A film? A snapshot of the past? A legendary moment. In his new project photographer MARC TRAUTMANN creates situations that put the viewer in the position of an innocent bystander in a movie scene, but which movie? The cinemascope format plays with the DNA of film shots which lead the viewer to believe they already know what they see. The images suggest they are taken from a thriller, a film noir or from other crime genres in cinema culture.
The protagonists seem somehow haunted and lost at the same time. Things seem out of place. There is too much space. Or not enough. What is the story? What happened before? What will happen next? There is an interaction between viewer and character in the photo. Dreams, longings and essential fears are evoked. The light in the scenes stages the situation. In this way the stills show the essence of a complete movie plot framed in one single shot. The project continues.
Cinemascope photography is a homage to images of movies on the big screen displayed in the large cinemascope format of 235 x 1. The action seems to be frozen at a crucial plot point. For this publication Marc Trautmann used a 16/9 cache.
CREDITS
Production Jake Mills Productions / Jake Mills
Art Director Marc Trautmann
Post Production Trautmann inhouse; Felix und Pascal
Styling Jaqueline Ziesmer
Photographer Marc Trautmann
About MARC TRAUTMANN
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in the 60´s
Grown up in the 70´s
Starting with Photography in the mid 80´s
In the late 80´s he started studies in Photography and Art History
In the late 80´s he started assisting and working for photographers in Germany and international.
Travel through Central and South America in 92´
Worked for Annie Leibovitz in 1994 on shoots in Paris and Germany.
Travel through South East Asia in 94´
After his travels he started to set up his own phtographers atelier.
His work was always influenced by Film Music, Fashion and Arts.
In his early days he worked for fashion brands, electronic music magazines and took pictures of Daft Punk, Air, Chemical brothers and many more.
He shot Fashion for Vogue Hommes, Optimum Magazine and brands like Drykorn.
His knowledge for car photography he gained from assisting to car photographers and travelling all over the world to shoot cars in landscape and architectual enviroment.
In his present time he is mainly shooting Cars and People.
Beside that he works on personal projects.
One is a lifetime project named “Cinemasopes fictional film stills”
Another one is off the Radar
Another one is secret areas