Another artist that has grabbed my attention is Alvin Booth - an Englishman who first started out as a hairdresser before moving to New York in 1989 to pursue a career in photography.
The sculptural form captured in each shot is mesmerising. Each photograph is printed and toned by hand, giving these modern methods an old world look which I love!
His fascination with the human figure is shown using many techniques but the most striking for me have been the more abstract ones where the silhouette has been diffused and reduced to bare lines.
To create this contemporary concept, Booth has used latex, leather, metallic oils and gold powders. This simple technique highlights the curvature of the bodies beautifully and is further enhanced by his labor-intensive technique of producing grainy sepia-toned prints that have been detailed with burn marks and other calculated 'distress' effects.
If you are interested in taking a closer look at Alvin Booths body of work, pick up his book 'Corpus'.
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