Big crowd in front the gallery. Obviously Mr. Schnabel is here. OMG! I heard his captivating, deep voice and I thought he is a very interesting person. He was with his artistic attire that makes him seem so out of our times; it fits him as glove. The leading lady of his heart Rula was with lovely white official which contrasted very well her skin. The duo were the attraction of the event. Rula Jebreal is really impressing at live; Julian is not very tall.
I think these Polaroid portraits are very strong. They all are in very black frame with quite red as background.
The angle Schnabel shot his daughter Stella gives absolutely different idea about the woman human existence at all. His two daughters are very strong women. People like his exhibition – it`s genius, brilliant, the best artist and photographer alive ever. Old lady who looks as collectioner of his artistry begs on her old husband to buy her that brilliant piece of his artistry.
We know Julian Schnabel as a painter (the plates) and as a film-maker (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Now, with an old handmade Polaroid camera and a little help from his friends, he is making stunning photographs
His accomplice in this – and he refers to it as if describing a venerable, trusty friend – is his Polaroid camera. It is one of only six in existence: a 20x24in 1970s handmade machine. It is huge, cumbersome, intended for studio photography and greedy for flash lighting. But for Schnabel, it has been a revelation. He started taking photos as a personal record but became amazed by what his camera could do. "This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image."
The distance between the frames is very good, very well measured – it doesn`t press the viewer. I couldn`t find any information about the Polaroid photography all over the net, although Lola also practices it.
The Schnabel regular portraits are being transferred to Polaroid portraits, glued over white framed paper, as they are looking as old black – and – white photography. And then comes the very black wooden frame. The plain at the wall is dark – red – it is the colour of blood and revenge. So many of his photos – he loves sepia – seem to exist outside time. They describe an invented past.
The portraits are very, very good.
"Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it…"
Savannah Hope
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