Tag: portraiture

The Metal Beast

Photographer Unknown, (The Metal Beast)

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four directions, low and terrifying, rumbling up from the ground beneath the floor, and it gathered into a roar that sucked at the hearing itself, and coalesced into a voice that penetrated into the sinuses, and finally into the very minds of those hearing it, taking itself higher and higher, more and more awful and beautiful, the originating ideal of all such sounds ever made, of the foghorn and the ship’s horn, the locomotive’s lonesome whistle, of opera singing and the music of flutes and the continuous moaning of bagpipes. And suddenly it all went black. And the time was gone forever.”
― Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander

Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, “Heath Ledger”

Stephanie Stylander earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a Associate of Science Degree from Endicott College in Massachusetts graduating with honors in photography from both institutions.

StephanieStylander began her career in Milan and Paris as a fashion and celebrity portrait photographer, her noted evocative style became widely recognized through her cinematic vision, gritty realism and her intimate portraiture. Stephanie’s editorial clients ranged from Vanity Fair, Vogue’s, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and Interview among others to her iconic portraits of the world’s most famous actors and musicians of the twenty first century.

Stephanie is represented for this work by the Staley-Wise Gallery in New York and the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York and Los Angeles.

Brian Henry

Thr Photography of Brian Henry

Brian Henry, who resides in Baltimore, Maryland, is a self-taught experimental art photographer. He has traveled extensively up and down the east coast of the United States, as well as Europe, working on his photographic journal. His work documents architectual decay and the nature of fear, freedom and mortality. Henry uses the medium of photography and the placing self-portraits among the scenes to connect the viewer to the beauty of the forlorn locations.

Brian Henry uses analog processes, shooting Polarooid film and, in the darkroom, adding effects of distress and decay to compliment the subject. In some instances, he has used photographic paper and film found in abandoned buildings. Other times, Henry buried his images in decaying buildings for the effects produced. These techniques are used in his attempts to connect to a space and create memontos of irreplaceable time.

“There is something meaningful in creating something tangible within a space that will soon be destroyed, or with someone that will eventually be gone.” – Brian Henry

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The Rose

Photographer Unknown, (The Rose)

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose