Tag: Portraits

Taking Pictures of People Who Take Pictures of Themselves

Our exclusive pics from photographer Sidney Lo's new concept book of fashion portraits

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Featuring an array of the Internet’s most devout fashion enthusiasts, “Taking Pictures of People Who Take Pictures of Themselves” is 23-year-old photographer Sidney Lo‘s self-published monograph. The San Francisco native traversed the world to capture a handful of the 60,000 people who responded to the question “What are you wearing today?” with photos of their daily threads on Superfuture‘s message board Supertalk. Often uploading images …

Reverse Trompe L’Oeil

Artist Alexa Meade's painted people make it big time

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Artist Alexa Meade works in the medium of flesh. The Washington D.C.-based artist, 23, calls her style of portraiture and performance art “Reverse Trompe L’Oeil,” compressing a 3-D space into a 2-D plane by painting directly on models. The resulting photographs of the person within a painted still life makes the illusion complete, an effect that in recent weeks has swept the Internet and landed …

Artist Atsushi Takahashi

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Graduating from Tokyo's Tama Art University in 2004, it wasn't until after working for several years as a caretaker that artist Atsushi Takahashi started painting his densely-worked portraits. Using a technique that involves building up layers of carefully-controlled swirls, Takahashi illustrates the faces of people he has met with the multitudinous looping lines symbolizing their stories. Recently on display with the Edel Gallery at Aqua …