Alex Box

In an industry with many imitators and few originators, visionary makeup artist, Alex Box, and prolific photographer Rankin have collaborated to produce a truly unique oeuvre. Alex Box draws together 40 colour portraits in which two artists at the pinnacle of their professions. Alex Box is Creative Director for makeup brand, Illamasqua. As such, she has worked with some of the most experimental and avant garde designers, photographers, and hair stylists in the fashion industry. She is nothing less than a master of colour, detail and form; never viewing her model's face as a limitation but rather as a canvas with no boundary. In Alex Box, she weaves the most surreal and outlandish of creative concepts into and around the features of her muses, morphing them into divine otherworldly creatures. Alex Box's touch is alternately garish and lurid, then deliberate and considered; a splurge of rainbow colour, then soberly monochrome; sweeping and brazen, then calculated and graphic. Further working over the images once printed - using pen and ink, crayon, collage, oil paint - each becomes an individual work of art, standing alone in its own right. Rankin's 22- year career is evident in his sensitive lighting and composition, which confidently compliments and captures the essence of each idea, never shouting over the mood of the image, but instead gently realising the portrait in all its subtleties and complexities. The result is a collection of hauntingly beautiful and visually stunning images - art and artistry in its highest form

Avant Garde Fashion - Headshot

Model: Sherina
Clothing Designer: Michele Ng
Makeup & Hair Style: Jessica Joanne Soo
Assistants: Andrew Ng & Calvin Huang
Lighting Setup: Martin Liew & Andrew Ng
Photographer: Martin Liew
Post Processing: Martin Liew

Strobist ino:
Main light: Nikon SB900 w/ Globe Diffuser @ 1/2 power
Kick light: Nikon SB900 w/ 1/8" grid spot @ full power

Avant Garde Fashion

Model: Sherina
Clothing Designer: Michele Ng
Makeup & Hair Style: Jessica Joanne Soo
Assistants: Andrew Ng & Calvin Huang
Lighting Setup: Martin Liew & Andrew Ng
Photographer: Martin Liew
Post Processing: Martin Liew

Strobist ino:
Main light: Nikon SB900 w/ Globe Diffuser @ 1/2 power
Kick light: Nikon SB900 w/ 1/8" grid spot @ full power

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.Rosalind E. Krauss is Professor of Art History at Hunter College.