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Sylvie Blum
There are many multi-talented individuals in the art world: authors who take incredible photographs, actors who are extraordinary directors. There are doctors and architects who become acclaimed writers, and poets who create cinematographic masterpieces. But it is rarely heard that a model has notably excelled in artistry. Sylvie Blum… Read more
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Angela rides the Lion
Sylvie´s Muses
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Sylvie´s Muses
Sylvie´s Muses
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Big Cat
Sylvie´s Muses
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The Scarf
Sylvie´s Muses
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Walking Nudes
Sylvie´s Muses
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Elisabeth
Nudes
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Nudes
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Callas
Nudes
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Red Salon II
Nudes
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Kaisersuite
Nudes
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Discus I
Nudes
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Discus II
Nudes
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For Leni
Nudes
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Lake
Nudes
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Background Information about Sylvie Blum
Introduction
There are many multi-talented individuals in the art world: authors who take incredible photographs, actors who are extraordinary directors. There are doctors and architects who become acclaimed writers, and poets who create cinematographic masterpieces. But it is rarely heard that a model has notably excelled in artistry.
Sylvie Blum (*1967 in Taxenbach Austria) is the exception. She learned her photographic technique from her husband, the erotic photographer Günter Blum. From his death onwards, she went about changing her perspective by standing behind the camera. Her first published attempt was an ambitious series of self-portraits featuring the narcissistic title “Venus selbst (Venus herself).” It was a kind of self-observation before entering into dialogue with other models. Thereafter she threw herself into a relished obsession and experimented with models, styles, light and space.
In 1998, fascinated by artistic nudes, as they were so perfectly presented in the 1930’s by photographic legends such as George Hoyningen-Huene or Horst P. Horst, Sylvie Blum started creating body fragments, photographic torsos that attain an almost sculptural impression in the artistic lighting and delicate gradation of gray tones. However, the sources of her inspiration are far more varied. Photographs from her bewitching photo series Nudes, which revealed the spectrum of her work, emerged out of Miami, Berlin, Los Angeles and Mallorca.
Whether on the trail of Bruce Weber, Leni Riefenstahl or Herbert List, her images all have something in common. Sylvie Blum gives them something modern and perfects the fine art of the erotic with the utmost aesthetic quality. In a few years, advanced by her exceptional biography, she has found her spot in contemporary photography. “When you think erotica, do you think Sylvie Blum?” asks British Maxim, followed immediately by the answer. “Ol’ Auntie Sylvie is the Ansel Adams of the nude female form.”
Sylvie Blum (*1967 in Taxenbach Austria) is the exception. She learned her photographic technique from her husband, the erotic photographer Günter Blum. From his death onwards, she went about changing her perspective by standing behind the camera. Her first published attempt was an ambitious series of self-portraits featuring the narcissistic title “Venus selbst (Venus herself).” It was a kind of self-observation before entering into dialogue with other models. Thereafter she threw herself into a relished obsession and experimented with models, styles, light and space.
In 1998, fascinated by artistic nudes, as they were so perfectly presented in the 1930’s by photographic legends such as George Hoyningen-Huene or Horst P. Horst, Sylvie Blum started creating body fragments, photographic torsos that attain an almost sculptural impression in the artistic lighting and delicate gradation of gray tones. However, the sources of her inspiration are far more varied. Photographs from her bewitching photo series Nudes, which revealed the spectrum of her work, emerged out of Miami, Berlin, Los Angeles and Mallorca.
Whether on the trail of Bruce Weber, Leni Riefenstahl or Herbert List, her images all have something in common. Sylvie Blum gives them something modern and perfects the fine art of the erotic with the utmost aesthetic quality. In a few years, advanced by her exceptional biography, she has found her spot in contemporary photography. “When you think erotica, do you think Sylvie Blum?” asks British Maxim, followed immediately by the answer. “Ol’ Auntie Sylvie is the Ansel Adams of the nude female form.”
Bio
| 1967 | born in Austria | |
| since 1984 | work as a model and muse with famous photographers like Guenter Blum, Luciene Glerque, Andreas Bitesnich, Conrad Godly, Jan Sudek, Jeanloup Sieff, Martin Pudenz, Abe Freyndlich and many more | |
| 1988 | examination at grammar school, college of arts Mannheim | |
| 1990 | college of arts Trier, Germany | |
| 1992 | art director pr-agency Mannheim, Germany | |
| 1995 | married with photographer Guenter Blum | |
| 1997 | widowed | |
| 1998 | curator of worlwide exhibitions and bookpublications by Guenter Blums work | |
| 1999 | turned to photography | |
| 2001 | different productions in Miami and Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2002 | work for international magazines | |
| 2003 | worked in South Africa and China | |
| 2004 | worked in Australia and Thailand | |
| 2005 | moved from Germany to USA | |
| works in lives in Los Angeles, USA |
Collections
| comet collection, Collogne, Germany |
| camera work, Berlin, Germany |
| boonchai artmuseum, Bangkog, Thailand |
| vedder collection, Miami, USA |
| j.p morgan, Texas, USA |
| google, L.A., USA |
Exhibitions
| 2006 | "nudes" artfair L.A. by modernbook gallery, collectors party standart hotel hollywood |
| 2005 | "nudes" San Francisco artfair by moderbook gallery USA"erotik" modernbook gallery palo alto USA |
| 2004 | "nudes" orangerie Grosskarlbach, Germany |
| 2003 | "nudes" and "hotel orient" Galerie Ricarda Fox Essen, Germnay |
| 2002 | "nudes" the gep gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands"hotel orient" lustschloss Vienna, Austria |
| 2001 | "Sylvie Blum photographs" Galerie im Weldeturm Schwetzingen, Germany |
| 2000 | "Venus selbst" ziresch art consult gallery Karlsruhe, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2006 | "nudes" artfair L.A. by modernbook gallery, collectors party standart hotel hollywood |
| 2005 | "nudes" San Francisco artfair by moderbook gallery USA |
| "erotik" modernbook gallery, Palo Alto, USA | |
| 2004 | "nudes" orangerie Grosskarlbach, Germany |
| 2003 | "nudes" and "hotel orient" Galerie Ricarda Fox, Essen, Germany |
| 2002 | "nudes" the gep gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| "hotel orient" lustschloss, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2001 | "Sylvie Blum photographs" Galerie im Weldeturm Schwetzingen, Germany |
| 2000 | "Venus selbst" ziresch art consult gallery Karlsruhe, Germany |
Group Exhibitions
| 2003-2005 | artfair cologne, Germany |
| the gep group, The Netherlands | |
| artfair frankfurt, Germany | |
| Galerie im Turm, Germany | |
| clean fine art, Munich, Germany | |
| camera work Berlin & Hamburg, Germany |
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