Juri Ueno

Selected pictures Contemporary Art exhibition "Celebrities: Myth and Realities".

For more information about the exhibition and other pictures, click on LINK

© 2009 Ivan P Simeon / MySimeon.ch

A few words about the ideas behind this exhibition and the technical concept of this art work:

All pictures of this exhibition have been made with Polaroid 665 positive/negative film. Polaroid stopped making this film some years ago and the stocks and warehouses are now empty. The unique look of these pictures is due to the fact that the Polaroid 665 films were expired. Lots of the pictures were lost and others have this strange scratches and bruises. The negatives, which size is 3.25 x 4.25 inches (8.5 x 10.8 centimeters), suffered also from solarisation. The cameras used are an old Mamiya RB 6x7 with a Polaroid back and a 127 mm lense and a Cambo Passport Camera Model 40 with four lenses.

For the exhibition, the pictures will be manually enlarged on an optical enlarger, such as the Durst 4x5 inch. The pictures will not be retouched or altered in any way using computer technology.

The global idea is to do something which can't be made anymore, and which never has been done, mixing old technology with the modern world.

Some feedback I got:

In June 2009, I attended Art Basel 40, were I got valuable feedback from galleries, collectors and some curators. I was very happy to hear that the quality of the work was considered very high and that the techniques used were thought surprising and original. Others noted that this was the first time somebody did such a project on a worldwide basis (Europe, USA, Japan and Russia), embracing various cultures, and that it was very different from the majority of contemporary art photo projects.

More about this project, including making-of pictures, by clicking on LINK

Thanks very much to Trey Shores. He did an amazing job as Executive-Producer and without him it wouldn't have been possible to achieve all that work in Japan.

Thanks to Piaget Japan, to Salvatore Ferragamo Japan, to Gianfranco Ferre Japan and their brand TFC, to the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, to Baume et Mercier, to Hama Make-Up and Hair, to the people of Amuse Inc ( Hiromi Okiyama, Yuki Yamato, Hiroko Suda), to Asano Etuo and the people of The Chef's Garden Farm and to all the others who helped us.

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