Nick Knight, photographe anglais, est un des maîtres de la photographie de mode. Tout au long de sa carrière, il défie les diktats de la beauté, imposés par les médias et la société, en proposant une esthétique décalée.
Né à Londres en 1958, il éprouve très jeune une attirance pour l'art, les images et les couleurs, laissant entrevoir des prédispositions pour la photographie. Il poursuit ses études au Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design et publie en 1982, à la fin de ses études, un ouvrage intitulé Skinheads dans lequel il fait état de son mal-être d'adolescent.
Homme sensible et discret, il arpente durant des heures les rues anglaises en photographiant les visages des passants et les scènes de la vie quotidienne. Sa rencontre avec Terry Jones, éditeur du célèbre magazine i-D, à la fin des années 80 est déterminante pour sa carrière. Pour célébrer son cinquième anniversaire, le magazine commande au photographe une série de 100 portraits en noir et blanc. C'est le début du succès pour Nick Knight qui commence à shooter des mannequins pour le catalogue de Yohji Yamamoto: une collaboration qui sera couronnée de succès.
Proche d'Alexander McQueen, ils réalisent ensemble plusieurs oeuvres, dont une mettant en exergue la beauté des femmes fortes et handicapées. Il met également les minorités en valeur dans le shooting de la campagne Levi's en photographiant des cowboys septuagénaires. En 2001, il rend ses oeuvres accessibles sur la toile avec son site www.showstudio.com et réalise l'édition du calendrier Pirelli en 2004.
Aujourd'hui de nombreux créateurs dont John Galliano, Rei Kawakubo, et Jil Sander lui reconnaissent un talent unique. Il signe régulièrement de nombreuses séries de mode et campagnes publicitaires : ses dernières en date sont les campagnes de Dior et de Lancôme. Nick Knight collabore également avec des artistes pour des pochettes d'albums et des clips.
Actualité Caitin Kitten, une muse féline et hors norme pour le photographe Nick Knight V Magazine consacre ce mois-ci une série de photos de mode au travail de Nick Knight : des drapés translucides, des couleurs pastels et un rouge criard, une mise en scène à la manière de Gustave Klimt et un modèle, Caitin Kitten. Nouvelle muse du photographe, Caitin Stickels de son vrai nom, est atteinte du syndrome des yeux des chats, une différence physique qui fait son atout.
Le syndrome des yeux de chats est une pathologie génétique qui résulte de la présence d'un chromosome supplémentaire. Cette anomalie entraîne des troubles oculaires qui rappellent la forme de la pupille du chat d'où son nom. Mais d'autres malformations congénitales se développent également.
Atteinte de cette mala...Festival Photo London 2016
Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Founded in 2015, it has already established itself as a world-class photography fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community. From the capital’s major museums, to its auction houses, galleries large and small, right into the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London, Photo London harnesses the city’s outstanding creative talent and brings the world’s leading photographers, curators, exhibitors, dealers and the public to celebrate photography, the medium of our time.
Venice Beach, L.A, USA, 1982 © Harry Gruyaert/GALLERY FIFTY ONE
Photo London is more than an art Fair. For 2016’s ...Exposition Exhibition : « Photo London Somerset House » by Cynthia Greig At this years Photo London, Christophe Guye Galerie juxtaposes European with Asian artists who, in different approaches and unique techniques, scrutinize humanity and their environment and straddle the line between photography and art.
While photography is often seen as the amplification of something, Stephen Gill (*1971, Great Britain) tries the opposite. He wants to quieten things and not enhancing them. This tension stimulates the viewer to think of his or her own story. Ina Jang (*1982, South Korea) creates work with a playful and poetic spirit. Constructive and deconstructive alike her work is physical, gentle, and humorous, introducing new meanings to familiar objects while exploring a collapse of dimensions in photography. Rinko Kawauchi (*1972, Japan) explores the extraordinary in the everyday life, drawn to t...Exposition Exposition : NICK KNIGHT
Christophe Guye Galerie proudly presents a solo exhibition of one of the world’s most influential and visionary photographers: Nick Knight. The Swiss premiere showcases a cross section of Nick Knight’s unparalleled work from the last two decades. Beside a selection of his most iconic photographs, an assemblage of his award-winning fashion films will be on view, as well as one of his “photographic sculptures”; a porcelain sculpture of Kate Moss with its delicate and refined features employs the very same approach and the same techniques that he uses in photography.
Questioning the ethos and conversation around conventional beauty ideals, he continuously pushes the boundaries of what it means to be beautiful and how to shoot beautiful images. Even in his return to glamour, Nick Knight’s...Exposition Exhibition : « Image de mode » In April of 2015, the villa Noailles celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères.
This annual photography exhibition spotlights three genres of fashion images:
Young fashion designers as seen by emerging photographers
Each year, a finalist photographer in the Hyères festival undertakes a commission on the competing fashion designers for the Villa, this is then published in the festival’s catalogue and is the subject of an exhibition.
Contemporary fashion as seen by young photographers
Photographers who have taken part in the competition often create fashion portfolios for magazines or fashion houses. For this exhibition they have chosen one of their favourite images.
Fashion photography as seen by collectors
Beyond public...Exposition Vente de livres photographiques de collection 2011
Près de 300 livres provenant de bibliothèques privées, dont celles de l’écrivain Patrick Roegiers ou de la photographe Yvette Troispoux.
Les livres proposés sont, pour la plupart, signés ou accompagnés de tirages, articles d’époque, notes et dossiers de presse.
Exposition à l’étude ADER, salle des ventes Favart
3, rue Favart 75002 Paris
Mardi 29 mars de 11 h à 18 h
Mercredi 30 mars de 11 h à 18 h
Jeudi 31 mars de 11 h à 12 h
Téléphone pendant la vente : 01 53 40 77 10
...Exposition When You're a Boy Men's Fashion Styled by Simon Foxton
Exhibitions
From Galliano’s Warriors, photographed by Nick Knight, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in Arena Homme Plus, Summer/Autumn 2007From Hey There Fancy Pants, photographed by Jason Evans, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in i-D, May 2004From Tooling Around, photographed by Ben Dunbar-Brunton, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in i-D, February 2009From Acid Wash, photographed by Alasdair McLellan, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in 032c, Summer 2007From We Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet, photographed and styled by Simon Foxton, published in i-D, January 1992From I Wish I Had Invented Blue Jeans, photographed by Simon Thiselton, styled by Simon Foxton. Published in i-D, August 2008
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Men's Fashion Styled by S...Exposition Fashion in the mirror self-reflection in fashion photography
The international photographers in this exhibition undress the theatre of fashion and question the creation of perfect beauty. Fashion in the Mirror is an overview of their self-examination and a rare look behind-the-scenes of fashion photography from the 1950s to the present day.
Finding both comedy and poetry in the set-up of the studio, the exhibiting photographers turn their cameras on the processes and paraphernalia of the fashion shoot. Photographers become mirrored in their own work and, as viewpoints are inverted and gazes misdirected, cameras stare back out at us expectantly.
Revealing the fashion industry’s secrets and undermining its glamorous illusions, the photographers in this exhibition create work that exposes this world from within.
...Exposition Something That I'll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A Don’t miss the chance to see highlights from the V&A’s collection of contemporary photography.
artsdepot will be the only London venue to host this touring exhibition, which will include work by leading artists Richard Billingham, David Hockney, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Starkey, as well as iconic images such as Nick Knight’s photograph of Naomi Campbell.
This exhibition features over 40 images, covering a wide range of subject matter, and offers a special opportunity to see an overview of contemporary photography from the last two decades.
Photographs range from Vik Muniz’s Action Photo 1(After Hans Namuth), to Nan Goldin’s Jimmy Paulette on David’s Bike, NYC from her influential series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
The exhibition title is inspired by Gavin Turk’s pho...Modifier l'image