Video: The Girl in the Ball: Black and White Pictures by Melvin Sokolski
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American Melvin Sokolski became famous in the field of fashion photography back in the 60s. At the age of 25, he shot, perhaps, his most famous shots - the Bubble photo shoot for the famous Harper's Bazaar magazine. Black and white images show a model hovering over the city, untouchable and cut off from the world. To see how the flying fashionista looked against the background of ordinary Parisians almost half a century ago, let's go to 1963.
Melvin Sokolsky was born and raised in New York, where he began his career as a photographer. Already at the age of 21, the talented author of black and white photographs joined the staff of the famous magazine Harper's Bazaar, and then began to collaborate with other publications, for example, with Esquire. Over the years, his portraits of world celebrities began to appear in museums and exhibition halls (including the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum).
In addition, back in the 60s, Melvin Sokolski began teaching at the New York School of Visual Arts and began filming advertisements for television. Thoughtful and well-shot videos have brought the director and cameraman in one person many awards. In the 70s, work on special effects in cinema was added to the track record.
During his long photography career, Melvin Sokolski has worked with Ben Affleck, Naomi Campbell, Tony Curtis, Danny DeVito, Mia Farrow, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins, Barbra Streisand, Twiggy. And also to shoot well-known and not so famous politicians and make advertisements for American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Chrysler Motors and many other companies.
“I have always been interested in how light can change the mood and even the meaning of the situation,” says Melvin Sokolski. Even as a child, the future photographer watched how a room was transformed if candles were lit in it. He has not forgotten his early impressions and now believes that "the success of the picture depends on the harmony between the concept and the lighting: everything has its own light."
The Bubble series of black-and-white photographs tells the story of a beautiful, well-dressed woman who lives in a transparent ball. What does this bubble represent for its inhabitant: salvation from the roughness of the world or the curse of loneliness? Or is what we see in the photographs just a beautiful illusion that is about to burst like a soap bubble?
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