BEAUTY: Projection and Photography--Clément Lesaffre

For his Racines (or Roots) series, French photographer Clément Lesaffre takes wonderful, intimate portrait photos of people's faces and then projects them onto trees at night--often during a full moon--and the results are quite moving, evoking not only the relationship between humans and land or place, but also of the ephemeral nature of humans in the face of the universe...

Here he is at work on one of his pieces, projecting a face onto a rock and taking a long-exposure photo.

And here is his Self Portrait. With eyes closed. Poignant.

http://clementlesaffre.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Erik Olson

Beyond Cubism, Erik Olson's "Architecture of the Face" series shows us portraiture as though each person has taken on the characteristic of rooms, walls, and corners.

http://www.erikolson.ca/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Glenys Barton

UK sculptor Glenys Barton has quite a catalog of beautiful heads that are part Art Deco, part Brancusi.

Top to bottom: Jungian Shadow; Tattoo Head II; Tattoo Head III; Tattoo Head I; Toni Angel Head II; Toni Angel Head III and IV; Within; Within detail

http://www.glenysbarton.com/