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Julian Schnabel's Big Pictures

January 19, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Suzanne van der Lingen writes about The Hague Photomuseum’s show of large format Polaroids taken by Julian Schnabel who apparently has one of the 20 x 24 cameras (the museum calls his camera home-made but doesn’t explain its origin.)

The exhibition consists of large format polaroids taken by Julian Schnabel at his studios and homes, picturing his surroundings, friends and relatives. Besides these familial ‘snapshots’, there is also a series of portraits of mentally ill patients- portraits taken in the 19th century and re-photographed by Schnabel using his homemade polaroid camera the size of a fridge. […]

All in all, a great show with some beautiful work to be seen. But of course, I don’t need to tell Schnabel that. I’m sure he already knows.

Julian Schnabel: Polaroids, The Hague Museum of Photography(Suzannevanderlingen.com)

The Hague Museum of Photography

Schnabel: Hopper No Dilettante

July 12, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Julian Schnabel defends his friend Dennis Hopper from accusations that the actor, photographer and art collector was a dilettante, in Jori Finkel’s excellent story in the Los Angeles Times:

“What is a dilettante anyway?” he continued. “How hard is it to be an actor and wait for directors to get a job? Are you a dilettante because you do what you want, or a professional because you’re getting paid?”

He went on to describe Hopper as a conceptual artist with a painter’s eye, who saw paintings in everyday life. He glanced at a wall of new photographs: color-drenched digital images printed on aluminum, “taken right from Dennis’ camera” and printed for the show. These shots, like a close-up of a building wall painted a brilliant red, verge on painterly abstraction.Continue Reading

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