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Different Dimensions of the Reality (On Gay Bourdin’s photographs)

Summary/Abstract: Bourdin (1928-1991) was influenced by Edward Weston, whom he considered as “purist artist”, Anselm Adams, a “monumental artist”, and Man Ray. Bourdin was interested in surrealistic effects. From 1955, he worked as a photographer for the Vogue magazine. His first work was entitled “Hat Shocker”. He photographed a woman in a butcher’s shop, with a hat on her head. There were cows’ heads, shown in the background. Bourdin produced colour photographs, when other artists were still using black-and-white medium. He was a perfectionist. His sessions with models were very long, and made the models very tired. Nevertheless, he liked the results of those long sessions. He used to arbitrarily cut his photographs, only leaving parts of his models’ bodies. Also, he tried to paint, but, as a painter, he failed to produce good results. He was a documentalist. He was interested in fiction. At the end of his career, he photographed women in strange setting. For example, he showed a naked woman on a wooden board, with he throat cut, and another woman, naked, lying on a table.

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