series of photographs that document every book about Albert Einstein available through the Illinois Collegiate Inter-Library Loan service. These were then organized by Mays according to the color spectrum to create a series of individual "rainbows" -- referencing Einstein's theories about light and gravity. With these works, Mays asks how the systematic presentation of individual parts affects our understanding of the whole.

domingo, 19 de junio de 2011

Lonesome Nomore AW2011/12



                                     'High Gravity Days' by SIMCIKOVA                                  



Photography: Tom Hayton      
Make-up: Lucie Worship
Model: Ania Wu



Neoprene jacket
Skirt with dense organza flounces creating shapes of faces, 
Tin and glass necklace










This is the first complete collection designed by SIMCIKOVA and has been the greatest challenge so far since it wasn't based on a concrete visual concept. 
It is a mix of a literary journey, travelled through the books 'Slapstick or Lonesome Nomore', 'Immortality' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' as well as an exhausting investigation about the face as identity, plastic shape and channel through which the interior and abstract emotions are communicated to the exterior world.
'Lonesome Nomore' represents sociability, interaction and the concretion of emotions.

The Main element to the collection is the shape of the face emerging from garments such as felt-jackets, flounced skirts and chiffon blouses. 
On the other hand certain extreme emotions are intended to be expressed as a physical phenomenon. 
'Lightness of being' refers to happiness, carelessness and togetherness, where the common physical feeling and perception of the world is of bright colours, weightlessness and movement. 
The other contrast is 'High Gravity Days' where depression sets in, the feelings of sadness, anger and loneliness. 
These emotions commonly have the physical effect of no energy, no movement and an psychological darkness clouds up the mind.

Haute Couture Busts by Emmanuel Bossuet




White; Geometry perceived through shadows and light







White; McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Black to White Geometry











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Ghost by Marco Brambilla

Ghost is a study of model Natasha Poly. An investigation into the obsessive behavior of the public eye and it’s lingering effects on those chased and caught by it. The piece utilizes multiple shots, all presented head-on, giving the audience an opportunity to experience the deconstruction of an icon as it strips the beauty out of fashion.



Material World

‘Material World’ by David Welch is a highly relevant series of photo installations, which reflects the extreme consumption and material wealth of todays man.








David Welch