Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel (Julian Schnabel, 1951 -) was born in New York, lives in Montauk on Long Island. In 1965, he and his parents moved to Brownsville, Texas, and later entered the University of Houston schools. In 1974, he returned to New York to participate in an independent study course at the Whitney Museum.

In 1978, Schnabel traveling in Europe , focusing on the study of Italian painting , especially Anjie Ke , the works of Giotto and Caravaggio . Meanwhile, Antoni Gaudi buildings in Barcelona are also attracted to him. Childhood, he began his painting , his work in 1979, held the first solo exhibition in New York ‘s Mary Boone Gallery . Today his works exhibited around the world , who took part in the Venice Biennale . His paintings and sculptures are also held large-scale retrospective , and are museums and galleries around the world collection. Since 1996 , he has written the screenplay and directed the film himself , and was invited to the Venice Film Festival , has been winning many films . And now we see Paula works , it is the first time he presented to the audience of still photography .

Schnabel has many pictures in my mind . As an American painter and director , but in the past few years taken a number of unusual screen, use the 70s of last century, a rare 20 × 24 inches Bora camera. These impressive large screen size Bora , both black and white, color , and brown tones . These works have a strong aesthetic power and touching atmosphere.

Schnabel was the first shot in the 2002 film Bora , followed unstoppable income , and it would have accumulated hundreds of pieces of the picture . He said: ” These pictures are just some lucky coincidence – someone gave me a camera has been used for the auction house …… I never thought of myself as a photographer .” But everything is so rapid development . “I use the camera to start recording some of my finished space and objects , that would be it .”

Indeed, he was taken with the camera around the screen , his family and his friends , painting and sculpture exhibition of his studio and on – his life and work connected with the screen up . Including full humane portraits, such as Reed , Placido Domingo , Rourke and Sydow and so on. Also includes a private room in Manhattan , by his own design and decoration , Brooklyn, Montauk , etc. studio. He recorded with artists keen eyes all around , including the journey had seen. He said that for him the existence of Paula ‘s picture is the ” record ” is a comprehensive profile of his life . However , inadvertently , all those fleeting moments transformed into a highly personal and poetic images . These seem to have the magical power of images , some with a rich sense of humor , and some have great power of art . These are images of friendship , love, video , dynamic life, but also possibly with sadness. But there is little doubt : Record conversion of life into art.

－－－－－Mickey Rourke

－－－－Domingo

－－－－Takashi Murakami

－－－－－Lou Reed

Schnabel’s shot from the picture in his mind already had, including his use of art created in different ways, such as painting, sculpture. In photography, large format camera just Bora provides the most obvious visual space, but also exaggerated the artist’s intuition space. Such a unique, unique picture, like a primitive pinhole camera, rather than sophisticated equipment, but seen from the viewfinder screen picture is reversed. Meanwhile, the whole process is so simple, it is to collect light and then quickly transformed into photographic paper – it seems the whole process is the collection process light. This layer sense, perhaps the most suitable camera object is a painter, even though the operation is so bulky.