CINEMATIC SCENES
April 25 – May 20, 2020
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality”
The Selects Gallery is pleased to present a new curation of photographs exploring the cinematic style in photography and the reciprocal influence of the two media.
This series of images selected for their reference to key filmmakers celebrates the influence of cinema on still images. Many of the major movements in cinema, from German Expressionism to the French New Wave, have had lasting effects on the practice of still photography. Renowned directors such as Fritz Lang, Sergei Eisenstein, and Alfred Hitchcock, for example, had distinctive visual signatures, which have influenced generations of modern and contemporary artists.
With images from internationally renowned photographers such as French photographer Andre Carara whose images inspired by Fellini, Bergman or Bunuel, are stories built as stop motion inspired by a location that resonated with the artist, Italian Giovanni Gastel whose images are like a movie with an old fashioned charm or Kenneth Willardt whose high energy and glamour images celebrate the many movies shot in French Riviera.