The photographer Nick Knight reinvents the photographic sculptures from the 1860s with this Kate Moss sculpture.
For the project Knight used a 3D scanner to make a 3D model of the supermodel Kate Moss. After scanning the supermodel he added designs of 3D scanned wings he scanned from a dove to transform the sculpture into an angel.
The model was then manufactured using porcelain by the traditional German porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg.
Nick Knight in CNN Style:
This is a photograph as sculpture – I haven’t chiseled away at a block of marble or pushed huge chunks of clay into forms, I have used every skill I would as a photographer, yet the end result is an physical object.
I have scanned some of the women in my life that I love, respect and find fascinating; Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Liberty Ross and Daphne Guinness, for example.
All important women, strong women and women who shape our visual culture.
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