Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Dalia’s “Mirror” is a collaborative homage to the acclaimed French art/fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, who had an obsession with mirrors.She worked with Peuxswau, who also created an homage to Bourdin. It is always fun to see how different people shoot the same scene, especially when they have an inspiration as iconic as Bourdin.
Could there be more Bourdin homages around Second Life? Indeed, click on!
Here is Peuxswau again, creating an homage along with SL artist Difficult Conundrum. They’ve recreated a picture he shot for Vogue in 1984. (See at right.)
As you can see, while Peuxswau recreates a fabulous homage, Difficult Conundrum uses the idea as a launching pad for a much more abstracted pop image.
But then the graphic power of pop art is what she loves. I’ve featured both of them in the past. For Peuxswau, click here. For Difficult Conundrum, click here.
More on Bourdin from his Wikipedia:
Guy Bourdin was among the first to imagine fashion photographies that contained fascinating narratives, dramatic effects with intense color saturation, hyper-realism and cropped compositions while he established the idea that the product is secondary to the image. Bourdin's photographs are often richly sensual but also rely heavily on provocation and ability to shock. Bourdin configured a whole new visual vocabulary with which to associate the goods of haute-couture. The narratives were strange and mysterious, inspired by literature, cinema and art history.
As you can see, while Peuxswau recreates a fabulous homage, Difficult Conundrum uses the idea as a launching pad for a much more abstracted pop image. But then the graphic power of pop art is what she loves. I’ve featured both of them in the past. For Peuxswau, click here. For Difficult Conundrum, click here.
This is another homage from Peuxswau. It’s from an unpublished picture shot in 1978. Can you imagine not publishing that picture? She did another fabulous recreation, but Google wouldn't like it.
One of the striking features of many Bourdin images is the highly stylized poses he had the models stand in. Way back in 2009, a posemaker created a couple of poses from his work. I would not suggest looking for them, though, since her most recent picture is from 2012 and they are not on the Marketplace. I included the picture to show there have been Bourdin fans in SL for a while.
Myra Wildmist did “Flipped Out” which is a clever riff on Bourdin’s love of showing only portions of the model’s body, often in weird contexts. Upside-down legs certainly fit the requirements. I also featured Wildmist a while ago.
I love it when people pay homage to the great artists and photographers of the past. It’s exciting to see their work recreated in Second Life. I think Peuxswau is the queen of artistic homage and I love that she has done some collaborations. Who else is paying homage to the artists of the past?
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Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
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