Video: Crazy photo montage: Thomas Barbey and his surreal photos
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Works of the American photographer Thomas Barbey is a surreal kaleidoscope of images that adapts the ideas of Rene Magritte and Maurice Escher to modern technological possibilities. Barbie creates pictures that are sometimes witty, but sometimes scary.
Barbie has been making art since the mid-1990s, although at first he was primarily interested in music. The camera served as a source of income, not a creative outlet: Barbie made a career in fashion photography. Only recently has he found ways to express himself in a familiar craft.
Thomas Barbie calls Rene Magritte, Roger Dean and Maurice Escher his favorite artists. The influence of all three in his work is not difficult to trace. Barbie combines incongruous and disproportionate images in one shot. Sometimes it resembles an intellectual game in the spirit of the classics of surrealism, sometimes it resembles a logical riddle a la Escher.
But Barbie draws inspiration not only from visiting museums - but also from "travels around the world and the joys of everyday life," in his own words. Sooner or later, life experiences give rise to a concept that Barbie then consistently implements through photomontage.
Thomas Barbie is far from the only photographer who embodies the principles of surrealism in art with modern methods: he can be compared with Ben Goosens and Sven Prim, which Kulturologia.ru already wrote about. Barbie differs from colleagues in her spontaneity. He sincerely assures that his work can be understood by "a person who is theoretically completely unprepared", and his ability to create amazing and strange photographs is a "gift from God."
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