BOOK:Niko Luoma,For Each Minute 65 Seconds, Hatje Cantz Publications

Niko Luoma, For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds, Hatje Cantz PublicationsNiko Luoma is one of the most independent representatives of the Helsinki School. He studied photography in Boston and Helsinki. No one uses the camera like Luoma. He is not interested in capturing the world in front of his lens. He uses light to create his own visual spheres. Using up to a thousand multiple exposures he applies individual elements of color and form to the negative, layer by layer. Meticulous calculations and geometrical skills are the necessary foundation for this. The results are abstract photographs of impressive, colorful intensity and luminosity. The book “For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds” is based on the series “Adaptations”, which reproduces famous works by other artists. Luoma presents a fascinating visual game in which the independent charisma of the photographs acts in concert with its reverence toward Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Vincent van Gogh, or Pablo Picasso. With tongue in cheek referencing, Luoma thus realizes the avant-garde’s desire to liberate photography from reproducing reality, allowing it to become an art.-Efi Michalarou

Left: Niko Luoma, Self-Titles Adaption of La Rêve (1932), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications Right: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Vase of Flowers on a Garden Ledge (1730), 2017, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Left: Niko Luoma, Self-Titles Adaption of La Rêve (1932), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Right: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Vase of Flowers on a Garden Ledge (1730), 2017, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications

 

 

Left: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Standing Blonde Nude with Dropped Chemise (1917), 2018, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications Right: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaption of Fifteen Sunflowers (1888), 2016, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Left: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Standing Blonde Nude with Dropped Chemise (1917), 2018, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Right: Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaption of Fifteen Sunflowers (1888), 2016, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications

 

 

Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Rooms by the Sea (1951), 2019, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of Rooms by the Sea (1951), 2019, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications

 

 

Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of The Art of Noises (1913), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Niko Luoma, Self-Titled Adaptation of The Art of Noises (1913), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications

 

 

Self-Titled Adaption of La Danse (1910), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications
Self-Titled Adaption of La Danse (1910), 2015, © Niko Luoma, Courtesy the artist and Hatje Cantz Publications