Oliver Herring creates photo realistic models by sculpting actual photos of the models themselves. This is more than just a clever idea, he has a meticulous care for detail and realism. There is no way this can be easy, and it takes an artist with experience to turn flat photographs into a sculpture, no matter what the subject. These pieces blur the lines between between photography and sculpture.
Herring’s use of photography takes an extreme turn in his most recent series of photo-sculptures. For these works, Herring painstakingly photographs a model from all possible angles, then cuts and pastes the photographs onto the sculptural form of his subject
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