Deity's Likeness - Olga Michi

Art, war, carnival or cult — masks have two sides: They conceal and hide, and at the same time create new personalities, strange and captivating at once. So, too, do masks reveal world views of time and place: cult masks from Africa, mediaeval knight helmets, fantasy masks of famous film heroes like Darth Vader, or gas masks and VR glasses as modern functional objects.In this new photo book, Russian photographer Olga Michi traces our millennia-old fascination with masks. Her expressive pictures... Zobrazit více