From the ’80s onward the visual world of fashion, advertising and music has been profoundly affected by Jean Baptiste Mondino’s images.
Beauty, fashion and sex are his sources of inspiration in his photography, along with rock music and contemporary pop, film and youth culture, territories infused with the poetry of the trivial and humdrum.
With an infinite wealth of invention, a scintillating imagination, a brilliant ‘humour noir’, visions of alienating eroticism and a breathtaking rhythm, Mondino brilliantly brings together all these influences and ideas in images at the peak of aesthetic quality and technical skill.
His photographs are the product of carefully studied composition: before taking a photograph Mondino draws a sketch of the image he wants to produce. This gives his photographs a very static graphic set-up.
Colour is essential in his visual grammar: artificial, bright, lacquered colour, often incorporating fluorescent effects.
From the ’80s onward the visual world of fashion, advertising and music has been profoundly affected by Jean Baptiste Mondino’s images.
Beauty, fashion and sex are his sources of inspiration in his photography, along with rock music and contemporary pop, film and youth culture, territories infused with the poetry of the trivial and humdrum.
With an infinite wealth of invention, a scintillating imagination, a brilliant ‘humour noir’, visions of alienating eroticism and a breathtaking rhythm, Mondino brilliantly brings together all these influences and ideas in images at the peak of aesthetic quality and technical skill.
His photographs are the product of carefully studied composition: before taking a photograph Mondino draws a sketch of the image he wants to produce. This gives his photographs a very static graphic set-up.
Colour is essential in his visual grammar: artificial, bright, lacquered colour, often incorporating fluorescent effects.