Olivo Barbieri got me into a fight!

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When I first saw Olivo Barbieri’s work, I couldn’t believe it myself. So I googled him…and found that he shoots real locations from a helicopter, using a tilt-shift lens technique that shrinks metropolises into toy-town fabrications. I showed a few colleagues and asked their opinion on what they saw. The response was universal – ‘that’s not real!’ but one chap in particular just would not have it. He still thinks I’m making it up! I’m not, I can assure you. You can see for yourself at Barbieri’s first major solo show at the Bloomsberg Space. The press release for the show (including opening times and address) is here.

Ruth Kent
Posted on Friday, 26th of May 2006 Permalink Comment (1)

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I know what you mean!
Im a photography student and i produced similar work (partly inspired by Barbieri) for a public exhibition. I shot everything on a 5x4 View but scanned then and used a digital InkJet to print them. Even though I hadnt done any digital manipulation and had a sign up next to the work, many people dismissed it as simple and over the top photoshop work. One woman even suggested I need more photoshop lessons as over used Gaussian blur!
Most frustrating.

-A. Power

Posted by Ash Power on Thursday, June 2007 at 2:07 PM

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