After digging slightly deeper I unearthed a whole array of portraits or as Andrew Taggart calls them, Head Studies. They're a terrific grouping and still being added too since 2006. Drawing with photographs can be difficult. The mediums have differing speeds and familiarity. To combine the two and get the medium to read well is a difficult feat. Taggart pulls it off well, not just getting the mediums to work in concert but also doing a fine interpreatation of his subject.
Check out this one of the Dalai Lama. He's got the responsibilities of Tibet and weight of China on his mind...
Here's a pondering Albert Camus always on the scent on an existensial idea and a sneaky James Dean...
I've always thought of Hemmingway as kinda a thug:
And the Surrealist, Joan Miro. What's the rope for? He's certainly up to no good...
You can tell Taggart likes the Dutchess of Windsor!
Stravinsky, Mark Twain, maybe not so much...
George Bernard Shaw is a headache
Georgia O'keefe is sorta out on her own, perhaps the New Mexican dessert making her feel a little isolated?
Walter Benjamin, ever the blockhead.
but Gertrude Stein, a dapper lady!
Grace Kelly still has some edge to her:
And Krishnamurti has a mountain in his lap.
Taggart, the painter of these photographs, is Canadian but he's living in Norway. You can peep more of Taggart's work here. There are some intriguing installations as well as a set digital books which you can page through.
Lets leave on a Margaret Thatcher note
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