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In Pursuit of the Surreal…
Posted on November 23rd, 2008 No commentsToday’s crop of photographers I owe to having coffee with one of the technicians at the Arts Institute… Thanks, Andy.
The first is Loretta Lux. You can guess that is a made-up name – she does a Banksie, keeping her identity hidden. Her work takes well lit and styled images and massively reworks them in Photoshop to create skin tones reminiscent of a 16th Century Florentine painter – Bronzino. She also exaggerates head size, all contributing to a faintly disturbing view of childhood. See what you think.
“The Drummer” – Ilfochrome © 2004 Loretta Lux
Her website is here.
The next one to look at is Teun Hocks – a Dutch artist much in the vein of the Robert and Shana Parkeharrison from a previous post. Hocks photographs himself in a set piece tableau, then paints over the print in oils. I couldn’t get his website to work – but there are many sites out there with his work on.
Untitled (man with twigs) Teun Hocks 2005 oil on toned gelatin silver print
Last for today is Simen Johan – more unworldly images, carefully contrived and lit. His website is one of the most annoying I have seen for a while – www.simenjohan.com. This will give you a flavour…
Simen Johan – Untitled 131
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