BrianHenry ////|//
Judith, After Decapitation.
By making reference to the Victorian era in this set of photos I wanted to use multiple reference from literature and paintings to create a modern articulation. I started with the Bible as a starting point; Judith being marched off by two guards after she beheaded Holofernes. To compose these group portraits I took an interest in how figures were painted during the Romantic Era; a very gestural pose with a certain stiffness that makes the figure appear self-aware and their gesture intentional, I feel it creates a tension with the spectator, a concept that stuck with me in John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, and an interesting idea to explore between paintings and photographic images.
Judith, After Decapitation.
By making reference to the Victorian era in this set of photos I wanted to use multiple reference from literature and paintings to create a modern articulation. I started with the Bible as a starting point; Judith being marched off by two guards after she beheaded Holofernes. To compose these group portraits I took an interest in how figures were painted during the Romantic Era; a very gestural pose with a certain stiffness that makes the figure appear self-aware and their gesture intentional, I feel it creates a tension with the spectator, a concept that stuck with me in John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, and an interesting idea to explore between paintings and photographic images.