MAX PRICE: Tattoo Galleries Emerging Artists

Photograph by Chris Polinski, Tattoo Gallery Exhibition

Photograph by Carrie Crow, Tattoo Gallery Exhibition

Photograph by Max Price, Tattoo Gallery Exhibition

Max Price with his Black and White Photography

Group Exhibition at Empire State Tattoo Gallery

Photographer MAX PRICE exhibited his black and white prints along with other emerging artists in a group exhibition at Empire State Studio's Tattoo Gallery in Oceanside. Max, a self-taught photographer originally from Sag Harbor, NY, now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has been steadily showing his photographs in small venues. We look forward to posting more of his work in the future. This exhibit will be up until the end of January. Thanks to Matthew Avedon for this post.

SELF-PORTRAIT: How We View Ourselves

Portrait on the Left was Drawn by an Englishman

Self-Portrait on the Right was a drawn by the Maori Chief himself

TWO PORTRAITS OF MAORI CHIEF TUPAI KUPA
Drawn over 300 Years Ago

NEW ZEALAND TATTOO of Maori Chief Tupai Kupa, "as drawn by himself over a hundred years ago for his friends in Liverpool". When this Maori was being painted by his friend John Sylvester, he looked on with great interest, but he presently shook his head, and declared that it was not at all the picture of Tupai Kupa. Those present and others coming in were greatly surprised. All were agreed that the features had been hit off with rare ability. But Tupai Kupa smiled with a superior and self-satisfied air. With his finger he pointed to the forehead and said laconically: "That not me!" But still greater was the amazement when the Maori, asking for the pencil, with extraordinary skill drew his portrait as he conceived it, and as I here reproduce it." --Leo Frobenius, 1909

Taken from Social Fiction
The Childhood Of Man by Leo Frobenius, 1909