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Poster, “A
Requiem for Humanity”, designed by Majid Abbasi, Photo
by Stanley Greene, 2006 |
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“A
Requiem for Humanity” by Majid Abbasi and 80+80, Photo-Graphisme
Galerie VU and Galerie Anatome, Paris
November 9, 2006 – January 6, 2007
Majid Abbasi designed a poster, “A Requiem for Humanity” with one of
the Stanley Greene (USA) photos from Downtown Grozny in Chechnya
2001. Since the death of her child, Zelina has spent hours at a time
staring out of the window into the void. She says she feels dead-she
wishes death would hurry and take her away.
This is a part of 80+80 exhibition, photo-graphisme organized by
Galerie VU and Galerie Anatome in Paris.
80+80, Photo-Graphisme, as a part of celebration of VU’s 20th
anniversary, Agence VU and Galerie Anatome propose a unique
encounter between photographers and graphic designers. 80
photographers and 80 graphic designers were invited to participate
in this original and creative encounter in which each graphic
designer works on the creation of a poster around a collection of
pictures submitted to him or her. The photograph then becomes the
only constraint for the design of graphic image. How will the
graphic designer use the photographic image? How does the
photographic image condition – or fail to condition – the choices of
graphical and typographical compositions?
A book related this exhibition is published. This book is the
international forum where 160 creators confront their productions
mode, their choices, their vision, their images and their words. See
some other posters:
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80+80;
Poster of exhibition |
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www.galerie-vu.com
www.galerie-anatome.com
Stanley Greene was born in Harlem, New York in 1949. His father,
also Stanley Greene, had been a part of the 'Harlem Renaissance' of
the 1930s, an actor and an activist, who was blacklisted as a
communist in the 1950s. He kept in the business only through minor
roles in movies, his name not listed in the credits. Although his
father encouraged the young Stanley to think of a career in acting,
he decided he wanted to become a painter. His parents gave him a
camera when he was 10 and he used the camera to photograph material
for his painting.
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