"Elvis"
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37 1/2 by 29
Color Screenprint
Edtion 17/50
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Russell Young
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After spending fifteen years as a celebrity photographer and music video director, [Young] was able to see how, and at what points that world and the underworld rub up against each other. So the idea of combining celebrities and criminals came very naturally. Because [he] had been engaged in creating and glamorizing a person's image, finding portraits of these people in their worst possible moments, drunk, high, beaten, stripped bare, was very attractive to [him].
[Young's] method of working is to search, destroy and create. The images of [his Pig Portrait] series have been collected from newspaper cuttings, e-bay, long correspondence with police departments throughout the world or even given by celebrities themselves. The idea to create "anti-celebrity" portraits was probably a reaction to [his] former career. However, they turned out to be even more beautiful and iconic. There is undeniably this attitude that is very real, in your face, a beauty that is hard to ignore. [Young's] art is a sort of soundtrack to [his] life, loves, experiences and influences. These would be [his] heroes that are missing from Art History.
A note about Pig Portraits: it is a series about the glamour in the dark side of crime, fame, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Source: RussellYoung.com |
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