The Farmer - H0396 Photograph

ABOUT THE FARMER - H0396 ------------------------------------------------------------- This photograph got the1st Prize in 2016 at the International PhotoShoot Awards in the Men category. The Farmer is part of the collection Backstage made in 2015. ABOUT THE BACKSTAGE COLLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- Backstage is a collection entirely in Black&white that is a retrospect to 1950’s. With the elements of whisky, cigarettes, stripes and checkered tiles, it creates a universe that reminds us of Serge Gainsbourg, Tim Burton or Jean Loup Sieff. But this world of the 50s is filled with anachronism that highlights the avant-gardism of the artist. The Backstage collection belong to the project "Who's that nude in the living room?" ABOUT THE PROJECT "WHO'S THAT NUDE IN THE LIVING ROOM ?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Showing humanity as it is, in its most natural state, its nudity and diversity.That's the art project of Idan Wizen started in 2009. Since, he photographed more than 1600 differents persons, as you and me. By their diversity and their nature, their dynamism and their naturalness, the work of Idan Wizen underline the universal human beauty, well beyond the sociocultural and aesthetic constraints and criteria of our time. Whoever poses in his simplest clothe participates by his own personality, its differences and its features, freely expressed in the photo, to the universality of the human kind. To the standardization of the criteria of beauty of our society and its modes of expression, the artist opposes the multitude, the variety, the force of character, the movement, the surprising and the natural one to the state of the human kind. A WORD FROM THE ARTIST ------------------------------------------------------------- Idan Wizen is a French-Israeli artist living in Paris.Graduated in 2008 from the London University of the Arts, he turned to a visual art that was both humanistic and committed. While Idan challenged himself by creating art working with regular people, most of which have never done a professional photoshoot, his artistic direction and the lighting composition realize a dreamlike image with a unique atmosphere yet it remains ultra realistic. His various projects have commonality of his unwavering desire to make the spectator ponder; a push for them to understand the real message and see beyond what the machine is feeding them. TECHNICAL INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- Original C-print on FUJI Paper signed and number on the recto by the artist. Edition of 4. Each print is unique on it's size. This is the last one to sell. Print offered here : 60 x 90cm mounted on Dibond. The print is coming with a Hahnemühle certificate of authenticity.