GET A LIFE NOW: French Street Artist JR on His Work

6/11/2018

French Street Artist JR on His Work

JR's work at the U.S.-Mexican border CBS News

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French Street Artist JR on His Work

French Street Artist JR on His Work, Getting Sued and the U.S. Election

JR is a self-described photographer who uses perspective photography to create unique fly-posts on walls. Often drawing inspiration from people and their life stories, JR has produced well-known works that reflect social controversies in society today.

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Guerrilla Artist JR - Talk to Al Jazeera

JR is the name of a photographer whose identity is semi-anonymous. He is a 30-year-old French street artist who is plastering the world with his work. In New York, a photo booth was put up in Times Square and thousands of portraits of New Yorkers and visitors were pasted on the floor. It was part of the artist JR’s “Inside Out” project — a worldwide, million-dollar art endeavor that allows anyone to upload a portrait onto the project’s website, have it printed out by the artist and then pasted in a public place to call attention to an idea or cause.

Wrinkles Of The City: Havana, Cuba

In 2012, French artist JR and Cuban American artist José Parlá collaborated on The Wrinkles of the City - Havana, Cuba: huge mural installations undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed, and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution; creating portraits, which Parlá interlaced with calligraphic writings and abstract painterly gestures. This is their film collaboration by the same title documenting their experience.

JR - Women Are Heroes (Brazil) - Art in the Streets - MOCAtv Ep. 3

Courtesy of JR, this classic film shows the artist's Women Are Heroes project in the Morro da Providencia flavela in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 2008. JR's intention in Women Are Heroes is to highlight the dignity of women who occupy crucial roles in societies, and find themselves victims of wartime, street crime, sexual assault, and religious and political extremism in Africa, Brazil, India and Cambodia. The film was included in MOCA's Art in the Streets exhibition.

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