丹·托宾·史密斯
댄 토빈 스미스
дан Тобин Смит

Imaginary View

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If you dream something in the morning, that dream will come true.

Most Londoners will, at some point, have stood opposite and scrutinized a 3 meter wide Lurpak ad on the tube. The one with the rainbow of food, so perfectly organized and coloured into the neatest captivating spectrum. And if you haven’t seen that, you will have seen the cover to The Blueprint 3, the best album cover of Jay Z’s The Blueprint trilogy. Dan Tobin-Smith is the photographer who created these masterpieces of advertising, but now he’s making something for himself. Collaborating with designer Rachel Thomas, the pair present Imaginary View, an exhibition of photographs and sculptures of a milky white wonderland, quite literally. Polystyrene models of deceptively huge fantasy landscapes float on lakes of milk reflecting an eerily calm, colourless city, and echoing Escher’s optical illusions or Piranesi’s staircases. Dan Tobin-Smith photographs his dream world using light, smoke and the idea of that heat haze you get when the scenery stretches so far into the background that the air starts to waver and its lines begin to blur. We get some perspective at Somerset House wondering around polystyrene arches and chatting to Dan the man himself.
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source: wallpaper

We’re well aware that after the festive break it is imperative to come back in style with something very special to whet your creative whistles for the year ahead, and my word have we got just the thing. Photographer Dan Tobin Smith and designer Rachel Thomas are opening a new show in London later this month which features beautiful, otherworldly photographs of polystyrene stage sets. From magical floating cities (photographed on an eight metre square lake of milk) to classical ruins there’s a delicate filmic quality and all sense of scale is subverted.

“We were looking to create forms that are instantly recognisable, but also uncanny and able to convey the seductiveness that only comes from something that’s not quite real,” Rachel says and their artistic aims are achieved thanks to the pair’s work with “arial perspective” whereby light is bounced off smoke particles in the air to create the epic, ethereal atmosphere.

And this sense of drama extends to their process according to Dan. “We love to refine images in camera, he says. “Light, exposure, perspective — all the elements come together in the studio, it is pretty intense. It’s an event”.
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source: londondesignfestival
Dan Tobin Smith has over a decade of experience working as a photographer specialising in installation and still life photography. His work has been commissioned by clients across the fields of fashion, music, publishing and advertising — from Alexander McQueen, Wallpaper* Acne and Numero; to Absolut, Visa, Nike, Orange and Louis Vuitton.
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source: ufunknet
Dan Tobin Smith est un artiste photographe de talent. Maniant à la perfection les anamorphoses, ces images basées sur la perspective qui ne se voit que d’un point de vue bien précis, il nous livre ici une série de photographie assez impressionnante où il réalise des lettres à partir d’entassement d’objets du quotidien. Simplement magnifique. Il a notamment réalisé la pochette de Jay-Z sur le même principe.
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source: cadadiaunfotografo
Dan Tobin Smith es un fotógrafo inglés (creció en Stroud Green, Finsbury Park, en el norte de Londres) en cuyas fotografías los elementos que las componen flotan, giran, explotan, o quietos se alinean creando un caos ordenado del que surgen las figuras principales de la composición.
Biografía:
Comenzó a hacer fotografías con 13 años, enseñado por su padre, que era fotógrafo y profesor, y leyendo libros de fotografía de grandes fotógrafos como Bill Brandt y Edwin Smith.
Después de la escuela estudió arte y diseño en Central St Martins y en 1999 se graduó en fotografía en el London College of Printing.
Comenzó a fotografiar interiores y arquitectura, pero enseguida redescubrió el bodegón, que es la parte fundamental de su obra.
Ha trabajado en publicidad para Absolut, Malibú, Bacardi, Orange, Armani, Clinique, Cartier, Coca-Cola, Sony, Volkswagen y Nike, entre otros, y ha realizado la portada del último disco de Jay-z.