Thomas Demand
Clearing
2003
192 x495 cm C-print/Diasec
VG Bild Kunst, Bonn
Even though Thomas Demand stages his photographs I still love the way he captured this image with the rays of light beaming through the leaves of the trees. The light creates shadows and dark areas in the picture and gives me the feeling of fantasy or adventure. It's definately amazing how real this looks and feels. I think what he was trying to say in this picture was a "one moment" to capture and to see the light shine through and give romance.
The way he captured this photograph was he constructed the Clearing in the huge former warehouse that serves as his Berlin studio. This stage model was a handmade forest, embedded in a steel frame that measured approximately 50 feet long, 18 feet high and 32 feet deep. The 270,000 paper leaves were die-cut in 80 different shapes, then glued one by one to cardboard trees and bushes.
It is pretty awesome how Thomas Demand could stage beautiful scenes and how real it looks. It's pretty intense to know it took 270,000 paper leaves and they were cut 80 different ways. His photographs also give me that feeling of fantasy and or adventure, specially in this image.
ReplyDeleteWow. I'm very impressed. I would have never guessed.
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing picture. I like how the sun rays is going through the beautiful trees.
ReplyDeletei know right! so romantic hehe
DeleteHe is really creative! I thought it is a real forest, I can't believe that he used the paper leaves to create the trees. It is amazing! I like the light as well.
ReplyDeleteGreat Demand image! In an interview he said that they used a heat lamp to give the proper light for the image, and they were worried that all their work could go up in flames!! Can you imagine??
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Tremendous skill, but what is the point of the image? What idea is he trying to express?
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