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| NUDES |
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By
Sylvie Blum | Published by 6x6, 2004
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This
is a book of female nudes large in size as well as
accomplishment. It might be Sylvie Blum's break through
body of work. Dimension-wise it is a superbly satisfying
15x10" and features 140 pages of black & white
prints. Ms. Blum herself, is a former model who now
works as a photographer. She is also the widow of the
greatly admired photographer, Günter Blum. Their time
spent together was undoubtedly of artistic benefit to
Sylvie, for the magnificent compositional skills that
made Günter's work so memorable is strikingly evident
in Sylvie's work too. Nonetheless, it's her background
as a model along with the strength and fire of her own
personality that have together been forged here into a
fabulous new vision of the female form. And the manner
with which she sees her subject matter here is framed
with such creative abandon, such an overpowering sense
of style and composition, it now seems she was truly
born to take pictures. That she is such a beautiful
woman may have prolonged this, she is such a natural in
front of the camera, but it was perhaps inevitable that
she would assume her place behind the lens - and this
work solidifies the opinion that she belongs there.
The content for NUDES was shot on location in various
locations in Berlin, Miami, Los Angeles, and the island
of Majorca. Sylvie's vision of strong, beautiful women
is the central tenet of this work, and is perhaps a
reflection of her own personality as well as her
personal quest to stand-out in a medium dominated by men
in general and her late husband in particular. Be that
as it may, Sylvie claims to have no need to escape from
the shadows of anyone, including her beloved Günter,
and this collection of work is glaring testimony to her
amazing maturation as an artist with her own unique and
powerful vision. Her alchemy of flesh and form, desert
and ocean, the natural world and human architecture all
combine to shape what is both a delicious perspective of
the female body as well as the self-actualization of a
sensational talent.
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