The photographs Armin Linke has taken over the past five years focus primarily on the bodies and faces of contemporary artists: more than a hundred portraits of some of the best-known figures in western art.
On the subject of portraiture in photography, Roland Barthes observed the existence of four factors that are inevitably in tension with one another when the photograph is taken: before the lens, the subject is at the same time himself, as he would like to appear to others, as the photographer images him to be and the figure the photographer uses to demonstrate his technical skill to others.
Armin Linke’s work in portraiture is, in a certain sense, even more complex than this description would lead us to think.
The photographs Armin Linke has taken over the past five years focus primarily on the bodies and faces of contemporary artists: more than a hundred portraits of some of the best-known figures in western art.
On the subject of portraiture in photography, Roland Barthes observed the existence of four factors that are inevitably in tension with one another when the photograph is taken: before the lens, the subject is at the same time himself, as he would like to appear to others, as the photographer images him to be and the figure the photographer uses to demonstrate his technical skill to others.
Armin Linke’s work in portraiture is, in a certain sense, even more complex than this description would lead us to think.