ARTISTAS SEAN UNIDOS | LA VIE EN ROSE

LA VIE EN ROSE

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PHOTO: OLIVER BLOHM

MAKE UP: TIMO BLOOM

MODEL: DEBORAH WALICE @ SEEDS

PHOTO ASSISTENT: CARO OLBERTZ

published on Artistas Sean Unidos

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60HZ & CARLSBERG | KLENK TO HEAVEN COLLAGE

KLENK TO HEAVEN COLLAGE

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Collage for Carlsberg and the 60HZ Club in Berlin. 

IMPOSSIBLE | "RARE METALS" COLOR 600 GOLD AND SILVER ROUND FRAME

"RARE METALS" COLOR 600 GOLD AND SILVER ROUND FRAME

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Experimental photographer Oliver Blohm was the first to test out the film, “The new frames are very interesting for me, especially because they’re suspending our usual expectations and regulations surrounding what a typical image should look like. They offer an alternative approach, another way to compose the images and an exciting “new” point of view. 

In the early years of photography, photographers would apply the emulsions by hand on the carrier plate and touched the images at the corners, which lead to uneven and dirty areas. To hide this, they would then set the pictures within round or oval-shaped frames so that only the neatest part was visible. As well as generating this vintage feeling of old images, it’s an unusual frame which is building up tension in a different way. We are used to seeing pictures in rectangles or squares and get used to it. The round frame is a really cool eye catcher in our image dominated world.  

For me as a photographer the most important advantage is to play with the form, which is forced on the picture by the frame. I tried to focus on the middle and imagine where the circle could be. With this round frame design, the frame has a larger surface area than in other Impossible frame editions—generating another value of color and adding to the experience of the final images.   

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SEHNSUCHT 02 | ART VENDUE AT KÖNIGLICHE PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR

"SEHNSUCHT 02"

at the KÖNIGLICHE PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR

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That was an exciting auction this evening

at the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur.

I'm very happy about the result and the amazing feedback

for the heliogravure "Sehnsucht 02".

The proceed will be donated to the Telefonseelsorge

to provide new projects to help children.

RARE METALS CAMPAIGN | THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT

RARE METALS

for THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT

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Campaign pictures for golden and silver "Round Frame Edition"

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8x10 PORTRAIT OF DAVID ABUBA @ PS MODELS

RALPH LAUREN | DENIM & SUPPLY

ARRAN GREGORYS for DENIM & SUPPLY

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Experimental Polaroids by Oliver Blohm

were part of the Ralph Lauren show in Berlin.

WOESKE GALLERY: MATTER OF PROSPECT

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Collective exhibition with Rose-Lynn Fischer

11.10.2014 - 12.12.2014

Woeske Gallery

Mommsenstr. 35

10629 Berlin

8x10 PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND

OOB MAG | SHADOWS ONLY BY OLIVER BLOHM

SHADOWS ONLY

for OOB MAGAZINE

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PHOTOGRAPHY: OLIVER BLOHM

STYLING & JEWELRY: PERLENSÄUE

MAKE UP / HAIR: TANJA HENNING

MODELS: CARO BRUCHMANN @MOST WANTED & DEBORAH WALICE @SEEDS

PHOTO ASSISTANT: KORHAN ÖZBEK

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OOB MAGAZINE - 9/2014

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EXPERIMENT WITH THE NEW IMPOSSIBLE BW BETA FILM

BERLIN ART WEEK 2014 | SEHNSUCHT 02 AT POSITIONS BERLIN

BERLIN ART WEEK 2014

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SEHNSUCHT 02 AT POSITIONS BERLIN 

PLAYGROUND MAGAZINE | 10 ARTISTAS QUE DEMUESTRAN POR QUÈ LAS POLAROIDS NO TIENEN EDAD

10 ARTISTAS QUE DEMUESTRAN POR QUÈ LAS POLAROIDS NO TIENEN EDAD

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Artistas veteranos y nuevas promesas, todos unidos por el uso de las instantáneas

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IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 OF DEBORAH

UPCOMMING EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMMING EXHIBITIONS

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11.11.2014 / 5. Benefit Art Vendue at KPM Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur in collaboration with the Berlinische Museum Of Temporary Art - Berlin (Ger)    

30.10. - 08.11. 2014 / 5. Benefit Art Vendue Pre-Exhibition - collective exhibition at Mianki Gallery - Berlin (Ger)    

18.09. - 21.09. 2014 / Art Week Berlin - Positions Berlin Art Fair - Berlin (Ger)  

15.09. - 21.09. 2014 / Photokina 2014 - Presenting 8x10 at the Impossible Project Stand - Cologne (Ger) 

HELIO PRESS | OLIVER BLOHM: SEHNSUCHT ANALOG

Oliver Blohm: Sehnsucht Analog

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Die tiefe Schwärze in den Fotografien von Oliver Blohm hat mich sofort angezogen. Ich finde, sie gibt seinen Bildern eine subtile Kraft.    

Und natürlich ist sein analoger Prozess mit all seinen Spuren, Unschärfen und Zufällen ein besonderes Beispiel für ein künstlerisches Schaffen mit handwerklichen Mitteln. Großformatige Polaroids, Arbeit mit der Mikrowelle und ähnliches sind nur einige Beispiele für Olivers große Experimentierfreude. Die Ergebnisse sprechen für sich!    

Wir hatten das große Vergnügen eines seiner Motive zu drucken, welches dann auf der 5. Benefiz-Kunstauktion zu Gunsten der Telefonseelsorge Berlin versteigert wird. Vorher werden Olivers Werke und die vieler anderer Künstler in der mianki.Gallery ausgestellt. Telefonseelsorge Auktion  

Das Motiv heißt „Sehnsucht 02“ und wurde in einer Auflage von 3 Stück auf Büttenpapier im Format 40×50 cm gedruckt. Ein wortwörtlich beeindruckendes Portrait!

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | MAKING WAVES

MAKING WAVES

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A YOUNG ARTIST CREATES RIVETING PORTRAITS BY MICROWAVING FILM 

Here's What Happens When You Put Instant Film in a Microwave. - A German photographer made a name for himself by treating his photos like last night's leftovers.    

Oliver Blohm and a friend were snapping instant photos at a Berlin beer garden when they had an idea. What if they burned the photos with lighters as they developed? Their experiment wasn’t entirely frivolous, though they had consumed a good amount of Berliner Weisse. They knew the chemistry behind photography and that applying heat would alter the development process. Sure enough, the lighters created unique textures and spots on the photos and left them curious.    

“This is how Oliver works,” says his friend from the beer garden, Michael Fischer. “First he has a spark in his mind and one or two months later he has this great idea.”  

The trick was protecting the images from getting too hot and bursting into flames, which Blohm accomplished by inserting them between thick paper and a layer of glass. The resulting prints were beautifully discolored and warped. “It’s about the destruction,” Blohm says. “I wanted to play more and more with the texture, with the burns, with the flares.”
“This is how Oliver works,” says his friend from the beer garden, Michael Fischer. “First he has a spark in his mind and one or two months later he has this great idea.”  

“There’s a history of people manipulating instant prints,” says Brenda Bernier, chief conservator at Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center. Products like those sold by Polaroid and The Impossible Project are easy to manipulate because they contain complex layers of dyes and chemicals. “They are a technological marvel,” she says. “It’s essentially it’s own dark room.”  

The science behind Blohm’s method is simple, according to Philip Sadler, director of the Science Education Department at Harvard. “Whenever you speed things up, things become uneven,” he says. “You get different colors, you get burns, discoloration.”  

James Foley, who worked at Polaroid as a chemist during the heyday of instant film, says they designed the material inside the film to react at a certain time. “By heating this up,” he says, “you could release things before all of the photographic chemistry was done,” resulting in those artistic flaws.  

Earlier this year, Blohm went pro with his microwave photos. He hired models, who sat there as he dashed over to the microwave and worked his magic. Blohm titled the series “Hatzfrass,” his German translation for “fast food.” When The Impossible Project opened a store in Berlin, they invited him to exhibit the series. He even brought a microwave so he could nuke other people’s photos. Since then, “Hatzfrass” has gained the attention of bloggers. Some fans have even sent him their own microwaved images. Still, amateur photographers might want to play it safe. “It’s not gonna go nuclear,” says Ken Foster, a bioengineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania, “but you might need to have a fire extinguisher handy.”

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GALLERY INSTANTLAND | WORKSHOP WITH OLIVER BLOHM

POLAROID WORKSHOP

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION, DOUBLE EXPOSURE, MANIPULATION & EMULSION LIFT  

We are going to deal with double exposures on SX70, 600er and Image/Spectra cameras and get a bit dirty while going inside of the film.  

The recent emulsions of the Impossible films are more elastic and resistant. The generating emulsion lifts and transfers the pictures to different grounds than paper and it is still simple to manipulate the images during development.  

The workshop will take up 3-4 hours.  

When?
13/09/2014 at 1PM

Where?
Sofortbild-Shop Berlin / Gallery INSTANTLAND
Mulackstr. 22
10119 Berlin

How much?
50€ incl. cameras and materials

Registration?
10 - 15 participants

How?
Please send your participation to instantland@sofortbild-shop.de

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MTV | 1993: DIE ZUKUNFT DER FOTOGRAFIE

1993: DIE ZUKUNFT DER FOTOGRAFIE

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ANFANG DER NEUNZIGER TUMMELTEN SICH STARFOTOGRAFEN IM MODEBUSINESS. HEUTE SIND NOCH IMMER VIELE VON IHNEN AKTIV, MÜSSEN SICH ABER GEGEN DEN NACHWUCHS BEHAUPTEN.. . 

Anfang der Neunziger war das Modelbusiness in fester Hand. Nadja Auermann, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford. Makellose Schönheiten, die von Topfotografen perfekt inszeniert wurden. Zumindest bis Kate Moss mit ihren 1,70 m um die Ecke kam, 1993 eine große Calvin Klein Kampagne landete und mal eben den Heroin Chic in Mode brachte. Wer jetzt aber denkt „Oh, arme Claudi“, kann sein Mitleid an anderer Stell unterbringen. Natürlich blieben die anderen Grazien dick im Geschäft, es entwickelte sich nur zusätzlich eine unkonventionellere Ästhetik. Aber unbeachtet wie unterschiedlich die Looks der Models zu dieser Zeit sein mochten, ein hatten sie gemein: Das Glück mit den wichtigsten Fotografen unserer Epoche zusammenzuarbeiten.  

Im Jahr 1993 waren Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh und Richard Avedon bereits seit Jahrzehnten im Geschäft, Steven Meisel fotografierte seit fünf Jahren jedes Cover der italienischen Vogue, Bruce Weber machte seine Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien zu seinem Aushängeschild. Nick Knight trieb auch ohne showstudio.com sein Unwesen, Ellen von Unwerth wurde schon mit dem ersten Preis der International Festival of Fashion Photography ausgezeichnet. Das ehemalige Model Corinne Day verhalf Kate Moss zum Durchbruch, David Sims arbeitete für i-D und The Face. Diese Künstler prägten das Bild der Zeit, entwickelten die Darstellung von Mode weiter. Sie waren die Kuratoren der Popkultur und zeigten, wie wichtig ihr Beruf dafür ist.  

Viele von ihnen sind auch heute noch aktiv. Prägen noch immer das Bild unserer Welt. Und Tage für Tag kommen neue Talente auf den Markt, die ihre eigene Wahrnehmung der Umgebung in Fotografien festhalten. Jeder auf eine andere Weise.  

Der deutsche Oliver Blohm macht Kunstwerke aus analogen Fotos. Seine Werke sind hochästhetisch und vor allem sehr experimentell. Oder habt ihr schon von einem anderen Fotografen gehört, der seine Polaroids in die Mikrowelle steckt, um so spezielle Effekte zu erzeugen?

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