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- ISBN 9789077207789
- Weight: 2298g
- Dimensions: 240 x 310mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Stockmans NV
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English, French
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Introducing Karel Fonteyne, one of Belgium’s foremost contemporary and fashion photographers. Since 1968 the artist has created an extensive oeuvre that has its place in the history of photography. His timeless visual storytelling relates to nature, darkness and loneliness, the inner world, and esotericism, while touching uncovered dimensions. For more than 15 years Fonteyne was active as a fashion photographer, breaking boundaries by introducing his narrative approach as a contemporary artist in the traditional fashion world. He had early collaborations with Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck and Dirk Bikkembergs, and internationally he collaborated with Vogue, Interview, Bazaar, Marie-Claire and Brutus Magazine in Japan.
Text in English and French.
The Belgian photographer Karel Fonteyne (°1950) is a prominent photographer in Belgium’s history of photography. Due to the significant age gap with his brother and sister, he was often alone in childhood and spent a lot of time in nature. He deepened his great innate sensitivity for the world that surrounded him, with its specific vibrations and its immaterial, intangible dimensions. Today, he is fascinated by everything that is inexplicable, mysterious and elusive. That characteristic of his personality is the basic theme of his entire oeuvre. After his artistic studies, Karel Fonteyne started a career as an art photographer. Exhibitions in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and in the Royal Palace on the Meir in Antwerp gave him immediate recognition. In 1980 he moved to Italy where he was immediately launched into a career as a fashion photographer that would last 17 years and took him all over the world. Particularly in Vogue, he took fashion out of its conformist context to place it in a new universe, using both the most imaginative imagination and the most dramatically realistic rhetoric, always with a touch of humour. He also worked with Martin Margiela, Dirk Bikkembergs, Walter Van Beirendonck, Marina Yee and Dirk Van Saene. Karel Fonteyne starts from an intuitive feeling that he allows to mature and evolve. His work is difficult to place in traditional categories. Each image is actually a stage, a story. Karel Fonteyne uses photography like a writer uses his words to create a unique world every time. That world confuses us, because it is situated between the impossible and reality.
