Sunday, August 23, 2009

Hymn - Francis Giacobetti

Great news, next year the Hymn project by F.Giacobetti will tour around the world in a series of expositions.
Giacobetti started that project in 1980, and it's a fascinating idea: basically he is photographying the iris ( and hands ) of famous people. I saw some of the picture, in an article in the French magazine Geo, few years ago, and the images of those iris are absolutely staggering.

See below a sample from the exposition website:


I'd love to be able to take pictures like those...




For your information: Giacobetti is a french photograph, famous for his pirelli calendar in the 1970, and for directing Emmanuelle 2.

3 comments:

Jean Pierre said...

Do you know if any book/album was ever published on the HYMN project?

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Christophe Guerrier said...

Not to my knowledge. But now you can get your own iris picture see https://www.eyemazy.com