Let’s start with one of my all time favorite paintings … The Lovers 2, by René Magritte or The Lovers that preceded it and then let’s look at other shrouded figures … (and note that as I introduce them, each introduction meansthat credit is being issued PRIOR to the visual, hence,artist name is being viewed […]
Author: Kritina Lee Knief
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
You see? Not all museums are boring. Photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Styled by Alex White From the feature, “Art & Commerce”, W Magazine, October 2009 Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
Suggestiveness
I remember being a kid and learning about the risque television commercials that flashed the word “sex” in between frames. And I heard about the accompanying print ads with ice-cubes hiding “sex” in swirly blue letters in hopes that your parents would buy that brand of vodka. It was said that suggestion or suggestiveness was […]
Guy Bourdin
My first introduction to Guy Bourdin and probably a notable reference for many photographers is that of his Charles Jourdan shoe campaign of the 1970s. Bourdin’s fashion photography defined a style that I think hibernated for awhile and then reemerged to influence perhaps Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” music video and maybe even Juergen Teller’s current Marc […]
Richard Avedon
When I was in art school attempting fashion photography (since I was convinced I would be a fashion photographer, so much for convictions), I was told repeatedly, “but, you have to show the clothes“. I insisted that I had seen plenty of images where mood was evoked and very little of the actual garment was […]
And before there was Photoshop, there was Jan Saudek …
The manipulation of images began long before the advent of Photoshop and digital imaging. One of my favorite photographers,Jan Saudek, inspired me to try sepia toning, try hand-colouring, and to see beyond a literal image. Like Saudek’s single window in a basement apartment that provided a central focal point in many of his images, I, […]
The camera does not take pictures …
… the photographer does! And so goes the age old misconception that great imagery is based solely on the type of camera you have, when, in fact, a camera is just a tool that the photographer uses to capture images. “That camera takes great pictures!“. (Think: Guns don’t kill people, people do.) You do not […]
Maybe Photoshop would be easier and cheaper?
Heidi Montag says she underwent a startling ten plastic surgery procedures. “For the past three years, I’ve thought about what to have done,” the reality star tells People magazine. “I’m beyond obsessed.” The procedures Montag underwent in just one day include a nose job revision, chin reduction, mini brow lift, botox in forehead and frown […]
Technique is not art.
I’ve been of the mind to say that technique is not art. We create art by means of employing technique, but the minute the final work becomes about technique, it ceases to be art. But, now I’m in a conundrum. Can technique transcend process to become art unto itself? Take Jackson Pollack, for instance. When […]
Patrick Demarchelier
Portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio Kritina Lee Knief Photographer, Visual Aficionada, Aesthetic Junkie http://www.kritinaknief.com
