Hendrik Kerstens Model And Muse
Kerstens use of his daughter as his primary model and muse has drawn comparisons to photographer sally mann with one american critic pointing out paulas increasing agency in her own self presentation as she ages morphing the role of muse into that of collaborator to create fierce self portraits that rewrite the narrative of female. Aspp news editor october 10 2015.
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In a reversal of more traditional roles kerstens cared for their young daughter paula while also studying.
Hendrik kerstens model and muse.
Since 1995 hendrik kerstens has been photographing his daughter paula creating moving portraits in the spirit of vermeer.
Article by cathy breslaw.
Time and time again he uses his daughter as a model immortalizing her as if to stop time and oblivion.
For the artist hendrik kerstens it is his daughter paula who inspires his photographic explorations.
Hendrik kerstens 1956 oeuvre consists of a consequent sequence of portraits from his daughter each time with a different angle meaning or purpose.
Photographing paula in a single space kerstens freely explores her as a subject.
In the hemisphere of the radically realist paintings of the dutch golden age kerstens explores the photograph as a surface a platform to study contemporary ordinary objects and its meaning in historical tradition.
However he wished to devote himself to a more creative profession and in 1995 at the age of forty he left the business world and took up photography.
Vita hendrik kerstens did not train formally as an artist.
With his daughter as muse photographer hendrik kerstens emulates flemish paintings.
His wife anna worked full time to support this change of direction.
Kerstens use of his daughter paula as his primary model and muse has drawn comparisons to photographer sally mann with one american critic pointing out paulas increasing agency in her own self presentation as she ages morphing the role of muse into that of collaborator to create fierce self portraits that rewrite the narrative of female.
Photographs by hendrik kerstens.
Hendrik kerstens has created a series of anachronistic portraits through which he has immortalized the portrait of women wearing period headdresses and hats.
For more than two decades self taught photographer kerstens primary subject has been his daughter.
Born in the hague in 1956 kerstens is a self taught photographer whose work has been shown in more than 40 exhibitions across europe and the united states.
February 7 through may 31 2015.
His early portraits depict the everyday her standing on a chair ready for swim practice or with a sunburn which emanates from his paternal need to capture the fleeting.
Photographs by hendrik kerstens at the museum of photographic arts san diego.
Self taught photographer hendrik kerstens inspiration is his daughter and muse paula who has been his primary subject for over two decades.
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With his typical selection.
Images courtesy of chendrik kerstens represented by nunc contemporary hendrik kerstens.
Available for sale from danziger gallery hendrik kerstens cover pigment print 60 50 in dutch photographer hendrik kerstens has been photographing his daughter.
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