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Diana Scheunemann: CEDAR CREEK, TEXAS.
Mindy has pet chickens and is working on a degree in biochemistry.
When she was younger she ran away from home and lived on the streets.
She made the Obama dartboard for her Mom and bought her fiance a gun for his birthday |
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20 June – 20 July, 2014 |
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Love American Skin is a series of impressive images recounting Diana Scheunemann’s journey through America and under the skin of her adopted country. It’s the skin of a nation presented as a landscape or surface over which her and our eyes can play – curiously, lustfully, tragically and lovingly. It’s the skin of a nation and a collective history told not as a single, big narrative, but as the stories of the people Diana Scheunemann meets on her travels through the US.
Diana Scheunemann took an eight-week road trip clockwise through 21 US states accompanied by her boyfriend, who along the way became her husband. Over the course of 60 days she photographed and interviewed 60 people she met in diners, on the sidewalk, or on their front porches. With her curiosity and a candid eye, she was able to capture a series of intimate but unprejudiced images. The result is a kind of declaration of love, a multifaceted kaleidoscope of an America most people aren’t even aware of. Love American Skin is Diana Scheunemann’s first major exhibition in Switzerland.
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She is 25 years old and today is her birthday. She just had her second boob job because
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Diana Scheunemann was born in Germany in 1975. When she was 15 she moved to Switzerland, where she attended Zurich University of the Arts. She has earned a reputation for images of unadorned authenticity, and intimate and sometimes provocative commercial and editorial photo campaigns for well-known brands and leading international magazines. Her photographs have been published in top titles including Vogue, Elle, Playboy, Arena, and GQ in Europe and the US.
Alongside this work, since 1999 she has been pursuing Behind My Face, a project documenting every day of her life in the form of a self-portrait. To date the project has resulted in four monographs: Ambisexual (2001), Diana Scheunemann (2005), Freedom In Flashes (2007) and Love American Skin (2013). Besides the book, Love American Skin features Diana Scheunemann’s first feature-length documentary film.
She currently lives in New York, and is in regular demand as a fashion, advertising and editorial photographer. |
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Sabine Weiss: Un homme dans la nuit, 1950 |
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20 June – 20 July, 2014 |
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Photobastei pays homage to Swiss-born Sabine Weiss with a small retrospective of her life’s work that brings the 90-year-old grande dame of humanistic photography to German-speaking Switzerland for the first time. Sabine Weiss is one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. The hallmark of her photography is her expository approach to pictorial composition. At once mischievous and tender, she casts her eye on the world around her to create images that express the innermost being of the people she photographs. This approach, combined with a compositional technique that inextricably fuses light, gesture and vision, is something she shares with her fellow photographers and friends Ronis, Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson.
She has this to say about her loving approach to photography: “When you’re taking photographs, liking’s not enough; you have to be moved. The love of people is pure beauty. It has great weight and depth. I take photographs to hold on to the ephemeral, capture chance, keep an image of something that will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects that are reminders of our brief lives.”
Sabine Weiss was part of the lively avantgarde scene of the 1950s and friends with many artists, writers and musicians. This resulted in her famous portraits of artists including Miró, Moore, Chagall, Bacon, César, Léger, Braque, Tinguely, Dubuffet, Arp, Giacometti, Simone de Beauvoir, Blixen, Beckett, Bernstein, Stravinsky and Casals, among others. |
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| Sabine Weiss, born 1924 in Saint-Gingolph on Lake Geneva, is one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Following an apprenticeship with Boissonas in Geneva, in 1945 she gained her diploma in photography. Shortly afterwards she moved to Paris, where she spent three years as assistant to fashion photographer Willy Maywald. From 1949 she worked as a freelance photographer specialising in advertising, architecture, portraiture and reportage – one of the few female photographers in France able to live from her work. Like her colleagues Robert Doisneau and Ronis Izis, she also worked for the Rapho agency, which got her numerous advertising and reportage jobs all over the world. Until 1961 she worked for Vogue, doing jobs for many major titles including Time, Life, Newsweek and Paris Match. Her photos feature in many important collections, including Moma, the Metropolitan Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Kunsthaus Zurich and Fotomuseum Winterthur. |
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