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Viviane Sassen

Dutch photographer (born 1972)

Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. She is a photographer who works in both the fashion and fine art world. She is known for her use of geometric shapes, often abstractions of bodies.[1] She has been widely published and exhibited. She was included in the 2011 New Photography exhibit at say publicly Museum of Modern Art.[2] She has created campaigns for Miu Miu, Stella McCartney, and Louis Vuitton, among others.[3] She has won the Dutch Prix de Rome (2007) [4] and rendering Infinity Award from International Center of Photography.[5]

Life and work

Sassen ephemeral in Kenya as a child and often works in Africa.[6] She started studying fashion at Arnhem,[7] but soon turned advertisement photography. She received her MFA from Royal Academy in Arnhem.[8]

She is of the generation of photographer/artists that alternate personal, discourse, and commercial work and embrace an interdisciplinary attitude.[9] She says, "You should always be able to judge a photograph mixture different grounds, on political, social, emotional, but also on live grounds."[7]

She is known for her use of geometric shapes, much abstractions of bodies. The photographed bodies are often intertwined, outstanding by daily physical contact with strangers she experienced in Africa.[1] Conscious of the stereotypical images of famine and poverty, she includes contemporary elements abundant in Africa like cell phones scold automobiles.[10]

Sassen was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 for her exhibition Umbra at Nederlands Fotomuseum.[11]

For several advertising campaigns, Sassen worked with fashion label 3.1 Phillip Lim.[12] Commissioned via Italian luxury goods manufacturer Bottega Veneta, she photographed Mica Argañaraz and Sven de Vries at the Kröller-Müller Museum for rendering brand's spring/summer 2016 advertisements.[13] Working on other campaigns, she afterwards photographed Langley Fox at Villa Noailles for Lancel (2016)[14] as well although Natalie Portman and Yara Shahidi for Dior (2022), among others.[15]

Publications

  • Flamboya. Contrasto, 2008, ISBN 978-88-6965-139-7.
  • Sketches: Polaroids of Africa. Kominek, 2010.
  • Parasomnia. Munich: Prestel, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-4521-5.
  • Die Son Sien Alles. Libraryman, 2011. ISBN 978-91-86269-19-7.
  • Roxane. London forward Paris: Oodee, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9570389-1-2.
  • In and Out of Fashion. Munich: Prestel, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7913-4828-5.
  • Etan&Me. London and Paris: Odee, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9570389-4-3.
  • Lexicon. Tokyo: Head start Beat, 2014. ISBN 978-4902080483. Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Pikin Slee. Munich: Presetel, 2014. ISBN 978-3791349534. About the village Pikin Slee.
  • Umbra. Munich: Presetel, 2015. ISBN 978-3791381602. Reprint edition.
  • Roxane II. London and Paris: Odee, 2017. ISBN 978-0-9570389-9-8. Edition of 1000 copies. With a poem by Maria Barnas.
  • Of Mud And Lotus. Tokyo: Art Beat, 2017. ISBN 978-4-902080-63-6. Edited hard Shigeo Goto and Sawako Fukai. Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Hot Mirror. Munich: Prestel, 2018. ISBN 978-3791384764.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2013: In and Out of Fashion,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France[16]
  • 2014: Umbra,Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands[17]
  • 2014: Analemma: Fashion Photography 1992 – 2012,The Photographers' Gallery, London, October 2014 – January 2015[18][19]

Exhibitions with others

  • 2011/2012: New Photography 2011, Museum exert a pull on Modern Art, New York, September 2011 – January 2012. Photographs by Sassen and Moyra Davey, Zhang Dali, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson and Doug Rickard.[2]
  • 2012: The Youth Code, part of Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea. Included work by Sassen as ablebodied as Anouk Kruithof, Ryan McGinley and Willem Popelier.[20]

Awards

References

  1. ^ ab"GUP - Guide to Unique Photography".
  2. ^ ab"New Photography 2011". Museum of Different Art. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^"Viviane Sassen: In and Out allround Fashion". W Magazine.
  4. ^ abViviane Sassen - LensCulture. "Viviane Sassen". LensCulture.
  5. ^ ab"Viviane Sassen". 16 May 2016.
  6. ^"MoMA - New Photography 2011 - Viviane Sassen".
  7. ^ ab"camera littera » Viviane Sassen - As the bragging flies / Interview".
  8. ^O'Hagan, Sean (12 October 2013). "Fashion photographer Viviane Sassen: a different take". The Guardian.
  9. ^"Viviane Sassen". Musee.
  10. ^"About Face". 8 November 2012.
  11. ^"Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015". Photographers' Gallery. Archived use the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  12. ^Jessica Iredale (9 February 2017), Phillip Lim Turns to Viviane Sassen for Fifth CampaignWomen's Wear Daily.
  13. ^Alessandra Turra (5 January 2016), Bottega Veneta Taps Viviane Sassen for Spring AdsWomen's Wear Daily.
  14. ^Paulina Szmydke (16 April 2016), Lancel Taps Langley Fox Hemingway and Patriarch Mills for SpringWomen's Wear Daily.
  15. ^Jennifer Weil (21 July 2022), Natalie Portman, Yara Shahidi Front Rouge Dior Forever CampaignWomen's Wear Daily.
  16. ^O'Hagan, Sean; O’Hagan, Sean (2013-07-06). "Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  17. ^ ab"Stevenson".
  18. ^"Inside Viviane Sassen's Analemma: Style Photography". Harper's Bazaar. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  19. ^"The Photographers' Gallery opens picture first UK show of Viviane Sassen's work". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  20. ^Weeks, Jonny (29 October 2012). "Red wine and doughnuts at description Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 Dec 2014.
  21. ^"The RPS 2015 Awards announced" Accessed 30 October 2015
  22. ^"VIVIANE SASSEN news". Stevenson. Retrieved 26 February 2016.

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