This weeks post is going to be postponed. I’m in Island Park, Idaho and internet access is limited, as well as time, and far away, so I haven’t been able to spend much (read any) time looking at photographers to post. I do have a few in mind and as soon as I get time I will put up an official post.
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Crawl is the beginning of my ongoing investigation into a part of our landscape we, as upright creatures, rarely take the time to think about. Infants know this world for a time. Picnickers and soldiers glimpse it. There is no more dynamic stage of life and death on earth than the first few inches above its surface. This is where prairies and forests are born. Here is where the bulk of our food comes from, and where all terrestrial creatures return when we die. Comforting, beautiful, frightening, strange–this is the terrestrial world. And it can only be discovered and known intimately on hands and knees.
I really like Sally Gall’s photographs of insects. They’re unlike the typical macro photograph of a bug that is seen so often. They feel as though they are biographical or “a day in the life of…”.
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I came across Tiina Itkonen’s work back in January, and I must say, it made me feel even colder.
Since the early 90’s, Finnish photographer Itkonen has been searching for her Ultima Thule, or her “place in the Far North” in Greenland. She has returned several times, and has made beautiful photographs of the snowy landscape and iceberg-riddled sea, and the people that inhabit this all but barren land.
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Kashya Hildebrand Gallery
First off, I apologize for the late post. I caught influenza this weekend and was feeling too horrible to write a post yesterday.
I remember the first time I saw the photographs made by this husband and wife duo. I was at the Newport, Rhode Island Society for Photographic Education national conference, and there was a show of their work in one of the local galleries. I remember not liking the work at all. I liked the aesthetics of the process they were using (photogravure) but I didn’t like the subject matter, or concept. Probably because it was some of the first conceptual photography I had seen, and didn’t quite “get” it. Over the years though, their work has really grown on me and they are among my top favorite photographers.
Featuring the “everyman,” (who is Robert himself) the photographs depict a man trying to repair the damage done to the land.
Their latest work is all in color and I find it even more enjoyable than the monochrome photogravures.
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