bjorke said:Nice, three posts and all of them talking about Penn instead of the picture
bjorke said:Nice, three posts and all of them talking about Penn instead of the picture
bjorke said:Nice, three posts and all of them talking about Penn instead of the picture
Suzanne Revy said:it actually is a rather disturbing image. What sort of torturous device is that wrapped around this face? I'm guessing it's some kind of intense beauty treatment, but it has the look of prisoners' being blindfolded. And, as said before, it reminds me of some of his skull images. All the beauty treatments in the world won't change what is at the core of every face.
Jim Chinn said:I found it interesting because it reminded me of many of the tribal masks worn by native peoples he photographed in the 50s and 60s. I simply liked the texture of the mask (looks almost like burlap) and the smoothness of the "mud" that Penn probably added to define a mouth and nose. Its that wonderful texture and hollow eye sockets (and whispy bits of hair?) that makes it interesting.
If you look at his work with Aboriginal peoples, masks and such adornments wree considered beautiful and a sign of status and position in the group.
Here we see the mask as an ugly artifact that somehow will metamorphasize the person underneath. This mask is designed facilitate covering up something (self percieved ugliness?). Aboriginal masks project an inner personna of the person wearing it. Two different cultures and two different ways to look at masks, hiding something or projecting something.
MattKing said:The photograph is intriguing, but as hard as I look at it, I cannot see that there actually is a face behind the mask. I think it is just the mask itself.
Matt
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