| 词条 | Michael Meyersfeld |
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}}{{Infobox artist | name = Michael Meyersfeld | image = | image_size = | alt = Michael Meyersfeld Portrait | birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1940|06|05}} | birth_place = Johannesburg, South Africa | nationality = South African | spouse = Saranne Meyersfeld | website = {{URL|meyersfeld.com/}} }} Michael Meyersfeld is an award-winning fine art photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. Life and work Born to a South African mother and French-German father, Meyersfeld’s interest in photography began at a very early age when he made his first contact prints from a Baby Brownie camera under a stairwell at his family home in Johannesburg. He was schooled at King Edward Vll, and attained a B.Com. in 1961, from the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he joined the family steel merchandising business. During the following two decades Meyersfeld ran a dual life, that of business, as well as the ever-growing love affair with photography, stimulated by the members of the Camera Club of Johannesburg. This period, under the tutelage of some very progressive members of the Club, saw his solidifying interest in fine art photography, the mounting of several exhibitions, and establishing himself on the International Salon Circuit. Michael Meyersfeld is known for his strong narrative-based images in both the fine art and the advertising genre. He is known for his stark, sometimes sombre, lonely and edgy imagery presented as social commentary, for images with subtle nuances such as fear, titillation and humour designed to portray emotional and behavioural patterns. He recently achieved his Honours in History of Art from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and is currently working on his Masters. He lives in Johannesburg with his wife Saranne. Advertising and Fine Art PhotographyAt 47, he left the family business and for the next twenty years worked as an advertising photographer, all the while exhibiting his fine art work. “When I observe something that moves me, there exists within me a very definite need to capture this observation, and if need be, I will return to this point many times until I feel that I have achieved my aim”. Most of Meyersfeld’s photographs require a level of ‘staging’, to create his recognisable style of image and his experience and success in advertising contributed to these representations. His practice as an artist has always been informed by a strong sense of planning, by attention to aspects such as finding the correct location, selecting the cast and the wardrobe. As examples, Life Staged, a series consisting of four bodies of work, 12 Naked Men (2007), Woman Undone, (date), Guests at the Troyeville Hotel (date) and Urban Disquiet (date), all attest to Meyersfeld’s preference to construct images with the make-believe allure of theatrical performance. ‘Each image can perhaps be compared to a “still” from a movie,’ he argues in his artist’s statement on the subject, ‘except that this one image must contain all the emotions that would perhaps require several minutes of film. The “audience” can sit back and indulge in all the emotions presented without fear of being trapped in reality. “The dead man lying on the stage floor with a knife in his back does get up when the curtain closes.” On “Stillness”Meyersfeld noted he was never entirely comfortable with the comment “ lonely “often applied to his work. But later, in 2013, Dr. Gerhard Schoeman used the word “ stillness “ to describe Seapoint Swimmers one of Meyersfeld ’s images in his publication “ Thinking Photographs - Art, History, Time and Reproducibility “. For the first time, Meyersfeld resonated with that intuitively applied adjective, stating: “It is perhaps this stillness, that enthrals me. I feel that for the most part, we live in a world so frantic, that we forget the beauty of the creation of stillness and how it can impact on our lives. Whether it is the stillness of joy, or the inevitable stillness of death, there is inherent in nature, a facet of beauty”. (Meyersfeld 2013) Abstract workGradually the representational has made way for pictures that happen without planning, intuitive images that could be read as abstractions, as less representational, less reliant on meaning and understanding, more inclined to be felt, to be experienced. In Meyersfeld’s recent collection of images the volume of the external world have been turned down in order that both the artist and the viewer could hear and feel the silence. His recent pictures “require a different type of eye, not the eye indoctrinated to understand, to fathom, to find a narrative. With an eye liberated from the dominant quest to find and attach meaning, more faculties, other than just the cerebral, are employed to sense and experience form, shape, texture, play of light, distance, connections and conversations between the photographs” (Johan Myburg, 2018). CareerMeyersfeld photography began at a very young age. He obtained a B.Com degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. He entered the world of professional photography in 1970. His fine art and commercial work co-existed for the next 20 years. In 1998 his focus changed to fine art; exhibition and publications. AwardsMeyersfeld has won numerous awards, the most recent being a Gold at the London AOP Awards. AOP Awards London
Pendoring Awards
Sony Profoto Awards, South Africa
Cannes Lions Advertising Festival
The One Show, New York
The Andys, New York
Clios Advertising Awards, USA
New York Advertising Festival
London International Advertising Awards
The Eagle Awards
Creative Circle (South Africa) & Ad of the Month
The Loerie Awards, South Africa
Exhibitions
PublicationsMeyersfeld has published two books, the first being the gay and lesbian GAZE,.[6] The second book, Life Staged[7] accompanied the exhibition of the same title. Work in selected public collections
References1. ^2010 - Gold Non-Commissioned Body Single - http://entries.the-awards.com/myentry_public_popup.php?&eid=3225&i_no=0&awd_cat_id=33 {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyersfeld, Michael}}2. ^2009 Sony PROFOTO Awards - {{cite web |url=http://www.thecallsheet.co.za/daily_news/view/1110 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-06-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130421222728/http://www.thecallsheet.co.za/daily_news/view/1110 |archivedate=2013-04-21 |df= }} 3. ^ABSA Retrospective - {{cite web |url=http://www.joburgcentral.co.za/show_article.php?articleid=700 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-06-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812104452/http://www.joburgcentral.co.za/show_article.php?articleid=700 |archivedate=2013-08-12 |df= }} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Els|first=Carien|title=A brief look: A transient life by Michael Meyersfeld|url=http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-08-08-a-brief-look-a-transient-life-by-michael-meyersfeld|accessdate=25 July 2012|newspaper=Daily Maverick|date=8 August 2011}} 5. ^David Brown Gallery - http://www.davidbrownfineart.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=16 6. ^GAZE - {{ISBN|0-620-29066-8}} 7. ^Life Staged - {{ISBN|978-0-620-48049-9}} 4 : Living people|South African photographers|Fine art photographers|1940 births |
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