William S. Burroughs

J'aime bien ces deux photos de William S. Burroughs. Le cadrage et la composition tout autant que l'expression du visage. Par contre, je me rends compte que je ne connais pas grand chose de l'écrivain mis à part le cut-up qu'on nous a fait pratiquer en illu.

Je vais tenter de remédier à ça.

Quelques images d'objets lui ayant appartenus (en fait c'est surtout pour la cigale que je mets ce lien).

I like these William S. Burroughs photos. I 'know' the cut-up because we used to practise that in illustration school but I realize that I haven't read anything he wrote.

Some of his stuffs (actually i put this link for the cicada).

fenêtres

En sortant de rhéto, j'ai pris des cours de photo à l'académie. Je trimballais mon appareil un peu partout avec moi. Ce que je préférais c'était me balader le soir et voir tout ces gens qui vaquent derrière leurs fenêtres. Je voulais tous les photographier mais j'avais des scrupules. Je me suis donc abstenue. Avec Through the window Giorgio Barrera le fait! Toutefois je pense que les personnes photographiées sont au courant.
Rozenn Brécard, elle, dessine ces fenêtres nocturnes. Elles valent le détour.
Un petit dernier pour la route? Il s'agit de Windows de Peter Greenaway.

Gustav Gustafsson

C'est grâce à Lisen Adbåge que j'ai découvert le travail de Gustav Gustafsson. J'ai eu envie de lui poser quelques questions sur son travail.

I don't remember if you are still a student or already end up with school. Do you make photography project on your own or for someone/something else?
I finished school, more of a project year actually.
I only make projects for myself and on my own, maybe in the future I'll do something for someone.


How do you make a specific photography project? Do you choose a theme and then take picture or do you gather photos together and organize them under a subject. To resume my questions : does the picture come first or is it the theme?
The theme always comes first when I'm working on a special project. But I also take pictures, snapshots if you like, just because they are aesthetic or have something that can categorize as humour in them.

How do you consider your projects, works : as something philosophical, illustrative or just technic?
I more consider my photography as some level of documentary. But I like to set up photos also, to illustrate a made up event.

I am particularly curious about the project 23/4. Those pictures are so mysterious. What happen this day?
I love the subtle shades of grey, the very low contrasts. When I see them I want to use them as an inspiration for the shades while engraving.
The date should actually be 24/3, I wrote it wrong when I made the website and haven't bother to change it. haha.
It's last day of snow this past winter. I woke up early that morning and everything was white, you could'nt hardly see 100 meters ahead of you cause of the snowfall. I found it so bizzare, cause the days before it really felt like the spring was on is way.
So I went out and documented it, using film and exposing it, for me, in a new way. The pictures are then copied on paper in a darkroom and then later scanned.

The send him to find me project is also very attractive to me. Why do you choose to fire the flash? Again I see it like a project very narrative. But it is maybe because I am an illustrator and imagining stories is my way to consider the things I see.
In 'send him to find me' i used flash because i wanted that certain look, the hard direct flash on the trees and the ambient light in the background. the title is from a song that my older brother wrote, that I wanted to illustrate.

Merci beaucoup Gustav!

daniel gustav cremer

breathtaking comme on dit en anglais.