Closed for expansion and renovations
OBJECT
Se King 2009
Thorsten Brinkmann DE
07 min 20 s
courtesy of the artist and Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels
In 1977, Polaroid launched its biggest camera on the market: a device of more than 100 kilos, with which you could take photographs of 51 x 61 cm. Forty years later, Thorsten Brinkmann had the opportunity to experiment with it at Studio Supersense in Vienna. He dressed up as a king and let employees photograph him in 50 poses on an improvised stage – each of which was a reconfiguration of earlier self-portraits. His face is always covered. With Se King, Brinkmann unmasks the conventions of portrait photography.