Real, yes,
but something tells us that these beings are not fully human. There is a
disenganged, robotic quality to them. Yet Eva Lauterlein’s subjects are real,
and human – to a degree. Or rather to several degrees. Their faces and bodies
are computer-aided reconstructions from photographs of real men and woman she
knows, with as many as forty different photographs employed. Lauterlein might
well have gone on to create freaks, but in her serie (re)creations she cleverly
skirts the line between attraction and repulsion.
From Face:
The New Photographic Portrait, 2006
William
A.Ewing with Nathalie Herschodorfer
Thames & Hudson
