Posted December 18, 20186 yr Quote Photography is the art of both life and death. What the photograph captures is a life in one still moment, but what the photograph always implies is the death of its subject. If the person in the photograph has not died, he or she eventually will. The fact of death, or the inevitability of death, is part of what gives photography its magnetic power. A remarkable photograph haunts us not only because of its composition, or lighting, or content, but also because of the tension between the mortality of what has been captured in the photograph—a person, a flower—and the immortality of the photograph. This tension animates the oeuvre of Satoshi Saïkusa, perhaps even more so because much of his work deals with beauty. In his guise as a fashion photographer for high-end magazines, he dwells, at least some of the time, among certain species of the exceptional: the rich who can make themselves beautiful, the famous who are extra-alluring because of their celebrity, or the lucky who were born hyper-attractive. For those of us who see these exceptional people only in Saïkusa’s photographs, they appear human and beyond human at the same time. (...) In his artwork, Saïkusa translates this tension between life and death, beauty and decay, artifice and reality. The still life (in English), or nature morte (in French), are preoccupations for Saïkusa. The different names of the genre in two languages signal how life and death are both involved in the staging of the beautiful or memorable subject, or object. (...) But Saïkusa’s work isn’t always about the spectacular, the beautiful, or even the grotesque (the skulls, the menacing, enigmatic sculptures, the freaky installation called the “Peeper Beaster” that is shrouded in a thick, shaggy mat of hair). Sometimes he fixates on the quotidian, like his hypnotic video of people crossing the famous intersection of the Shibuya district in Tokyo. Saïkusa’s camera gazes silently at the hundreds of anonymous faces, as if trying to see what might lie beneath them, as if the camera could be an x-ray machine. (...) For him the face is important and not important. The face is our humanity, but we divide ourselves on the basis of our faces, into nations and races. We deny the universality of our faces by trying to discern what is beautiful or ugly, or trying to define what binds us to a smaller fraction of humanity. And by so doing, we also deny the universality of what lies behind this face—the skull. As Saïkusa’s alluring work shows, the skull endures, as much as beauty does. Death, his work seems to say, give meaning not only to life but to beauty. A hard truth, but something that Saïkusa’s discerning eyes notice, even if many of ours do not. Text by Viet Thanh Nguyen (excerpts) American writer, his novel «The Sympathizer» won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016 satoshisaikusa.com
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Paris November 1994 Ultra Violet Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Model: Phoebe O'Brien Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé Hair: Valentin Makeup: Anne Cosani Scanned by kelles @ tfs
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Paris October 1995 Six Airs de Noir Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Model: Phoebe O'Brien Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé Hair: Stéphane Lancien Scanned by kelles @ tfs
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia September 1994 Lo Smoking Oggi Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Fashion Editor: Mika Mizutani Model: Phoebe O'Brien Hair: Barnabe Make-Up: James Kaliardos Vogue Italia Archive via cottonmouth13 @ tfs
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia August 1993 Tin Soldier Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Fashion Editor: Mika Mizutani Hair: Barnabe Make Up: Topolino Model: Patricia Hartmann Scanned by LylaScans @ tfs
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia July 2003 "The Black Dress that Cannot Be Given Up" Models: Hannelore Knuts & Hana Soukupova Photographers: Satoshi Saikusa & Nathaniel Goldberg Stylists: Mika Muzutani & George Cortina Hair: Damien Boissinot & James Brown Makeup: Karim Rahman & Inge Grognard archivio.vogue.it
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia February 1995 Bella Donna Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Fashion Editor: Mika Mizutani Model: Carla Bruni Hair: Renato Make-Up: Delphine Ehrhart Vogue Italia Archive via cottonmouth13 @ tfs
December 18, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia December 1993 Minimal Barocco Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Fashion Editor: Mika Mizutani Hair: Barnabe Make Up: Topolino Model: Meghan Douglas Scanned by LylaScans @ tfs
December 24, 20186 yr Author Vogue Italia November 1989 "Linea Contrapposta a Punto" Models: Lesile Navajas ? & Kirsten Owen Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Hair: Perrine Rougemont & Ward Makeup: Régine Bedot & Kenny Campbell archivio.vogue.it
June 27, 20195 yr Author Vogue Italia October 2003 "Full Seduction" Model: Eva Herzigova Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Stylist: Alice Gentilucci Hair: Stéphane Lancien Makeup: Pascale Guichard archivio.vogue.it
July 12, 20195 yr Author Vogue Italia July/August 1988 "Segni di Pizzo" Models: Unknowns Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Stylist: Mika Mizutani Hair: Martyn Fosscalder Makeup: Pascal Guichard archivio.vogue.it
September 9, 20195 yr Author Vogue Italia March 1994 "Provocante, Siderale, Evanescente" Models: Jaime Rishar, Helena Christensen, Karen Ferrari, Stella Tennant & Unknowns Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Stylist: Alice Gentilucci Hair: Valentin Makeup: Topolino archivio.vogue.it
September 9, 20195 yr Author Vogue Italia March 1994 "Colours & Colours" Models: Karen Ferrari, Jaime Rishar & Unknown Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Stylist: Alice Gentilucci Hair: Massato & Valentin Makeup: Jim Bresse & Topolino archivio.vogue.it
November 8, 20195 yr On 9/9/2019 at 4:23 AM, Vogue Girl said: Vogue Italia March 1994 "Colours & Colours" Models: Karen Ferrari, Jaime Rishar & Unknown Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Stylist: Alice Gentilucci Hair: Massato & Valentin Makeup: Jim Bresse & Topolino archivio.vogue.it Stella Tennant
November 12, 20195 yr Author On 11/8/2019 at 9:02 AM, Minerva13 said: Stella Tennant I forget to write her name, thanks.
December 16, 20195 yr Author Vogue Italia September 1995 Pure Black Photographer: Satoshi Saikusa Fashion Editor: Mika Mizutani Hair: Stéphane Lancien Make-up: Pascale Guichard Model: Christina Kruse archivio.vogue.it via aracic @ tfs
February 7, 20205 yr Magazine: W (January 1995) Title: Penn Pals Photographer: Satoshi Saïkusa Model: Kate Moss, Nina Brosh scanned by cottonmouth13
February 7, 20205 yr Magazine: W (April 1995) Title: China Syndrome Photographer: Satoshi Saïkusa Model: Chandra North scanned by PhilA
February 7, 20205 yr Magazine: Jane (August 1998) Title: The Eccentrics Photographer: Satoshi Saïkusa Model: Alexandra Egorova, Audrey Tchekova, Ayumi Tanabe, Allison, Mini Anden, Camellia Clouse, Lida Egorova, Charlotte Connoley, Crystal, Amy Nemec, Ginger, Saskia bwgreyscale
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