Two exhibitions
dal 17/1/2008 al 5/4/2008
Segnalato da
17/1/2008
Two exhibitions
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Joost Vandebrug 'New Faces'. The exhibition features photos of five boys aged 13 to 17 from different European countries, all recently scouted by modelling agencies. Vandeburg shows each of them in their native city. Taryn Simon 'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar'. The artist assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States.
Joost Vandebrug - New Faces
Vandebrug compiled the New Faces series especially for this presentation at Foam. It features photos of five boys aged 13 to 17 from different European countries, all recently scouted by modelling agencies. Vandeburg shows each of them in their native city. This enables him to emphasise the character of the youngsters set against their own surroundings.
Vandebrug’s fashion photos have a characteristically raw, unpolished style. Unlike traditional fashion photography, he prefers a form that is perhaps closest to documentary photography. Vandebrug uses various techniques and formats; from snapshots taken with disposable cameras to staged scenes shot in medium format. The coherence that he achieves in the series stems from the atmosphere and the emotion generated by the subject, rather than the photographic technique.
Joost Vandebrug (25) studied VAV (Previously Audio Visual) at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academy and trained with photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf. In 1997 he began photographing the world around him: his friends performing in Punk Rock bands and skateboarding. In 2004 he gradually transferred his focus to fashion photography and in February 2006 he moved to Melbourne where he worked as a freelance photographer for a year, this time concentrating entirely on the fashion world. Over the years his work has regularly appeared in art and fashion exhibitions, books and magazines. He now lives and works in Amsterdam. His fashion series appear monthly in BLenD magazine.
For more information: http://www.joostvandebrug.com / http://www.amsterdamfashionweek.com
Foam is supported by Stichting DOEN and VandenEnde Foundation.
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Taryn Simon - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
In March 2007 an international jury named Taryn Simon as one of two winners of the annual KLM Paul Huf Award. Part of this prize for young international photographers is an exhibition at Foam. An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar is the second of these two shows.
For An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, artist Taryn Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through careful documentation of diverse subjects from the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security and religion.
Transforming the unknown into a seductive and intelligible form, Simon confronts the divide between those with and without the privilege of access. Her sometimes ethereal, sometimes foreboding compositions, shot with a large-format view camera whenever conditions allowed, vary as much as her subject matter, which ranges from radioactive capsules at a nuclear waste storage facility to a black bear in hibernation. Offering visions of the unseen, the photographs of An American Index capture the strange magic at the foundation of a national identity.
Image: Joost Vandebrug
FOAM Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 - Amsterdam
Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thurs/Fri 10.00-21.00.
Tickets: euro 7