Les Krims

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Les Krims (born August 16, 1942 in New York City ) is a conceptual photographer.

life and work

Les lie Robert Krim grew up in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn in a working class family, went to Stuyvesant High School and later studied at the Cooper Union . He worked as a layouter for Artvoices magazine . After completing his Masters at the Pratt Institute , Krims worked for the commercial photographer John Naso for a few months. Les Krims taught photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1967 and at Buffalo State College from 1969 , where he met Hollis Frampton . Cindy Sherman , Robert Longo and Charles Clough were among his students.

Krims has been taking photos with a Yashica Mat since 1963 , then he switched to Nikon . His mother is the most commonly depicted person. His mother, wearing only a pair of underpants, had her photographed for the series "Making Chicken Soup", where she explains how a chicken soup is prepared. Other female models are friends, models who worked at the BSC and his wife. Krims plans each photo with an idea sketch. There is very little room for spontaneity in his productions.

In 1974 he photographed the series “Fictcryptokrimsographs” with a Polaroid SX-70 and manipulated the photos later. Today he takes photos with a Hasselblad H4D.

Les Krims is a very controversial photographer who polarizes art critics. Feminists, including Andrea Dworkin , are against his work. His photographs generally arouse either indignation or laughter in the viewer.

Bizarre, true stories

In 1971, a 14-year-old boy was kidnapped in Memphis Tennessee. The kidnappers demanded the closure of an exhibition at the Memphis Academy of Art in Les Krims. After the photos were taken down, the kidnap victim was released.

In 1972 the sepia- colored photo series "The Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheat Murders" was shown to the public. The series consists of posed, unreal crime scene photos in which half-naked or naked women have been staged as victims of sexual crimes. In addition to the “victims”, the photos show a stack of pancakes poured over with “Hershey Syrup”. Every buyer (of the photo series consisting of 10 photos (14x17)) received enough pancake batter mix for free to bake a stack of pancakes and a bottle of the syrup that represents the blood in the photos. In 1980 this series was exhibited at the University of California, Santa Cruz . Nikki Craft , an activist against pornography and rape, saw the photos shortly after a brutal sex murder became known, ripped the photos from the walls and doused them with syrup. In 1982 Clive Sinclair published the novel "The Incredible Case of the Stack o 'Wheats Murders" in "Bed Bugs", in which he described in detail how Nikki Craft and Les Krims acted against each other.

Exhibitions

Award

Web links

literature

  • Les Krims Leslie Krims and Bernard Noël, Actes Sud, 2005 ISBN 978-2-74275-6-582
  • Bed Bugs from Clive Sinclair Library of Modern Jewish Literature, Syracuse University Press (February 1, 2005, English), ISBN 978-0-81560-811-0
  • Fictcryptokrimsographs: A book-work by Leslie Krims, Humphry Press, 1975
  • Making chicken soup by Les Krims, Humphry Press 1972

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 168, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  2. ↑ VICE : An interview with Les Krims accessed on January 16, 2014
  3. ↑ Chicago Tribune, Abigail Foestner In The Wicked World Of Les Krims, More Spells Trouble, accessed on January 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Utata, Sunday Salon with Greg Fallis Les Krims accessed on January 16, 2014 (English)
  5. ^ Sprengel Museum Hannover Collection Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Les Krims, Ugo Rondinone , accessed on January 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Krims, Les
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krims, Leslie Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City