Tag: portraiture

Cody Kinsfather, “Dom Blanchard”

Cody Kinsfather, “Dom Blanchard”

Cody Kinsfather is an internationally recognized and published photographer. He has worked with some of the top modeling agencies in the world. His home base is currently Austin, Texas; however, most of his time is spent shooting between Miami and New York City, returning to his home office only to edit the images he has captured abroad.

Cody Kinsfather describes his style as simple, clean, and balanced. He takes his time not only on set while capturing his work, but also perfecting each image in post.

W. Somerset Maugham: “Things That You Can’t Come to Know by Hearsay”

Photographer Unknown, (Headphones and the Man)

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can’t come to know by hearsay…

—W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

Michael Carson

Michael Carson, “Wallflower”, Oil on Canvas, 2014

Minneapolis based artist Michael Carson captures the fleeting moments of stylish modern day people. While there is a sense of immediacy in painting them, there is also a timelessness in their 40s and 90s-esque glamour. His subject’s fashion is one of the ways that Carson injects himself into his works; patterns in clothing and the interiors of rooms are particularly prevalent, reflecting his interests in design and fashion.

His figures are lounging in bars, clubs, backstage fashion shows, and dance studios, earning the artist comparisons to French painter Edgar Degas. Carson, however, likes to think of himself as a figurative painter more than an impressionist.

King Sahure and a Nome God

King Sahure and a Nome God, Old Kingdom- Fifth Dynasty, ca. 2458-2446 BC, Gneis, Metropoitan Museum of Art

This is the only preserved three-dimensional representation that has been identified as Sahure, the second ruler of Dynasty 5. Seated on a throne, the king is accompanied by a smaller male figure personifying the local god of the Coptite nome, the fifth nome (province) of Upper Egypt. This deity offers the king an ankh with his left hand. The nome standard, with its double-falcon emblem, is carved above the god’s head. Sahure wears the nemes headcloth and straight false beard of a living pharaoh. The flaring hood of the uraeus, the cobra goddess who protected Egyptian kings, is visible on his brow. The nome god wears the archaic wig and curling beard of a deity.

The statue may have been intended to decorate the king’s pyramid complex at Abusir, about fifteen miles south of Giza. At the end of the previous dynasty, multiple statues of this type were placed in the temple of Menkaure (Mycerinus) to symbolize the gathering of nome gods from Upper and Lower Egypt around the king. However, since no other statues of this type are preserved from Sahure’s reign, it is possible that this statue was a royal dedication in one of the temples in Coptos (modern Qift).

This statue is on view in Gallery 103 of the Metropolitan Museum on  Fifth Avenue in New York City.