New York based artist Hope Gangloff paints expressive and visually striking portraits with emotional depth. First covered here, her portraits primarily depict family, friends and other artists in intimate, vaguely erotic and melancholy scenes. Gangloff has described her paintings as caricatures- rather than capturing her subjects' likeness, she focuses on their details separately and intensely, and exaggerates their features like hands and feet.
Grey Magazine Fall 2014 Post Rave Model: Vittoria Ceretti Photographer: Fanny Latour-Lambert Fashion Editor: Mariaelena Morelli
Swedish artist Markus Åkesson enshrouds his subjects in elaborately patterned silks and satins, leaving only the impression of their faces, limbs, and torsos visible. An extension of his ongoing Now You See Me series, the artist’s latest paintings continue his exploration of repetition and the unsettling feelings evoked by being wrapped in fabric. By completely covering his models, they “became a secret. Instead, I started to tell a story within the pattern itself, like a sub-narrative in the painting,” he writes. More
models: marland backus (newyorkmodels), heather kemesky (dna) and janiece dilone photographer: cass bird (artandcommerce) stylist: alex white (nice) hair: esther langham (artandcommerce) make-up: frank b (wallgroup)
epentesis: If I were a fish… by ~murkithefrog : alphalemon
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Anonymous urban dwellers are photographed in the artificial light of public spaces.
Photographer Wes Naman was wrapping Christmas gifts with his assistant and started goofing around with the scotch tape. He immediately had an idea that after a year developed into the scotch tape portrait series, where volunteers put the tape around their faces to create terrifying and just absolutely hilarious expressions.
Vogue Germany May 2019 Models: Erika Linder & Heather Kemesky Photographer: Claudia Knoepfel Stylist: Nicola Knels Fashion Editorials
Ruud van Empel’s large-format pictures created from collages of hundreds of photographs are both eerie and beautiful and can be seen until 1 July in Atlanta
English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’ alleyways become the wrinkles that give the face history and individuality.” Fairburn opens a new show of work alongside artist John Wentz today at Mike Wright in Denver. More
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White Gauze
Émile Friant 1863-1932 Frankrijk
Self-portrait, 1927. Her shirt says, “I am in training, don’t kiss me.” While David Bowie will always be my very first cultural touchstone of avant-garde androgyny, it’s Claude Cahun that’s my absolute favorite. And I’m sure Bowie would approve. He once said of Cahun, “You could call her transgressive or you could call her a cross dressing Man Ray with surrealist tendencies. I find this work really quite mad, in the nicest way.” You don’t really get much of a better recommendation than that, and looking as alien and draggy as anything Mr. Rebel Rebel ever dreamed of, her many photographic incarnations are just mesmerizing. Born in 1894 as Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, France, she was from a family of artistic Jewish intellectuals. Cahun chose her pseudonym for its unisex ambiguity—the surname was her paternal grandmother’s, who raised her, as Cahun’s mother struggled with mental illness. Her life-long artistic collaborator, romantic partner, and step-sister, Suzanne Malherbe, went by Marcel Moore, and together they fostered a true avant-garde community, hosting salons in their Paris home. (André Breton, author of Surrealist Manifesto, was a regular attendant.) Though photography is her most famous medium,...
Claude Cahun :: Self-portrait, ca.1927, gelatin silver photograph, Detroit Institute of Arts [++]
Déchirés, pulvérisés, puis recousus, les autoportraits de Annegret Soltau reconstitue l’image d’une femme à travers les années passées et les blessures reçues. En quête d’identité et de guérison, son œuvre s’intéresse à la sphère privée des femmes, qu’elle revendique comme politique.
Girl with Rabbit, gouache on paper, 20” x 28”, 2015
A slide show of the photographer Charles H. Traub’s portraits, taken between 1977 and 1980, of the midday urban bustle of lunchtime crowds.
model: lou schoof (newyorkmodels) photographer: diego uchitel (clm) stylist: dianna lunt (art-dept) hair: moiz alladina (art-dept) make-up: vincent oquendo (wallgroup)
Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.Muhammed AliBri…
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Not all art has an apparent purpose in the beginning, but in the end, it turns out to be very relevant. Volker Hermes has been creating a series of "Hidden Portraits" for over 10 years, where he manipulates photos of classical paintings tangled up in head accessories. It seemed like an innocent play of imagination until it became very poignant when the COVID-19 pandemic took place.
