Aaron Hawks (born May 12, 1973) is an American multidisciplinary artist, best known for his conceptual
fetish photography and
installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...
.
Career
Born and raised in
Seattle
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,
Hawks lived and worked in
San Francisco
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,
Los Angeles
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, and
Berlin
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before relocating to
Brooklyn
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, New York in 2012. Throughout the years his work featured a diverse array of subjects in the "alternative" art scene, including artists
Michael Hussar, and
Molly Crabapple;
alternative models Ulorin Vex
Christiane Shillito, known professionally as Ulorin Vex and Malady Charlotina, is an English alternative model and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. Her extensive list of credits include dozens of magazine features and covers, ad ca ...
,
and Darenzia; and
pornographic film actors
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Skin Diamond
Raylin Joy (born February 18, 1987), formerly known by her stage name Skin Diamond, is an American actress, model, singer-songwriter and pornographic actress.
Joy retired from adult film acting in 2016 to pursue other interests such as songwrit ...
,
Asphyxia Noir, and Emily Addison.
Hawks’ photography has been featured in magazines such as
Juxtapoz
''Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine'' (pronounced ''JUX-tah-pose'') is a magazine created in 1994 by a group of artists and art collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III (a.k.a. Craig Stecyk), Greg Escalante, and Eric ...
, and American Photo, and his work published in photography compilations by
Taschen
Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt Taschen and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen.
History
The company began as Tasch ...
,
Goliath Books
Goliath Books is a publisher of art and photography books, founded in 1997 by Miki Bunge in New York. Goliath's objective is to publish diverse and daring photography and art books and to introduce controversial, erotic and fringe themes to a ma ...
, and
Little, Brown and Company
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. His short
art film
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'Salt' (2002) was shown at
Roxie Theater
The Roxie Theater, also known as the Roxie Cinema or just The Roxie, is a historic movie theater, founded in 1912, at 3117 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. It is a non-profit community arthouse cinema.
History
The Roxie is ...
in
San Francisco
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.
See also
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Erotic photography
Erotic photography is a style of art photography of an erotic, sexually suggestive or sexually provocative nature. It is a type of erotic art.
In a spectrum, erotic photography is often distinguished from nude photography, which contains nude ...
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Fetish art
Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as S&M, domination/submission, bondage, transvestism and the like, sometimes in combination. It may simply depict a person dressed in fetish clothing, which could include un ...
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Nude (art)
The nude, as a form of visual art that focuses on the unclothed human figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned to a central position ...
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Depictions of nudity
Depictions of nudity include all of the representations or portrayals of nudity, the unclothed human body in visual media. In a picture-making civilization, pictorial conventions continually reaffirm what is natural in human appearance, which i ...
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Nude photography
Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography is undertaken for a variety of purposes, including educational uses, commercial applicati ...
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Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...
*
Art films
Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...
References
External links
Official WebsiteAaron Hawks' InstagramAaron Hawks interview, Fine Art TV (2008)Aaron Hawks on Model MayhemAaron Hawks' Books
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1973 births
Fetish photographers
American erotic photographers
American installation artists
Artists from Seattle
Artists from Brooklyn
Living people