The LA Fashion 2014
CONTRIBUTING WRITERSNOEL ALUMIT • SARA BERKES • NICOLE RUNNINGEN • JULIANNA MARANON • MANOLIS MELISSINOS MEGHAN WILSON • STACI ADAMS • YASMIN SANTANA • MORGANNE PICARD • CECEE McDANIEL VIVIAN MONTOYA • KATIE NEBLETT • JESSICA VALLADARES • EMILY WILSONCONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERSODESSY BARBU • ALEXIS CHONG • ANDRE CORDOVA • MARTA ELENA • RICK DAY • RANDY DUNBARBLAKE JAMES • WES KLAIN • DIANE LIEU • JULIA McKIM • MATTHEW MITCHELL • KAI HE • MICHAEL OLIVERI • SCOTT NAIDE • ZEKE RUELAS • JOEY TRON • NINO VIA • KELLY WEBBCONTRIBUTING STYLISTS MAKE UP ARTISTSBRUNO LIMA • CATHY HIGHLAND • TALIA McILWAIN • ESTEVAN RAMOS • FELIX BUSTAMANTE • KAT FORD • HARPER JESSE J • BRIAN PRIMEAUX • MYNXH WHITE • WILLIAM WILLIAMS • JEFFREY SCOTT • MITZI SPALLAS • KIMBERLEE BARLOW CONTRIBUTING WRITERSNOEL ALUMIT • SARA BERKES • NICOLE RUNNINGEN • JULIANNA MARANON • MANOLIS MELISSINOS MEGHAN WILSON • STACI ADAMS • YASMIN SANTANA • MORGANNE PICARD • CECEE McDANIEL VIVIAN MONTOYA • KATIE NEBLETT • JESSICA VALLADARES • EMILY WILSONCONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERSODESSY BARBU • ALEXIS CHONG • ANDRE CORDOVA • MARTA ELENA • RICK DAY • RANDY DUNBARBLAKE JAMES • WES KLAIN • DIANE LIEU • JULIA McKIM • MATTHEW MITCHELL • KAI HE • MICHAEL OLIVERI • SCOTT NAIDE • ZEKE RUELAS • JOEY TRON • NINO VIA • KELLY WEBBCONTRIBUTING STYLISTS MAKE UP ARTISTSBRUNO LIMA • CATHY HIGHLAND • TALIA McILWAIN • ESTEVAN RAMOS • FELIX BUSTAMANTE • KAT FORD • HARPER JESSE J • BRIAN PRIMEAUX • MYNXH WHITE • WILLIAM WILLIAMS • JEFFREY SCOTT • MITZI SPALLAS • KIMBERLEE BARLOW
“Art is a zeitgeist that cannot be touched. It can be expressed in never-ending ways but the core of “art” is subjective indefinitely.” Lets start with your name, it’s so European, yet you’re from Reno? How did your parents come to give you the name Franz? Yes, very Euro, its Czech and German. My fathers side of the family wanted to name me “Fido” but fortunately my mom vetoed that and named me Franz. My grandfathers name is Francois, my fathers name is Ferenc…do you see a trend here? In the process of creating your images, how much is created after the photo is taken? I try to set-up as much as I can prior, so the the scene is “photo ready” …most people don’t actually realize that my photographs are completely physical. I’ve often heard people think they are stock photographs or fully composited, but in reality I build the set completely and photograph each character in the scene separately. That being said, I focus on color alteration and tinting after the photograph is completed, and a few other magic touches. When you look for inspiration, where do you usually go? I’m mostly inspired from worlds that no longer exists / times past. Im inspired from illustrations, children’s stories, mythology, and theatrical characters. I love traveling, I could sit at a cafe and people watch all day. Although I always feel enlightened when staring at a beautiful sunset or enjoying a haunting thunderstorm… I’m most inspired sitting in a library with a stack of beautiful old books. Pierre et Gilles, Joel Peter Witkin, Marc Davis, Alastair and Harry Clarke and George Melies are all brilliant artists who greatly inspire me. You have worked with Furne One, any other designers who you have worked with? I’ve done a lot of work with Furne because we share the same love and aesthetic of drama, silhouette and theatricality. The universe definitely aligned the two of us. I have photographed Michael Cinco’s work for an editorial, which is also magnificent. I would like to expand my connection with other designers. I would greatly love to photograph the works of the great “GGMM” I like to call it. (Gaultier, Galliano, Mugler and McQueen). What is the soundtrack you listen to while working? I mostly listen to orchestral music while I work, even during the photoshoots this is what I play. It sets the tone for the models and really puts people into character. Heavy beats are great for bringing out the fierceness in a model, but Tchaikovsky and Les Baxter help a model bring out the emotion and character of a model. When I work on the photo in post, I listen to a lot of Thomas Newman, John Debney, Alan Silvestri. Enigma and Goldfrapp or also quite lush and cinematic. Is your work about art, fashion, the subconscious, all of the above? I like to create work as a theatrical exploration of all of the above, somewhat. I’m not sure if my work is “about art” because art is a zeitgeist that cannot be touched. It can be expressed in never-ending ways but the core of “art” is subjective indefinitely. Although I express fashion in my images, I also never want to make work that follows a trend or can be pinpointed to any specific time or place. Transcendentalism is something I embody in my work, it forces the viewer to think at a higher level when something cannot be easily understood or identified. I love to celebrate androgyny for the same reasons. I think when these philosophies are applied, it inherently takes the viewer into a “sub-conscious” state of mind. Much like that of dreaming, the joy is to find the space in-between your thoughts. The exhibit in Palm Springs has a theme, a subject? The exhibit in Palm Springs will be a continuation of my show Hapenis, which I’ve shown at the Project One Gallery in San Francisco and here in Los Angeles at the PopTart Gallery. Each piece of my work takes roughly 3-4 months to create, so as of now my gallery shows are a continuation of the next with pieces added as I progress. The show reception will be the evening of Thursday February 20th and will run for four weeks. 36 LA FASHION SPRING 2014 thelosangelesfashion.com
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“Art is a zeitgeist that cannot be touched.<br />
It can be expressed in never-ending ways but<br />
the core of “art” is subjective indefinitely.”<br />
Lets start with your name, it’s so European,<br />
yet you’re from Reno? How did your parents<br />
come to give you the name Franz?<br />
Yes, very Euro, its Czech and German. My fathers side of the<br />
family wanted to name me “Fido” but fortunately my mom<br />
vetoed that and named me Franz. My grandfathers name is<br />
Francois, my fathers name is Ferenc…do you see a trend here?<br />
In the process of creating your images, how<br />
much is created after the photo is taken?<br />
I try to set-up as much as I can prior, so the the scene is<br />
“photo ready” …most people don’t actually realize that my<br />
photographs are completely physical. I’ve often heard people<br />
think they are stock photographs or fully composited, but<br />
in reality I build the set completely and photograph each<br />
character in the scene separately. That being said, I focus on<br />
color alteration and tinting after the photograph is completed,<br />
and a few other magic touches.<br />
When you look for inspiration, where do you<br />
usually go?<br />
I’m mostly inspired from worlds that no longer exists /<br />
times past. Im inspired from illustrations, children’s stories,<br />
mythology, and theatrical characters. I love traveling, I could<br />
sit at a cafe and people watch all day. Although I always feel<br />
enlightened when staring at a beautiful sunset or enjoying<br />
a haunting thunderstorm… I’m most inspired sitting in a<br />
library with a stack of beautiful old books. Pierre et Gilles,<br />
Joel Peter Witkin, Marc Davis, Alastair and Harry Clarke and<br />
George Melies are all brilliant artists who greatly inspire me.<br />
You have worked with Furne One, any other<br />
designers who you have worked with?<br />
I’ve done a lot of work with Furne because we share the<br />
same love and aesthetic of drama, silhouette and theatricality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> universe definitely aligned the two of us. I have<br />
photographed Michael Cinco’s work for an editorial, which<br />
is also magnificent. I would like to expand my connection<br />
with other designers. I would greatly love to photograph<br />
the works of the great “GGMM” I like to call it. (Gaultier,<br />
Galliano, Mugler and McQueen).<br />
What is the soundtrack you listen to while<br />
working?<br />
I mostly listen to orchestral music while I work, even during<br />
the photoshoots this is what I play. It sets the tone for the<br />
models and really puts people into character. Heavy beats<br />
are great for bringing out the fierceness in a model, but<br />
Tchaikovsky and Les Baxter help a model bring out the<br />
emotion and character of a model. When I work on the<br />
photo in post, I listen to a lot of Thomas Newman, John<br />
Debney, Alan Silvestri. Enigma and Goldfrapp or also quite<br />
lush and cinematic.<br />
Is your work about art, fashion, the subconscious,<br />
all of the above?<br />
I like to create work as a theatrical exploration of all of<br />
the above, somewhat. I’m not sure if my work is “about<br />
art” because art is a zeitgeist that cannot be touched. It<br />
can be expressed in never-ending ways but the core of<br />
“art” is subjective indefinitely. Although I express fashion<br />
in my images, I also never want to make work that follows<br />
a trend or can be pinpointed to any specific time or place.<br />
Transcendentalism is something I embody in my work, it<br />
forces the viewer to think at a higher level when something<br />
cannot be easily understood or identified. I love to celebrate<br />
androgyny for the same reasons. I think when these<br />
philosophies are applied, it inherently takes the viewer into a<br />
“sub-conscious” state of mind. Much like that of dreaming,<br />
the joy is to find the space in-between your thoughts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exhibit in Palm Springs has a theme, a<br />
subject?<br />
<strong>The</strong> exhibit in Palm Springs will be a continuation of my<br />
show Hapenis, which I’ve shown at the Project One Gallery<br />
in San Francisco and here in Los Angeles at the PopTart<br />
Gallery. Each piece of my work takes roughly 3-4 months to<br />
create, so as of now my gallery shows are a continuation of<br />
the next with pieces added as I progress. <strong>The</strong> show reception<br />
will be the evening of Thursday February 20th and will run<br />
for four weeks.<br />
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