Like I mentioned a few days ago, I was lucky enough to visit the Paris Art fair 2012 last Friday at the Grand Palais, when it was just the opening and not yet too busy. I was in a rush so I could not see everything, but my eyes got caught by the work of Petr Lovigin, a Russian Photographer who was featured on the Galerie Clair stand. I could not find much about him on the web (well not much in English and I don't speak Russian!)... As always, I find it very hard to take photos of photos, so this time I played on the format and the composition of my photo. I kinda like it, even though it's not very original!
As a surrealist painter, I find Petr Lovigin work interesting. It is hard to take pictures of pictures... I find it more interesting to include people in the shots. I also love to take photos of photographers at work. There is always something of interest on your website. ~ V
ReplyDeleteIt's a great photo. Square on square with a smidgeon of human interest! I like it!
ReplyDeleteYep, nicely done.
ReplyDeleteAnd now for something completely different. Another use of film, anyway. I just learned that the stairs in "Midnight In Paris" are the side entrance of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
It works! The interplay of geometry and a suggestion of perspective vanishing behind the wall gives it the depth. The human figures gives it scale and context.
ReplyDeleteIn my simple way: Wow!
ReplyDeleteI really love this one Eric. COuld be an advertisement piece.
ReplyDeleteVery nicely composed! And I can see why you were drawn to Lovigin's work.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Dreamlike. A self-contained world. Humans at the service of art. This is just a fantastic presentation! Oblongs everywhere. The teal, gold, pink and brown on the right are exact echoes of the colors in the photos and there is no extraneous color in the shot. Extremely effective framing with the black bars at top and bottom - are they framing that you added or were you looking through an object that appeared black? Either way,this is just fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad some of you liked it, for I do! LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks for Petr you can see more at
ReplyDeletehttp://www.clair.me/artists/petr-loviginpetr-lovigin/works/
in mai Petr's book Planet Lovigin comes out athttp://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/en/program/detail.html?ID=57