It has been a while since I’ve posted an article about a photographer. This time I chose to write just a small introduction to Alain Fleischer. Unlike Duane Michals, Jeff Wall, Sugimoto and Georges Rousse, this French photographer is probably not as well known among the general public. But that doesn’t make his work less interesting ofcourse.
His photography immediately brings the work of Surrealists like Man Ray and to a lesser extent Kertesz to mind. Most of his photographs are heavily manipulated and erotically tinged. Fleischer makes frequent use of mirrors and other reflective materials such as silver cutlery. He also projects images of textures on female nudes in which the ‘naked’ is further emphasized. In his reflections of female nudes he achieves in a very different way a same result as Andre Kertesz in 1933 with his Distortion series.
Fleischer flirts with the works of the great painters of the past in his series “Happy Days”. Nudes from the works of Rembrandt, Titian and Courbet are projected on the ceiling, a small toy car with mirrors attached to it is moving on the floor, reveiling what is projected on the ceiling.
In the following film clip speaks Alain Fleischer on his work.
(not suited for very young viewers)
the clip is approx: 13 minutes
and in divx (if you can’t see the movie you probably have to download the divx codex from divx.com)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VTL8152G
images:
Kertesz - Distortion approx 1933
Fleischer - Reflection
Fleischer uses a toy to reflect the ceiling, who made the original nude?
Disturbing and beautiful?
You’re always welcome to leave a comment.
