The photographer Giordano Morganti shows the beauty from a different perspective. He gives the opportunity to observe the individual through the lens of a photographic lens that takes us away from the frantic search of perfection, beauty, eternal youth and happiness and require the acceptance of the limits.
Source (in Italian ):http://www.spaziotadini.it/Giordano_Morganti_Page.html
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When the Imperfection Tastes Good
Instagram is a free application that allows users to take photos, apply filters, and share many of the social networking features. Despite the few effects and the standardization of the product it is funny. Particularly interesting is the square format, even if much more difficult to manage than the classic 2/3.
The photos are imperfect but they ‘taste good’.
Source (in Italian): http://www.matteozanardi.it/Galleria-Fotografica/instagram
The Mediamorphosis in Piera Gemelli
Technological convergence is the tendency for different technological systems to evolve toward performing similar tasks. Convergence can refer to previously separate technologies such as voice (and telephony features), data (and productivity applications), and video that now share resources and interact with each other synergistically.The rise of digital communication in the late 20th century has made it possible for media organizations (or individuals) to deliver text, audio, and video material over the same wired, wireless, or fiber-optic connections. At the same time, it inspired some media organizations to explore multimedia delivery of information. This digital convergence of news media, in particular, was called “Mediamorphosis” by researcher Roger Fidler ,in his 1997 book by that name. Today, we are surrounded by a multi-level convergent media world where all modes of communication and information are continually reforming to adapt to the enduring demands of technologies, “changing the way we create, consume, learn and interact with each other”. Convergence in this instance is defined as the interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, and communication networks that has arisen as the result of the evolution and popularization of the Internet as well as the activities, products and services that have emerged in the digital media space. The Italian artist Piera Gemelli uses the concept of Mediamorphosis to speak about the complexity of the human body.“In this hybrid space the body for its ambivalence and its formation as opening sense, is the protagonist. It is a body media. Land exchange, porous material that absorbs and filters the voltage of the codes that are written in it, opening the continuous transformation and hybridization of languages. It is the body described by Betty Marenko in Hybridizations, or “polymorphic expression and mutation of a multi-faceted, [...] which arises from the contamination of meat and technologies, archaisms and metal, leather and ink, [...] universal transmitter that makes it possible to ‘data processing experience, thus reducing the complexity and uncertainty of the world around them. In particular, the object of my research is the Feminine, uterine enveloping space but also devouring it therefore becomes a metaphor of liquidity and voracious media. Women Arachnida and Medusee, bodies in transit, that they carry the traces, the bodies of the monstrosity of desire, sirens assembled and fragmented that lead us in paths of desire wandering zapping media. Hybrid creatures of chaos after attending the banquet of the body fragmented, reassembled in the new unit of Mediamorphosis the Visible.”
Source (in Italian): http://www.premioceleste.it/opera/ido:168156/
Jan Saudek: the Imperfection Beauty
“If a picture doesn’t tell a story is not a photograph. Maybe it’s the story of all our thoughts, which ones become public and challenge stereotypes and those ones that remain confined for shame.”
Jan Saudek’s photographs leave no one indifferent. They cause in the viewer a visceral rejection or an unconditional appreciation. Underlining the texture and the atmosphere of the landscape that surrounds the characters of the photos, Saudek has recreated a disturbing effect of violence and a unique expression. His themes are repeated obsessively. Through a cheeky use of sexuality (at the limit of pornography), he gives a grotesque and symbolic vision of the relationship and sexual play managing to keep a poem, in the tragedy of contrasts and symbolic messages. The human figure in its raw beauty or obscene truths,with her age, her cares of life and death through dreamscapes dream or nightmare. Saudek ,with straightforward language and full of sensual charge, tells about the beauty of imperfection: very fat or very thin women, with stretch marks, cellulitis and sagging breasts. Thanks to his style, he became one of the first Czech photographers to be known in the West, even if it was the source of several problems with the communist authorities in his country. But the originality of his photographic proposal is indisputable. It’s a desire to portray a different world, the extreme radicalism of his ideas.
Translated from Jan Saudek: la bellezza dell’imperfezione ~ Fotografia Artistica Blog G. Santagata
Quintin Mills: the Imperfect Project
Quintin Mills is a South African based photographer who in addition to his innovative lighting, uses excellent people skills to know just how to get the best from you to produce his amazing photography for weddings, events, corporate portraits, and everything else he shoots. He started ‘The Imperfect Project’ to produce beautiful photographs of women of all shapes and sizes, young or old, big or small, with tattoos and scars, those who love their body and those who really don’t. He said ‘The idea was to provided these women with an opportunity to challenge themselves, end a period of self doubt or recrimination and to experience something that would make them feel empowered and ready to take on the world. A new beginning.The project is about everyday women confronting the issues they have with their body and instead of holding on to their perceptions, to look at their body objectively and to see it’s beauty. When we realise we are all beautiful in our own way, we can move from feeling “imperfect” to “I’m perfect” and I can do anything!’.
Source: http://blog.millsphotography.co.za/index.php/photography-project-the-imperfect-project/
Jodi Bieber: Real Beauty project.
Jodi Bieber is a South African photographer who realized a project: Real beauty project. The main characters of this project are women,ordinary women,who are not perfect,and who are not ”beauty”.
http://www.jodibieber.com/index.php?pageID=17&navLay=3
http://www.instituteartist.com/feature-Real-Beauty-Jodi-Bieber
Angelika J. Trojnarski: A strange beauty.
Angelika J. Trojnarski is a photographer who in her photos combines past and present using paper’s pieces and old photos.
http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/it/article/la-bellezza-della-imperfezione
Perfectly Imperfect
Her face is asymmetrical, her teeth are a little ’crooked, but they make her look younger (although a little vampire) and, at the age of 29, she already has some expression wrinkle. Kirsten Dunst, who won as best Actress at the last film festival of Cannes for her performance in Melancholia of Divon Trier, declares that it is the perfection to scare her and that it’s not fair to correct wrinkles andpimples with digital techniques to role in a film towards the audience. Sometimes it is better to accept ourselves as we are.
She remembers that when she was a young girl, her mother always scolded her because she never valued her lips enough, which were too pale and thin. For this reason Dunst, does not go out without putting a beautiful lipstick. About the teeth, they have become a way to find out who is the real friend.
She said: “When people ask me why I didn’t repair my teeth, I get angry a lot. If I wanted to do it, I would have done, so why get bored if the other note my imperfection? Hollywood is already full of plastic and identical people,I don’t want to be one of them. ”
The beauty in the imperfection: Eccelsa Elsa.
Eccelsa Elsa is the nickname of a photograper who share a lot of photo on the web. The subjects of her photos are not very usually,she research the beauty in every trivial thing
Source:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/la-bellezza-nellimperfezionenelle-tracce-di-non-bana/4857069
Cartoons: The beauty of imitation.
We all know who is Elvis Presley, the legendary singer and actor who has been a myth during all his life. For this reason,he was and he is considered perfect.
There was a musical band ”The Cartoons”,who during all thie performances were dressed in a way that imitated not only Elvis but also a lot of characters of cartoons. An other musical band who can be considered the Cartoons’s rival were Aqua.
Urs Fischer : Shameless Imperfections in Impressive Works
Urs Fischer, with the huge success of his expositions in Paris and Venice, is one of the most important contemporary artist.
Three main reasons to love his works:
1. He is totally crazy and visionary.
“Urs Fischer’s universe is made of logic and absurd things, illusion and reality, made of violence and humor, of eternity and ephemeral” (Caroline Fischer, commissioner of the exposition “Madame Fischer”)
2. His art is ‘participative’.
“My creations start from improvisation. I try a lot before strenghtening them. It comes from childrens, too, who visit regularly my atelier”
3. His art is simple and accessible.
“Everytime the exposition does not appear as a traditional event, neither a retrospection, but an introspection, an invite to penetrate within his personal bubble” (one of his gallery owner)
Source (in French):http://agencevertu.com/blog2012/?portfolio=urs-fischer-une-oeuvre-imposante-empreinte-dimperfection-insolente
I Just Want To Be Beautiful
Being beautiful has many benefits: respect, love, friendship, control, and ultimately power. It can be the power to improve one’s life, the power to destroy others…when you’re beautiful, the world is your oyster. What exactly is beauty, anyway?. Each person has a different concept on what beauty is, but that doesn’t mean people won’t agree on what or who is beautiful. Beauty is often in the eye of the beholder, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something some people would give anything to have. Likewise, those who are already beautiful typically want to stay that way.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IJustWantToBeBeautiful
Daido Moryiama: the Darker Sides of Urban Life
Daido Moryiama is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Born October 10, 1938 in Ikeda, Osaka. Daido Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant of Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō, which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts. Though not exclusively, Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast, grainy, black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, often shot from odd angles. The images he captures often show everyday people and everyday things in a manner not to be found in the average Tokyo tourist guidebook. Whether by using blur or cropping, Moriyama’s bleak and lonely black-and-white pictures have garnered him the reputation as one of Japan’s great modern photographers. The people of Moriyama’s work are often faceless, covered in shadow or obscured by blur. It is not unusual for a backside – a couple descending stairs, for example – to be the image’s main element. Unlike Araki, who generally uses color photography to target women in various settings, Moriyama’s focus is capturing Shinjuku’s blend of old, new, and unpredictable in monochrome.
Christian Faur: The new horizon of pixel art.
What is pixel art? The pixel art is a form of digital art. It is a technique for constructing images that follows in the footsteps of the current divisionism (pointillism), whose greatest representative was Georges Seurat.
Nowadays there is a men,or better an artist who make pixel art but using crayons.
Here there is the source in which there are some images of Christian Faur ‘s works.
<a href="http://http://tuttatecnologia.blogspot.it/2010/11/mind-blowing-crayon-pixel-art.html"
Freezing a No-stop Moving City as Hong Kong
The photographer Brian Yen captures the true nature of over-populated metropolis of Hong Kong through its long-exposure photographs, revealing the dizzying paths for pedestrians and vehicles. In this way even a city in perpetual motion can stop on a photograph.
Angels Fallen from Heaven
Gustavo Lacerda, a Brazilian photographer of São Paulo, has made a series of very special photographs : “the albinos”.The feeling that accompanies the images is the reflection of a complex interpersonal and professional job elapsing between Lacerda and his models in their timidity and unique beauty. In this way they are admirably led to an authenticity that makes art. This is a good example of how beauty can be imperfect yet totally disconnected by mistake (visible but not relevant). Perfection and Beauty are not synonyms but represent an open road to achieving a truth that transcends the stereotype, the commonplace, reaching sky-high levels of beauty and purity. The strongest feeling that comes is of lightness and delicacy, though in some pictures there is a tension in the air caused by shyness. “I like to photograph ordinary people in my personal work. Often, people are more beautiful in its imperfections. That’s what makes us more humans.” Gustavo Lacerda
Source(in Italian): http://wordsocialforum.com/2012/08/30/albinos-gli-angeli-caduti-di-gustavo-lacerda/
Perfection is in the Imperfection
The representation of reality sometimes touches on perfection. This is happens in the paintings of Omar Ortiz, an American painter who gives us a series of works that seem photographs and not paintings thanks to the great similarity with reality. Omar loves design and graphic communication and he has gradually shifted to oil colours, reaching a formal perfection level that today many teachers of 60s or 70s could envy, as Chuck Close. If you look his paintings, you will be impressed by the authenticity of reproductions that don’t neglect even a single fold of skin, a little ‘hair or detail of asymmetry. In this way the whole is so alive as to appear real. The painter prefers naked women, that usually are covered with drapes, in which he finds all the elements of classic harmony and beauty. He is surely talented and he is depopulating on the web. I wonder if Ortiz would be able to make beautiful even women less divine than those ones that he paint?
Translated from La perfezione sta nell’imperfezione « It’s not plastic – Arte, Moda, Architettura e Design raccontati dal chirurgo plastico
The Teeth Gap:Another Type of Beauty
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Visits to the surgeon, hours in the gym, atrocious diets. Everything for chasing an ideal of beauty, what we built in our personal imaginary or that to which the media and glossy covers have accustomed us: a perfect beauty often made of painted faces, and bodies made of Greek proportions. In short, a beauty to Photoshop.Lately, however, you notice a slight contrast to the canons of perfection to which the fashion tents :and there is a defect, in particular, rather than to shock the designers seem to attract so much to choose for their advertising services and for their expensive advertising campaigns exclusively models born with this defect. I am speaking of diastema, otherwise known as “teeth gap”, or the distance between the incisive teeth .Empty space which according to many is ugly while according to others it is one of those little defects that make a real beauty.
Source (in Italian): http://www.buyitalianstyle.com/magazine/must_have/4228/imperfetta-bellezza?utm_source=imperfetta-bellezza&utm_medium=mag&utm_campaign=post
Pixel Effects
This image of Diane Mayer is from a new series of hand-sewn photographs taken in Berlin. The series refers to the failures of photography in preserving experience and the means by which photographs transform history into nostalgic objects that obscure understandings of the past.In the work, sections of the images have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph. The embroidery deteriorates the original photograph and forms a pixelated version of the underlying image. With large areas of the photographs concealed by the embroidery, small, seemingly trivial details emerge, while the larger picture and context become erased. By having the embroidery take the visual structure of digital pixelation, a further connection is made between the human brain trying to retrieve information and digital storage.
At times, the embroidered parts of the image run along the horizon line forming an unnatural separation which blocks the viewer from the vantage point of the image. This aspect of the sewing emphasizes the unnatural boundaries created by the wall itself. The sewing, which is soft and domestic provides a literal contrast to the concrete of the wall and a metaphorical contrast to its symbolism.
Diane Arbus: the monster photographer //
Photography, in the work of Diane Arbus, means: emancipation, liberty and rebellion.
Emancipation from the opressive 50′s “american way of life”, in wich the only dream allowed to a good woman is a home with a green garden out of the city, a dog and a new son;to making herself at home , constricted in chaste dresses, metaphor of a severe society where a person couldn’t show himself in a free way,and were constricted to hide his “difference”behind a voile of hypocrisy…
Somebody asked Diane why she had dedicated herself seriously to photography only at the age of 38, she answered, with a crystalline sarcasm:” because a woman spend most of her life looking for a husband,learning how to be a good housewife and mother, and how to solve these roles as well as she can…so, it isn’t left any time to do other things.
Diane is called: “The Monster photographer”, because she captured the real nature of human being,and show shamelessly the hide part of them.
http://www.maggiejeans.com/blog/diane-arbus-la-fotografa-dei-mostri/
By: Valentina Soldo