КАРЛ УОРНЕР
كارل وارنر
卡尔·华纳
קרל וורנר
カール·ワーナー
칼 워너

Valley of the Reclining Woman

source: carlwarner

Carl Warner was born in Liverpool, England in 1963. At the age of seven he moved to Kent with his parents and as an only child spent hours in his bedroom listening to music, drawing and creating worlds from his imagination, inspired by the posters on his walls by artists such as Salvador Dali and Patrick Woodroofe and the record sleeve designs of Roger Dean and the work of Hipgnosis.

Carl began his career by going to Maidstone College of Art with a view to becoming an illustrator as he had a good talent for drawing, but he quickly discovered that his ideas and creative eye was better suited to photography as he saw it as a faster and more exciting medium in which to work. After a year’s foundation course at the college he moved to the London College of Printing in 1982 to do a three year degree course in photography, film and television.

In 1985 he left to become assistant to David Lowe, a photographer based in Knightsbridge, London, where he first met art directors, model makers and retouchers who created images for the advertising industry. After a year of assisting he set up a studio next to David and began working for ad agencies, design groups and PR houses. Although a very keen landscape photographer he initially established himself as a still life photographer, and then began to branch out into other areas of photography in the advertising world, shooting people and landscapes for a wide variety of products and brands.

Having become a successful advertising photographer from the mid to late 80′s through to the mid nineties he found that his work was becoming less in demand as well as unfulfilling creatively. He was searching for a something new and different to do with his talent that would not only rekindle his interest in photography but inject some life into his flagging business. Inspiration seemed hard to find, but one day while walking around a food market he found some wonderful portabello mushrooms which he thought looked like some kind of tree from an alien world. So he took them back to his studio with a few other ingredients such as rice seeds and beans with a view to try and create a miniature scene on a table top.

The Mushroom Savanna became his first “Foodscape” and over the next ten years he continued to develop a body of work making landscapes out of food, and this began to attract the advertising industry once again who began commissioning him for advertising campaigns for various food based products and brands.

In January of 2008 this work was featured in an article the Sunday Times, after which the flood gates opened to a host of media attention from magazines and newspapers all over the world, and this led to television reports, documentaries and interviews, including an appearance on Britain’s famous Richard and Judy Show. The publishing of the images on TV and newspaper websites also led to the creation of many pdf format viral emails which are still to this day being passed around the globe. These viral emails have led to a recognition of his work throughout the world, which has resulted in a book deal with a major U.S. publisher, the licensing of images for merchandising opportunities, as well as advertising campaigns and commissions from some of the biggest brand names in the food world. Some of these campaigns have helped Carl to expand his work into the moving image where he has begun directing television and internet commercials.

His first book “Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes” catalogues many of his early works, where he writes about their inspiration and shows the process of their creation from the initial sketches through to the building and shooting, with “behind the scenes” pictures and ingredient lists. The book is an informative and amusing insight into Carl’s work which reveals many of the secrets, tricks and techniques he uses in the creation of his images.

His second book “A World of Food” is a children’s book featuring scenes made from predominantly one colour. Carl has written poems to accompany each image which describe and annotate the scenes so that children can discover the ingredients for themselves. Carl’s hope is that his work might be used to alter children’s perception of food and to encourage them to develop a greater insight to healthy eating and nutritional education.

The Work
The ‘Foodscapes’ are created in Carl’s London studio where they are built on top of a large purpose built triangular table top. The scenes are photographed in layers from foreground to background and sky as the process is very time consuming and so the food quickly wilts under the lights. Each element is then put together in post production to achieve the final image.

“ Although I’m very hands on with my work, I do use model makers and food stylists to help me create the sets. I tend to start with a drawing which I sketch out in order to get the composition worked out, this acts as a blue print for the team to work to.”

Once the drawing is agreed upon, Carl then works out what each part of the scene will be made from, and working with his food stylist they together determine the best ingredients to work with in order to achieve his aims.

“I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques as I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene at first glance, it is the realisation that the scene is in fact made of food that brings a smile that brings a smile to the viewer, and for me that’s the best part”

Having worked for many years as a photographer bringing ideas to life for advertising agencies Carl became very experienced in lighting, and especially the recreation of natural looking light using a combination of tungsten and flash lighting equipment.

“I’ve always enjoyed the discipline of working in the studio, and the spontaneity of working outdoors in natural light, as you never know what you’re going to get. With my ‘Foodscapes’ I can now put together the knowledge of natural light with the control of recreating it in the studio in order to bring out the colours and textures as well as the beauty of a scene”

These images can take up to two or three days to build and photograph and then a couple of days retouching and fine tuning the images to blend all the elements together. Carl spends a lot of time planning each image before shooting in order to choose the best ingredients to replicate larger scale shapes and forms within nature, so he spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets which makes him seem a little odd! However, he is careful to point out that finding the right shaped broccoli to use as a tree is an all important task.

“Although there is a fair amount of waste, there is a lot of food left over which is always shared out with the team, though most of the food used in the sets have either been super glued or pinned and none of this makes for good eating!”
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source: thisiscolossal

In this series of photographs by Carl Warner, human bodies have been contorted, lit, and manipulated to form expansive landscapes reminiscent of barren deserts and mountains. The London-based photographer who might be best known for his Foodscapes, says that he shoots all of the forms in his studio to focus attention on “one person’s body, creating a sense of place so that a body that is lived in becomes a place to live.” The images are then digitally pieced together using Photoshop.
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source:

我們介紹過這位以達利為偶像的廣告鬼才 Carl Warner 精采的〝食物景觀〞作品，現在要來看看他更驚人的〝人體景觀〞創作！以人體型態作為素材，他將不同姿態的人體組合而成山川、沙漠、平原以及洞穴等不同自然景觀。跳脫〝人〞的視角來觀察這些美麗的人體風景，讓我們以更抽象但又更親密的方式來發掘我們的內在，反映出內心的情緒，給人一種微妙的超然感受！
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source: legeekcestchiceu

Pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, Carl Warner est un célèbre artiste anglais qui a connu une renommée mondiale grâce à « Foodscapes » , une série d’images surréalistes à base de nourriture (que je vous laisse découvrir ici).
Aujourd’hui, il nous expose son dernier projet « Bodyscapes » , sa technique reste la même : un paysage très classique que le spectateur découvre, au premier coup d’œil comme une vraie scène avant de deviner l’enchevêtrement sublime des corps.
Carl Warner nous propose des oeuvres aux titres évocateurs : Le Désert des hommes endormis, Le Creux des abdominaux, Les Dunes de pectoraux, La Vallée coupe-gorge… Le corps humain, prouesse de la nature, complexe, fragile, sublimé dans des assemblages constituant des paysages, avec montagnes, collines, déserts de chair.
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source: viceversablogbr

Carl Warner mostra mais uma vez sua criatividade com a fotografia, mas desta vez criando belas paisagens com o corpo humano.
Carl Warner é um fotógrafo londrino bastante conhecido por seu projeto chamado Foodscapes, onde ele cria e fotografa paisagens feitas de alimentos. Mas parece que ele resolveu inovar ainda mais e criou uma série fotográfica onde belas paisagens são compostas por formas humanas. São imagens de várias partes do corpo humano, que entrelaçados conseguem transmitir realismo, muitas vezes passando a sensação de estarmos olhando para paisagens verdadeiras.
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source: carmen-mafteiblogspot

Carl Warner mostra mais uma vez sua criatividade com a fotografia, mas desta vez Ajuns celebru cu magnificele sale peisaje realizate din mîncare, fotograful londonez Carl Warner revine de această dată în atenţia publicului cu peisaje deşertice realizate din… nuduri. Folosind Photoshop-ul și tehnica luminii, Carl Warner a transformat corpul omenesc în scene dramatice de deșert. Potrivit Daily Mail, artistul foloseşte musculatura trupului pentru a crea iluzii optice inteligente, fotograful tranformînd astfel nudurile în peisaje superbe de deșert.

Fotografiile lui Warner sînt realizate în întregime din trupuri umane și, interesant este că, fiecare imagine a fost făcută numai din unghiuri diferite ale aceleiași persoane. Practic, fiecare compoziție este o singură scenă de corpuri contorsionate sau o compoziție din diferite unghiuri ale aceluiași corp.

“Un portret alternativ al ființei umane a cărei expunere trupească devine un peisaj al exprimării sinelui și devine o motivare a sensului în spațiul în care suntem cufundați. Contemplarea exterioară a sinelui devine, ca urmare, o reflecție mai abstractă și, poate, mai intimă a sinelui atunci când trupul este privit ca un peisaj sau un spațiu căruia i s-a atribuit un sens”, spune Carl Warner despre această nouă serie.
criando belas paisagens com o corpo humano.
Carl Warner é um fotógrafo londrino bastante conhecido por seu projeto chamado Foodscapes, onde ele cria e fotografa paisagens feitas de alimentos. Mas parece que ele resolveu inovar ainda mais e criou uma série fotográfica onde belas paisagens são compostas por formas humanas. São imagens de várias partes do corpo humano, que entrelaçados conseguem transmitir realismo, muitas vezes passando a sensação de estarmos olhando para paisagens verdadeiras.
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source: blualessandrowordpress

Carl Warner è in grado di creare paesaggi da sogno, ma così concreti da sembrare reali. E reale è la materia prima che usa: parti del corpo umano. Niente di macabro, anzi: i suoi paesaggi sono una sinfonia di corpi nudi, paesaggi umani che potrebbero essere confusi con qualche zona remota del nostro pianeta. O di un mondo alieno.
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source: daily-joyfr

Carl Warner est un photographe publicitaire anglais très connu pour ses foodscapes. Il a imaginé une nouvelle série intéressante : Bodyscape. L’artiste nous invite à un voyage hors du commun où les paysages sont composés par des corps humains. Chaque courbe, chaque muscle créent du relief et se transforment en paysage. Cette abstraction métamorphose les corps en nature morte. Un travail impressionnant et fantastique.
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source: tiaurusinfo

Фотограф Карл Уорнер [Carl Warner] использует в своих работах не только съедобные предметы, но и тела людей – его нестандартный взгляд породил серию интересных фотографий, на которых запечатлены различные пустынные ландшафты. Только в роли песка и скал выступают люди.