Robert Farber. | Deterioration 155, 2017. | Courtesy 21st Editions, South Dennis.
Although many of the pictures on view leaned toward landscape and still lives the ones that caught our eye focused on flesh and fantasy. From surreal pairings of people with inanimate objects, including Erwin Blumenfeld’s Nude in Broken Mirror and Horst P. Horst’s Barefoot Beauty, to such social documentary as Earlie Hudnall, Jr.’s Hip Hop and Zanele Muholi’s Julile I, Parktown, Johannesburg, the corporal in art continues to pack a powerful punch while inspiring our imaginations.
Earlie Hudnall, Jr. | Hip Hop, 1993. | Courtesy PDNB Gallery, Dallas.
Mona Kuhn. | Poem 1, 2016. | Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Zurich.
Herb Ritts. | Man with Chain. Los Angeles, 1985. | Courtesy Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach.
Joel-Peter Witkin. | Arms broken by windows, 1980. | Courtesy Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris.
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- Paul Mpagi Sepuya. | Mirror Study, (_Q5A321), 2016. | Courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
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- Eikoh Hosoe. | Embrace #22, 1971. | Courtesy Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco.
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- Niloufar Banisadr. Mona Lisa, 2015. | Courtesy 55Bellechasse Gallery, Paris.
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- Erwin Blumenfeld. Nude in Broken Mirror, 1944. | Courtesy Beetles + Huxley, London.
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- Agnieszka Sosnowska. | Arnar Collecting Sticks in the Cod Drying Racks. Djúpivogur, Iceland, 2015. | Courtesy Vision Neil Folberg Gallery, Jerusalem.
Erwin Blumenfeld. | Shadow Profile Behind Veil (Female Nude), 1942. | Courtesy Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, Chalfont.
Jack Pierson. | Jonathan, 2007. | Courtesy ClampArt, New York
Maurizio Anzeri. | Without A Word of Warning (Chair), 2017. | Courtesy The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Olivia Locher. | I Fought the Law (Wyoming), 2014. | Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
Ruven Afanador. | Noel Pardo. Bogotá, Colombia., 2001. | Courtesy Throckmorton Fine Art, New York.
Horst P. Horst. | Barefoot Beauty, 1941. | Courtesy Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach.
Man Ray. | Nude, ca. 1937. | Courtesy Robert Klein Galler, Boston.
TOP PHOTO: Zanele Muholi. | Julile I, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016. | Courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, independent curator, artist, and lecturer. He is a New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at artBahrain. He is a contributor writer to Time Out New York, New York Observer, Modern Painters, Cultured Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, ArtPulse, Glasstire and ConceptualFineArts.com → Click here for more. ←