Product photography 21st century
Alexandra Baumgartner is a German artist working in various fields of art: collage, installation, painting and object art. Her work is most often based on found photographs, as well as on furniture and everyday objects. Historical portraits and images are cut out, partially painted over and combined, putting mostly anonymous source material into new contexts.
Valérie Belin is a French art photographer. She lives and works in Paris.
Her work takes the form of photographic series. In the 2000s she started using digital post-production tools which gave her greater freedom to change and control the chromatic values of the prints. She now produced her first series in colour. In 2009 Belin began to use other kinds of digital manipulation, heightening the hybrid, graphic and artificial dimension of her work. These include solarisation and overprinting. Since then, she has also worked with other abstract vectorial forms, like digital "readymades" found on the internet, which she reworks on the computer, melding them with her images.
Bernhard Johannes Blume is a German art photographer.
Bernhard Blume and his wife Anna Blume created many staged black and white photographs in which they themselves took part. They are considered among the pioneers of staged photography.
William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include William Eggleston's Guide (1976) and The Democratic Forest (1989).
Elsa and Johanna are a creative duo of photographic artists and filmmakers.
They were finalists for Prix HSBC pour la photographie 2016 and won the second Prix Picto de la mode 2017.
The duo's clients include well-known publications such as Le Temps, Boycott Magazine, L'Express 10, Crash Magazine, Etro, Boucheron and Apple.
Klaus Goedicke is a contemporary German photographer, a disciple of Bernd Becher.
Klaus Goedicke creates straightforward, bright and impeccably composed still lifes. His specialty is object photography and his subject is consumer culture: plastic bottles, household items, food. Everything is photographed against a flat, colourful background to draw the viewer's attention to form. With its frontal straightness, glossy sheen and precise lighting, Gödicke's work is reminiscent of the visual language of advertising.
Ralf Kaspers is a contemporary German photographer.
He is attracted by monumental themes (nature, cityscapes, architecture) as well as ornamental microcosm consisting of countless combinations of identical small objects.
The constant change of themes and subjects allows the author to explore in detail the most important artistic categories such as form, texture and rhythm.
Russell Maltz is a conceptual sculptor, artist and photographer living and working in New York, USA.
Maltz creates work using a wide range of materials, from concrete cinder blocks, glass and clothespins to found wood panels, PVC pipes, paper and swimming pool; he collaborates with construction companies and enjoys photographing art-like industrial trash.
The artist paints the plywood panels in part monochrome and then assembles sculptural objects from them, with some parts visible and others hidden. Maltz also finds abandoned and unseen building materials, which he transforms into works of art with paint and minimal intervention.
Cornelius Quabeck is a German abstraction artist. He often depicts humanized animals and monkeys, there are also portraits of television and music business stars - with a few strokes Quabeck puts animal ears, scars on their faces and turns them into hybrids. Kwabek also creates a series of subject photographic works.
Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes. She is part of The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s. The Pictures Generation also includes Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Louise Lawler.
