Drawing heavily on painterly traditions of portraiture, the Czech photographer Ivan Pinkava (born 1961) has created an immediately recognizable photographic style. This volume, the first of two published for his winter 2012 exhibition at the University Museum of the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, offers the most comprehensive account of his career to date.
Working in black and white, Ivan Pinkava (born 1961) casts his subjects as contemporary incarnations of classical and Biblical persons: Narcissus, Sebastian, Salome, Cain and Abel. He has extended this idea to create imaginary portraits of writers who have gained iconic stature, such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Sylvia Plath.
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Ivan Pinkava
