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showcase magazine Mar 2008 germany issue 107
Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie
Two new exhibitions will soon arrive at the Aplanat Photography Gallery.
Roland Pleterski, "Drawn by the light" - until 29th March.
Trained as a fashion artist, Peterski left Austria for New York at the beginning of the 1950's. He became Irving Penn's assistant, and Peterski's elegant, statically-staged photographs, (known through Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and other high-end fashion magazines), are unmistakeably influenced by the work of the great photographer and personal friend. His work grew to include cityscapes, travel reports and later, more and more nude photography, but Pleterski's pictorial world remained dominated by 'glamorous people and places'.Jay Mark Johnson, "Space and Timelessness" - 10th April until 24th May.
In his new work "Space and Timelessness", Jay Mark Johnson takes subjects that have engaged the imaginations of artists for centuries - the bustle of the piazza, the routines of the countryside - and transforms them, employing the technology of the computer age, into visual narratives that astonish the eye. Using slit-scan photography techniques, whereby prolonged exposure synthesises all the movement in front of the lens, the resulting photographs incorporate the dimension of time - in effect freezing it. -
showcase magazine May 2007 germany issue 74
Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie
Galerie Aplanat have two interesting exhibitions on now/coming up:
Until 9 June - Bianca Radziwanowska 'Wortblicke'
'What images emerge when they are initiated by people who are not influenced by the visible world? In my photographic work, I want to question the dominance of the visual sense, of images, their function and objectivity. Thus, the perception of reality in a world ruled by visuality is confronted with a picture-free world.' Bianca Radziwanowska
19 June to 4 August 'Hommage an Irving Penn'
American photographer Irving Penn celebrates his 90th birthday on 16 June 2007 and this group-exhibition pays tribute to him. Young upcoming and established photographers from Germany, France, Italy and USA present own works influenced by Penn.
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showcase magazine Feb 2007 germany issue 66
Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie
Jay Mark Johnson is an artist with a broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised and/or directed the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series. Noted for his work in architecture and design, he has projects in the permanent collection of the MOMA (NYC), as well as at the Smithonian Institution and the Art Institute of Chicago.
His varied and prolific career also spans theatre and performance art, journalism, live musical performance, and photography.
Motion Studies captures and represents the continuous movements of the body, 'isolating discrete gestures to develop distinct, fluid delineations of bodily motion... and attempting to expand upon existing understandings of the body's internal motivations and internal nature.'
The studies use unconventional photographic techniques and the resulting hybrid images are both strange and familiar.
Roland Pleterski
Jay Mark Johnson
Photographer: Irving Penn
Jay Mark Johnson
Jay Mark Johnson
