Justice Howard is a photographer
who has made a conscious choice and effort not to limit herself to the
terminologies that are applied to an artisan of her stature. She is willing
to go past the edge to capture the images that most of us secretly desire
to explore first hand. She so gracefully unveils her masterpiece over and over
again through her ability to change societies position and pose from
intolerance to appreciation for that which we all secretly crave. We all
yearn to explore the deepest realms of fantasy and pleasure through her
imperious pictorials. Through her brilliant
use of either digital or film, Justice conquers the illusive trappings
that society imposes on the beauty of vivid sexuality in color or black and
white.
Justice Howard, a universal force and creative genius is one of the few
women that had what it took to step into the ring with "The Boys" and throw
a mean and passionate left hook at the porn industry. Her artistic box cover art paved the way for todays high end sexual imagery and won “best boxcover art” and “best graphics”many years in a row. With legends like John
Gilmore and Clive Barker in her corner, she never threw in the towel.
Justice managed more than a few good punches and knockouts, then walked away
with the belt and the buckle, leaving the straps on the mat. Her
uncompromised work standard and breakthrough vision have earned her a seat
at The Round Table with photographic giants, Helmut Newton & Robert
Mapplethorpe . Justice uses light, tone and shadow the way a seamstress weaves
her needle and thread, no matter what the pattern and to our benefit, she
always ends up with a beautiful tapestry.
She uses ‘icons’ from subcultures, fetish scenes and ‘general’ erotic imagery and redefines them in bundled stylized images. Strong visual fixations of sexual desires and erotic fantasies, sprouted from the brain of the American photographer Justice Howard.
Her work balances between erotic glamour photography, dominated by Playboy’s culture fix, and conceptual photography that can easily stand the comparison with high art photographers like Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Although the substantive side of her work seems quite intuitive and open, her technical and formal approach is setup carefully and prepared extensively. Every aspect of the photograph, and the shoot, is worked out equally and with technical and artistic perfection. There’s not much room for spontaneous interaction but it does give her work the timeless ‘monumental’ feeling that’s so remarkable for her work.
The image that’s haunting me for days now, is the one of the woman lying on a bed surrounded by plastic sex dolls. She’s in the same pose, has the same non-expression but heck she’s staring at me, really disturbing. It’s to serious to be humorous, too much a statement to laugh or smile about, especially knowing it’s a woman smacking this image right in to my face.
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--- JUSTICE HOWARD… an f.y.i. ---
Photographic maverick Justice Howard has been described as a “visionary aesthete.” If you believe yourself to be unacquainted with her work, that’s no doubt because you simply were not aware it was Howard’s. Her client list includes Marilyn Manson, Siegfried & Roy, guitarist Dave Navarro, Waylon Jennings, Dick Dale, Rich Little, Blue Man Group, pulp model Julie Strain and dozens of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets. Howard’s work has called forth comparisons to Herb Ritts and kink artisan/photo master Helmut Newton, her images being evocative, and often confronting. She has said, “I refuse to explain my work. Andy Warhol never explained his paintings, Bob Dylan never explained his songs.” What’s clear is this visual author of hundreds of published printings and hardcover anthologies is only at the beginning of her career. An evolving Website has become part of her ever-expanding image. “First I threw up a site for fun,” Howard says. “I didn’t take it seriously at all. It was a fun, kind of cartoon-y thing, the first one, more than anything. “Then I realized that I got thousands and thousands of hits, so quickly. I thought, ‘Wow, this is serious stuff. This is really a platform for anything I want to do.’” She hired a great designer, I wanted a professional-looking site, the opposite of what I had in the beginning. He built me my own backend administration page; so I’m basically my own Webmaster.” JusticeHoward.com (www.justicehoward.com) passed one million hits according to the front door counter in May 2003. “That was in eight months’ time, with no advertising of any kind, no meta-tags, and very few banner trades.” And new Webmasters: This is more a testament to the rep Howard has earned as a photographer than it is a recipe for success for all and sundry. “It’s word-of-mouth,” Howard informs, “and that’s kind of what I was counting on when I built the site. I had this idea of, ‘If I build it, they will come.’ As hokey as that sounds, it was totally true. I thought if I did something really well, people would respond. And they totally did.”
One might think she’s found a safe haven on the Net, or has run to it as a boundary-free venue for expression. But she doesn’t synthesize it that way. She’s looking forward to shooting more celebrities. “Not because I’m ‘goo-ga’ over them. I like taking a celebrity, someone who has been profiled the same way for so many years... let’s say Ricky Martin. Looking the same way in every single photo. Black leather pants and that damn sweater. “I’d get a big kick out of taking him and doing something totally on the other end of the spectrum. Which is something I like to do with my celebrity portraits.” As the artist herself has said, “I want my images to be like a slap in the face, to rattle around in your brainpan for awhile, and then take up residency there.” To capture the quality specific to her subject, she tries to see her subjects shows, when possible (for instance, Blue Man Group used props in a show that Howard incorporated in their portrait). Now that she’s moving away from her edgier art, it would be natural to assume that she’s “mellowed.” Howard’s the first one to guarantee that this is not the case. “I want to make beautiful images... but they will always be outlaw.” — Rebecca Gray
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In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Body type:
Average
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Leo
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER
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I am attracted to unique artists like Helmut Newton & Robert Mapplethorpe & George Hurrell musically I like Tom Waits and Hatebreed I like all productive souls, who are committed to maintaining their originality and individual creative spirit. Don't ask or expect me to lend you my attentions if you are consumed with drama or if you insist on pursuing a damaging lifestyle. I adore anyone who is motivated, inspiring and intent on upward spirals. I cherish my friends and acquaintances, old and new. I love to be in the company of those who are willing to take risks, who are spontaneous but also disciplined. If youre able to chose to manage your life day to day, without popping pills or abusing others or harmful substances of any kind, I applaud you and welcome your friendship!
Justice Howards passion for photography combined with her creative genius has captivated the attention and respect of her artistic peers as well as critics, and most importantly her fans. She is an icon with a tight technical photo ability and a client list that reads like a celeb 'wish list' including Marilyn Manson, Dave Navarro, Billy Idol, Xene Cervenka, Blue Man Group, Waylon Jennings, Mickey Rourke and 1000's more.... She is a visionary artist with a hunger for raw truth and passion for eroticism. Her struggle to pursue her artistic dreams in a medium exclusively reserved for " the boys" helped pave a pathway for young women inspired by her work worldwide.
--- BIOGRAPHY ---
American born JUSTICE HOWARD has become something of an enigma in art circles around this globe of ours. To call JUSTICE HOWARD merely a 'photographer' would be a gross oversimplificaion. It would seem more fitting referring to her as a "visionary aesthetician". An artist who visualizes what the camera documents. The body of work she has created in her short career consists of an aesthetic architecture that enhances the female form and the personnas of the human condition in all its kaleidoscopic temperaments.
Artistically articulate, Justice Howard's work has attained greatness parallel to Herb Ritts & Annie Liebowitz. While being evocative, and often confronting, Justice Howard's work has always been precocious. Internationally renowned in over 25 countries Justice Howard's client list reads like an "artistic wish list". Marilyn Manson, Seigfried & Roy, Dave Navarro, Waylon Jennings, Rich Little, Blue Man Group, Mamie Van Doren and hundreds of Playboy Playmates & Penthouse Pets have been captured by her lens. The visual author of literally hundreds of print features and dozens of anthologies, Howard has documented her aesthetics in hundreds of magazines and just as many highly successful art gallery exhibitions as well as hardcover coffeetable books. Her own coffeetable book is due out later this year with a European publisher. Justice Howard's photo embrace has outgrown that of her contemporaries as well as any "genre label".
After all is said and done, it seems far more appropriate to refer to her as a "temporal artiste". She captures the vision we all imagine but fail to actualize in this hurried labyrinth called life.
I enjoy & derive great pleasure from listening to the following musical geniuses. - Tom Waits - Ministry - Hatebreed - Deathriders
--- FILM ---
Movies That Tickle My Senses Audition·Near Dark·Homeboy & Run Lola Run, Black Snake Moan, Grindhouse, Sin City, House of 1000 Corpses The Devils Rejects·The Cell·Carlitos Way Taxi Driver THE DARK BACKWARDS All Films Dark & Delicious I DONT HAVE TIME FOR TELEVISION
--- LITERARY KUDOS ---
My pal John Gilmore, who wrote, SEVERED/Story Of The Black Dahlia, LAID BARE/Story Of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip, LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG/Story of James Dean, L.A. DESPAIR, and about 10 other books. I also dig Executioners Song by Norman Mailer and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and of course anythng by my old lunch buddy Charles Bukowski! Who changed my life over lunch one day by telling me to "ride-one-horse."
--- QUOTES ---
......"Justice Howard is a visionary provocateur." ..........PLAYBOY
......"I decorated my house with her photography. She's one of my favorite artists.".......DAVE NAVARRO
......."She is a celebrant of all that is best in the art life of our culture." ...........CLIVE BARKER
......"Justice Howard's photos are intense explorations into the human condition via light & shadow. Each image becomes a looking glass to see more deeply into ourselves."............JOHN GILMORE, writer
....."The best photographer who ever pointed a lens at me." ....WAYLON JENNINGS
......."She spots composition in the curve of a thigh and can put operatic grandeur in the position of an eyebrow." ...MAMIE VAN DOREN, pinup legend
........"In the realm of photography her senses reign supreme"...SYBIL DANNING
......“I had so much fun Justice talked me out of my clothes!!! Great photos, great time”…..PHIL VARONE
……”When you want the best. You go to the best.” ……DICK DALE
…..”This is the first time I have to agree with my old fashioned dad.” …..JIMMY DALE
........"Her images are well-though- out-scenes from movies that don't exist beyond the mind of this well-respected photographer. Appearing as more than mere models, her subjects seem like dark characters from a noir thriller with a secret to hide.".....AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER magazine
…..”Howard’s recent work transcends the bizarre, going beyond glamour and commercialism to the subliminal places where desire, violence and sensuality are illuminated by her dark, razor-sharp vision.”…..PUSH magazine
........"This stylish & unique photographer captures a beguiling mixture of power & beauty."......FEMME FATALE magazine
….”Justice Howard is a creative genius whose imagination teamed together with her ability can make anybody look cool. In a few words, she’s rock n’ roll attitude on film!” ………ARMANDO HUERTA
…….”Her uncompromised work standard & breakthrough vision have earned her a seat at The Round Table with photographic greats Helmut Newton & Robert Mapplethorpe.”…..EROTICA L.A. SHOWGUIDE
........"Its almost the story of Cinderella. Justice started out as a model who had more brains than most, and now she's a world-class artist." ....SECRET MAGAZINE, Europe
…..”Justice’s originality and macabre sense of humor are always on display. The final products are unique and inspired, and different from any other!” …….SIRENS of CINEMA MAGAZINE
........"Knows cool before its cool, and then shoots it." .......STUDIO 54
---LOOKING FOR JUSTICE ---
"My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone."
Diane Arbus, photographer
Justice Howard knows where she's been and where she doesn't want to be. Her progress as a world-class photographer came after being side-tracked, with time spent traveling down a road to nowhere in particular.
A red-headed rebel with Hell's Angels for riding buddies and the curvaceous figure of a cartoon action heroine, Howard was between being a glamour model and a lady biker. It was author/poet Charles Bukowski who asked what she intended on doing with her life.
"I said, 'Oh, I'm writing and modeling and doing this, this, and this,'" she remembers. "And Bukowski said, 'No, no. You have to ride one horse...'"
"After that, I got serious about my photography I picked up my camera and started riding hard."
Later, at an exhibition of her work in Los Angeles, she recalls, "somebody came up and said, 'Oh, you're the fetish photographer...'"
"They were locking me into this slot and I had to jump out as quickly as possible. I did my best to immediately run away from that. That's what I've been doing for the last couple of years -- showing people I'm much more than that."
Likened to Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts and Arbus, Howard gladly acknowledges their influences. Her models are edge-dwellers or famous, or both, and always photographed within the context of visions that are visceral and razor sharp. Newton, who spent 50 years provoking the viewer with his use of psycho-sexual triggers, never escaped an association with fetish. With only eight years behind the camera, Howard knows she has a way to go before her body of work can compare.
Author John Gilmore is more precise in his comparison of the two.
"People tend to raise their eyebrows when I say Justice has surpassed Newton," says Gilmore. "What I mean by that is Helmut's shots tend towards the voyeuristic experience while Justice manages to engage subliminally."
Gilmore is a recognized true crime writer with an unflinching, snapshot-like style. The desperate characters that fill his books were collected during a lifetime of wandering that has always led him back to Los Angeles. Acquainted with both Newton and Arbus, he remembers a conversation he had with Arbus in New York.
"She talked about being, psychologically, the one jumping off the Empire State building and landing in a saucer of water. That's how she saw what she was doing and she had no choice. She said, 'You break through to the other side and the hole you've made dissolves and there's no going back.'"
Constrained by labels like "erotic" and "edgy," Howard detoured to Las Vegas for four years and saw her photos blown up to billboards along the Strip. "I shot Blue Man Group, Siegfried and Roy, all the Elvis impersonators," she says.
Her list of references includes many upscale gigs: Saks 5th Avenue, Nordstrom, Playboy, Maxim and French Vogue, to name a few. Howard's work has also appeared in publications like Heavy Metal and Easy riders.
Her proclivity for the extreme ranges from high-end fashion shoots to devilish kitsch. In a series called "Evil Divas," Howard created marquee cards for X-rated horror classics that never existed.
For "Dementia," the poster ominously reads, "TO AVOID FAINTING; keep repeating, 'It's only a movie? only a movie?'" The model appears crazed, bound in gauzy bandages.
"A lot of people think those are real movies and I say, 'No, those are the movies that play in my head,'" she laughs.
Back in LA after leaving the neon desert behind, Howard continues to attract a list of celebrity subjects.
Using a digital Nikon D2x and a Hasselblad for film, she prefers shooting models with "that certain woo-hoo-thing"; that dark exciting sexuality.
"I would not want to photograph Tom Cruise," she says. "I wouldn't walk across the street to do that."
A favorite is pin-up goddess Mamie Van Doren, one of the "Three Ms" that included Mansfield and Marilyn in the 1950s.
"We did one called 'Black Stocking Murder.' She looked dead with a black stocking wrapped around her neck and she was in black nylons -- it was pretty cool," says Howard. "She's 74 years old and all the photos of her were un-retouched."
"The Black Stocking Murder" was part of a compilation of 80 photographs Howard exhibited on May 20, 2006, in a downtown LA gallery space for a one-night-only collaboration with author Gilmore. Called "Sharp Edges," the show was a benefit for the Children of the Night charity and was attended by 600 guests. Interspersed with text by Gilmore, prints were mounted to the walls with custom-made knives created by House of Steel. Between pin-ups of naughty girls in old-fashioned foundation garments there were scenes of disconcerting violence and surreal sexuality; porn stars and circus clowns, murder victims and mayhem.
Inspired by Gilmore's passages from "Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder," one photo set featured model Heidi Van Horne, hauntingly and tragically accurate as the Dahlia, set against a backdrop of the Biltmore Hotel; the last location where Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) was seen alive in 1947. Other shots are re-created crime scene photos of the murder, with the model grotesquely cut in half and dumped in the same vacant lot where Short's body was discovered. Howard notes that this was a project Newton had intended on shooting, but never got a chance to complete.
Also part of the show; large prints depicting foot fetish diva Brittany Andrews as a vinyl-clad, tiara-wearing hell cat, juxtaposed cleverly against photos of her as a wanton yet tender Cinderella, ball-gowned and ready for her glass slipper.
Interpreting Howard's work as portrayals of women spotlighted in situations of ultra-glamorized sex and violence is an overly simplistic analysis. Her subjects, she says, are more often endowed with iconic qualities of strength and control.
"There are a number of photographers who shoot women that are always very subjugated, wearing ball-gags or strung up. I don't do that," she contends. "All my women are very, very powerful figures; beautiful, larger-than-life figures."
Some of the subjects seem defiant, on the verge of rebellious acts. Others assume soft-focused aspects of illuminated femininity and grace.
Either way, Howard is unapologetic.
"A lot of people, it's over their heads," she says. "If they don't have enough life experience on their plate to understand it, I'm not going to explain it to them.
"At the end of the day, I really don't give a shit if anybody likes it at all.
I really shoot it for my eye. I'm thrilled to death if other people like it, don't get me wrong. But I don't shoot it to please anyone else."
With an artistic sensibility she picked up somewhere along the road, Howard concludes, "You know, there's a motorcycle T-shirt that says, 'If I have to explain why I ride, then you'll never understand.' It's sort of like that.
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The Soul of a Man Anthology is the winner of the 2009 Best Short Stories/Anthology from the African American Literary Awards Show. Read an excerpt of my contribution, "Like Father, Like Son", at http://joeyisinit.com/excerpt.html.
If you know anybody in the Raleigh, NC, let them know that I'm doing a book signing/book discussion at the Southeast Regional Library in Garner, NC, (908 7th St) on Thursday, October 22nd at 6:30pm.
My lastest entry on http://joeypinkney.com is "5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Corey Barnes, author of What Is This Love Thing About". Leave a comment on my website, I would like to know what you think.
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