Jean-Francois Lepage
“French photographer Jean-Francois Lepage has been pushing the boundaries of fashion photography for more than 3 decades. Best known for the dark undercurrent and bizarre style of his work, he captures a sort of loneliness in his subjects, giving a unique voice to his oeuvre. Throughout his career, Lepage has periodically pulled away from editorial photography to focus on his work as a fine artist, honing his techniques and returning to the world of photography with newfound inspiration.
The following gallery is from Lepage’s most recent body of work entitled “Recycle (Prelude) Series,” which is currently a traveling exhibition. The series is comprised of recycled photographs from his archive of past photo shoots, in which he splices and manipulates 8×10 Polaroid Colorgraph 891 film. “I’m like a surgeon who faces his patient with lucidity and commitment but with the absolute certitude that the only person I can really save is — myself.””
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“Imagine a universe where a green vase and a woman with fiery curls play a high-stakes game of visual chess…It’s like Bugarcheva handed us a front-row ticket to the grand opera of existence, complete with drama, romance, and a hint of existential pondering.” – ArtHunter
`With a career spanning over three decades, fashion photographer Guy Bourdin created pioneering and provocative images. Described in TIME Magazine as “tiptoeing to the edge of pornography but ending up at art,” Bourdin is best known for his iconoclastic photographs of fragmented women’s bodies, considered alternately objectifying and empowering. This distinct style emerged in the…
‘As any other Azeri family we had carpets everywhere – on the floor, on the walls, in each room. I had a carpet in my room, too. I was always playing with the patterns of the carpet imagining there were roads, trees, dragons etc. One day when my parents left for countryside, I decided to…
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