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I. Beauty — Studio Studies I

Beauty — Studio Studies I is the first release from The Monokhromo Collection: a series of black-and-white portraits drawn from Jonathan B. Landman's earlier studio archive and newly refined for limited digital edition release. The collection studies beauty not as decoration, but as presence — held in gaze, fabric, posture, silence, and controlled light.

Black-and-white studio portrait of a woman wrapped in white fur, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
LIGHT · SILENCE 6 WORKS

Beauty, in this practice, is what survives reduction.

— JONATHAN B. LANDMAN
Collection
Beauty — Studio Studies I
Format
Digital edition
Works
Six portraits
From
€ 65
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FOUNDER'S NOTE JONATHAN B. LANDMAN

Beauty — Studio Studies I gathers six portraits from an earlier period of studio work, revisited and refined for the Collection's first public release. The images were made with controlled studio light, in long sessions, without a brief beyond attention.

The subjects were not given instructions about expression. They were asked only to be present. The work is, in that sense, a study in what the face does when it stops performing — which is, I think, where beauty actually lives.

Each plate is issued as a digital edition: a high-resolution file, a certificate, and a letter of guidance for whoever is going to print it. The work belongs on paper. I leave the choice of paper to you.

— JONATHAN B. LANDMAN
PLATES Six works in this collection
Black-and-white studio portrait of a woman wrapped in white fur, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
01 / 06 White Fur
Black-and-white portrait of a woman wearing a wide white brimmed hat, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
02 / 06 White Brim
Black-and-white seated studio portrait of a woman posed in shadow and light, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
03 / 06 Seated Silence
Black-and-white portrait of a woman in an open white shirt, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
04 / 06 Open Collar
Black-and-white close studio portrait of a woman with direct gaze and dark clothing, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
05 / 06 Velvet Gaze
Black-and-white profile portrait of a woman looking downward, from Beauty — Studio Studies I by Jonathan B. Landman.
06 / 06 Downcast Light

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