JR made a name for himself
taking photos and pasting them on buildings around the world. His work usually provides an insight, reflection or celebration of the local community.
JR's latest project,
'Unframed', is a new direction: he's using source images from other photographers and pasting them out of context. In the process he's mixing cultures, re-creating historic scenes and creating fascinating contrasts. I love it, and I'm excited to see where this goes.
Source image: Man Ray
Source image: Robert Capa
Source image: Lucia Moholy
On the old prison; source image: Helen Levitt
Source image: Sebastião Salgado, Guatemala, 1978
On the old Ateliers mécaniques/ mechanical workshops; source image: John Philips, 'Corpus Christi workshops'
These are all in Vevey, Switzerland, as part of the
Images Festival, using images from
Musée de l'Elysée.
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more by JR.
artist: JR
location: Vevey,
Switzerland
images by Over The Moon
More great silhouette window stickers from Folie de BNC that create fascinating scenes when combined with the right view. See older work
here.
artist: Folie de BNC
location: Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
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Swiss artist 'folie de bnc' uses great silhouette stickers, often placed on windows to create a striking scene with the background through the glass
Folie de BNC also works with the Windowzoo distributed art project, which spreads silhouette window stickers of birds throughout the world
artist: Folie de BNC
location: Locarno + Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
