These portraits have that ‘historical’ feeling to them. That they arise from some period in the late 1900s. And yet they are contemporary. The soft focus makes the subjects look like mannequins. Eternally youthful. And the rifles? A symbol of the monied class?
Gordin’s work is stark and startling. One feels that one has stepped into another’s psyche. That one is on the inside of a face looking out. And one is horrified by the monotony of sameness. The vast number of people. The mediocrity of uniformness.
I don’t buy it. The startling thing about humanity is the different voices. On one level, and I think a superficial one, we all are saying, doing, acting the same. But in the quiet of the night, the hour of the wolf, we are all left with our own thoughts.
This work is so damn beautiful. The black and white images works so well against almost all backgrounds. David Delamano
by David Halliday
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