Portraits

Takiya2007salted paper print with Takiya’s blood5 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches — Takiya
2007
salted paper print with Takiya’s blood
5 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches

Jordan2007salted paper print with Jordan’s father’s sperm3 ½ x 4 1/2 inches — Jordan
2007
salted paper print with Jordan’s father’s sperm
3 ½ x 4 1/2 inches

Dennis2007salted paper print with Dennis’ mother’s breast milk5 1/16 x 5 1/8 inches — Dennis
2007
salted paper print with Dennis’ mother’s breast milk
5 1/16 x 5 1/8 inches

Will2007salted paper print with Will’s tears2 x 2 10/16 inches — Will
2007
salted paper print with Will’s tears
2 x 2 10/16 inches

Linda2007salted paper print with Juan’s, Adrien’s, and Jimmy’s saliva4 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches — Linda
2007
salted paper print with Juan’s, Adrien’s, and Jimmy’s saliva
4 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches

Belen2006salted paper print with Belen’s sweat3 ½ x 4 5/8 inches — Belen
2006
salted paper print with Belen’s sweat
3 ½ x 4 5/8 inches

Charles2007salted paper print with Charles’ mucus5 x 5 7/8 inches — Charles
2007
salted paper print with Charles’ mucus
5 x 5 7/8 inches

George2007salted paper print with George’s vomit and washedin Oblate Mission’s Holy Water5 11/16 x 5 11/16 inches — George
2007
salted paper print with George’s vomit and washed
in Oblate Mission’s Holy Water
5 11/16 x 5 11/16 inches

Jackie2007salted paper print with Jackie’s skin oil6 1’16 x 6 1/16 inches — Jackie
2007
salted paper print with Jackie’s skin oil
6 1’16 x 6 1/16 inches

Lake Mead2006salted paper print with Lake Mead water15 15/16 x 11 15/16 inches — Lake Mead
2006
salted paper print with Lake Mead water
15 15/16 x 11 15/16 inches

Long Beach, CA, Long Beach, NY2008 - 2010salted paper print with water from thePacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean30 x 40 inches each panel, 30 x 80 inches — Long Beach, CA, Long Beach, NY
2008 - 2010
salted paper print with water from the
Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean
30 x 40 inches each panel, 30 x 80 inches

Salton Sea A12006salted paper print with Salton Sea water30 x 40 inches — Salton Sea A1
2006
salted paper print with Salton Sea water
30 x 40 inches

Pacific Ocean 22006salted paper print with Pacific Ocean water30 x 40 inches — Pacific Ocean 2
2006
salted paper print with Pacific Ocean water
30 x 40 inches

“Similarly Portraits, using the subjects’ own, often intimate, bodily fluids as a tool for developing their individual portrait, Brandt pushes the intimacy of portraiture and questions the nature of the relationship between photographer and subject.”

—Sang Bleu Magazine, Matthew Brandt at M+B Gallery, by Joseph Delaney, 2013

https://magazine.sangbleu.com/2013/12/15/matthew-brandt-at-mb-gallery/

“portraits are possibly the most intimate Brandt has made and the most disturbing. Each is coated as a salt print, in combination with a bodily fluid that relates to the subject. Respectively, menstrual blood, blood, and his father’s semen. Obviously each of these fluids tells us a lot when looked at under a microscope. But it’s interesting to find that they also give different texture and color to each of the salt prints. I would be interested to know if there was any back story that made Brandt choose each bodily fluid specifically for each subject.”

—Word Press, MATTHEW BRANDT, 2013

https://adventuresofderpyvelociraptor.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/matthew-brandt/