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Hyperphoto: Jean-François Rauzier
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Waterhouse & Dodd Editions is pleased to announce the publication of Hyperphoto: Jean-François Rauzier, the first monograph on the life’s work of the extraordinary contemporary photographer Jean-François Rauzier. An entirely unique artist, Rauzier has been a true pioneer in developing the artform of digital photo collage and is widely recognized for his complex and large-scale signature technique. Incorporating elements from his extensive knowledge of art and history within detailed images of the most iconic cities and structures around the world, Rauzier transforms reality into fantastical dreams and visions of utopian architecture.
This beautifully crafted artist monograph contains over 70 vivid, full color illustrations of the most significant works produced throughout his career. Included with the images are interviews and excerpts from Rauzier on his inspiration and the artistic process by which he brings his images to life. The book also includes a forward by art dealer Ray Waterhouse and an essay by art critic Damien Sausset; the text within is in both English and French. This stunning coffee table book will have broad appeal for
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Our July Artist warrant the Month is the internationally acclaimed Sculptor photographer Jean-François Rauzier, who legal action Waterhouse & Dodd’s best-selling contemporary artist. We are happy to judgment a fresh short tv in which our Director archetypal Modern & Contemporary Artistry in Novel York, Sandra Safta Waterhouse, sits downgrade with rendering artist capable discuss his methods, inspirations, and fair he's faring during representation pandemic.
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In , while Jean-Francois Rauzier was a young man of 20 just finding his way in the world, he helped his uncle, a part-time photographer, develop black-and-white film in the darkroom. “When I saw the image emerge, it was like magic,” he recalls. “Yet it also rendered reality. I was hooked.” He went off to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière and for nearly 30 years enjoyed a successful career as a commercial photographer.
All the while, Rauzier was also working on more personal photographic expressions. Yet he didn’t make a true artistic breakthrough until , when traveling in Tuscany. The landscape enthralled him. “The vistas were so wide!” he exclaims. “I thought they were fabulous.”
They were, in fact, so expansive he couldn’t capture them as he wanted with a wide-angle lens. So Rauzier, inspired by David Hockney’s composite photographs, began shooting multiple pictures of the rolling hills and fields to a form a panoramic image. After successfully stitching the vista together digitally, he thought, Why not use two or three lines of images to expand the view?
Those experiments eventually led to the mosaic-style photographs, composed of up to 3, individual images, he now calls “hyperphotos.” He produces these works in editions of eight C-Type pr