Title: The Funeral
Price: Ξ0.27 ($291) - SOLD AT AUCTION
Year: December 2019
Format: Digital Photograph
Artist: Dusty Kessler
Description: Dusty Kessler’s mystifying portrait of bodies in motion reads like a painting, a still-life waiting for new details to be discovered. Taken on set during an unchoreographed moment behind the scenes of Miguel’s “Funeral” music video, this image embodies the human condition.
Title: Gabber
Price: Ξ0.29 ($300) - SOLD
Originally Captured: December 2019
Digitally Manipulated: November 2020
Medium: Digital Photograph, GIF
Artist: Dusty Kessler
Description: Utilizing shutter drag in-camera, Dusty Kessler captures Miguel behind the scenes on set of his “Funeral” music video. The temporal nature of Miguel’s body in motion creates a palpable tension heightened by Kessler’s mesmerizing use of digital manipulation, which incites a feeling of disintegration.
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Name: Sick Fantasy
Price: Ξ0.29 ($300) - SOLD
Originally Captured: December 2019
Digitally Manipulated: November 2020
Medium: Digital Photograph, GIF
Artist: Dusty Kessler
Description: Taken behind the scenes of Miguel’s “Funeral” music video, Dusty Kessler captures a moment of reckoning between artist and human, other and self. A sick all-consuming fantasy; a nightmare of figments, of hands reaching for the neck juxtaposed with light offering a way back into wakeful reality.
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Title: Acid Fire / Acid Flame
Price: Ξ0.190 ($200) - SOLD
Originally Captured: October 2019
Digitally Manipulated: November 2020
Medium: Digital Photograph, GIF
Artist: Dusty Kessler
Description: Dusty Kessler captures Miguel on stage at a music festival in California. Kessler’s digital manipulation of the onset pyrotechnics accentuates the intensity radiating off of Miguel’s form.