These bestseller calendars were photographed by multi-talent J.A.BRO , using her own antique toys.
The dolls & bears are brought to life with J.A.BRO's own developed "Indirect Lighting"
effects © J.A.BRO .
The 12 motives of bestseller calendar 1990 were taken out of J.A.BRO's art-photobook "For
Children From 1 Year To 100 Years", titled "I Am The Bear Yellowy - Who Are You?" 1987-1988, (not
yet published) which is for sale, including copyright for publishing and full marketing such as
making a TV cartoon series, collector's editions of the main characters in plush, prints on
T-shirts, postcards, posters, dishes, etc.
Please note:
Being a broadly talented, academic artist (sculpture, painting, graphics, writing, filming) I
also worked as an art photographer, daily up to 16 hours behind the camera over a period of 8
years. In this special field of art I experienced again that light and lighting is everything! I
had not been satisfied with the common antique doll- and teddy photography of the sixties and
seventies, shown in books and magazines on the international market at that time. So, in 1977 I
began to photograph my own antique toy collection in a new way by developing my own style to this
work exclusively with indirect lighting. That was at times very tricky but the success proved me
right. To that time, in 1977, I created my first art picture-book for children and adults with help
of my own two elder children and my antique doll collection, titled: "LA BELLES GREAT WISH". This
book was printed in 1984 by self-publishing. J.A.BRO , ©. Contrary to the traditional way of
this genre of photography my photographed antique dolls are no more the dead pieces of a cold, hard
material but have the expression of live flesh and blood and my antique teddies are no more only
objects of stuffed, dirty and shabby fur of fabric with stupid, soulless glass eyes but beautiful
personalities, reflecting the artist's expression of sublimated "quasi-human" moods, ranging from
self-confidence to introversion, from happiness to sadness, etc. Please, view the bestseller
calendars with my motives from 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990 (copyrights J.A.BRO ). Light is the magical
power in each case, spiritually and optically. Some years ago I was driving with my family through
a forest in South Sweden. The time was around 5 PM. It was August, still summer, but the light was
changing suddenly because of the beginning sunset. The view changed from one second to the other in
a surreal, bright light, flashed on with thousands of electric highlights that the trees and their
leaves looked stiff and frozen because of the change in colors. No movement could be noticed
because the wind had died down, the song of the birds had vanished. There was an instant, deadly
silence. We seemed to be in a big surreal theater with unnatural, artificial stage scenes. This
situation lasted only a few minutes after that the light faded into the familiar dusk....
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