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Biography: Camille Vivier was born in 1977 in Paris. She began taking photos at the age of 18. She studied Fine Art in Paris and at Central St. Martin’s in London. She won the 1998 Hyeres Festival Photo Laureate award as well as the PICTO Kodak Talent award in 1999. Her work includes art and fashion, and has been published in various magazines and exhibited in several galleries. She has also shot photographs for advertising campaigns. She lives in Paris, France.
Significance: Camille Vivier's work is known for it's use of color, light, and shadow. Her photographic work takes inspiration in mythology, literature and cinema, with a shadowy universe.
Composition: Each photograph is theatrically staged employing props and light to play with the formal beauty of the subject, while revealing a certain strangeness among the stillness. Vivier uses literature, cinema, and art history to reinterpret common cultural references and create a personal collection of curios and imagery of characters.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: In a reinterpretation of pictorial genres like nude or still life, or magical imagery, she creates her own personal mythology, taking inspiration into literature, cinema, painting and other cultural references more or less conscious. Her pictures are more into a mental and abstract sphere than a realistic world and her settings can be compared to small and fantastic theater scenes. Recently she has started filmmaking in the line of her photographic work.
Method: Vivier has gained a reputation for being a masterly manipulator of light and shadow. She is open to experiment with things, especially regarding light. She believes that the subjects, even if they’re recurrent, should take many different shapes.
Motivations: Vivier's motivation is to create her own mythology through her photographs by molding her scenes and subjects to fit the visions in her mind.
My Opinion: I really like Vivier's use of color and light in her photographs. She masterfully gives her subjects an almost dream-like quality. I think her photographs are particularly well suited to the realm of high fashion, which is where Vivier has gained most of her success. Her photographs are able to capture not only the viewer's attention, but also their imaginations. In my opinion, she is one of the most talented fashion photographers I have seen. I really enjoy her work.
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