1- “A Shadow Falls” Wild Portraits
2- “1000°” Deyrolle the Phoenix
3- “Magnus Murh” Flughumor
1- WILD PORTRAITS
“A Shadow Falls”, an exhibition of Nick Brandt’s photographs at Galerie A d’Arneaud Adida, 12, rue Léonce-Reynaud, 75116 Paris, from November 10 to December 18.
Nick Brandt, English photographer who has approached the biggest stars, such as Michael Jackson, now approaches wildlife photography, wild and intimate.
An intimacy that he sublimates, this is how Nick Brandt describes his work:
“Getting up close, really close to the animals. I don’t use a telephoto lens. [I want to frame the animals in their environment, in their world. I want to feel a real sense of intimacy with each one of them – with that particular chimpanzee, lion or elephant that is in front of me.
I believe that this closeness is a big part of the photographer’s ability to reveal the personality of his subject.
You don’t take a portrait of a human being with a telephoto lens, at thirty meters, imagining that you are giving back a bit of his soul; you approach him.
So I take my time and move forward little by little – by car or on foot – until I am often only a few meters from the animals. And the more I feel that they are presenting themselves, posing for their portrait, the more I like the end result. […]
What interests me in the end is not to create a purely documentary work or one filled with action and spectacle, as is usually the rule in animal photography. But to show the animals in the process of being, quite simply. Being before they are no more. Before they cease to exist, in the wild anyway.
These images are my elegy to these superb creatures, to this world of heartbreaking beauty that is slowly, tragically, fading away before our eyes.”
2- DEYROLLE LE PHOENIX
Since 1831, the Deyrolle company, founded by Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle, a fine entomologist, has been offering to taxidermy enthusiasts, nature lovers, or simple aficionados of original decoration one of the largest collections of naturalized animals, insects, or shells in Europe.
On February 1st 2008 a violent fire ravaged the institution, burning all the animals, as well as all the woodwork, leaving the photographer Laurent Bochet with an extraordinary and marvelous spectacle of darkness. The fauna burned by this second death, discovered thanks to his pictures a third life on glossy paper.
Following this shooting, a book regrouping the most beautiful photographs of this inventory was published, the name of the work, “1000°” in reference to the temperature reached in the heart of the inferno.
Exhibition 1000°C until December 1st 2009. 46 rue du Bac, Paris 7ème
1000° (Edition Assouline and Deyrolle Pour l’Avenir) – Available
3- FLUGHUMOR
To finish on a lighter note, here are some shots by amateur photographer Magnus Murh.
Alexandre Fisselier
Cette publication est également disponible en : Français (French)
