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Miles Aldridge's Erotic Dreams
British photographer Miles Aldridge is renowned for his surreal fantasies and acid-colored fashion images. VIEW OUR (NSFW) GALLERY from his latest exhibition and hypnotic new book.
British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge credits luck for the reason he became a photographer. Pitching photos of his girlfriend to become a model for British Vogue, the magazine’s editors ended up preferring his talent to her look. That was the mid-1990s and since then Aldridge’s career has skyrocketed. Working for Vogue Italia, Numero, Paradis, and The New York Times Magazine, he has established himself as an inventive artist with an acute sense of color and impeccable eye for style.
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The subject of a latest show at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, Aldridge has been gathering art-world attention over the past few years with 2006 and 2008 solo shows at Galerie Alex Daniels-Reflex Amsterdam and a spring 2009 solo exhibition at Hamiltons in London. His work was also included in New York’s International Center of Photography group show, Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, which took place earlier this year and featured avant-garde practitioners of the trade.
Aldridge’s show at Kasher, Pictures for Photographs, presents an overview of his erotically charged, surreal, cinematic, and pop imagery from the past eight years, along with drawings and sketches in notebooks used to plan the perfectly produced photographs. The exhibition features a selection of images from his new Edition 7L monograph, Karl Lagerfeld’s publishing imprint with Steidl. Lagerfeld had a hand in picking the whimsical sketches in the book, while Aldridge and the venerable German art publisher Gerhard Steidl selected the psychologically engaging, narrative prints.
The son of the celebrated illustrator and graphic designer Alan Aldridge—who’s been dubbed “the Man with the Kaleidoscope Eyes” because of his iconic Beatles album covers—Miles Aldridge has been lucky in love and art. Married to the former supermodel Kristen McMenamy, who occasionally pops up in his pictures, Aldridge is most fortunate to have a vivid imagination and an obsession for detail that delivers the final knockout punch in all of his super-smart imagery.
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Mr Aldridge"s pics from this collection have great production value and no surprises...Being all about surface, there's nothing going on from the inside...Helmut Newton on the other hand is a much better entertainer...His pics will make you think and smile, even when explicit.
Another photo of a female model who looks like a sickly boy. It's degeneration, not beauty. Eat!
This is some genuinely tacky sh-t.
Fairly mediocre photography. The kudos should go to the stylists.
yawn yawn yawn-- superficial (helmut newton's no better) but I must admit, well done
Technically, these photographs are a noteworthy achievement. Conceptually, they're steeped deep and rich with narcissism that, paradoxically, reveals more ugliness than beauty.
My 16-year-old niece would probably find these images sophisticated. Which is exactly why they are not sophisticated.
rarely i feel the need to comment...
but this is another blatant ripoff off my fav Guy Bourdin.
and Newton has NOTHING on Bourdin.
google Guy Bourdin and see for yourself, sadly he is no longer with us to defend himself against such an onslaught
Somebody please take the tasteless (no pun intended) photo chopped picture of inflated lips and inflamed tongue down. They do not even look real or inviting, just repulsive.
The contrivance
Prevents me
From seeing the art.
Sorry,
I don't get it. It grates. Is that the desired effect?
Narcissist men pseudo artist trying very hard to understand beauty and creativity. The more jealous these men get about the power of femininity, the more pathetic they become. Wake up guys and start making art from men about the world because so far is all you've got to make in your life AND it could be wonderful. But let women explain to you what you've never will get in this life (at list).
You see Creativity is more that style and some clearly super controlled views! Creativity comes form within and it open all your senses to nature (In and out). Certainty your art has nothing to do about enlightening us and lots to do ONLY about you!
nobody liked it? i'm very surprised. miles has been one of my favorite photographers for years now. he is what most fashion photography strives to be, except on steroids, with a facelift and with a sense of parody so subtle and blunt at the same time that you all miss.
i cant begin to explain how retarded comparing miles to helmut newton is. its like comparing ramon casas to eugène delacroix. sami rintala to françois mansart. it does nothing but reveal how unaware you are of photographic tradition, contemporary aesthetics or art in general. why don't you go ahead and compare him to kodelka or gursky? :(
mile's photos are so subtly (the selection here is no good, go to his website) constructed and his treatment of the 'surface' is so carefully crafted, it ceases to be the surface and becomes an essence in itself. like many contemporary artists (raymond meier, thomas ruff) they're all about the banal distinction and surprising tension between surface and essence most of you color blind people take for granted and etch in stone.
shame on you for criticizing something you are far from understanding.
Thank you.
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