Marc Hom reframes conventional portraiture in Cooperstown, NY

Danish photographer Marc Hom is understood for working with a few of the most well-known and influential figures on the planet. His newest exhibition, ‘Re-Framed’, is a star-studded affair. Bringing collectively his earlier portraiture of creative, literary and vogue icons – together with Louise Bourgeois, Joan Didion and Lee McQueen – along with his newer photographic work of award-winning performers, reminiscent of Anne Hathaway and Miley Cyrus, the exhibition unites the outdated with the brand new, the within with the surface, the intimate with the dramatic.

‘Re-Framed’ by Marc Hom

Taking on the grounds of the Fenimore Artwork Museum in Cooperstown, New York, ‘Re-Framed’ does precisely what its title suggests: reframes earlier traditional portraits in a contemporary and thrilling mild, and repositions Hom’s images because the type of artwork that it’s.

Scattered across the lawns of the museum, with Otsego Lake within the background and rolling lush forests past, Hom’s black and white pictures stand like monumental sculptures at 11ft excessive. Fitted on high-rotating frames, famend and playful portraits of the likes of Willem Defoe, Samuel L Jackson, Glenn Shut and innumerable different ‘personalities of the world’, as Hom fondly describes them, beam out on the viewer, whereas being uncovered to the weather and the breathtakingly lovely panorama that envelopes them.

For individuals who just like the cosy and fewer climatically temperamental house of the indoors, nonetheless, Hom’s work can also be displayed within the museum’s fundamental gallery. Right here, a fresh-faced Lupita Nyong’o reclines on a lavishly upholstered couch whereas a beehive-clad Amy Winehouse sits provocatively on a stool with a cigarette handy. Hom, who was concerned within the design of the exhibition, invitations viewers to bask within the everlasting glamour and youth, play and energy of his topics, whether or not that’s in rain or shine, below studio lighting or by the sunshine of the moon.