Insight
Neil Craver - Jordan Sulivan Helmut Newton - Ai Weiwei - Alex Prager and Guest
Insight
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Alexandra Duc SOURCES : Text: Helmut Newton: Le Grand Palais (website) Ai Wei Wei: Le Jeu de Paume (website) Alex Prager: Wmagazine (website) Neil Craver: "It's nice that" website + Neil Craver official website Jordan Sullivan: Dazed Digital magazine Ben Kweller: The New York Times
Photographies: Cover: Jordan Sullivan official website Edito: Alex Prager (Google images) What's on: Le Grand Palais website + google images Focus: Neil Craver official website Portrait Time: Jordan Sullivan official website Clic-clac: Cahuate Milk website
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Credits
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In photography, the artist's intimacy is revealed to strangers' eyes one way or another. Nobody can hide his soul behind a work: someone must have taken the picture. Objectivity is a made-up word. There is always a clear-cut spirit hidden behind one's photograph. Insight magazine plunges into artists' privacy so as to reveal their uniqueness. Open your eyes wide and appreciate the plurality of artist minds. For this first issue, discover Neil Craver's and Jordan Sullivan's photographs... and much more. Welcome!
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Contents
Portrait Time
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Jordan Sullivan
Post-scriptum Ben Kweller
Jordan sullivan
Clic-clac Cahuate Milk
Edito What's on
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Helmut Newton
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Ai Weiwei
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Alex Prager
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Focus Neil Craver
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What's on
Helmut Newton at the Grand Palais - PARIS 24 March 2012 – 17 June 2012
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Since Helmut Newton’s death (1920-2004), there has been no retrospective of his work in France, although he did much of his work there, particularly for the French edition of Vogue. Provocative, sometimes shocking, Newton’s work tried to capture the beauty, eroticism, humour and sometimes violence that he sensed in the social interaction within the familiar worlds of fashion, luxury, money and power. Source: Le Grand Palais
Weiwei 21 FEBRUARY 2012 - 29 APRIL 2012 At Le Jeu de Paume- Paris
Ai Weiwei Interlacing" is the first
major exhibition of photographs and videos by Ai Weiwei. It foregrounds Ai Weiwei the communicator the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels. Ai Weiwei already used photography in his New York years, but especially since his return to Beijing, he has incessantly documented the everyday urban and 5
social realities in China, discussing it over blogs and Twitter. Photographs of radical urban transformation, of the search for earthquake victims, and the destruction of his Shanghai studio are presented together with his art photography projects, the Documenta project Fairytale, the countless blog and cell phone photographs. Source: Le Jeu de Paume What's on
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Prager Alex Prager’s photographs, which
have appeared in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, often evoke the selftaught artist’s celebrated aesthetic forebears. The pregnant moods in her scenarios suggest Alfred Hitchcock; the dress-up fantasies, Cindy Sherman; the saturated hues, William Eggleston. In “Compulsion,” her style recalls the pulpy crime-scene photographs of Weegee and Enrique Metinides. Not surprisingly, the tone of her images feels more sinister than ever. Source:WMagazine
7 April - 12 May 2012 at M+B gallery in Los Angeles
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In depth with
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You know how the most exciting part of a nature documentary is always when the camera dips lower, lower, and finally goes UNDERWATER? That magical moment when light dapples, colours saturate, time slows and we know we’re on the “other side? Well, American photographer Neil Craver has made the effort to venture into such uncharted territories and he’s brought his camera with him; documenting the lovely nymphettes who wallow there. A strange but beautiful study of the human form under the influence of H2O.
Source: It's nice that
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This project is meant to be consumed with your emotions, and not simply perceived with your sense organs. I wanted a transcendental meaning behind them; not only with the use of chromatics and aesthetics. (...) So one must dive into the cloudy placid waters of the subconscious world to uncover a linkage between the conscious and the subconscious mind. Once the excavation is started; the illumination of the self imposed restrains of values, ideas, and moral codes will dissolve. When the subconscious floods pass society’s imprisonment; starting a process of uncontaminated awareness; a penetrating understanding will unfold! Sources: Neil Craver's Official Website(Omniphantasmic.com)
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Jordan Sullivan The wild and the innocent By MORGAN MEAKER
Curator Jordan Sullivan on the tension between man and nature and the fragility of everything around us in his latest NYC expo
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ordan Sullivan is a very proactive photographer. Last week he was in Tokyo showing his own work and this week he’s in New York showcasing other peoples. Ethereal and delicate, his photographs concentrate on the tension between human kind and nature. He likens the slopes of the female nude to the rolling hills of landscape while at the same time revealing the dual power and fragility of each. These are qualities he retains as he curates Clic Gallery's latest exhibition, 'TheWild&TheInnocent' .
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Most images in 'The Wild & The Innocent' seem to have a delicate quality about them. Do you believe that fragility is inherent in both body and earth? Jordan Sullivan: Yes. It's almost debilitating when I think how fragile people and nature are. My sister is a surgery nurse and one of the bravest people I know, and I love hearing her operating room stories - as terrifying as they can be. A wound a half a centimetre to the right or left makes the difference between living or dying. Everything can change so fast. All things are delicate and sensitive but it's so hard to remain aware of that and to uphold it Â
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The tensions between humankind and nature seem prolific in your own work, why do you think that this is a theme that particularly interests you? Jordan Sullivan:Â I'm constantly feeling connected and disconnected from the natural world, and I think that tension naturally comes into my work. Also, when I look at skin or a naked body I always think of emptiness or a desert. I love being in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in a small town in the mid-west, so I was surrounded by a lot of nature and I'm always interested in how being in nature can change someone.
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these landscapes and portraits and get Do you believe that man and nature can a sense of their own connectedness to successfully co-exist or do you think that the natural world. natural disasters and the way resources such as oil have been drained signal that we The exhibition, in parts, explores the are destined to be opposed forces for, at naked human form. Do you think that least, the foreseeable future? acceptance of the nude body, and its liberation from taboo, would bring us Jordan Sullivan: I think we will closer to nature? definitely be in opposition for a very long time and probably There would have to be a Jordan Sullivan: till our species is over. complete spiritual or moral Cultures where The way mankind change in the world before nudity is not taboo treats the environment generally seem is definitely out of our relationship with nature closer to nature would begin to improve. control. There would and more peaceful, have to be a complete but that is of course a huge spiritual or moral change in the world generalisation. I think liberating the before our relationship with nature taboo of nude imagery would lead to a would begin to improve. closeness and comfort with ourselves. I think one needs to examine and In what way do you wish to alter the accept what he or she is made of on exhibition-goers self-perception? some sort of spiritual and scientific Jordan Sullivan: My first goal in this level in order to really feel closer to exhibition was to create a spiritual the natural world. I'm still figuring reaction in response to beautiful that one out myself. images. Photography for me is always Source: DazedDigital about seeing. I hope people will look at Portrait Time
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Post-Scriptum
They are not photographers: each month, discover a new artist
Ben Kweller By ANDY LANGER
B
en Kweller’s new album is something of a greatest-hits set but with all new songs. “It touches on each of my records, in that they’re hooky pop songs driven by pianos, guitars, harmonies and melodies,” Mr. Kweller said. “I think it might be my best album so far, because it seems like a nice and concise look at what I do.”
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The operation has already enjoyed some early successes that might have been too expensive for a major label to approve, from an intricate CD and vinyl packaging design that folds into a colorful diorama to a Willy Wonkainspired “golden laminate” giveaway that lets fans who preorder the record vie for a chance to win a lifetime pass to see Mr. Kweller play.
mistakes are going to be mine, too. That’s a good feeling. I’d rather know that I tried and failed but knew we gave it 100 percent than hand it off to someone else and see what happens.” Source: Texas Monthly (via NYTimes)
(...) “My wife can testify that everything I do, I do full on,” Mr. Kweller said. “A lot of that is because I never had a fallback plan. Music is all I’ve been good at it. I put all my eggs in that basket, and I’ve done everything I can to keep them as safe as possible. The Post-Scriptum
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