Victoria Will
In 2014 during Sundance Film Festival, Victoria Will set up a tintype portrait studio and made handmade portraits of celebrities. 
I find the fact that she used traditional methods to create celebrity portraits put a unique twist on the documentation of celebrities -the pictures we are used to seeing in the media are usually taken with digital cameras and sometimes manipulated. These photographs feel more authentic and true.
I find the fact that she used traditional methods to create celebrity portraits put a unique twist on the documentation of celebrities -the pictures we are used to seeing in the media are usually taken with digital cameras and sometimes manipulated. These photographs feel more authentic and true.
The use of celebrity images in her work suggests that portraits of celebrities can be approached in more traditional ways, despite 'celebrity' being a relatively new phenomenon. Social media, magazines etc. renders the celebrity image meaningless and disposable, whereas these images add more value.
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