Vivier is
an artist and filmmaker who works in fashion. Highly influenced by the
aesthetics of cinema, her work has a taut and psychological edge that contrasts
with the beauty of the subject matter. The use of narrative is very important to
her work as it allows viewer to see beyond representation, and her idea is to
allow for different interpretations and for imagination.
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| Camille Vivier, Unititled, Caroline, 2003 |
“Taking a fashion photography is about creating
a mise-en-scene where each detail must serve the image. When everything
functions, then one can bring together a likely quirky, nearly magical
situation.” (Camille Vivier, 2003)
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| Camille Vivier, Unititled, Caroline II, 2003 |
This series
of photos called ‘Untitled’ (2003) shows a young girl sitting on a fireplace
and lying on the floor/bed in the house possibly at the night time. Images are
dark with strong shadows. In both photos she is wearing white dress. In the
second photograph dress reminds me of nightwear, which suggests that the girl
was supposed to be sleeping, but for some reason she is not. It seems that the
girl is looking into nowhere that her thoughts are far away from the place that
she is in.
Images are strangely
calm and at the same time makes me feel uncomfortable. The darkness, shadows
and coldness of the photos makes it look that they can be in a vision, that
they are not real. Darkness and shadows also allows to concentrate on the details,
for example her expression. In the first image there is a feeling that
something is going to happen and in the second one that something already
happened.
These
photographs reminded me of my own project about sleep paralysis. These photos
have a psychological edge. It feels to me that the girl is suffering from some
kind of sleep disorder and she cannot sleep at night, that is why she is
sitting on the fireplace in the middle of the night.
I really
like the style of the photos and I would like to use that in my own project. I
believe that the strong shadows and darkness helps to express the feeling that
people who suffers from sleep paralysis have.
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