Paolo Roversi - Photographer

[annamaria]

Im writing my MA dissertation, its about fashion. Im looking everything about Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindberg, Newton, McQueen...
if somebody would like to help me...
what do you thing about all that pictures? about all that fabulous models? is it still about clothes or maybe about something else...
will be very very greatful
annamaria

 

[annamaria]

I cant belive in that, so many years and had no idea about that webside! you are all wonderful!! thank you so much for all that pictures!! Im back! I can write again! because of you! thank you thank you thank you!
PS very special thanks to Anna Karina!

 

[Estella*]

how sweet of you, i'm glad this forum could be of help, please keep us updated on your work... sounds very interesting

 

[masquerade]

i dont like it at all,

its all blurry and aged looking. nothing modern or fresh about it


and the high contrast... its like bad myspaces pics

 

[annamaria]

so what and who is fresh and modern?
i dont think is all about that any more... i try to find out why is like that and why fashion photographers, designers are "playing" in this weird way with women body. Is it still about clothes, new collection? Im not so sure any more...

 

[Estella*]

well, masquerade... modern and fresh aren't exactly the terms i connect with roversi either. but i would very much like to see any myspace pictures that have the intense and dark atmosphere roversi is able to create, he works with the technique of photography but in the tradition of old masters of painting...

and annamaria, i agree, fashion photography has long developed as an art form in itself, it's more about what the clothes evoke than what they look like.

 

[annamaria]

all that macabre,small scenarios...
why they do that?
for me roversi is so interesting because he exactly knows that fashion is about novelty and about nostalgia in exactly the same time. so we have that fabulous masquerade (i think masquerade is a right word when we talk about roversi, special kind but still), thats postmodernism and cyberkulture i quess, all that dualism we dont know what to do with... do they know? I dont think its about clothes any more, they sell the image, the quesion is why that kind of image?
the biggest problem for me is that i cant really find some good (long) texts about them, interviews are always so short Im looking for their interpretations. i start to think that all that is: we watching and loving (how could we not to?) that pictres, images... where is an author?!

 

[Estella*]

^maybe you could even try to contact roversi personally as he is lecturing at a university?

here are two quotes from a conversation between roversi and designer nino cerrutti (i just learned that i share my birthdy with both of them) that i thought were nice:

cerrutti about roversi:
" i was always fascinated how paolo aimed to describe life by the action of light, rather than gambling with reportage ehich usually achieves only a spurious realism"

and:
"i always remember something very valuable üaolo once said about photography - that, for him, to succeed it must combine the light of the past with the light from the future"

from images/cerrutti by paolo roversi, published by steidl

 

[annamaria]

you lucky girl! birthday with such a company sounds good!
thank you Anna Karina, especially for the second one: "...combine the light of the past with the light from the future"
i think thats the most important thing about his pictures. you can say about the past, so looks like the future is that macabre...

 

[annamaria]

and one

 

[annamaria]

sorry about that.
Ive tried to find some contacts, but his webside still (?) doesnt work, there is nothing really on the school webside except his name.
my problem is that im doing modern literature and i write that interpretation in the way photographers probably wouldnt do, if you know what i mean. i feel like i shouldnt do that without knowing what an author thinks, about roversi withot roversi...

 

[Estella*]

I Love You by Paolo Roversi
Photographer
Running Time: 30 secs
Source: Deardorff 8x10, 3CCD Sony HDV Production Credits: Concept/Direction/Cinematography: Paolo Roversi, Model: Natalia Vodianova, Location: Studio Luce, Paris

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/movingfashion/movies/large.php/2005/12/15/2757

 

[so.like.a.rose]

amazing pics!beautiful!

 

[MulletProof]

i love the recent photos. i'm upset the video from showstudio is no longer available.

..and, pretty surprised to see no one has scanned the amazing editorial with tilda swinton and the girl from Memoirs of a Geisha whose name i cant remember . i didnt buy the issue (November Vogue) thinking most TFSers buy and scan the entire Vogue and now I'm disappointed.

 

[annamaria]

i love the recent photos. i'm upset the video from showstudio is no longer available.

..and, pretty surprised to see no one has scanned the amazing editorial with tilda swinton and the girl from Memoirs of a Geisha whose name i cant remember . i didnt buy the issue (November Vogue) thinking most TFSers buy and scan the entire Vogue and now I'm disappointed.

Ziyi Zhang and Gong Li
fabulous pictures
will scan them 2morrow, promise

 

[MulletProof]

oh thanks! . lovely, arent they?

dont forget the tilda one.

 

[annamaria]

Im so sorry MulletProof, i said i scan them today and i didnt. i had a big fight with my scanner. i havent been useing that for quite a while and dont now whats wrong but it doesnt work properly
i will scan them the first thing after xmas i just need to fix it of find somebody with one...
really sorry, hope you forgive me

 

[MulletProof]

oh, no problem, i can wait.

 

[Estella*]

i love the recent photos. i'm upset the video from showstudio is no longer available.

oh, you didn't miss that much. the camera was basically wandering over the photograph... well, it's a nice photograph

annamaria, thanks in advance
and don't worry, we're all patient

 

[MulletProof]

oh good to know .i thought it would be footage from the photo shoot..something like that.