Artist Research #7: Mario Testino
Background And Education
Mario Eduardo Testino Silva was born on the 30th Of October 1954, In Lima, the capital of Peru to a large family of eight people, including himself. Generally, Mario wanted to be a priest, so he attended a Catholic school, then he decided to study Economics at three Different Universities starting from Universidad del Pacifico (Pacific University Of Peru), to Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru), and The University Of San Diego. Around the year 1976, Mario Ultimately gave up his economic studies and moved to London to Focus on his photographic Studies. His standard of living was very low to the point where he had to maintain himself working as a waiter. His career began escalating in the 90s when he was hired as a photographer for fashion magazines such as Vogue and others, His most remarkable photographic piece was taken in the year 1997 when he had to shoot photos of Princess Diana for Vanity Fair, later he had major works with other iconic individuals in the industry such as Queen Elizabeth II, Madonna, Kate Moss, Robbie Williams, etc. Mario Testino is still actively working in the field of photography and has fulfilled many collaborative projects with big fashion brands and other types of media.
His Photographic Style:
In terms of his Photographic style, Mario Testino has been known for composing his portraits and other photographs with an arrangement of bright colors and a sense of kinetic energy throughout his shots. His main focus at times is to capture the vibration and indefinite energy of the individuals being photographed. Sometimes he achieves his best shots by making the subjects look sophisticated, elegant, and captive.
Diana, Princess Of Wales, London, Vanity Fair, 1997
Mario Testino shot this piece in 1997 for Vanity Fair, where the subject of this photograph is Princess Diana months before her tragic death that took place on August 31st, 1997. In This collection, Mario captured the presence and the natural beauty of Diana. Most Individuals claimed that this work was a bit intimate but at the same time iconic which gave Mario Testino Recognition for.
Awards
Some of the Awards received By Mario Testino include the following:
Medalha Tiradentes from The State Of Rio De Janeiro.
The Medal of Merit from the City of Paris
Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal
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CREATIVE CULTURES & CONTEXTS 237230 ⋆ Citations of Life
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Lexington is a genteel town, site of Stonewall Jackson’s house, Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. With her brood safely strapped in, she drives a black BMW 735i, very fast, and favors a subdued, asexual preppy look - turtle-necks and T-shirts, cut-off shorts, dirty Reeboks. A 41-year-old dark-haired beauty whose turned-up nose accentuates a natural hauteur, she is a cool mom. The same attitude of defiance is there in the cover portrait of “Immediate Family.” Bare-chested with arms crossed or akimbo, the three little Manns level their gaze at the world.Ĭhildren and house both project the sensibilities of Sally Mann herself. Like the red-metal dragons that line the driveway or the 20-by-24-inch blowups of the children in the foyer or the photograph on the living room wall of Sally Mann’s father, dead in his bathrobe, the doorbell seems designed to give a start to the uninitiated and to put some comic distance between the occupants and their neighbors. Visitors announce themselves by pressing a red nipple within the raised areola. The doorbell at the Mann home in Lexington, Va., is a small, black, wrought-iron breast. You can be sure that Sally Mann wonders, too. Walking through the rooms of the gallery, you could not help but wonder what Emmett, Jessie and Virginia will think about these photographs and about their mother, if not this fall, then in 5, 10 or 15 years. “It May Be Art, but What About the Kids?” said the headline in an angry review in The San Diego Tribune. And Mann’s images of childhood injuries - Emmett with a nosebleed, Jessie with a swollen eye - have led some critics to challenge her right to record such scenes of distress. Artforum, traditionally the most radical magazine in the New York art world, refused to publish a picture of a nude Jessie swinging on a hay hook. When The Wall Street Journal ran a photograph of then-4-year-old Virginia, it censored her eyes, breasts and genitals with black bars. The nudity of the children has caused problems for many publications, including this one. Not all the scrutiny has been welcome or favorable. 29 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. And it will likely continue now that Aperture has published a monograph of “Immediate Family” in conjunction with a traveling museum show, opening on Oct. Probably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world. Since the beginning of the year, Houk Friedman has taken orders for more than 300 prints, well over a half-million dollars worth of photographs, and the waiting period for delivery of new prints is at least a year. And the work that resulted has changed the lives of all involved. Eight years ago, their mother began to chronicle their growing up - the wet beds, insect bites, nap times, their aspirations toward adulthood and their innocent savagery. The Mann children have endured scrutiny for some time now. All three seemed unconcerned by the fact that on the surrounding white walls they could be examined, up close, totally nude. “These shoes cost $70,” he boasted about his opening night footwear. Beneath a portrait of himself in the water, Emmett shrugged off the stares and expressed a typical teen-age frame of mind. While her mother and father conversed with friends and admirers, Jessie orbited the four rooms in her red dress, fielding questions from strangers eager to know more about her parents. Motoring among the spectators like honorees at a testimonial dinner, Mann’s three children - Emmett, 12, Jessie, 10, and Virginia, 7 - looked completely at ease with the crowd’s prying adoration. Īt the opening last spring of “Immediate Family,” Sally Mann’s show at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York, the winsome young subjects of the photographs aroused as much curiosity as the artist herself. 27, 1992, and is discussed in an article by Sally Mann in the April 19 issue. This cover story appeared in the magazine on Sept.
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