Thorsten Brinkmann

I find it hard to believe that I haven't posted any work by Thorsten Brinkmann before now. I first saw his work a few years ago at ICP in New York in an exhibition called Dress Codes.The work was based around images of style and personal presentation and Brinkmann's work was a small part of a group show. For me it stood out as being work that significance beyond the immediacy, yes it's striking to look at and arresting but it seems to me that it has a deeper more lasting impression based on a more historically concious thought process. If nothing else you can go to his website at  http://thorstenbrinkmann.com/ and see some knock-out work. This image is from a series called Portraits of a serial collector this particular one is called Bertha von Schwarzflug. According to Google translate Schwarzflug means black flight.