( a decent into madness )
Everybody who takes a picture has in their mind an innate sense of the ideal that photograph is intended to represent.
I began a set of found object images toward the end of 2017. This set of photographs produced an unexpected result; a long wilderness of dreadful realism transformed into a wonderful world of minimal abstraction.
Realism in photography; a person, a place, an event, a thing. The picture is composed, it has elements of artistic enthusiasm. But at the core, it is an elaborate post card. At the core, the object represented overwhelms the ideal expression attempted.
Abstract Minimal Photography is an image created using a standard digital work flow; camera, photoshop, printer. But the image captured is a constructed element created using the simplest of means. It might not even be photography at all except that it relies on the camera.
The following set of images starts in November 2017 and completes in January 2018. The first images are found objects, crushed soda cans, crumpled metal, cigarette packs, old car parts. The next group of images attempt ‘constructed graffiti’, painted numbers on cardboard and betsy ross flags cut out and arranged.
The final group are simple cut card stock laid flat on the copy stand. The realist approaches attempted, from found object to painted numbers, new york city graffiti, junk yards, gravel pits; manipulated focus, multiple exposures, anything else available which seemed promising: At the end they have all been found wanting and discarded.
jersey bauhaus 2019-01-01
10/31/2017
11/18/2017
11/29/2017
1/1/2018
