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Peter
Lorenz
Shaven Angels 2 is the second volume in the Shaven Angels Trilogy
and like its sister books, it is a brazen and arousing body of
ultra-original portrait photography. As Monika Evers notes in the forward,
Peter Lorenz is interested in contrasts, in pairs of opposites like hard
and tender, melancholy and cheerful, old and young. The exciting tension
he creates here is generated in large part by the locations at which he
shoots. All are located around his hometown of Erfurt, which like much of
what was once East Germany, is a scene of upheaval where modernity is
colliding with the dilapidation of the past. Lorenz purposely places his
girls in backgrounds that are relics from GDR era. Industrial buildings
that have yet to be renovated or tore down, old planes that are now
forever grounded. His models stand as smooth, statuesque, perfect beings -
as angels among the unkempt ruins.
Shaven Angels 3 is the third volume in the Shaven Angels Trilogy and like its two
predecessors, it is a brazen and arousing body of ultra-original portrait
photography. As noted by Monika Evers, Peter Lorenz is interested in
contrasts, in pairs of opposites like hard and tender, melancholy and
cheerful, old and young. The exciting tension he creates here is generated
in large part by the locations at which he shoots. All are located around
his hometown of Erfurt, which like much of what was once East Germany, is
a scene of upheaval where modernity is colliding with the dilapidation of
the past. Lorenz purposely places his girls in backgrounds that are relics
from GDR era. Industrial buildings that have yet to be renovated or tore
down, old planes that are now forever grounded. His models stand as
smooth, statuesque, perfect beings - as angels among the unkempt ruins.
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