SubscribePlayful Objects (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on September 13th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Petit Coup de Pouce” by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle]
Taking pictures of playful objects can turn in a photo-stock picture style, if the final image has nothing new to say about how the picture was taken. To say it in another way, we’ve always been fascinated by those visual creators that are creative finding what to show and not only how to do it.
Martin Klimas, Chema Madoz, Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle are all photographers. The interesting and analyzable part of their work goes beyond the fact that they are mind-blowing. It’s not just about a first impact but that feeling of looking at something new and unique.
The three of them (Ida and Javelle are a team) play with objects. They create a reality. And as we said before, that is tricky. You can photograph nature with mastery, but that’s what it has to offer. And reality is hard to capture, but in this case we’ll show how three photographers create a perception of life.
These photographers interact with the subject (objects in this case) to transform reality and give it a new meaning. They all turn to be addictive images that move something in our perception engine, and that is probably the most interesting.
I first knew about Martin Klimas some days ago through the 37signals blog. His work made me think of how motion can be captured in still life, exactly the opposite of what we normally try to do when we take a photograph. That thought drove me back to Chema Madoz and the duo Ida/Javelle. In essence, they do the same.
Klimas drops a porcelain figurine with the camera lens open.
When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. I do this procedure many times or until I find the one frame that is just right. I keep just one such picture for every figurine.
© Martin Klimas
Chema Madoz is a visual poet. He plays with objects and with the viewer at the same time, combining concepts that give birth to a third one. Or to hundreds more. In the end, it depends on who’s looking.
© Chema Madoz
Finally we might now better Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle by the name of Minimiam, their most outstanding and popular work. In this case the objects are food and tiny action figures, and motion results of combining both in domestic scenes.
© Minimiam
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