13 Apr 2016
Johnny Galecki attends Randall Slavin’s “Achromatic’ opening at KM Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles April 13, 2016. Image: Lilly Lawrence/Getty Images
The Big Bang Theory‘s Johnny Galecki, as well as Eva Longoria, Seth Green, and Ryan Phillipe all attended KM Fine Arts’ exhibit of photographer Randall Slavin’s ‘Achromatic‘, his most recent embodiment of work. All showed support for Slavin and his embodiment of work.
Randall Slavin & Eva Longoria at Slavin’s ‘Achormatic’ opening at KM Fine Arts in LA April 13, 2016. Image: Lilly Lawrence/Getty Images
Achromatic featured 18 large-scale photographs focuing on female nude from innovative perspective, part of his newest work. Slavin, best known for his extensive work as a celebrity portrait photographer, which afforded him a group of subjects which included models and actresses. His latest work aims to shift the focus from the relative celebrity of subjects to the composition, process and aesthetics of his work.
Lucien Clergue’s mastery with lighting and composition and Allison Van Pelt’s paintings of prize fighters were big influences into Slavin’s development of a technique that reduces the clarity of the photographs, stepping away from the voyeuristic nature of nude photography into the realm of suggested imagery.
Slavin explains, “I have always been inspired by the idea of the things we think we see… how we as humans fill in the blanks with our own imagination. How in 1960 moviegoers were certain they had seen the goriest murder ever filmed in Hitchcock’s classic PSYCHO when in reality they had seen nothing. They felt it. They imagined it. I liked this idea when it comes to photography. How we spectators fill the image with our own life story.”
What results is an image that resembles a look as though viewing through a fogged window. The bodies of the subjects are obscured just enough to exist within the margin between modesty and eroticism.
Slavin, born and raised in Hollywood, California, is a prestigious celebrity portrait photographer. His photography debuted in New York Times Magazine and since has been seen in major print media, including GQ and Esquire to Rolling Stone. He was the recipient of the 2011 Hollywood Style Award for Photographer of the Year and splits time between New York and Los Angeles.
Johnny Galecki attends Randall Slavin’s “Achromatic’ opening at KM Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles April 13, 2016. Image: Lilly Lawrence/Getty Images
Johnny Galecki attends Randall Slavin’s “Achromatic’ opening at KM Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles April 13, 2016. Image: Lilly Lawrence/Getty Images
Seth Green with photographer Randall Slavin at Randall Slavin’s ‘Achromatic’ Opening at KM Fine Arts April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Image: Lilly Lawrence/Getty Images