ANTHROPOMORPHS, photo series, 2006-25
By some subterfuge during the shooting, I transformed a winter landscape, a swan and a flower into human body elements: a woman's torso, a man's torso, a phallus.
As at first glance, the viewer does not know my intention, he is led to believe that he is making an anthropomorphic projection on these photos.
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Title: A female ttributs
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 1 of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
This photo embodies a statue, placed on a pedestal. More precisely a nude from behind, in a lascivious pose, with an elegant swaying of the hips.
This is the female "pendant" of a famous photo by Edward Weston: Pepper No. 30. For Weston, this photograph was "only a pepper". For me, it evokes the sensual and muscular torso of a bodybuilder. I propose, as "le pendant" to this photo, two peppers intentionally embodying the sensual and stocky body of a woman.
The deformity of this body (missing vertebrae), the central line that runs through it and the lascivious pose are a tribute to The Odalisque, the famous painting by Jean-Dominique Ingres.
Title: A female ttributs
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 1 of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
This photo of two peppers embodies a statuette, placed on a base. More precisely a nude from behind, in a swaying pose. The red refers to the boudoir; the base refers to the sculpture of a statuette; the smooth and shiny skin of one of the peppers refers to ceramics. It is obviously a tribute to Edward Weston's pepper No. 31.
First, I looked for peppers that look like human body. Then, I cut these two peppers: one on the bottom, the other on the top. After, I superimposed them and fixed them on a base. I light the scene so as to enhance the shapes similar to a nude from behind, in a swaying pose. Then, with Photoshop, I transformed the colors into a sepia monochrome and I added a red decoration for hiding my spotlights to in the background.
Title: A female ttributs
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 1 of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
This photo shows 2 peppers on white fur, like a human body, naked, from behind. Black and white photo, superposition of peppers and fur are enough to embody this imaginary nude in a boudoir.
We can also see 2 teeth (including a molar seen from above), flowers with large petals (like a tulip) or 2 large pearls from a necklace (in very close-up).
Title: A female ttributs
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 1 of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
The landscapes of water being symmetrical, I knew that by dint of searching, I would find a landscape presenting several analogies with the female body. I chose this landscape because I saw there a body provided with all the female attributes: breasts, belly, hips, uterus and fallopian tubes. So I photographed this landscape so as to enhance my subject: front view, tight framing, 90 degree rotation, sepia photo ...
Title: Male torso
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 3 out of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
This photo shows the body of a swan like a male torso in profile: we can recognize the pectoral, deltoid, arm, forearm and curvature of the back.
Tight framing and 90 ° degree rotation is enough to give birth to a new image.
In the cold of winter, I tamed a swan long enough for it to stay close to me and accept that I approached to take this photo. If I had not observed swans in advance, then imagined that a swan could be seen as the torso of a man, I would never have been able to take this photo.