Both familiar yet oddly unsettling, a new collaborative effort between New Orleans-based photographers Epaul Julien and Elizabeth Kleinveld (she also resides in Amsterdam) offers a modern take on European masterpieces, with a retelling of classic paintings through twists on age, race, gender and sexual orientation. The pair, who bill themselves as E2, can spend from six to twelve months on a single image, from the painting of custom backdrops (often by Marco Ventura) to the loan of costumes from the Dutch National Theatre to the authentic hairstyles inherent with each reenactment... |
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