Mikael Jansson - Photographer

[fierceboi]

Mikael is fierce

 

[Pedro]

Primavera Exhibition, October 2009

PRIMAVERA by Mikael Jansson
Stylist : Karl Templer/Streeters
Hair : Yannick d'IS/MAO
Make-Up : Mark Carrasquillo/Art+Commerce
Model : Anna Jagodzinska/Next
Photo Assistants : Lo Vahlström, Peter Mårtensson
Digital Technician : Eduardo De Ruggiero
Production : Link Details

Mikael Jansson celebrates spring...

Monday night will see the opening at Stockholm's classic Sturehof restaurant of the exhibition Primavera, named by Yours Truly, a series of powerful images, to phrase it moderately, by the one and only Mikael Jansson, my dear old friend and Big Brother in that big bad world of fashion – Sweden's greatest fashion photographer ever, in a league of his own, and indeed one of the world's greatest, with a list of clients that includes American, French and Japanese Vogue, Interview, Calvin Klein, Dior, Chloé, Donna Karan, Tod's, and so many more.

Since we discontinued the publishing of our own magazine Stockholm New back in 2002, Mikael hasn't produced a fashion story of this magnitude here in his homeland, but when Stefano Catenacci, the maitre d' at the legendary The Opera Celler grand eatery, asked him to contribute his own vision of spring for the restaurant's upcoming cookbook, which will feature His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf himself, Mikael accepted, flew in his team from Paris and New York, including Polish star model Anna Jagodzinska, and staged this horrorshow visual drama, inspired by Peter Greenway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", of course with the raw, blood-dripping lamb meat as the spring part of it all, the son of a buther as Mikael is...

Phrasing it mildly once again, the images weren't quite what The Opera Celler or the publishing house Bonniers had expected. That they wouldn't want to touch them even with a ten foot pole, as the American says, was something that Mikael should have been able to figure out with the less noble parts of his body. It's so much just like him to execute his idea all the way out all the same, cost what it will, without worrying all too much about the consequences. I can see the expressions on the faces of ladies at the publishing house when they first laid eyes on these pictures. The Royal Court most likely never got to see them, which was probably just as well for several reasons...

My even older friend Pelle Sturén, patron at Sturehof, has been asking Mikael to exhibit something at his restaurant for many years. As he usually does, Mikael has answered that he would very much like to, the day he has something suitable for the venue. When the Opera Celler and Bonniers very definitely turned the story down, the awaited phone call finally came, when Mikael said that now he did indeed have something "suitable". Pelle and Sturehof flex some gusto when they now go ahead with showing these images originally produced for their competitor. The exhibition has been deemed so controversial that the restaurant has fashioned a curtain seperating the dining room where the images are exhibited from the rest of the large brasserie.

It will be interesting to follow what kind of response this shall we say alternative spring vision will trigger among the restaurant's guests and others, considering that back in the days when Mikael and I regularly produced large-scale fashion stories together, we were just as regularly faced, in Swedish media and elsewhere, with the most atrocious accusations, for elitism, sexism, promotion of twisted beauty ideals, drug romanticism and god knows what, even nazism and pedophila – all this for images that were considerably more innocent than the ones that Mikael is now showing at Sturehof.

Claes Britton | Oct 16, 2009

Related : Press release download

Sources : brittonbritton.com, cafe.se

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

so strange, what only now we`ve learned this... will this material be published (or already have been) perhaps, as a book or something?

thank you, Pedro!

 

[Pedro]

^ I don't know anything else beyond these beautiful and powerful images that I just came across while googling the photographer's name. Very Newton material!

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

yep, its oblious reference, and i dont like that vibe, furthermore thanks to colours and meat theme it looks like steven klein plagiarism. and i dont like the reinvention of vamp style. newton is newton. you don`t have to repeat him. jansson`s work are enouth recognizable to do not re-peat anyone else.

 

[Pedro]

I agree absolutely with you but nowadays every time a fashion shoot or an advertising is planned, even with the best photographers in the fashion business, the creative team behind it always rely on references from the past, Meisel is no exception.

When I see a Steven Klein spreads with blood and dead animals, as he did for both L'Uomo Vogue and Vogue Hommes Int, always comes to mind Francis Bacon's meat paintings and the artist portrait from 1952.

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

refer to Bacon isnt that guilty, cause it was longtime ago, it was painting, and you can call it inspiration showing your polymathy eventually, but just rip-off obvious advertising images published 20 years ago- thats not really.., you know...

 

[testinofan]

Great photos i hope pubish the book of this

 

[Fiercification]

Those photos do indeed remind too vividly of Klein's last editorial for Vogue Hommes F/W 2009. I don't see a distinct Jansson aesthetic there, it's a little grotesque for his style. Yes there are always references to Newton in his work, and there's always a prominent sexuality, but something about these shots feels very contrived and indescript.

 

[testinofan]

yes i gree Fiercification but in general are first idea of Newton

 

[Mirik]

Kellan Lutz - Interview Magazine

diary.ru/~madame-g/p104840210.htm

 

[Mojopin]

ARENA MAY 1996
'THE GETAWAY'
photographer: Mikael Jansson
models: Marc Vanderloo & Mini Anden



my scans

 

[VogueGirl8910]

US Harper's Bazaar Covers

May 2000
Models: Frankie & Missy Rayder


June 2001
Models: Gisele & Patricia Bundchen


January 2000
Model: Gisele Bundchen


bwgreyscale.com via archive.org

 

[ChrissyM]

i love those 3 bazaar covers...
still remember when they came out...
i was in high school

i remember loving the sister covers especially and the rayder sisters in particular..
somehow the sweater with the bikini somehow seemed genius and both girls look radiant

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Interview May 2010
"Let's Get Lost"
Models: Daria Werbowy, Ajak Deng, Oraine Barrett, Raschelle Osbourne, Sedene Blake, David Agbodji, Salieu Jalloh, Armando Cabral, Adesuwa Aigheni, Carmelita Mendes, Manuel Ramos, Kelly Moreira, Rafton Glean,Peter Giang, Dorian Cobb, Lisalla Montenegro & Pablo Contreras
Fashion Editor: Karl Templer



interviewmagazine via kwonsm

 

[Diorette]

Vogue Paris June / July 2010 (HQs)

L'heure bleue
Photographed by Mikael Jansson
Styled by Anastasia Barbieri
Model: Isabeli Fontana



scanned by Diorette

 

[bones]

CFDA Awards 2008 Book


powerspacex @youtube

 

[VogueGirl8910]

US Vogue June 2010
"Two If by Sea"
Model & Star: Raquel Zimmermann & Matthew Morrison
Fashion Editor: Edward Enninful



fashiongonerogue via ThiagoMello

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

Une Volupte sauvage


Vogue Paris november 1996

Stella Tennant & Eric by Mikael Jannson
styled by Delphine Treanton






scanned by Alien Sex Friend @ fashion_screen​

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

will post more of his works in some hours- need to go right now