{Happy Friday! Stunning and quirky portraits by Hendrik Kerstens. LOVE!} Since 1995, Dutch photograp

{Happy Friday! Stunning and quirky portraits by Hendrik Kerstens. LOVE!} Since 1995, Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens has been photographing his daughter, Paula. His photographs have been collected by museums around the world and have inspired taste-makers as diverse as Elton John and Alexander McQueen. Not only does he capture her in relation to events in her own life, he also projects on her his fascination with the Dutch painters of the 17th century. “One day Paula came back from horseback riding. She took off her cap and I was struck by the image of her hair held together by a hair-net. It reminded me of the portraits by the Dutch masters and I portrayed her in that fashion. After that I started to do more portraits in which I refer to the paintings of that era. The thing that fascinates me in particular is the way a seventeenth-century painting is seen as a surface which can be read as a description of everyday life as opposed to the paintings of the Italian renaissance, which usually tell a story. Northern European painting relies much more on craftsmanship and the perfect rendition of the subject. The use of light is instrumental in this,” explains Kerstens. -- source link
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