Photographer Profile ~ Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan  (1909-2003) was a French photographer and illustrator best known for his surrealist images and photographs of Paris. He exhibited alongside such greats as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Man Ray  Robert Doisneau , Willy Ronis to name a few.

"The long career of Pierre Jahan reflects independent behavior and even epicurean, and a tireless curiosity..."

Please visit his websiite here http://pierrejahan.free.fr/

 © Pierre Jahan

"I'm always fascinated by the play of light - and chance. Like everything that is in the shadow beings and things take a sort of drift similar dream, dream or nightmare, ecstasy, fear, entr'ouvent the door of the fourth dimension in which can not be really believe I have always lived. This is all that I have, no doubt, led to photography " 

~ Peirre Jahan

 © Pierre Jahan - Redevelopment of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre Museum in 1947 after WWII.

Statue graveyard Pierre Jahan

 © Pierre Jahan - Destruction des statues pour récupérer les métaux, Paris, 1941

Nude study, ca. 1940s Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Restaurant La Coupole, Paris, 1930

Pierre Jahan - Escalier près du Canal St Martin, Paris,1937

Pierre Jahan

Pierre JahanParis by Night, Bobino “Music Hall”, rue de la Gaité 14° 1936

Pierre Jahan

After the War, a new Louvre, transformed by major renovation

work, gradually opened to the public between 

1945 and 1947.

 And thanks to the skills

 and tenacity of those responsible for 

safeguarding cultural property, the 

museum’s major masterpieces 

returned to the palace, virtually unscathed. (Louvre)

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Sculpture de Reboul, 1941

La Tour Eiffel 1926

Pierre Jahan Tour EiffelPierre Jahan c.1930

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Colette à la fenêtre de son appartement par Pierre Jahan, Paris, 1941

Pierre Jahan, Paris, la nuit, 1930.

Pierre Jahan-Reconstruction of the temple of Angkor Wat in Bois de Vincennes at the International Colonial Exhibition, 1931

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan - Nuages, chevelure et mappemonde, avant 1948

Poupées accrochées à un mur by Pierre Jahan, 1945

Pierre Jahan

Pierre Jahan Photogravure Lerulé ~

1946

Main aux yeux, 1947 by Pierre Jahan

Photographers Willy Ronis and Pierre Jahan at work, Paris 1950 - by Marcel Bovis

Portrait of Pierre Jahan

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Wacky Surrealist Chinese Photographer, Li Wei, Takes the Art World by Storm

Li Wei (born in 1970, Hubei, China) is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in gravity-defying situations.  His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

'My artistic language is universal and deals with themes about contemporary politics and society using symbols understood by everyone in every part of the world.'I am fascinated by the unstable and dangerous sides of art and I hope my works reflect these aspects.'

Wei's photos, which sell up to $8,000 (£4,200), have depicted him free falling from tall buildings-pictures that resemble the famous photograph of the French artist Yves Kline hurtling out a window.
The artist loves the reaction that his work evokes from people who pass it on the street. [via wiki and other sources]

"My goal is to make everything impossible possible, I hope one day I can shoot on the moon with a rocket." ~ Li Wei

Li Wei dressed as a Monk is lowered into position via a crane and some heavy duty cables. 

(Fontaine of Lyons at La Villette in Paris)

*Click on images for a larger view*

Behind the scenes Photoshoot for WALLPAPER Magazine. For video hover over image with cursor)

Interesting behind the scenes video of Wei at work. Sorry about the horrible video quality. It must  have been shot with a cell phone from 1993

See an interview with Li Wei here

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