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Paul Blanca - Portrait of Dorien from 2003, signed & framed
Surreal photo of Dorien, several times, between leaves and flowers.
Gelatin silver print
Signed lower right,
Titled and dated lower left
From an edition of only 6
Numbered lower left 2/6
The work is professionally framed, matted in a black wooden frame.
Paul Blanca (Paul Vlaswinkel 1958-2021) was a Dutch art photographer. Blanca started shooting in color with a small camera, but soon switched to black and white and a 6 x 6 cm Hasselblad camera.
In the Netherlands, Hans van Manen, Paul Blanca and Erwin Olaf were the most important representatives of this new studio photography. Blanca made his breakthrough in the early 1980s with his confrontational violent self-portraits, inspired by the great American photographers Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Andres Serrano (1950). Blanca's self-portraits reveal strong emotions and violence, expressed in fear, aggression, pain, sadness and sexuality.