While Tanaami, now 86, did experience multiple Allied bombings during the war, he concocted that particular memory of terror in the field. Tanaami, recounting the memory decades later, said he even glimpsed the pilot in the cockpit as the plane flew across the field. In slow motion, she fell back to the ground. And then suddenly, a fighter plane shot her, blasting her into the air. As he cowered in the grass, a young woman in a red dress appeared, only her upper body visible. During World War II, when he had fled the capital with his mother and two brothers to escape the incessant firebombings, he recalls running to an open field after hearing an air raid siren. The following is for subscribers only.When I visited him recently at his Tokyo studio, Keiichi Tanaami, one of Japan’s premier pop artists, told me a horrific story from his childhood. You have 60.61% of this article left to read. On the professional side, he does a series of spots for Ikea, Leerdammer cheese, the Destop Turbo unblocker, shoots a few clips for Renan-Luce Where the singer Daphne… In the early 2000s, Shulman fell in love with a French woman and moved to Paris. A destiny mapped out for this son of an accountant who grew up not far from film sets, in the wake of his father, a longtime friend and financial manager of the English director. DANIELE RATTIĪt the end of his studies, Shulman signs at Partizan (the production company which represents the director Michel Gondry), and embarked on a career as a commercials director. To train the eyes of the students, “the teachers had given instructions not to film anything for a year and to stick to the photo”, he explains. During his first year at the National Film School in London in the 1990s, Shulman accumulated dozens of portraits, mostly of strangers arrested in the streets of the British capital, where he was born. Lee Shulman, 49, is “fallen into” The Anonymous Project, in 2017, when, thanks to a move, his father returned him a box of slides dating from the time of his film studies. These amateur images of melancholic beauty become the vestiges of a time of innocence in the representation of the intimate self, to which the silver grain offers a veneer of authenticity in the age of Instagram filters. From the walls of the Gare de Lyon, in Paris, to the parks of Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), passing by the Olympic swimming pool of Deauville, Arles photography festival or the façade of the National Automobile Museum, in Mulhouse, but also in South Korea, New York, London… Everywhere, The Anonymous Project and its vintage aesthetics intrigue and question professional photographic practice. One of the photos is signed by photographer Martin Parrthe other is anonymous, a scene of daily life unearthed from oblivion by Lee Shulman.įor five years, the Briton at the head of The Anonymous Project has been exhibiting prints of slide images from the 1930s to 1980s in elaborate stagings. Here, bodybuilders proud of their abs there, close-up of birthday cakes here again, nails painted red enclosing the foot of a cup in a decor that we guess festive. On the walls of the Magnum gallery in Paris, diptychs are hung, without captions. MARTIN PARR/MAGNUM PHOTOS AND THE ANONYMOUS PROJECT COURTESY OF POLKA GALERIE The diptychs on display at the Magnum gallery combine a photo by Martin Parr (left) with an amateur photo.
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