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SPARKLING SHOES DIY/ WALK AMONG THE STARS

I don't think I'll ever be able to tell my love for glitters and shoes (and glittered shoes)

Inspiration 

EXHIBITION REVIEW/ BERENICE ABBOTT: PHOTOGRAPHIES - SALLE DU JEU DE PAUME, PARIS

  Berenice Abbott is a name I had never heard about before this exhibition. Yet, she spent a lot of time with the French surrealist avant-garde in the 1920s, and was the assistant of one of my favourite artist, Man Ray.

Abbott by Man Ray

At his sides, she experimented surrealistic portraits with distortions or blur and made her portraits radiating with life. 

Jean Cocteau, 1926 

Self-portrait, 1945

Catching New York Lights

In the 30s, Abbott got involved in a project on New York architecture and she hence started to catch urban life with her camera. A quote is written on one of the museum's walls to remind us that no print is a piece of luck, the position of the camera has always required a thinking process. It's true that Abbott played with the composition of the picture: feeling the immensity of a sky-scraper with a low-angle shot or playing with contrast and light to burn thousand candles in New York night.

Changing New York , 1935-1938

American Country Life

From New York to the country. By 1935, Abbott undertook to depict life in America. With a documentary style, she alternated scenes at the fun fair, old wooden house façades and countrymen portraits to report hard life conditions in rural areas which undergo the economic crisis.

Far from the well-thought-out compositions of the city, Abbott took photographs to the rhythm of her road trip, blowing spontaneity and fresh simplicity on her piece.

Waves and Vibrations

My favourite part of the exhibition. From the 1940s, Abbott got interested in representing scientific phenomena through photography: study of movements, wave propagation, light rays,... She worked at M.I.T. to take part to the vulgarization of science and published her photographs in school books.

Then during space conquest, in the early 60s, an exhibition "Image of physics" is dedicated to her work, in Washington.

She endeavoured to turn the invisible into visible and hence produced abstract and vibrating black and white pictures. She sort of stuck magic tricks on glazed paper.

For me who is not really interested in photography, this exhibition just blew my mind.

EXHIBITION TO BE SEEN.

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