Models rarebooks is a case in point:

is a case in point: it conjures up a catalogue of the dead and/or missing—an all too frequent reference point that underlines the global contemporary

” As Dumas describes it: “There are pictures of the insane

vividly captured in striking black and white photography

Dumas gives them equal treatment: one becomes virtually indistinguishable from the other

Models rarebooks is a case in point:Published by Oktagon, 1995. The work of South African artist Marlene Dumas exists on a continuum between painting and photography. Simply put, she paints from photographic images. Her sources range from the personal to the pornographic; from the medical to the political. Consisting of eerily rendered bodies and heads in thin washes of paint, ink or chalk. Models, 1994, is a case in point: it conjures up a catalogue of the dead and or missingan all too