The Women At Mann : Celebrating Women’s History Month : Julie Blackmon
By The Eye of Photography
Julie Blackmon‘s work is defined by its signature style of compelling visual allure and subtly off-kilter incidents fused together with sly wit into strange, wry, and whimsical stories of everyday moments. She captures the mythical within the everyday, creating visual narratives concealing deeper truths. Drawing influence from her own family life, the Dutch master Jan Steen and French modernist painter, Balthus, Blackmon creates photographs that have an air of a past era — perhaps the 1950’s or ’60s — yet her use of 21st-century iconography tells us that they are quite contemporary.
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