“Reflexologie”
100 x 150 cm
ink on canvas

Conceptual photography as a part of conceptual art is a photography genre in which the artist makes a photograph of a concept or idea. Usually the conception of the idea precedes the realization of the photography. This kind of photography often involves use of computer editing to achieve the desired effects, but many artists work without the computer.

Artists

Some famous conceptual artists include Eugène Atget, Man Ray with his photographic technique ofsolarization, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman with her critical self-portraits, Herb Ritts with his “new Greek sculpture”, and Andreas Gursky and his “enormous photographs”. All of them use different kinds of setting of the objects and beings in their own photo-artworks with the intention of showing philosophical ideas or feelings.

The concept

Eugène Atget was one of the pioneers of conceptual photography. His famous work “Avenue des Gobelins” shows three mannequins in a window-shop; one of which is seen to be alive upon close inspection. Inside the shop between the two mannequins there is a man that wears the same clothes as the mannequins, has the same rigid posture. This can be interpreted as an allegory of modern civilization, representing the uniformity imposed on individuals by clothing

The prints are made in the highest quality, each print is  signed exclusively by the artist

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This photo serie started out as a project  I did, wanting to create an image bank to use for advertisements and developed into a much bigger scale with the photoshoots taking place in a kibbutz in Israel and later on in the Netherlands.

The subjects were asked to arrive to the photoshoot wearing  their work outfit and those who had no special recognizable outfit had to quickly choose a profession and than we improvised to complete an outfit.

It was interesting to see how people present themselves through their work and how they identify themselves through that.

The outcome is a crisp and cheerful collection of everyday people portraits.

Photography and concept by Michael Mann

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Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 52 trips to carry that many people.

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all the way from creative concept to final image.

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the title and theme is:  “for those who work”

giving the honors to the working people who usually don’t get to stand in the spotlights. 

making this  project took two & a half  weeks of intensive shooting and a lot of  fun. 

Photoshoot for Quince holland, samsung at the 2010 summer miljonair fair
in hotel Huis ter duin in Noordwijk aan zee, The Nethelands.

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