About the Work
This photograph is from the series American Mornings, and appeared on the cover of the Art Review student issue in 2002. Shrouded in a mist that takes on an almost anthropomorphic form, the dissipating moisture seems to curl back into the margins of the composition, unveiling the hollows of Virginia, the landscape on the border between Louisiana and Mississippi.
About the Artist
Poppy de Villeneuve is a film director and photographer whose subject matter includes rodeos, music festivals, airports, celebrities, and the great American West. Her surreal images, muted in tone and strikingly candid, capture people and places when they have their guards down—couples kissing with abandon, models deep in thought before posing for a shot, the desert at daybreak, before it wakes up for the morning.
In the past few years, her work has increasingly appeared both in exhibitions and in the media. She not only shoots regularly for publications such as The Telegraph and Vogue, she also recently directed five short films for The New York Times set in Central Park that star Macaulay Culkin, Quorianka Kilcer, Mary Beth Peil, and Edoardo Ballerini. Her clients include Anthropologie, Burberry, Art Review, Nylon, Jimmy Choo, Monocle, and Philips du Pury.
In 2010, several of her works were exhibited at Colette in Paris, and her short film for Nowness.com (a website for LVMH) was shown at the Pompidou Centre in Paris earlier this year, winning the Shu Uemura Beauty Prize.
Artspace Edition
Description
Color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper with glossy finish.Authentication
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity and an artist signed label on verso.Dimensions
This print contains a border as dictated by the artist to allow for framing and the quoted dimensions are for the paper size and not the printed size of the image itself.Shipping
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