Brief Intruduction of Rafael Fuchs:

AIPU Artistic Adviser

2018 New Yourk International Art Photographic Show   Judge

Fuchs Projects Gallery  Director

Famous Artist, Photographer, Director, Curator and Producer.

Fuchs' work is diverse, and include portraits, fashion as well as personal social documentary.The portraiture section of his work includes portraits of  Colin Powell,JK Rowling, Burt Reynolds etc.

拉法伊尔.福克斯 简介

美国国际摄影师联盟艺术顾问

2018 纽约国际摄影艺术展评审委员会委员

纽约福克斯画廊创始董事

著名艺术家、摄影师、导演、策展人和制片人

擅长肖像、时尚、个人社会纪实摄影，为众多名人拍摄过肖像照，包括美国首位非裔国务卿（海湾战争时任参谋长联席会议主席）科林.鲍威尔、《哈利波特》作者JK.罗琳，著名演员及导演拍摄过《生死时速》、《脱衣舞娘》、《义薄云天》的伯特.雷诺兹等等。

曾编辑的数百幅摄影作品照片刊登于多种杂志上，如《福布斯》《时代周刊》《财富》《新闻周刊》《娱乐周刊》等。

福克斯先生曾多次获得摄影方面国家级奖项以及参加过多次国际展览，包括美国摄影艺术家奖、美国摄影杂志奖。其作品被英国国家肖像画廊、以色列阿什多德博物馆等著名机构收藏。

Visual Trends of 2018 reflection towards 2019

According to “Creative Services and VisualTrends” at Adobe Stock,

“Trend forecast is designed to give artists and brands a window into what’s drawing consumers’ attention in a fast-changing world. They’re about more than what people are enjoying or fascinated by at the moment. They’re a look at where we are as a culture, and as a world, so you can really understand what makes an image resonate.”

Some of the trends that were picked are:

“Silence and Solitude”

In this world of 24 hours news cycles,politics and the relentless pull of digital distractions, we see a growing demand for images that convey comfort and regeneration. Images that take us back to nature, that show that less is more. Viewers are responding to imagery that offers respite — these images operate like a breath of fresh air to the viewer. They present a break from a demanding and confusing time.

"The fluid self"

The very idea of identity is shifting, and artists are working to represent the new ways we understand ourselves. “Identity is so much less permanent and stable than it used to be, just consider the fact that Facebook has 71 gender options now. There are endless permutations of individual identity. A few years ago, people were talking about race or ethnicity, then body type, abilities, and age. Now we’re looking at the fluid self — identity as a vast and ever-changing range of ideas that shouldall be celebrated.”

"Multilocalism”:

Travel and technology are making the world a smaller place, turning us into one interconnected, global village. Artists and brands are embracing a mosaic of cultural experiences, and addressing consumers’ deepening global consciousness.

"Touch and  Tactility”:                                                                     

 Our days are increasingly shaped by screens and devices rather than real-world, tactile interactions. “To make up for this loss, we’re seeing an incredible push from artists toward literal connection, actual touch, and being in the same room with someone,” It’s an invitation for a sensory experience. People are responding to anything that has to do with direct touch. In the visual world, it’s all about showing connections, whether it’s through images with richer textures, or people  looking directly into the camera to establish abold, personal moment with the viewer.” We’ll look at images that invite us to connect, and talk to artists about capturing texture and touch in their images.

This growing trend of “The fluid self” by Adobe,  is also depicted by "Getty images visual trends" researches.

Earlier in 2018 Getty images released its visual trends for 2018 after analyzing one billion searches and 400 million images downloads from Getty and studied advertising trends, examined pop culture shifts to predict three defining visual trends of 2018:

Masculinity Undone:

The millennials are rejecting gender stereotypes , and one-dimensional depictions are being challenged.

Given the masculinity crisis infast-changing social and visual culture, creatives have an opportunity to discard dull, destructive male stereotypes.

Other trends depicted  by Getty images are:

Second Renaissance:

Photographers repurpose classic visual art themes to over turn stereotypes and rewrite a more positive, culturally rich narrative.

In refereeing historical artworks, photographers find gravity and credibility.

Conceptual Realism:

Realistic, Authentic, believable are buzzwords dominating the commercial marketplace, rather that staged imagery. As trust in media diminishes, we crave imagery that looks real.

According to “digital trends” that reflects data search in 2017 of trends that continue into 2018, “real people” jumped by 58 percent, while LGBT skyrocketed 782 percent, candid street photography 162 percent and the still-relevant authentic up by 134 percent.

In terms of design and visual impact, there are increases for searches with negative space (meaning that most of the frameis consisted not by the main subjects) (29 percent), wide-angle shots (110 percent) and shapes (1,189 percent). 

 Searches for cities also saw a dramatic 1,285 percent increase, while landscapes went up by (just) 215 percent and cinematic by 315.

 But, it doesn’t mean that the photographer should now seek to shoot the topics that were mentioned above.

It’s just a research highlight.

Every individual artist/photographer should follow their own heart, sense and palette. This is what will make them unique and outstanding.

Also, photographic images that are made without a camera (as photograms) are becoming popular.

There is one more important thing that we should not forget, especially in our modern digital era. We cannot forget the actual print. Whether on paper, or on aluminum, or any other surface.We are so used nowadays to look at images on the screen of a laptop or a phone, but what, mostly, stays as tangible object of art is a print. And an archival print, preferably as a part of a limited edition, is what most collectors are buying, and what you can see in auction houses, galleries and museums. So, whether your passion is in portraiture,landscape, nature, street photography, conceptual visual ideas, fashion or photo journalism, please print your artworks. It is a great sensation to look at an actual print.

Just as an example of the photography auction results from last week at the major auction houses in NYC, we can find these:

A vintage photogram by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy(“Untitled with circular shapes and a diagonal line” circa 1923-25 ) was sold for $447,000

or a print by Diane Arbus (“Identical Twins, Roselle, NJ 1996”) was sold for $732,500.

Follow your own passion and creativity and you will succeed.

根据Adobe公司的“创意服务和视觉趋势”，

“趋势预测旨在为艺术家和品牌提供一个窗口，了解在快速变化的世界中是什么吸引着消费者的注意。”它们比人们现在所享受或着迷的更多。它们是我们作为一个文化，作为一个世界的一个视角，所以你可以真正理解什么使图像产生共鸣。

选择的一些趋势是：

“沉默和孤独”

在这个24小时新闻周期、政治和数字干扰的无情诱惑的世界里，我们看到对传达舒适和再生的图像的需求越来越大。将我们带回大自然的影像，显示少即是多。观众们对那些能给观众喘息时间的图像做出反应——这些图像对观众来说就像呼吸新鲜空气一样。他们从一个要求苛刻、令人困惑的时代中解脱出来。

“流体自我”

身份的本质正在发生变化，艺术家正在努力表现我们理解自己的新方式。“身份不像过去那么永久和稳定，只考虑Facebook现在有71种性别选择这一事实。个人身份有无穷无尽的排列。几年前，人们谈论种族或种族，然后是体型，能力和年龄。现在，我们正在将流动的自我认同看作是一个广泛且不断变化的思想范围，应该都要庆祝。“

“多地主义”:

旅行和科技正在使世界变得更小，把我们变成一个相互联系的地球村。艺术家和品牌正在拥抱多元的文化体验，解决消费者日益加深的全球意识问题。

“接触和触感”:

我们的日子越来越受到屏幕还有设备的影响，而不是现实世界中的触觉互动。“为了弥补这一损失，我们看到艺术家们正不可思议地向文字联系、实际接触和与他人共处一室的方向发展，”这是一种感官体验的邀请。人们对任何与直接接触有关的事情都有反应。在视觉世界里，一切都是关于展示联系的，无论是通过更丰富的纹理图像，还是人们直接看着相机，与观察者建立一个直率及私密的时刻。“我们会关注那些能让我们联系起来的图像，能在他们的图像中与艺术家们对话感触到质感的图像。

Adobe的“流动自我”的这种增长趋势也被“Getty图像视觉趋势”研究描述。

早在2018年，Getty图像在分析了Getty的10亿次搜索和4亿次图像下载后，发布了其2018年的视觉趋势，研究了广告趋势，检查了流行文化的变化，预测了2018年的三种视觉趋势：

男子气概被取消：

千禧一代拒绝性别刻板印象，一维描写受到挑战。

鉴于快速变化的社会和视觉文化中的男性气质危机，创意人员有机会抛弃沉闷，破坏性的男性刻板印象。

Getty图像描绘的其他趋势是：

第二次文艺复兴：

摄影师重新设计古典视觉艺术主题，颠覆陈规定型，改写更积极、文化丰富的叙事。

在对历史艺术品的裁判中，摄影师发现了庄严和可信度。

概念实在论：

真实、可信、可信的是流行词支配商业市场，而不是舞台图像。

随着人们对媒体的信任度降低，我们渴望看到真实的图像。

根据反映2017年持续到2018年趋势数据搜索的“数字趋势”，“真实的人”上升了58%，而LGBT(同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者)飙升了782%，偷拍的街头摄影上升了162%，仍然相关的真实性上升了134%。

在设计和视觉冲击方面，有负面空间的搜索增加(这意味着框架的大部分不是由主体组成)(29%)，广角镜头(110%)和形状(1189%)。

对城市的搜索也有了明显的1285%的增长，而景观上升了215%，电影上升了315个百分点

但是，这并不意味着摄影师现在应该去拍摄上面提到的话题。

这只是研究的亮点。

每一个艺术家/摄影师都应该跟随自己的内心、感觉和调色板。这将使他们独一无二，出类拔萃。

此外，不用相机拍摄的照片(如直接成像照片)也越来越流行。

还有一件更重要的事情我们不应该忘记，尤其是在我们的现代数字时代。

我们不能忘记实际的印刷。无论是在纸上，铝上，或任何其他表面。

如今，我们如此习惯于在笔记本电脑或手机屏幕上观看图像，但最重要的是，作为有形艺术品的是印刷品。

大多数收藏家都在购买一份档案印刷品，最好是作为限量版的一部分，你可以在拍卖行、画廊和博物馆看到这些东西。

所以，无论你的兴趣是肖像、风景、自然、街头摄影、概念视觉创意、时尚还是新闻摄影，请打印你的作品。

看一幅真实的印刷品是一种很棒的感觉。

就像上周纽约各大拍卖行的摄影拍卖结果一样，我们可以发现这些:

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy(“无标题的圆形和对角线”，大约1923-25年)的一幅老式照片拍出了44.7万美元，黛安·阿勃丝(Diane Arbus)的一幅作品(《1996年新泽西州罗塞尔的同卵双胞胎》(same Twins, Roselle, NJ 1996))的售价为73.25万美元。

追随自己的激情和创造力，你就会成功。

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