Photography A Deux
As any aesthete knows, art, like life, goes beyond the predictable and obvious. As his shoots for Italian Vogue prove, the photographer Steven Meisel not only understands that principle, but forges new boundaries every chance he gets. Now his work is being twisted in a new direction, via the Image Archive at Art + Commerce.
This montage has mashed the dramatic images of Meisel with the cinematic photographs of the late, great Guy Bourdin, and the result is a kind of dialogue between two important voices in fashion photography. A loose, moody narrative emerges, lending the once-static stills fresh adrenaline. The images are drawn primarily from editorial and advertising shoots from the 1970s, and their updated, hybridized context — part photograph, part film — gives them a whole new relevance. Smokin’ [via link]
