Archives Mensuelles: août 2013
Paul Citroën (1896 – 1983)
Paul Citroën était un artiste Néerlandais d’origine Allemande, co-fondateur de la « New Art Academy » à Amsterdam. En 1919, Citroën a commencé à étudier au Bauhaus, où il reçu les enseignements de Paul Klee et Wassily Kandinsky ainsi qu’Itten Johanne. Il débute sa serie Métroplis ( 1923) dès ces années d’apprentissage.
Entre 1929 et 1935, Citroën a fait de nombreuses photographies, clairement influencées par son travail avec Blumenfeld qui fût son ami de toujours et ce dès leurs enfances.( Retrouvez des photographies d »eux enfants et adolescents dans cet article ICI à la fin)

Erwin Blumenfeld – Paul Citroën , 1925

Erwin Blumenfeld – Paul Citroën avec une perruque , 1929

Erwin Blumenfeld Paul Citroën in Dog House c. 1930
Si ses oeuvres photographiques restent peu connues, celles de photomontages (qui feront l’objet d’un autre article), le sont beaucoup plus , tout autant que ses timbres-poste Néerlandais datant 1949 d’ailleurs.

Paul Citroën -La danseuse Estella Reed, 1932, ( collection centre Pompidou, paris)
Tom Millea
Quinto Albicocco (1913-1995)
D’origine italienne, Quinto Albicocco s’installera assez jeune à Cannes où il commencera sa carrière comme photographe . De 1934 à 1945 il y aura un atelier de photographie et y créera le Ciné Club de Cannes en 1946. Son succés s’intensifiera à cette époque, et des premières récompenses viennent couronner ses œuvres. Il travaille sur la technique et procédés à effets spéciaux, (trucage sur négatifpar exemple). Il est à cette époque comme Thorek un grand nom de la photographie. C’est d’ailleurs ainsi qu’il viendra au cinéma ( ou que le cinéma viendra à lui pkus exactement). En effet na notoriété de photographe lui permet d’être engagé comme assistant caméraman auprès de Sica et ensuite Rosselini. A partir de ce moment là, il occupera le poste de directeur de la photographie et collaborera à de nombreux tournages. inévitablement, si l’on puis dire, il se tourne vers la mise en scène ( ainsi que producteur) . retrouver sa filmographie Ici et sur IMB
bien sur c’est le photographe que je vous propose de découvrir aujourd’hui et toujours les nus…
Nelly’s – Nelly Sougioultzoglou, Mona Paeva, 1927
Nelly Sougioultzoglou is born in Aidini of Asia Minor, in 1899. In 1912 she finds herself a pupil at the Omirio Girl’s School of Smyrni and in 1919 she lives through the destruction of her homeland by the Turks. The daughter of the wealthy merchant Christos Sougioultzoglou then leaves for Dresden to study music and painting. In 1922 her family settles in Athens and Nelly decides to study photography, hoping to make a living out of it. Her teacher is initially the well-known Hugo Erfurt. Later she is tutored by the modernist Franz Fiedler.
Miss Sougioultzoglou returns to Greece in 1924 and opens her first photo studio in Ermou St. The city’s bourgeoisie considers it a sign of fine taste to have their portraits done by the young artist who at the same time practices her art by taking pictures of ancient monuments and small yards of Athenian houses. It is thus that Nelly’s era begins.
Nelly’s focuses on the pure orders of the Acropolis monuments that fascinate her. She soon decides to give them a face and set them in motion. She meets Mona Paiva, the Comedie Francaise dancer, and suggests to her that it would be a good idea if she could pose for her in the nude on the holy rock. Permission is granted by the authorities as she is by then well known and accepted by the Athens high society. Paiva obliges, and starts to dance inside the Parthenon holding an olive branch. The Leica of Nelly’s captures her smooth motion, creating a series of unique shots. The dancer takes with her this exceptional piece of work, which will be published a little later in a French illustrated magazine. The scandal breaks out immediately in prudish Athenian society.
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari.jpg?w=549&h=868)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
Since her studies and her nudes at Fiedler’s studio in Germany, Nelly removed the background’s elements by focusing her attention on the theme, resulting in reversing voluntarily the references of orientation and the final image to be formed as a mix of realistic and abstract types.
In that way, she managed to incorporate the spectator’s wonder as an element of the image. Knowing that she is the one directing the spectator’s gaze through the lens of the camera and that he will identify with her position, she accentuated the wonder by giving viewers the chance to read the image in a double way in relation to the earth’s horizon.
Her classical education and admiration of Ancient Greek civilization contributed to her photographic work in Acropolis in a way that the latter has become decisive for the artist and also for the history of photography and architecturel.
In her portraits Nelly’s uses artificial light, leaving one part of the form in the dark, while the background remains empty, as a reference to the Great Masters of the Renaissance. The aim of this work was the search for the spiritual element, the poetic atmosphere and the demonstration of the form’s most profound essence.
During World War II, she went to the United States, where she stayed for 27 years and The Metropolitan Museum of New York bought a large series of her Acropolis photographs.
In 1966 she returned to Greece and presented her work in numerous exhibitions, with the last being Nelly’s: The Body, the Light and Ancient Greece, the official Greek participation in the Cultural Olympiad of Barcelona in 1992.
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-5.jpg?w=549&h=411)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-3.jpg?w=549&h=400)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929.jpg?w=549&h=418)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-0.jpg?w=549&h=734)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-1.jpg?w=549&h=366)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-11.jpg?w=549&h=395)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
![Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929](https://lapetiitemelancolie.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nelly_s-elli-souyioultzoglou-seraidari-nikolska-a-hungarian-dancer-at-the-parthenon-acropolis-athens-greece-1929-10.jpg?w=549&h=403)
Nelly’s [Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari] -Nikolska, a hungarian dancer at the Parthenon, Acropolis-Athens, Greece -1929
Eugene Robert Richee

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee from She’s a Sheik, Paramount, 1927

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee from She’s a Sheik, Paramount, 1927

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee from She’s a Sheik, Paramount, 1927

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee from She’s a Sheik, Paramount, 1927

Bebe Daniels by Eugene Robert Richee from The Maltese Falcon and other films,Warner Bros., 1931
Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee from Now We’re in the Air, Paramount, 1927

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee
Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee from Three Weekends, Paramount, 1928

Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee from Three Weekends, Paramount, 1928

Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee from Three Weekends, Paramount, 1928

Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee from Three Weekends, Paramount, 1928

Clara Bow by Eugene Robert Richee from Three Weekends, Paramount, 1928
Braig- Nu, for Paris Magazine , May 1935
Arnold Genthe Some nudes

Arnold Genthe -four nude dancers in a Grecian tableau from the troupe of Marion Morgan Dancers, March 1922 [The Marion Morgan Dancers was a troupe of predominantly female dancers founded and led by Marion Morgan who performed interpretative dances based on classical legends and antiquity. they appeared nearly 1916 ]@ New-York Historical Society

Arnold Genthe -four nude dancers in a Grecian tableau from the troupe of Marion Morgan Dancers, March 1922 [The Marion Morgan Dancers was a troupe of predominantly female dancers founded and led by Marion Morgan who performed interpretative dances based on classical legends and antiquity. they appeared nearly 1916 ]@ New-York Historical Society
Les autochromes
Robert Heinecken (1931-2006)
“Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” Robert Heinecken
Au cours de sa carrière, Robert Heinecken , a beaucoup amusé, instruit et souvent choqué à travers ses œuvres photographiques pointues et irrévérencieuses. En effet ses sujets étaient très provocateurs – la Guerre du Viêt Nam, la politique pornographique, sexuelle, le marché médiatique, que beaucoup de critiques et d’autres observateurs ont detesté ou adoré. Il a toujours était difficile de l’appeler “un photographe” au sens strict du terme , parce qu’il utilisait rarement un appareil photo pour faire ses images. Heinecken utilisait des moyens photographiques qu’ on pourrait considérer en marge, comme un artiste qui aurait utilisé la photographie seulement comme le moyen à une fin artistique. Les rares fois où qu’il utilisait appareil photo, c’était un Polaroïd pour ensuite re-photographier ces tirages avec d’autres photographies.
Heinecken est né à Denver, dans le Colorado, et fût le seul enfant d’un ministre Luthérien. En 1942 la famille déménage en Californie du Sud, où Heinecken, apres le lycée et ensuite le collège, il obtiendra un DEUG en Art en 1951. Pendant les deux annnéess suivantes, il étudie à l’Université de la Californie, à Los Angeles. En 1953, il fait son servive Militaire dans la Marine, où il apprend à piloter des avions. En 1954, il rejoint le Corps de la Marine comme un pilote de chasse.
En 1957, une fois dégagé de ses obligations, il integre l’université G.I. Bill, obtenant ainsi in, BA dans l’art en 1959 et MA l’année suivante. Tandis qu’ à l’ Université Heinecken se concentre surtout sur le travail du développement, il présentera pour son diplôme diplômé, il présentera un travail photographique aux idées pré pop art de Robert Rauschenberg et d’autres artistes qui utilisaient des images photographiques.
En 1960, Heinecken est nommé assistant formateur dans le Département d’Art à UCLA, enseignant le dessin, le design(la conception) et développement . En deux ans, il introduit un programme d’études photographiques pour le département et est nommé Professeur adjoint en 1962, pour les Licences. Pendant les trois décennies suivantes, l’influence d’Heinecken en tant que professeur fût profonde; il a encouragé ses étudiants à s’approcher de l’art – et particulièrement la photographie – dans un esprit d’expérimentation avec lequel, il s’est abordé de son propre travail. Favorisé en partie par les événements sociaux et politiques du jour – la Guerre du Viêt Nam, le mouvement de femme et la croissance de la contreculture – sa salle de cours est devenue un endroit pour le dialogue et l’auto-évaluation.
Quand Heinecken est apparu sur la scène de l’art de Californie du Sud au milieu des années 1960, il éxistait un nombre croissant d’ artistes qui avaient commencé à incorporer des photographies et d’autres images dans leur art comme une façon de renégocier la nature et la signification d’art contemporain. D’autres artistes de Los Angeles, comme Ed Ruscha et John Baldessari, pratiquaient la photographie comme un moyen d’art conceptuel. Inspiré par ces nouvelles approches, Heinecken a saisi l’occasion de transformer un moyen restreint et retenu par les principes d’un modernisme puriste en l’entrelaçant avec la culture populaire.
Pour arriver au-dessous de la surface, il crée une oeuvre qui regarde souvent au-delà de l’image que nous voyons initialement. Par exemple, en créant les copies de contact de pages de magazines, il présente une image qui est un composé des deux côtés de la page avec les résultats qui sont surréalistes, embrouillants, satiriques, comiques et culturellement critiques.
Il utilise un Cibachrome ou une technique Ilfochrome qui est une façon d’imprimer des images positives d’autre positif (traditionnellement une diapositive, mais aussi d’une empreinte de contact).
Heinecken a aussi conçu un système dans lequel il plaçait le film photographique sur l’écran de télévision et capturerait une image d’empreinte de contact de l’émission. Il a ainsi créé une série de ces “vidéogrammes” basés autour du discours inaugural de Ronald Reagan en 1980.
j’ai choisi de proposer principalement ses travaux tirés de ” Are You Rea” , d”Autoeroticism”, ainsi que ses “Etudes” qui me semblent être un bel exemple de son œuvre, plus quelques autres travaux.
[Throughout his career, Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) amused, educated, and often shocked viewers with his pointed, irreverent photographic works. So provocative were Heinecken’s subjects—the Vietnam War, pornography, sexual politics, the media marketplace—that many critics and other observers rank either as avid fans or staunch detractors. It has always been difficult to call him a “photographer” in the strict sense of the word, because he rarely used a camera to make his pictures. Rather, Heinecken worked on the fringes of the photographic medium, and in the margins of what might be considered acceptable subject matter, as an artist who used photography only as a means to an artistic end.
Heinecken was born in Denver, Colorado, the only child of a Lutheran minister. In 1942 the family moved to Southern California, where Heinecken attended public high school and then community college in Riverside, earning an Associate’s Degree in Art in 1951. For the next two years, Heinecken studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He dropped out in 1953 to enlist in the United States Navy, where he learned to fly airplanes. In 1954 he joined the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot. When he was discharged in 1957, he returned to university on the GI Bill, earning a BA in art in 1959 and an MA the following year. While in school, Heinecken concentrated mostly on printmaking, but by the end of his graduate study, he was introduced to photography and to the pre–Pop art ideas of Robert Rauschenberg and other artists who were using photographic imagery.
In 1960, Heinecken was appointed as an instructor in the Department of Art at UCLA, teaching drawing, design, and printmaking. Within two years he had initiated a photographic curriculum for the department and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1962, overseeing a regular series of courses in undergraduate photography. Over the next three decades, Heinecken’s influence as a teacher was profound; he encouraged his students to approach art—and particularly photography—in the same spirit of experimentation with which he approached his own work. Fostered in part by social and political events of the day—the Vietnam war, the women’s movement, and the growth of the counterculture—the classroom became a place for dialogue and self-evaluation.
When Heinecken emerged in the Southern California art scene in the mid-1960s, he was one of a growing number of artists who had begun to incorporate photographs and other images into their art as a way to renegotiate the nature and meaning of contemporary art. Other Los Angeles artists, like Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, practiced photography as a medium of conceptual art. Inspired by these new approaches, Heinecken seized the opportunity to transform a medium restrained at one time by the purist principles of modernism into one increasingly intertwined with popular culture.]

Robert Heinecken- Cliche-Verre, Autoeroticism, 1975.

Robert Heinecken, Cliché Vary, Autoeroticism, 1974, photographic emulsion on canvas and pastel chalk

Robert Heinecken, Cliche Vary: Lesbianism 1974 (photographic lithograph)

Robert Heinecken- Vary Clich/Fetishism; Vary Clich/Auto eroticism 1970-1974

Robert Heinecken – from 12 Figure Squares #2, 1967

Robert Heinecken- Are You Rea #20, 1964-68
Martha Graham Photomontages
Edmund Kesting Quelques nus

Edmund Kesting-Shin and shadow, 1924
Crafty Dogma
Crafty Dogma-The departure,2012
Crafty Dogma

Crafty Dogma-Venus flytrap, 2012

Fragmented No. 2 companion piece , 2012

Crafty Dogma- Fragmented No. 2 , 2012

Crafty Dogma- Circular logic , 2012

Crafty Dogma- The Elegant Mrs Heron and Her Pet , 2012
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