Anders Edström - Photographer

[Scott]

Since we haven't a thread on Anders...beautiful imagery he captures...quite pristine and enigmaticallz simplistic.

(images: treesaresospecial.org)

 

[Scott]

Some pictures I too with my camera-an editorial from Purple magazine.

 

[metal-on-metal]

He's brilliant. Love his work for Purple. It's very casual and simple, but not in a throwaway trash way like Terry Richardson and, say, Magnus Unnar. His work is really quite beautiful.

Thanks for the thread, Scott!

 

[softgrey]

those look a lot like my streetstyle pics...imo...


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thx scott...

 

[Scott]

He's brilliant. Love his work for Purple. It's very casual and simple, but not in a throwaway trash way like Terry Richardson and, say, Magnus Unnar. His work is really quite beautiful.

Thanks for the thread, Scott!

You're right. And I'd actually compare his work with the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans. He's just got a similar quality...in that,as you say,a casual sort of poetry that he does so well. And his lensed campaigns for Miu Miu are the only one's that have ever caught my eye with so much resonance.

There's an Ann-Sofie Back/Sonia Rykiel-styled editorial from Purple I'll get up later.

You're both quite welcome

 

[Estella*]

thanks for the thread, scott. i love the images from purple and i'd love to see more!

we don't have a tillmans thread by the way

 

[Scott]

^We don't?! Oh my...okie...I think you'll have a busy boy today

 

[Estella*]

thank you scott

 

[Scott]

Here's a few from that Ann-Sofie/Rykiel story:

 

[Scott]

 

[Spacemiu]

Very lovely. I especially like the picture with the horses.

 

[rozzetta]

Thank´s Scott for bringing Anders in! It´s easy to see why he get along so well with Ann-Sofie, they seem to share the same love/hate relation to everything fashion. Kind of trying to reveal and embrace it at the same time...sort of.
There´s a nice flip-through-able preview of one of his books at:
http://www.steidlville.com/books/30...bus-a-woman-and-spidernets-places-a-crew.html

 

[Scott]

You're welcome,Rozzetta!

Yeah,I was reading about his book whilst trying to find images for the thread...looks really good.

I love this description:

Anders Edström creates small sequences of sparse images which elaborate a filmic narrative of inconsequential moments, stories of moments in between moments. “They appear as the aftermath of some wire brush cleaning of a slate. To which elements were slowly added. Family, some nature, friends, a bit of community, décor. Images pulled from the gaps between changing nappies, having meals, talking, getting from here to there…” (Curtis Winter).

As for he and Ann-Sofie....they've been friends for a very long time. He shoots all her look-books and they even worked together when she styled for Miu Miu. Lest to mention,their collaborations in Self Service and Purple. I think they met back when she was still attending school in London....and they do share the same ambivalence for fashion. They have an interesting dynamic when they work together.

 

[rozzetta]

Thanks for the info! I just knew they´ve done a lot of work together. I guess she is the one that takes credit for him being labeled as a fashionphotographer, on his own he is more of an artist to me (which is a good thing of course). His work reminds me alot of Ola Rindal, coulnd´t find a thread for him anywhere here though. If I don´t find it I might have to start one

 

[MulletProof]

very pretty. i like the ann-sofie/rykel set.

 

[perfect10]

The thing with Anders.... he does everything I want to do (and probably everyone else...!) So simple picture but with so much feeling... It feels very ordinary when you look at it, but when you tries.... it harder than than it looks. Yeah, thats the thing. He puts so much feeling into the ordinary day, if you can say so?

 

[perfect10]

Here's a few from that Ann-Sofie/Rykiel story:

I this ed so much!!!

Ans the one with the horses.... I work in a stable, horses is my everyday, maybe thats why it feels so much?

 

[j'adorekapusta]

can someone provide Miu Miu ads campaign(s) he shot?

 

[j'adorekapusta]

Photographer Anders Edstrom; designer Martin Margiela

ArtForum, Oct, 1996 by Olivier Zahm

Rather than simply showcasing Martin Margiela's Fall/Winter '96-'97 collection, Anders Edstrom's dressed-down photographs capture those moments between show and studio: models sitting around sipping coffee, camping on standard catwalk poses, flashing toothy grins. As unstudied as they seem, these pictures mirror Margiela's penchant for pure forms, for the disruptive energy that comes from busting up the conventions of slick, high-gloss glamour. Devoid of detailing, even zippers or fastenings, this latest collection, in which minimal garments are often held in back by nothing but elastics, initially seems monastic yet strategically reveals or hugs the body. Beige tunic-dresses with plunging necklines are accessorized by waist-cinching belts with oversized buckles and sheathlike gloves. The contrasts of Margiela's latest line are playfully reflected in the photos shown opposite, from which the models stare out at us with a strangely divided visage: one part luscious-red-rimmed celebrity smile (teeth literally painted white), evocative of those toothpaste ads plastered all over the Paris metro with their promise of squeaky-clean eroticism; the other part, muddy-brown Zorro mask, mimicking the shadow cast by wide-brimmed hats and riffing on the artifice of "covering up" the grainy imperfections of real flesh. Just as this literally two-tone makeup cracks the placid surface of supermodel beauty and seamless couture, Edstrom's photographs inhabit the faultline that runs between reality and illusion, between glamorized image and everyday life.

One of Margiela's favorite photographers since arriving in Paris from Stockholm in 1990, Edstrom has been a constant presence at the designer's shows, shooting numerous editorials on his work for magazines (including Marie Claire Bis Japon, Printemps/Ete '93; Elle Japon '95; Visionnaire '95). Margiela, who has long demanded complete control over the presentation of his designs on the printed page, has collaborated closely with Edstrom not only during shoots but in constructing their signature layouts: juxtapositions of images drawn from old magazines, found photographs, and even photocopies usually reframed and often off-center.

Edstrom was one of the first young photographers to discard the sterile, steroid-fueled look of the '80s. Following a stint in 1992 as Stephane Sednaoui's assistant (on a series for Italian Vogue), Edstrom developed a deliberately informal approach to fashion spreads: no stagey back-drops or on-location shoots, no Helmut Newton-inspired Octopussy poses, no fussy retouching. Taken with small, discreet cameras, Edstrom's fashion photographs evoke the earliest forms of the genre: those old gazettes featuring society ladies clothed in the latest styles as they shop along Paris' turn-of-the-century boulevards, or trying on garments in a couturier's atelier. To capture the frisson of the quotidian, Edstrom's pictures explore the possibilities offered by family pics, vacation snapshots, and found photographs - their approximate compositions, errors in lighting and focus, and often startling chance effects - as if to suggest that amateur photography may be the best model for refashioning fashion's image.

Olivier Zahm is coeditor of Purple Prose and a frequent contributor to Artforum.

ArtForum via findarticles.com

 

[volodina]

Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2001 campaign shot by Anders.