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. She is featured on websites alongside Scavullo & Mapplethorpe. 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, Siegfried & Roy, Dave Navarro, Waylon Jennings, Rich Little, Blue Man Group, Mamie Van Doren plus dozens 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. 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.
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