YURUO CHEN 3 books

Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth was born in 1954 in Geldern. He is best known for his museum, portrait and street photograph. He studied painting and he started his photographer career with the encouraged of Richter. He did not use strong contrast and used logic of central symmetry, because he liked greyish. This technique makes the picture neutral. He wanted to show the relationship between people and cities. His new book Walking was published in 2013 with 132 photographs. This book was somehow different between his last works. There was no many information in each photograph, and he imposed some humble discoveries during the walking instead of bigness and technological marvel. There was no high contrast in the photograph and most of the pictures were showing some normal door and window in the street. The whole book makes people feel relax and comfortable. He might want to express his new understanding of cities and buildings. His simple relaxing composition and style attract me and remind me to be curious about every part of the cities. I also like his ways to view a city and remind me that tiny thing also can create great story.

Lia Chavez

Lia Chavez, a 38 years old woman, is a multimedia art worker in New York. She likes using the physical universe and some astounding lights to create abstract from. Her works have scientific background, because she has asked for help from neurosciences for decades. She meditates for electroencephalograph, and the light she uses is based on her neural activity in her brain. So, she uses dynamic light and composition to imitate the time and space. She wants to explore the relationship of the world in inner and outside perspectives in her photographs. In her a thousand-year book, we are easily to find that all pictures were composed by many human form, and she put different parts of body together to create the abstraction. All the background is dark, and the human forms are somehow flesh color and transparent, which make the pictures look weird but interesting. The reason I like her works is that her photographs contains freedom; she put body intentionally to make human escape from the heavy pressure reality. I feel relax when I look her works, because I really feel disconnect with the true world and stay in a secret in my brain or inner world.

Murat Germen

Murat Germen was born in 1965, and graduated from MIT. He is an artist using photograph as an expression. He likes to shoot some famous culture sceneries which combines experimental photography with the tradition documentary photography. He likes to shoot the grand city view from a grant positions and architectures for reflecting more broadly about the social and to show how the cities developed. Single building, construction site and cityscapes were interpreted in his aesthetic expression.  In his book, he is inventing some new cities with his specific city planning ideas. We can recognize the city at first glance and then we will find out that there are many different details get away from original cities. In his second part of book, FACSIMILE, he combines cultural, economic and social factors together to generate some line in the photography. These lines are reflecting the economic tendency, and some are reflecting the currency changing and some are reflecting culture changing. The first reason why I like his work is that his photographs are so interesting, and I think he make distort cities at first. I think he uses layer, but I find out it is not simple latter. After the research, I am attracted by his works more, because there are many hiding information behind the photographs, and each detail stand for some specific meaning.