Page 68 : ART

What is art ?



I split my time between artistic personal creations and work for clients (portraits, architecture, deco, conventions, fashion, reportages, etc…)

Jean Loup Sieff: "They are no bad or good subjects, only the talent of who makes them".

I am the king of common art

"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers.

A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel": Peter Adams.

I am an independent artist photographer who also shoots "commercial" photos for his customers.

My tariffs for my image bank are at the bottom of the page.

I shot this near my home at Port Royal, Paris, France. This fountain is called: "The four corners of the world fountain". The world that I constantly scrutinize to bring beautiful photos.


Not as good without the water.

Haïti in 1980, 1981, 1984 et 1985

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Angie, by Christian Fournier.
Thanks to Mostyk and Lucky or the makeup and to Kwon Young Hee for some of the styling.

Glacier climbing in Alaska. View the full reportage Page 26




















Stéphanie Florentin in June 2004

India in 2003 and 2005

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Asia

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In 1992 on cruise ships (Port Kelang, Malaysia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Bali, Semarang, Pulau Sepa, Singapore, Phuket, Thailand, Nias, Padang, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai, Padang, Manila, , Pukhet, Kuala Lumpur, Borobudur, Brunei, San Blas, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, South Korea, Borneo, Japan, Palau, Nanjing, Shanghai, Padang, Manila, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Guam), then with Nicole in 1989 in Hawaii and Sipadan,
then with Frédérique in 2002 in Polynesia, in Sipadan in 2003, in Thailand in 2004.

















L'art contemporain est souvent du foutage de gueule



A lot of French contemporary art is bullshit and is aimed at people with humour, or more money that taste. Price tag is € 10 000.
This was taken at the "Paris Photo" on 11th Nov 2021 at The Grand Palais Éphémère.
So Progress in Artificial Intelligence is nothing to fear, it will never be able to create this!

Une grosse partie de l'art contemporain français est du foutage de gueule et s'adresse à des gens avec de l'humour et de l'argent, ou plus d'argent que de goût. Le prix est de 10 000 €.
Alors nous n'avons n'a rien à craindre Artificial Intelligence, ceal ne pourra jamais créer ça !




Ceci a été pris au "Paris Photo" le 11 novembre 2021 au Grand Palais Éphémère.

I'm not afraid of AI: no computer can be as bad as contemporary art!

At Parc de Sceaux, France with Frédérque Gorsky, Alexandra Jacquet.
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My photo is now on display at NASA, thanks to my longtime friend (1987) Shannon Templeton, who works on the TESS program, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which searches for exoplanets. In February 2019, the satellite TESS, the new exoplanet hunter of NASA, discovered the exoplanet GJ 357b.










I photograph Cédric Klapisch in 2015 at the ALL MEMORY OF THE WORLD Festival at La Cinémathèque Française. The Cédric Klapisch trilogy is a series of French films, directed by Cédric Klapisch, and composed of The Spanish Inn (2002), Russian Dolls (2005) and Chinese Puzzle (2013). The best French romantic comedy trilogy ever made according to AlloCiné.































September 26, 2020: It's a great privilege to shoot with flash, in a beautiful castle, almost empty, with costumed models.
Natasha Milady De Winter and Anna Breeze at the Château de Vaux le Vicomte.
Thanks to Frédérique Gorsky for dressing and stewardship, to Charlotte Calmon for access,
costumes: Yoann Mouchonnet, headdress: Maria. Photography and transport: Christian Fournier.






















Make Photography, not war



















Just like Apple, Amazon, Google and Disney, I started from my garage. Unlike them, I'm still working in it.
Poésie au Moulin Jaune le 30 avril 2022





























Lightpainting with Eddy Wog on 13th jan 2022
























Léa Pelissier, alias Wendy Plsr.



8 jan 2022 My Iris Photography



1 Very brave model Frederique Gorsky
2 Nikon lens hoods
3 Macro-Nikkor 105mm F2.8 manual focus
4 Nikon D850
5 Manfrotto photo stand as a chin rest
6 Manfrotto column leg as chin rest
7 x 5 watt LED lamps


















The Quai de la Gare metro station in Paris on Nov 2, 2021 in the rain. I did some Henri Cartier-Bresson or Robert Doisneau.












Virginie Efira
Virginie Efira en 2015. Virginie Efira est une actrice et animatrice de télévision belge, née le 5 mai 1977 à Schaerbeek (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale).


Paris







Tanzanie 2006

Frédérique Gorsky at the Catacombs of Paris on July 8, 2020.
Few tourists at 10 a.m. on weekdays. Nikon D850 and Nikkor 14-24mm F2.8 800 ISO. No flash.

The COVID lockdown has some advantages, the Seine docks in Paris were deserted on December 19, 2020.
Back entrance to the nightclub Faust, under the Pont Alexandre III. Model : Prisca










On recycle au Bon Marché, style Bansky.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron, est une actrice et ancienne mannequin sud-afro-américaine.
Elle acquiert le statut d'héroïne nationale dans son pays natal pour avoir remporté l'Oscar
de la meilleure actrice pour son rôle dans Monster en 2003.





La coulée verte à Paris.

La rue Crémieux à Paris.

Les quais de Seine à Paris.

Paris secret.

La Passerelle Leopold Sedar Senghor à Paris, avec Sabine.












At the Bon Marché.

















Natasha in a poppy field on June 9, 2020.
The upper photo is a panoramic, an assemblage of 30 vertical photos.
It is 421 MB. I show it here in a smaller size.







Au Jardin des Plantes à Paris le 6 juin 2020 avec Frédérique Gorsky





Merci à Natasha Milady De Winter et à Frédérique Gorsky
pour cette séance photo d’hier mercredi 20 mai 2020 près de Paris.









L'Atelier des Lumières : Monet, Renoir... Chagall. Voyages en Méditerranée.
Le 26 mai 2020. Avec Frédérique Gorsky..












Maintaining apperances.




Hope.








I am dreaming of a better world. I photoshopped my courtyard with street art.








Le 11 mars 2020 : La fille et le bijou Cacharel




Le 11 mars 2020 : La fille et l'orchidée




La fille au papillon

March 31, 2018: Mürren is a village of some 450 inhabitants,
located 1,638 meters above sea level above a high cliff
overlooking the Lauterbrunnental in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.

Kristina Moshenskaya, 6 times world champion of Latin Dance, on May 25, 2019 in Paris.
Styling Ekatarina Savich, Vladimir Katralov, Ekatarina's friend, coordinator Natasha Milady de Winter.

Francis Ford Coppola, born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, is an American director, producer and screenwriter.
He has been awarded five times at the Oscars and twice won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Outside of show business, Coppola is also a winemaker, magazine editor and hotelier.
A great figure in New Hollywood, he is best known for the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now,
which depicts the Vietnam War with accomplished lyricism.

Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey au Salon de L'aviation à Paris en 2019.
Matthew McConaughey, est un acteur, réalisateur, scénariste
et producteur de cinéma américain, né le 4 novembre 1969 à Uvalde (Texas).

Michel Cymes, French doctor, surgeon specializing in ENT,
known for his activities as a television and radio host,
in particular for the program Le Magazine de la santé
which he presents with Marina Carrère d'Encausse.

John Malkovich has participated in more than 70 films, interpreting many roles in totally different registers.
He was nominated twice for the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for The Seasons of the Heart (1984)
and Dans la ligne de mire (1993), and was rewarded for his interpretations in films such as La Déchiure,
Dangerous Liaisons, In the Skin of John Malkovich or The Exchange.

Polynesia. Look closely, there is a diver at the bottom.

Portraits of Kristine Dzidziguri, Dior model and wife
of Juan Bagration-Mukhransky y Ulloa, cousin of the King of Spain.






Michèle West at Sans Souci Hotel,
near Ocho Rios Jamaica, around 1984.
As Andy Novis said: "So delicate, so feminine".

Do you see the zebra?





International singer Sharon Stanley Goldberg
in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The Dalai Lama: "The majority of people who openly say they are offended by the posts of pretty girls
a little undressed are often those who watch the most porn films in secret."
The hypocrisy of looking at sexy photos without respecting the photographers who take these photos.

Model photo shoot in Czech Republic 29th to 31th July 2020
Special thanks to Frédérique Gorsky for her permanent help, to model Tereza Tranová,
to Petr Strbacka for his help finding the model and the locations,
to Jana Vanourkova for the logistics and some of the making of photos and to Marina Davin for her lingerie.

Modèle : Jana












Modèle : Adelle

1982, Missouri, USA. I created this photo thanks to the wind gently shaking the flowers.
I used different combinations of shutter speeds to achieve the slight foreground blur,
and f-stops for the background blur. No Photoshop.

Ma série "peinture sur diapositives, artistico-erotico"
est publiée dans The Bristish Journal of Photography,
Glamour and Boudoir Photography et le magazine Canadien Photo Sélection.


















Who is afraid of art?

This chapter contains a small part of the sections "Peluches en libertés" and "Les Boules de Christian Fournier"
I did not make children no respect for the planet for not transmitting my hereditary diseases asthma and genetic cholesterol
and to fight against overpopulation which leads to global deforestation and global warming.
The age pyramid is growing exponentially, the rate of which is much faster than that of the increase in food and energy resources.
Freud would say that I compensate with my stuffed animals.
The "Les Boules de Christian Fournier" series is made with a plexiglass ball, no Photoshop tricks.

Voici environ 620 exemples de mes reportages depuis 1984, c’est-à-dire 35 ans. Cela ne compte pas ceux que mes clients m'ont demandé de ne pas montrer et les photos perdues.

Cette liste commence par les compilations : Mode & modèles, Lingerie, Beauté, Maquillage & coiffage, Portraits, Événementiel, Objets, Archi & Déco, Industrie, Presse, Célébrités, etc.

Je sais, c'est monstrueux.
Non, je ne suis pas un robot photographique: ma mère m'a fait tester

Les capteurs et les possibilités web de 1995 à 2005 étaient horribles par rapport à maintenant (2015). 40 Ko max par images. Mes mises en ligne à cette période étaient donc mauvaises. Je les remplace petit à petit. C'est long. Merci de votre indulgence.


Conclusion 1 : je ne dois pas être mauvais, pour que tous ces gens me fassent confiance.
J'ai des clients fidèles, signe qu'ils sont satisfaits de mes services. Exemples : Tollens, MEDEF, Dior, GMF, Unesco, L'oréal, Anaé, Agefiph, Essilor, Genzyme, Ambassade Irlande, Le Club des Annonceurs, Garmin, VW, etc...

Conclusion 2 : Grâce à tous ces clients variés (industrie, mariage, portraits corporate et perso, presse, événementiels, objets, médical, culinaire, plongée, sports, reconstitutions historiques, etc..), je vois des tranches de vie extraordinaires, confidentielles ou publiques, des métiers et des pays fabuleux. Je ne sens très privilégié. La vraie vie, en direct. Merci clients.

En estimation grossière, je prends 5 000 photos par semaine. 5 000 x 52 = 260 000 par an. Depuis 35 ans = 9 100 000 photos. Bon, j'aimerais arriver aux 10 millions quand même !

Conclusion 3 : La photographie est mon language.

Pas forcément à jour, mais très complète sur tous mes reportages

Dû à des manips entre prisedevue.com, prisedevue.photos et famousphotographer.com, il se peut que des liens soient brisés. Désolé. J'y travaille !