HeyJaredART DIRECTION LIBRARY
A curated image library exploring how visuals evolve through culture. Scans, studies, and archives for art directors and visual thinkers.
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Nanufer (opens the original)
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The Reading Room: The Fashion Photograph (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Reading Room, a series in which I recommend three books around a single subject that matters to art direction, each one chosen for what it opened up in my own thinking and practice.Fashion photography is everywhere, and it is one of the least critically examined forms of image-making in mainstream culture. People consume thousands of fashion images a year and don’t ask themselves what those images are doing and how they construct desire, how they represent bodies, how they sit ins
Hotel Chelsea (opens the original)
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5 Artists You Should Study This Month (opens the original)
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Welcome to 5 Artists You Should Study This Month, a recurring series highlighting five artists, photographers, designers, or movements that deserve your full attention. Studying the masters is the si… Read more
The Reading Room: Colour in Image-Making (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Reading Room, a series in which I recommend three books around a single subject that matters to art direction, each one chosen for what it opened up in my own thinking and practice.Colour is the fastest-acting element in any image. Before the viewer registers the model, the fashion, or the set, the colour palette has already established a mood, a temperature, and an emotional register. And yet colour is one of the least discussed aspects of art direction, it’s treated as intuitive
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