Terry Brown
United States (1962)
Biennale Images Vevey
2016
Mangini Studio
Mangini Studio
For eight years, Gordon Stettinius (United States, 1966) played with his own image by growing or dying his hair and reshaping his beard. He would then sit for his partner Terry Brown to take a photographic portrait of each of his transformations, thus developing a gallery of colorful characters in the purest tradition of American studio photography. Exhibited outdoors, the Mangini Studio series wittingly referred to the absurdity of preconceived ideas in matters of physical appearance.
