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Chairs :: On The Surface
"I want to hide the record of my hand." Roy LichtensteinLately I have become increasingly interested in the notion of the absolute pre-eminence of the artist's intention when interpreting an individual...
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Chairs :: The Imaginary Viewer
See the full gallery on Posterous"I am interested in things which reflect the world rather than my personality." Jasper JohnsWhile I would readily admit to a shared intention with Johns, there is, I...
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Chair :: Emperor's New Clothes
See the full gallery on Posterous"And yet if there is one thing that Ruff's photos seem to emphatically declare, it is that they have no memory. They are mute and drained of affect. His works speak of...
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Metanoid Intersections :: The Disappearance Of Objects
"The photographic gaze has a sort of nonchalance which non-intrusively captures the apparition of objects. It does not seek to probe or analyze reality. Instead, the photographic gaze is "literally"...
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Metanoid Intersections :: It's A Kind Of Magic
"The intention of texts is to explain images, while that of concepts is to make ideas comprehensible. In this way, texts are a metacode of images." Vilém Flusser"Images are significant surfaces. Images...
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Metanoid Intersections :: Mnemosyne's Handmaiden
"Every photograph is a dead moment. A time insect, preserved and impaled. It is highly unlikely that a photograph of Marcel Proust's old aunt would have plunged him into such an ecstasy of memory as...
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Metanoid Intersections :: It's All Black & White
"Black and white photographs... translate a theory of optics into an image and thereby put a magic spell on this theory and re-encode theoretical concepts like ‘black’ and ‘white’ into states of...
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Metanoid Intersections :: Slipping Through The Gaps
"The act of photography results in photographs such as we nowadays are being flooded with on all sides. Hence a consideration of this act can serve as an introduction to these surfaces whose presence...
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Contrary Realities :: A Select Promptorium
See the full gallery on Posterous“The reality in front of the camera is reality of the first degree, the representation of the reality in front of the camera is reality of the second degree, and then...
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50 Precious Things :: That's The Way It Is
See the full gallery on Posterous"If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?" Thomas RuffWhen asked about his working practices, photographer Thomas Ruff described...
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50 Precious Things :: Definitions
See the full gallery on Posterous"We find it familiar to consider objects as useful or aesthetic, as necessities or vain indulgences. We are on less familiar ground when we consider objects as...
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50 Precious Things :: Evaluation
See the full gallery on Posterous"To photograph is to confer importance. There is no way to suppress the tendency inherent in all photographs to accord value to their subjects.""Photography implies...
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20 Mug Shots :: The Larger View
See the full gallery on Posterous"Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible." Paul Klee"Art is art. Everything else is everything else." Ad ReinhardtThis series of images of...
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Sweethearts :: Inappropriate Behaviour
See the full gallery on Posterous"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.""Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of...
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Sweethearts :: Who's Got The Look?
See the full gallery on Posterous"...according to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome - men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch...
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Digitally Remastered :: Blocks and Grids
See the full gallery on Posterous“It is important that one sees the instability of what one is looking at; that it could be changed. I like that you are aware of other possibilities whether you wish to...
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Block Grids :: Grids, Patterns and Arbitrariness
See the full gallery on PosterousWhen I first decided to create grids of my "remastered" Block Matrices images my intent was to simply explore the tendency of all humans to seek patterns in such grids...
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Windblown :: The Accidental Landscape
See the full gallery on Posterous"Landscape is not a genre of art but a medium.Landscape is a medium of exchange between the human and the natural, the self and the other. As such, it is like money:...
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Photography and Photorealism :: Ekphrasis and Simulacra
See the full gallery on Posterous"Photography is subversive not when it brightens, repels or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks." Roland BarthesThe three images above share the...
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Windblown :: Controlling The Elements
See the full gallery on Posterous"Transformation is in the head. If you have one thing and make another then there is no transformation, but there are two things. I don't think you would mistake one...
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