#jesse lenz

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Jesse Lenz

The Seraphim

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Photo © Jesse Lenz

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Jesse Lenz - From the book “The Seraphim”

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Jesse Lenz (American, b. 1988)

Marion Crane [Janet Leigh, Psycho, 1960] - Monsters & Marilyns collection - manipulated photography - 2009

"Andy Warhol’s silkscreen painting of Marilyn Monroe is one of the most iconic painting of the Pop Art Movement. Not many people know that the painting was meant to show the mask of popularity that a celebrity wears. On the outside there were different shades of happiness, but under all the paint and smiles there was something darker: depression, drug use, and suicide. I took this idea and reinterpreted it to speak truth into our popular culture. The hair and make-up from the “Marilyn Monroe” painting is placed on politicians, dictators, public officials, as well as old horror movie monsters that are liars, murderers, and tyrants. By doing this the statement is made that no matter how much popular culture or the mass media tries to dress up and beautify these people, they are still monsters. Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama, Frankenstein, Dracula, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pin Head, Leather Face, Barney Frank, Chairmen Mao, the Bride of Frankenstein, Hitler, Hannibal Lector, and Jesse Jackson are only some of the people that I have Marilynized." — JL

www.flickr.com/photos/jesselenz/albums/72157623182741376

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From the book “The Seraphim” © Jesse Lenz

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Jesse Lenz. From the "Locusts" series

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---> Il y avait toute sorte de choses là-dedans.

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Jesse Lenz