Hans Namuth's now iconic images have two roles. Produced in 1951 Namuth hired a house in Springs, the small area where Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner were living at he time. He photographed Pollock at is work, painting his huge canvasses. With the passing of time, these photographs have come to iconoclise the image of Pollock and the construction of the artist, the myth of the 'Mad genius' which ahs been attributed to artist as far back as Michelangelo.
What namuth has captured is an image of 'The Artist' not exclusively Jackson Pollock. He is the father of the Abstract expressionist movement, when we think of either him or the moevment we visualise it through the photographs that Namuth captured.
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