Category: What if ?

We might all be familiar with Hans Holbein the Younger from his vivid portraits of Henry the VIII and other figures from that time and with portraits of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More for example. But what actually intrigued me were his witty drawings related to Erasmus’s book “In Praise of Folly” 1506. It is not only the draughtsmanship talent that he exhibited from an early age, but the projection of the world around him, the understanding of its complexity and the satirical critique of the elite class at the time, not to mention the bravery to criticise and mock the elite, the clergy.

It might seem ludicrous to put a medieval artist behind a lens and try to anticipate the images, but as always if is a fun experiment.

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How would one of the most monumental figures in arts in the 20th century view the world through a lens? Is it even remotely possible to imagine the outcomes of his photographic portraits?

It is quite difficult to try to summarise a photographic work of an artist whose work is so different in between his artistic periods ( Cubism, African influenced, blue and pink period and so on ).

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