Samel Bayer, American visual artist best known for his work on Nirvana's music video Smells Like Teen Spirit and directing the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, is also an avid photographer.
A couple of years ago he held an exhibition titled Transitions, focusing on butterflies, depicting them in
different stages of their life, from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Since then he focused his mind on a new subject to study, and it is that of a nude female form.
His recently opened art show’s main focus are nude models. The exhibition consists of sixteen nudes, shot in two or three sections, hence the exhibition’s title Diptychs & Triptychs, with a large-format 4” x 5” camera in the studio against a simple white backdrop.
I am not familiar with all the models who were studied by Bayer, but a couple of them do ring a bell,
Emily Ratajkowski and
Xenia Deli, to be exact.
Emily was recently featured in Turkish edition of GQ magazine and several times in Treats magazine before that, while Xenia had a pictorial in South African edition of Sport’s Illustrated magazine last year.
Bayer’s exhibition is on display at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills from until April 27th. If you can’t see it in person, you can also
check out the nudes on display on the gallery’s website.