source: boredpanda

We first wrote about Caillard and Persani’s hipster sculptures over a year ago, and since the new works by this duo are just as hilarious, we couldn’t let them go unnoticed!

Whatever they say about not judging a book by its cover, we still do it. French photographer Léo Caillard and art director Alexis Persani illustrate that with their Street Stone photography series, were they dress ancient Louvre’s sculptures into something more trendy and up-to-date. Besides marrying two completely different worlds, the artists also demonstrate a great cultural change that the society has undergone throughout centuries, since the original sculptures were created.

To create these photo manipulations, Caillard first photographed the sculptures and then had his friends strike similar poses, wearing such hipster accessories like the Ray Ban shades, flannel and denim shirts and shorts. He would then dress the sculptures using Photoshop as well as Persani’s retouching skills.

The results are not only hilarious, but also show that clothes have an enormous impact on the way one is perceived.
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source: collabcubed

I’ve seen modern-day people dress up as classical statues both on Las Ramblas in Barcelona and, occasionally, here in NYC, but I’ve never seen classical statues dress up as modern-day people. French photographer Léo Caillard came up with the humorous concept. He didn’t actually dress these stone sculptures but instead had retoucher Alexis Persani masterly ‘enrobe’ them using photoshop, converting them into the most unassuming hipsters…well, maybe a little stiffer. How no one has come up with this concept before (talk about perfect models!) for a clothing company catalog (I can just see Victoria’s Secret’s Fall catalog now…) is a mystery to me. Very clever, Léo.
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source: huffingtonpost

As if they didn’t already have the perfect physique… now the Louvre’s classical sculptures have flawless style as well. French photographer Léo Caillard teamed up with digital mastermind Alexis Persani to give these ancient sculptures a sartorial update with their “Street Stone Series.”

Caillard photographed the statues in the buff and then used his friends as models for the flannels, cuff jeans, and Ray Bans that the statues would wear. Persani then combined them to create a startlingly natural-looking series. Suddenly the way they lounge, look off into the distance and sport those flamboyant moustaches looks all too calculated. Then again, since the now-monochrome statues were originally brightly painted, maybe the images aren’t that far off base after all.
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source: tutorfreebr

“Hipster in Stone” é uma série de imagens criadas digitalmente pelo fotógrafo francês Léo Caillard e pelo artista digital Alexis Persani. As fotos são manipuladas num programa de edição de imagens bitmap e mostram as esculturas clássicas do Louvre com seus físicos perfeitos e estilo impecável vestidas com roupas contemporâneas.
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source: culturebox

On y croirait presque et pourtant. Alexis Persani n’est pas styliste, mais graphiste. Le parfait look “hispter” de ces statues du musée du Louvre a entièrement été réalisé par ce graphiste freelance parisien via Photoshop.

A partir des photographies de Léo Caillard, il a méticuleusement ajusté les chemises en jean, pantalons chino et autres lunettes Ray Ban sur les corps de pierre des statues. Le résultat : une série “Street Stone” au réalisme à couper le souffle.

Après avoir travaillé un an pour l’agence Publicis Conseil, Alexis Persani exerce son art en freelance et multiplie les créations originales, en associant par exemple des calligraphies à sa parfaite maîtrise de la retouche.
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source: victoricontemporary

Leo Caillard was born in Paris in 1985 and possesses a characteristic of the rarest of fine art photographers. His childhood fascination with Einstein’s relativity research, twinned with the more recent work of theoretical physicist, Brian Greene, permeates his approach and perspective. In the manner of a meticulous scientist, Caillard studies environments and imagines, “what if reality was not as we see it…?”

Graduating in 2008 from France’s internationally reputed Gobelins School of Visual Communication, Caillard traveled to the US to spent a year in New York photographing and absorbing the “reality” of this great, modern metropolis. With these new insights, he returned to Paris and began developing the series of works, “Art Games”, an observation of the role of art, its’ institutions & the manner of human interaction with creativity. Since its release & subsequent exhibition, this project has generated significant and wide ranging interest from both the art world & the media industry.

A second series of works, War Games, came about through a visit through Paris’ business quarter, La Defense. Juxtaposing the sleek, modern architecture of this district with the interjection of an inventory of deadly military armament yields quite unexpected results. Apart form the dynamics of Caillard’s imagination, what is apparent is his total mastery of the 21st century tools of 3D image and photographic manipulation… A tank wedged over the entrance of a luxury apartment building – at first glance, it appears totally natural, but on closer examination, reveals something much more sinister and provocative.

Arousing curiosity by unexpected associations, Caillard’s childhood obsession with deep science continues to inform his choice of subject matter and its interpretation. His most recent work, dressing the Renaissance and ancient statues of the Louvre as contemporary “hipsters”, forces the viewer to question what is real and, what could be real.

An irrepressible curiosity coupled with a meticulous mastery of current imaging technologies, Leo Caillard is a 21st century photographer who’s insights cause us to question the relativity of our daily experiences.
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source: etoday

Парижский арт-директор Алексис Персани (Alexis Persani) и фотограф Лео Кайлляр (Leo Caillard) создали незатейливую серию фотографий Street Stone, в которой они совместили античные статуи с современной уличной модой.