Sois Belle 6.2
DESCRIPTION
Archival ink on museum-quality cotton rag paper | 2014
Look once—then look again. These luscious, surreal images from Photographer Annelie Vandendael challenge the unrealistic standards of perfection set by fashion photography, provoking playfulness rather than airbrushed beauty. With her Hasselblad camera, Vandendael glorifies the authenticity of female beauty through surreal compositions taken in analogue format. She’s titled her newest series of photographs Sois belle (be beautiful), a cheeky command to merge imaginatively with a larger than life environment — an environment that often includes improbable elements like pink flamingos and ice cream. Sois Belle describes the human being, and especially the women who are protagonists of her shots, not as an object to manipulate, but on the contrary as an integral part of nature.
DIMENSIONS
20 x 20 inches
32 x 32 inches
40 x 40 inches
49 x 49 inches
59 x 59 inches
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
20 x 20 inches
Matted: 28 x 28 x 2 inches
Full Bleed: 21.5 x 21.5 x 1.25 inches
20 x 20 inches
Matted: 40 x 40 x 2 inches
Full Bleed: 34 x 34 x 2 inches
40 x 40 inches
Matted: 48 x 48 x 2 inches
Full Bleed: 42 x 42 x 2 inches
49 x 49 inches
Matted: 57 x 57 x 2 inches
Full Bleed: 51 x 51 x 2 inches
59 x 59 inches
Full Bleed: 61 x 61 x 2 inches
AUTHENTICATION
The work comes with a Certification of Authenticity signed and numbered by the Co-Founder of Tappan
Studio Visit
“I depict the human being rather as a piece of nature than as an object,” Vandendael says.
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“I like to work with analogue cameras. It feels more realistic, today it is not obvious to see real images, many are manipulated and photoshopped.”
About the Artist
Annelie Vandendael
Annelie's bold photographs have been featured in L’officiel, MyDomaine, Elle NL, Vice, Harper's Bazaar Mexico, Vogue Living Australia, Artforum, the Museum of Photography Den Haag, and most recently, curated into Pharrell's Miami luxury hotel project, The Goodtime Hotel.
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