Video: Grotesque, black humor and other oddities: Les Krims photo books
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In The Dark Knight, the Joker paraphrased Nietzsche's famous dictum into this: "What doesn't kill us makes us … weirder!" If we are talking about the famous photographer Les Krims, who has not gone beyond any limits in more than 40 years of his career (naked men and women in the most grotesque situations is only one of his chosen topics), you can add - what are you the stranger you are, the more famous and interesting you are.
In his photographs, the American Les Krims mixed a lot of things. A lot of nudity, unusual subjects, a lot of black-and-white and color photographs, a lot of surrealism and black humor.
Les Krims was born in 1942 in Brooklyn. Richard Ben-Veniste, the man known for his persecution of President Nixon, was a classmate of his during his high school days. In the 60s, he began to gain weight as a master of photography with his unique approach not so much to technique as to form. He combines his works in books, which he began to publish in 1972 in the publishing house Humpy Press, which he organized. Some of his collections of photographs - for example, “Fictcryptokrimsographs”, gained scandalous fame. Still, not every viewer is prepared for this: naked men, women, midgets, sexual fantasies, chewing gum and colorful popsicles. For these and other oddities Les Crims' photo books are famous.
For over 40 years he has been not only a photographer, but also a teacher, first at the Rochester Institute of Technology, then at Buffalo State College. Professor Crims, those less me, has not moved away from his photo business and is now selling copies of his work on his website. In addition, information about new exhibitions of the photographer comes up from time to time.
Les Krims is probably one of the first provocative photographers. Nowadays there are many talents in this area - it is worth remembering at least the amazing photos and non-standard advertising of Andrea Giacobbe. In some ways, he may have even surpassed the Forest, but, as they say, you need to know your roots.
The Internet is full of information about him - from Wikipedia to his official website, where he talks in detail about each cycle of his work. Certainly, each selection deserves attention, be it “Making Chicken Soup”, where the naked mother of the photographer prepares chicken soup according to the traditional recipe, or “The Incredible Case of the Killer Pancakes,” where he parodies forensic photography using friends and family members as victims.
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