Digital Pigment Nude Prints

Traditional photographic techniques mixed with digital manipulation work to create slightly surreal male nudes for the prints in Jenkins' Liquid series. “I don't think of myself as...

Artist: Jane Hammond Title: Body Language from the Doctor's of the World Portfolio Year: 2001 Medium: Pigmented Digital Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: ...

Size 33"x33" framed 41"x42" edition 3/10 Born in St. Louis Missouri, Volkmann left the Mid-West for the cosmopolitan atmosphere of NYC, then Paris, where his photographic career began in the 80's, primarily working for beauty, fashion, advertising and editorial clients in Europe. A one-time jazz and ballet dancer, Volkmann returned to his first career, camera in hand, bringing his knowledge of movement and the human body to his new vocation with telling effect. “This experience gave me an understanding and respect for the body - its movement through space, its tension, and releases. I try to bring that to a photograph”. “His dance photographs are studies in form and the grace of movement, revealing the performers’ strength, poise, and kinetic symmetry. Volkmann’s stark, simple lighting defines and emphasizes taut lines of musculature. Through his lens, he captures the dancers’ fluid motion, freezing in time their liquid dynamics and transforming them into discrete, geometric images.” As a Dance photographer, he has collaborated with The Alvin Ailey Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, David Parsons...