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Paul Blanca - Classic photo : Self-portrait Camino de Santiago, signed & framed
Classic photo from 2005 of a naked Paul Blanca in the confessional.
Signed lower right,
Titled and dated lower left
Camino de Santiago is the famous pilgrimage route from France to Spain (Santiago de Compostela)
From an edition of only 10
Numbered bottom left 9/10
The work is professionally framed, mat in a black lacquered wooden frame.
Paul Blanca (Paul Vlaswinkel 1958-2021) was a Dutch art photographer. Blanca started shooting in color with a small camera, but soon switched to black and white and a 6 x 6 cm Hasselblad camera.
In the Netherlands, Hans van Manen, Paul Blanca and Erwin Olaf were the most important representatives of this new studio photography. Blanca made his breakthrough in the early 1980s with his confrontational violent self-portraits, inspired by the great American photographers Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Andres Serrano (1950). Blanca's self-portraits reveal strong emotions and violence, expressed in fear, aggression, pain, sadness and sexuality.