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Canada
Photography, Polaroid on Other
Size: 30 W x 30 H x 1 D in
In his series POLAROIDS (2006-2012) Chad Coombs portrays women's heads. The images seem to take up his picturesque attempts from the early days of his career in some way and combine photography with graphic and painterly approaches. Coombs scrapes the inner part or the outer layer of the positive manually with screws and nails. The carvings replace the sitter’s hair and frame, as dark lines, vines and ornamental the women's heads. With these Coombs is able to add sharp contours to his portraits without destroying their blurred impression. This contrast emphasizes the gentle beauty and delicacy of facial features even further. Painting techniques and photography reach a perfect balance and create beautiful portraits.
Original Created:2009
Subjects:Portrait
Materials:Other
Styles:ConceptualPop ArtPortraiture
Mediums:PolaroidManipulated
Photography:Polaroid on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 30 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Canada
Chad Coombs was born in 1982 in Saskatoon, Canada. Coombs was interested in art already at an early age and started to paint. However, the attempted re-education of left-to right- handedness and his onesided visual impairment (a legally blind right eye) made working in this field of art very difficult for him. Only on discovering photography as an artistic medium did his full creative potential have the chance to develop. The camera offers him exactly the creative meaningfulness that remained denied to him in painting. The autodidact Chad Coombs himself appoints Richard Avedon as one of his idols and his photographic inspiration. He therefore also seeks with his photographs to shake up and disturb the viewer, but above all he wants to encourage him to think and feel. His work is supposed to appeal to the viewer and have an effect on him, but not to impose a particular view. Coombs is more interested in the feelings, which are hidden behind a photograph.
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