James Mollison, The Casualties, The Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK, 10th August 2007
James Mollison, Oasis , Manchester Stadium, Manchester, UK, 3rd July 2005
Jamesa Mollisona , zobaczone przez mnie wczoraj w Łodzi na głównej wystawie dziesiątej już edycji Fotofestiwalu , to projekt ze wszech miar rewelacyjny! O nim jednak za chwilę.
Po pobycie w Warszawie i uczestnictwie w konferencji „Archiwum jako projekt”, pojechałem do „polskiego Manchesteru”, głównie żeby zobaczyć na żywo prace Alexeya Titarenki i retrospektywę Andrzeja Jerzego Lecha. W przypadku tego drugiego i jego wystawy w Galerii FF pocałowałem jednak klamkę (tak to it is that cultural institutions are funded by municipal budgets, the most bother visiting them in the audience, and Sunday during Fotofestiwal it's probably a good day to come to another city and see the exhibition?). A powerful dose of work in the Atlas Arts Titarenki I was very positive impression. A little afraid of these partial depigmentation and toning prints, which treats the movie published on the website of the artist, however, the scope of their vision in an eye of these interventions is small and does not adversely affect the nature of the photographic image. The room painted in white, next to the entrance on the left side, I found my favorite picture, of St. Petersburg Children's Sienna (as I read the description of work). Very nice show, logically hung (watching over the artist himself), a standard showroom-like action photography gallery in London or in Berlin.
But back to James Mollison and his "believers". The idea for this series is extremely simple. For four years (2004-08) Mollison, concerts, toured in Europe and the United States and a portable studio photographed the fans of various bands. Then, as derived from individual portraits, assembled panorama in which the person photographed standing next to each other. At the Photo Festival in Lodz The Disciples appeared in the form of slideshowu, actually fotokastu, which first accompanied by an adequate piece of music, we see a sliding form of fans (as if it carried out the panoramic camera shot moving along their series), and finally setu each image appears in its entirety. I put the headphones on his ears and I looked James Mollison project in its entirety!
here of course there are many funny moments (especially in the context of selected music), a lot of irony (whose presence in the "new document" so concerned about what poniektórych critics), but there is no ridicule, or attempts to humiliate people portrayed. The presentation, which I watched in Lodz is a playful, attractive and entertaining, but also has characteristics that researchers zadowoliłyby contemporary folk culture, a phenomenon known as pop culture. Mollison, very deliberately showed her some important aspect, namely the need for self-identification, which takes its shape from the patterns are constantly being transmitted by the media, by using the image (and it's not at all not funny, especially when we consider the four-year project duration and number of parallel functioning "prototype"). His visual anthropology - in the course of this project photographed nearly 500 people who appear on the 58 assembled panoramas - this splendid documentary record, in which case, what is important, digital photography, electronic tools, not deformed stored images.
James Mollison, Madonna a , The Forum, Los Angeles, 21st May 2006
James Mollison, Mc Fly, Kings Dock, Liverpool, UK, 9th July 2005
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