Feature - Judith Stenneken at Paris Photo

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STÉPHANIE DULOUT, Acumen Experiences, December 1, 2023

A great master of distortion, André Kertész (1894-1985) said he photographed not what he saw, but what he felt. With this in mind, we wandered the aisles of the world’s largest photography fair 1 in search of the nuggets we bring you here: photographs that make you feel beyond the image…

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We were captivated by the sensuality of this veiled face photographed in close-up by Judith Stennecken at the Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica). Playing on both proximity through the choice of a very tight framing and distance through the use of black and white, giving the whole a marmoreal aspect, the photographer almost succeeds in making us feel the breath passing through the veil. 

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