Visual inspiration #9
At MENDO, we love to be inspired by everything visual. This time, MENDO's Eddie Stok selected 10 inspiring images from 10 inspiring books.
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1. Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself
Joel Meyerowitz revolutionised colour photography technique, which this image uses to full effect with its beautiful array of blue hues.
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2. Cindy Sherman
The emotion on the model's face, and the spontaneous qualities of this image hide the fact that it is a carefully crafted self-portrait. To me, it is one of Sherman's most absorbing photographs.
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3. Streets of Paris
In a city which is more divided by its river than unified by it, this images captures a serene moment of togetherness on the banks of the Seine.
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4. Amsterdam Uncovered
The graphic color use and bold lines of this image draw me in every time I see it, and despite it's apparent simplicity, it continues to reveal new details to me each time.
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5. Joel Meyerowitz: Provincetown
Meyerowitz captures his subject's bold presence with this static, full-length, centered composition. A vision in stripes which can't be ignored.
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6. Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book
Using the same composition to emphasize her subject's pose to the opposite effect, Rineke Dijkstra perfectly captures the essence of adolescent awkwardness.
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7. Ruben van Schalm: Paradise
Paradoxically, the crystal-clear water muddies the details of the subject's body, which forces the viewer to look at the image with undivided attention.
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8. Erwin Olaf: I AM
As mysterious as it is meticulously prepared, this photograph draws you into its surreal details, filmic atmosphere, and dramatic narrative.
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9. Ren Hang
From a crystal clear bath to a dark, unyielding pond, water is a recurring motif in Ren's work. Water shape-shifts between liberating and confining under his unique creative vision.
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10. Stefan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe
Forgoing omnipresent blues for sobering black and white, Vanfleteren reveals the more melancholy and pensive face of surf culture.
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